Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Japanese carmaker Nissan Motor plans to introduce its e-power hybrid technology car in Tunisia, its Africa head said on Tuesday, as part of plans to test demand in the African market for electric vehicles. Africa is the world’s last remaining automotive frontier due to the low level of vehicle ownership.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The BMW Group is speeding up the shift towards electromobility and strengthening its global network for production of electrified vehicles. The company is investing €400 million in a new vehicle assembly at the main plant in Munich. By the end of 2022, each of our German plants will be producing at least one fully electric vehicle.

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JUNE 5, 2010

South Africa-based Optimal Energy is considering using a battery-swap scheme with its Joule electric vehicle ( earlier post ). Engineering News. The car will be onsale in 2013.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 13, 2023

VW has a big following in South Africa and has a strong connection to the country due to its manufacturing presence as well as its large retail footprint in the country. VW has a factory in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where it has the capacity to produce 162,000 vehicles per year.

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Green Car Congress

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.

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APRIL 17, 2023

A team from Cornell, with a colleague from Paul Scherrer Institute, has analyzed the trade-off between the decarbonization potential of the road transportation sector and its critical metal requirement from the demand-side perspective in 48 major countries committing to decarbonize their road transportation sectors aided by electric vehicles (EVs).

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 3, 2023

2,142 passenger plug-in hybrid vehicles were built in South Africa from January to May this year. 1,740 plug-in hybrid vehicles were built from January to April, meaning that 402 passenger plug-in hybrid vehicles were built in the month of May.

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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. —Anil Srivastava, CEO, Leclanché.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Francis Gatare, Director of the Rwanda Development Board, and Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Group South Africa, this week signed a memorandum of understanding for a new integrated mobility concept in Kigali in the presence of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Dr. Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen brand. initiative.

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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. Aluminum is a natural choice to make vehicles lighter and more efficient, and provides numerous additional benefits to enhance vehicle design, durability and safety.

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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. is more than a flight of fancy as Mahindra has recently declared plans to add electric vehicles to its Australian line-up in coming years. Dubbed the Vision Thar.e But the Thar.e

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JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. Manufacturing energy use and emissions. Earlier post.).

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Washington Post recently reported on some of the “dirty parts” of EV manufacturing, and it paints a picture of challenges ahead as more people look to make the shift to electrics. Materials like manganese mined in South Africa can have significant negative impacts on local communities and the people doing the mining.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2022

It is becoming recognized as a significant addition to new lithium-ion chemistries used in electric vehicles as well as in VRFBs used for long duration energy storage solutions from renewable sources. Currently, approximately 75% of global vanadium supply is sourced from China, South Africa, and Russia.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2018

BNEF includes equity raising by specialist electric vehicle companies in its clean energy investment totals, and this element was a conspicuous bright spot in the latest quarter. Colin McKerracher, head of advanced transport analysis at BNEF, said that there is a growing amount of money chasing China’s electric vehicle boom.

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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. The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe. in Russia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2018

This year sees the launch of a car sharing service in the capital city of Kigali with around 150 vehicles from the Volkswagen brand. In addition, a ride hailing service with some 150 vehicles is scheduled to start during the course of the year. Rwanda does not currently have an established vehicle industry.

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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. Europe is rapidly becoming a leading hub for the manufacture of and market for batteries and electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 30, 2021

In 2019, we wrote an article raising the alarm that South Africa’s inertia in incentivising the adoption of electric vehicles could make it miss out on the incredible opportunities presented by the electric vehicle revolution.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Perhaps nothing illustrates the rise of electric vehicles over the past decade more than this statistic: In 2012, the total number of electric vehicles (EVs) sold in the entire world was 120,000. Who is leading the way with electric vehicle adoption? How is the United States doing with electric vehicle adoption?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

These all-new smart and the Renault Twingo were the first vehicles built on a common platform by Daimler and the Alliance. Launched in 2014, the smart two-seater is built at Daimler’s Hambach plant, France, whereas both four-seater vehicles are produced at Renault’s plant in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. Earlier post.)

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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 20, 2010

At the Clean Energy Ministerial in Washington, DC, 19-20 July, ministers reaffirmed their commitment to previously-announced targets for the deployment of electric vehicles, which the International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates will create global market momentum leading to at least 20 million electric vehicles on the road worldwide by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Designed by South African-born Keith Helfet, Joule has been developed from a static display model and engineering prototype into a pre-production prototype by Zagato’s Total Design Centre. These vehicles will be used to gauge media and customer feedback, which in turn will be implemented in the production version of Joule.

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 31, 2023

The company ships to South Africa, Nepal, Kuwait, South America, and Sri Lanka. If you are an EV manufacturer (or) EV Dealer (or) EV Supporter who want to share news related to electric vehicles on our website, please send an email to crm@electricvehicles.in

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Green Car Congress

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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Electric Vehicles India

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In its many initiatives, the latest initiative the government’s Coal Ministry has asked state-run Coal India to diversify its interests to areas such as electric vehicles and charging stations. ” India imports coal mainly from Indonesia, Australia and South Africa. Press Release .

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2017

Ballard Power Systems’ subsidiary Protonex has received an initial order for its fuel cell propulsion system, together with design services, from FlyH2 Aerospace, a South African-based developer of hydrogen fuel cell powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for commercial applications. Commercial details of this order are confidential.

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JULY 10, 2012

GE will invest an additional $70 million to expand its sodium-halide battery manufacturing plant in New York, which is part of the company’s new Energy Storage business. GE is also looking at using the batteries in heavy-duty hybrid applications such as in buses, locomotives and mining vehicles. —GE Chairman & CEO Jeff Immelt.

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Baua Electric

JULY 3, 2023

Peugeot lately has a “healthy” form store and is taking a look to make bigger electric-vehicle choices at the same time as indicators mount that auto call for is softening international, Linda Jackson, the emblem’s CEO, stated. We are also sharing a lot of the technology between those 14 brands,” she stated. “As

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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. Through subsidiaries and associate companies, Tata Motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and Indonesia.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2011

The Focus has been a popular vehicle in Russia since it first went on sale there in 1999. More than 400,000 of these cars were built in the country at the Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk, the first production facility owned by a global automotive company in Russia, and which started manufacturing the Ford Focus in August 2002.

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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

JUNE 12, 2023

Put up acquire, the nickel listen can be delicate at Glencore’s amenities in Western Europe and North The united states, the observation stated, with the overall product included into electric-vehicle batteries by means of Stellantis, PowerCo and alternative producers. Glencore will make investments $100 million in ACG fairness.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2009

Optimal Energy , the Cape Town, South Africa-based company that unveiled the Joule full battery-electric multi-purpose urban passenger vehicle to the world at the Paris Motor Show in 2008 ( earlier post ), plans to have pilot fleets on the road in South Africa and globally from 2010 onwards, with mass production to start in South Africa from 2012.

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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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