Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a small, optical nano-sensor for pollution detection which can be mounted onto an ordinary streetlight. The technology is already in use in western Sweden, and researchers and other interested parties hope that the sensor could soon be used in many broad contexts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Electrify America today announced an agreement with Polestar—the electric performance car brand from Sweden—to provide new and existing drivers of the all-electric Polestar 2 fastback with no-cost 30-minute charging sessions on the US’ largest open ultra-fast DC charging network.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2020

The new pilot plant will enable us to close the final gap in the value chain from battery cell development, to production of modules and powertrain components, all the way to installation of fully assembled high-voltage batteries at our vehicle plants. —Milan Nedeljkovi?,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

By picking Slovakia as the location for its new plant, Volvo Cars is creating a European triangle of manufacturing covering its largest sales region—complementing the Ghent plant (Belgium) in western Europe and the Torslanda plant (Sweden) in northern Europe. The new facility represents an investment of around €1.2

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2022

The ordered battery-electric equipment is manufactured in Örebro, Sweden. The Simba rigs will be operated in part through tele-remote from the comfort of a control room. The Simba rigs will be operated in part through tele-remote from the comfort of a control room. Scooptram loader. Minetruck hauler. Boomer face drilling rig.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Italian casting machine manufacturer IDRA announced a partnership with Volvo in a press release this week, with the company set to install two 9,000-ton Giga Presses at the automaker’s Košice, Slovakia factory. The casting machines, originally developed for Tesla, have also been adopted recently by Ford , Toyota and Volvo owner Geely.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

PowerCell Sweden AB signed a contract with Norwegian Havyard Group ASA for the development of the design and the technical specifications for a zero-emissions fuel-cell system. The system may come to be installed on board a vessel that will service the shipping company Havila Kystruten’s new route from Bergen to Kirkenes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

This component was developed in part collaboration with Rosenbauer. Now the first electric drivelines have entered the production stage at the Volvo Penta Vara plant in Sweden. To achieve this, the Volvo Penta engineers created a system that is cutting edge in terms of Volvo Group technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2010

VärmlandsMetanol AB has selected Uhde, a ThyssenKrupp company, as technology supplier and engineering partner for a biomass-to-methanol plant in Hagfors, Sweden, with an annual production of 100,000 tonnes of fuel-grade methanol from forest-residue biomass. Investment for the plant will be about SEK 3 billion (US$416 million).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2011

Supplementary underfloor heating is installed on the bottom floor. All surplus electricity can be used to charge the family’s electrically-powered Volvo or be used in the joint electricity grid. The solar cells are supplied by a manufacturer that is partly owned by Vattenfall.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

That quarter-mile strip will be fitted with transmitter coils installed in specially dedicated lanes underneath the otherwise “normal” concrete pavement. Sweden announced a permanent electric road back in 2023 , and even that project followed years of testing of similar projects all across Europe. Image by Consensus Digital Media.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Batteries from electric bus route 55 in Gothenburg, Sweden are being used for solar energy storage in a second-life application. They are installed in a battery chamber and linked together to create a 200 kWh storage pack. The battery warehouse consists of 14 used lithium-ion electric bus batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2019

Ballard Power Systems unveiled its 8th generation high-performance fuel cell module, the FCmove-HD, at the UITP Global Public Transport Summit being held in Stockholm, Sweden. Expected 35% reduction in product lifecycle cost, achieved through lower maintenance requirements, higher reliability and 50% fewer parts. High Reliability.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

Tesla Model S Source: Tesla Norway won’t be issuing a recall of Tesla Model S and X vehicles in the country after a government investigation into suspension safety issues – the same one Reuters wrote about in its investigation, targeting Tesla for blaming customers for faulty parts, which Tesla then fired back at on X. Get started here.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

The best part, the price is aimed at that elusive yet coveted €20,000 range (about $21.5K). feet), but spy shots of test drives in Sweden show a slightly longer car, about 200-250 mm (eight to 10 inches) longer than the Korean version, Automotive News Europe reports. Size-wise, the ICE version of the Casper is only 3.60

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Operating out of a second headquarters established in New York, we’ve seen Einride’s all-electric and autonomous heavy-duty vehicles navigate corridors via remote operators based in Texas and, most recently, operations in Selmer, Tennessee, as part of a partnership with GE Appliances.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

The Volvo C30 Electric will be manufactured and delivered to leasing customers throughout Europe, including in Sweden, Belgium, the Netherlands and Norway. A Volvo C30 Electric was also part of the One Tonne Life project in which a family was given the task of living as climate-smart as possible for a period of six months.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2016

will secure attractive locations for charging stations where it can install and operate innovative charging technology. started setting up charging networks in Britain and Sweden, and began offering municipalities as well as individual customers a variety of e-mobility products such as charging systems and pricing plans. In October, E.ON

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Coming into effect on 1 January 2015, SO x Emission Control Areas (SECA) regions will reduce the permissible sulfur content in marine fuel to zero, forcing fleet operators to either install flue gas cleaning equipment on board, or switch to a sulfur-free fuel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

We want to start a conversation about whether car makers have the right or maybe even an obligation to install technology in cars that changes their driver’s behavior, to tackle things like speeding, intoxication or distraction. We need to support better behaviour and help people realize and understand that speeding is dangerous.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2017

Six countries more than over 1% electric car market share in 2016: Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden, France, the United Kingdom and China. In Norway, electric cars had a 29% market share last year, the highest globally, followed by the Netherlands with 6.4%, and Sweden with 3.4%. Electric car deployment in some markets is swift.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

We aim to combine the network and energy layer to build a blockchain-based Internet of Energy, reducing the points of failure and the need for additional hardware from its adaptability in integrating with available and installed technologies —Alfredo Giardina, Co-founder of PROSUME Energy Foundation. The PROSUME token launch.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Einride is an eight-year-old commercial EV startup that continues to hit Electrek’s homepage with news of its expansion beyond Sweden where it was founded. Heineken put several electric trucks into operation last month as it looks to deploy Einride’s entire ecosystem across its fleet operations in the future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Materials Solutions in Worcester is a pioneer in the use of Selective Laser Melting (SLM) technology for the manufacture of high-performance metal parts. The blades were installed in a Siemens SGT-400 industrial gas turbine with a capacity of 13 megawatts (MW). —Willi Meixner, CEO of the Siemens Power and Gas Division.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2011

The supply agreement follows on from the development agreement signed with Volvo Bus Corporation in July 2010 which stated that Clean Air Power and Volvo would jointly develop the installation of Dual-Fuel systems provided by Clean Air Power on existing bus engines to make it possible for buses from Volvo to run on Dual-Fuel in the future.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

The ideal licensee would be primarily engaged in manufacturing engine parts and systems, such as catalytic converters and engine exhaust control systems, for the on-road vehicle, off-road vehicle and stationary power sectors. It has also been assembled and tested as a prototype catalytic converter installed on a lean burn natural gas engine.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 23, 2024

Recently, the company behind that tech, Electreon, installed a public charging roadway, claimed to be the first in the US, on a stretch of road in Detroit. It has also won a tender to supply a similar system in a 2-kilometre section of the A10 highway near Paris as part of the first electric road system (ERS) in France.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Starting in 1958, Ford's new MEL ( M ercury- E dsel- L incoln) big-block V8 engine was given the Marauder name when installed in Mercury models. If it makes you feel any better, most of the good trim and glass parts from this car were purchased before it got squished and shredded. Yes, I bought these badges. So, to The Crusher it went.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

Fuel cell technology remains an integral part of Daimler’s powertrain strategy. Temperatures ranging from minus 40 to plus 60 degrees Celsius, hurricanes with wind speeds of up to 265 km/h (165 mph), tropical downpours and heavy snowstorms are all part of the standard repertoire available to the test engineers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2016

The first route is characterized by the development of geared and open rotor engine architectures but also configurations where potential synergies between engine and aircraft installations are exploited. The EU is targeting a 75% reduction in carbon dioxide emissions per passenger kilometer between the years 2000 and 2050. Bypass flow loss.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2010

The novel design is enabled by using powdered iron materials that enable complex magnetic parts to be manufactured easily. Over the next 12 months, Oxford YASA Motors will be installing systems into new racing vehicles and TTXGP motorcycles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Installed by local energy company, Electrabel, each unit has an output of 2MW of power. The wind turbines will deliver a significant part of the electrical power needed in the Genk Plant, production home of the Mondeo, S-MAX and Galaxy models. This electricity comes from three hydro-power plants in Norway and Sweden.

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EV Report

APRIL 30, 2020

Norweign governments that came into power do implement economic benefits for electric vehicle owners as a part of reducing gas emissions. On issues related to charging facility which most countries like US, Sweden, Canada do face, Norway is far ahead of them. As a result, buyers are using the perks which they get to convert to cash.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Encouraging the use of low-carbon alternatives is an essential part of meeting climate change targets as well as improving local air quality and health. Transport is responsible for 25% of energy-related CO 2 emissions globally, with half of that coming from private passenger vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2009

The new engine is designed to stay on wing 30% longer, while using 30% fewer parts, greatly reducing maintenance. GE introduced composite fan blades in the 1980s as part of the open-rotor fan system on its GE36 engine. Fewer stages equates to fewer parts). The compressor delivers a record 23:1 pressure ratio. Earlier post.)

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Electra Vehicles

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Continental boasts multiple technological advances for electric vehicles at the advent of 5G networks around the world, including Vehicle-to-Vehicle connections and real-time updates thanks to faster network speeds as a part of their 5G Automotive Association membership since 2016.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 11, 2023

Charging the British way Around the UK In the UK my goal was to drive from Heathrow on a mammoth loop around the very northern parts of the Scottish Highlands on the NC 500 route, which traverses one of the most remote and sparsely populated parts of Europe. I took delivery of an EV6 that Kia UK kindly loaned me. In summary.

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