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MAY 13, 2022

The BMW Group is the first automotive manufacturer worldwide to use matt paints made from biomass instead of crude oil at its European plants. In addition to this, BMW Group Plants Leipzig and Rosslyn (South Africa) are also using sustainably-produced corrosion protection.

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DECEMBER 13, 2009

South Africa is reinvigorating its efforts to develop automotive lithium-ion batteries, with the government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) now determining the commercial feasibility of battery manufacturing in the country. Engineering News. Beginning in the 1980s, CSIR had a lithium-ion battery effort led by Dr.

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APRIL 17, 2023

NMC/NCA scenario illustrates that the market share of NMC/NCA will increase to 100% by 2050. It’s mainly driven by the electric vehicle market penetration and battery technology development. c) Sensitivity of cumulative requirement under different battery scenarios.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

This year Nissan will export the South African built Navara pickup trucks to new markets of Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia and Egypt, Nissan Africa product Marketing Director Stefan Haasbroek said. Africa is the world’s last remaining automotive frontier due to the low level of vehicle ownership.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2009

GE South African Technologies (GESAT), GE Transportation’s entity in South Africa, will supply 100 locomotives to Transnet Freight Rail (TFR). TFR is South Africa’s state-owned rail freight logistics utility; Transnet Limited is its parent company. It feeds the port of Saldanha Bay, for export to a global market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

The CP hydrogen-powered locomotive pioneering project, first announced in December 2020, will retrofit a line-haul diesel freight locomotive with hydrogen fuel cells and Leclanché's European-manufactured lithium-ion batteries to power the locomotive's electric traction motors. The market for freight rail is large and growing across the world.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The introduction of the one-ton pickup with seating for up to 5 people will make Mercedes-Benz the first premium manufacturer to account for the changing customer requirements in the global segment of mid-size pickups. Daimler AG will make investments in the high nine figures (euro) in the new model series by the time of the market launch.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2021

Fayalite (Fe 2 SiO 4 ) with extraordinary high heavy REE (HREE) contents in ultramafic cumulates of the Vergenoeg F-Fe-REE deposit (South Africa) provides the unique opportunity to study REE systematics in olivine. While some data for Mg-rich olivine exist, REE data for Fe-rich olivine are almost absent. —Brandt et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Swedish market pulp giant Södra launched the first pulp mill biomethanol plant at its Mönsterås mill, in collaboration with ANDRITZ, in 2020. Since then, Veolia has more than 450 installations worldwide for mills in Brazil, Indonesia, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa and several European countries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Constellium SE is supplying aluminum auto body sheet solutions for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class produced in Europe, China, and South Africa and sold around the world. Constellium provides aluminum for the hood, roof, tailgate, and fenders of the Mercedes-Benz model.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Approximately one quarter of production will serve the domestic Russian market. Headquartered in Australia, ASI’s membership includes metals industry companies, national aluminum councils from Austria to South Africa, and automotive manufacturers such as Audi, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This post focuses on minerals used uniquely in the manufacture of electric cars. Gabon, South Africa, Australia, Georgia. by Michael Sivak, Sivak Applied Research. The three questions of interest are: Which minerals are they? Is the United States self-sufficient or are we relying on imports for these minerals? Natural graphite.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

South Africa-based mining and metals group Sibanye-Stillwater acquired an initial 30.29% shareholding in Keliber Oy as announced on 23 February 2021, by way of a phased equity investment. In addition, there has also been a significant improvement in the fundamental outlook for the lithium market. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We’re seeing more companies raising funds as they look to make the jump from concept cars to high-volume manufacturing. But the market looks increasingly crowded and consolidation is likely. Public markets investment in clean energy jumped 120% to $3.1 billion, the Enel Green Power South Africa portfolio, at $1.4

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

HPMSM produced in China using ore from South Africa has higher levels of trace elements of fluorine and silicon compared to Chvaletice’s HPMSM. Additional analysis of the GWP for different cathode metals shows that Chvaletice manganese has the lowest kg CO– eq.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Volkswagen is taking a further step to develop market potentials in Africa. We will systematically continue to develop our position in the fast-growing African car market. ”. Volkswagen is consistently developing market potentials in Africa. initiative.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

during steel manufacturing. South Africa has the potential to produce more than 400,000 tonnes of ethanol per year from existing ferroalloy and titania producers. This would prevent the release of more than 700,000 tonnes of CO 2 per annum—the equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from South Africa’s roads.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Honda Cars India has launched the Elevate in Japan which is their home market. In the Indian market, the Elevate is being sold only with a 1.5-litre, The Elevate made its global debut with India as the first market to launch the model in September last year and the brand has sold over 30,000 units in the past 6 months.

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EV Central

AUGUST 20, 2023

The Indian SUV and ute manufacturer Mahindra has revealed a tough electric concept that looks like a readymade rival for the Jeep Wrangler and GWM Tank. “Amongst our priority markets Australia is really up there,” Mahindra Automotive president Veejay Nakra recently told EV Central ‘s Toby Hagon at a recent media event.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

Before the end of the decade, Mercedes-Benz will launch the first pickup from a premium manufacturer. The new Mercedes-Benz midsize pickup will initially be targeted at markets in Latin America, South Africa, Australia, and Europe, all of which are posting sustained growth in this segment.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2011

Ltd) to establish a global joint venture to capitalize on the world-wide railroad tie market through the manufacture and sale of Recycled Structural Composite (RSC) ties/sleepers utilizing their respective geographic licenses from Rutgers University. The joint venture will be 65% owned by Axion and 35% owned by Sicut.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2018

These figures are derived from expected market acceptance of these innovative mobility services that are completely new to Rwanda. In addition to Rwanda, the Volkswagen brand is also active at three other locations in the Sub-Sahara region: the company has been manufacturing vehicles in South Africa since 1951.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2014

The steel-based technology and capital goods group voestalpine’s 17 th production site in the United States began operation , manufacturing ultra-high strength body-in-white components for premium car manufacturers in Cartersville, Georgia. Additional plants and expanded capacity are in the planning stage.

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JULY 6, 2020

Sales compiled from 1996–2003 by producers in Europe, Japan, USA, and South Africa (not including China and Russia) showed that, on an annual average basis, 80% of the SF 6 produced during this period was consumed by electric utilities and equipment manufacturers for electric power systems. —Simmonds et al.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The information received from Spot will be implemented in the production of the marketing fleet, which is currently underway. The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), as potential investor, is party to this Memorandum. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) The IDC is currently an investor in Optimal Energy.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has confirmed its long term commitment to advanced research and development in the UK through the participation of its subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC), in the UK’s National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

It will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers in Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. Later this month, Mercedes-Benz will provide further insights into the new pickup truck’s design, strategy and markets.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2017

The goal of the strategic alliance is to bundle the expertise of both car manufacturers with a view to jointly developing vehicle components and possibly also vehicle concepts. The first step will address topics such as the application of specific market knowledge as well as local development expertise.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

Attracting industry talent ahead of R2 launch As Rivian looks to expand into new markets, the EV maker is adding industry talent from top-tier companies. Mittelbach brings over 20 years of experience from Mercedes, serving as plant manager in East London and South Africa. However, it isn’t planned to launch until 2026.

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 31, 2023

The source claims the company wants to expand its export market. The company ships to South Africa, Nepal, Kuwait, South America, and Sri Lanka. He declined to provide details of the amount of money he secured in one tranche of the ongoing round or the valuation. Check out these videos to learn more about Bounce Infinity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2021

Because of increasing demand for value-added rare earth materials in European manufacturing, Toronto-based Neo seeks to expand and diversify its current supplies of rare earth feedstock at Silmet, which is the only operational rare earth separations facility in Europe.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

On the international front, the study covers 39 countries and narrows down its focus to 10 major export markets, identifying over USD 35 billion worth of export opportunities. The combined export potential to these ten markets is expected to grow to over USD 35 billion by 2028.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 18, 2022

An all-new battery electric and plug-in hybrid ute benchmarked against the Rivian R1T will be one of the headline acts when China’s JAC Motors unleashes a comprehensive attack on the Australian market around mid-decade. We will be bringing [to Australia] whatever vehicles go through the R&D centre for mature markets,” he added.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2012

The new diesel engine, Ford’s second in North America, has already been applied in the global Ford Ranger truck sold in world markets (3.2 Torque and power map for the European market version of the 3.2L liter is manufactured in Ford’s Struandale Engine Plant in Port Elizabeth, South Africa. Duratorq TDCi 200).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The pilot project, which will form part of Volkswagen’s operations in Rwanda, was officially announced today by Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Group South Africa and responsible for the Sub-Sahara Africa Region, in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, Right Honourable Dr. Edouard Ngirente.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2015

The primary target markets for the truck are Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. The NP300, sold under the name NP300 Navara and NP300 Frontier (depending on the market), was launched in June 2014 and is currently produced in Thailand and Mexico. Market Background Vehicle Manufacturers'

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

By 2050, green hydrogen could be the cheapest production method for steel and capture 31% of the market. South Africa and India have good iron ore reserves and the potential to produce a large amount of low-cost clean power. Russia and Brazil both have access to high-quality iron ore reserves and to abundant clean power.

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