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Benteler-SGL inaugurates new composites production facility in Austria

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Benteler-SGL GmbH, a joint venture between Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH and SGL Group, has inaugurated its new production facility in Ort im Innkreis, Austria. KG was founded in 2008. The 45,000 m² site will begin manufacturing composite automotive components in serial production beginning in mid-2013. Benteler-SGL GmbH & Co.

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TECO 2030 aims to build hydrogen fuel cell gigafactory in Norway

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

TECO 2030 is a partner in the project Green Hydrogen @ Blue Danube, together with players such as Siemens, Bosch, AVL and Verbund, where hydrogen generated from solar and wind power will be produced in Romania and transported on barges along the Danube to industrial buyers in Austria and Germany.

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Norway Hydrogen Fuel Building

Hexagon Purus to acquire 40% stake in Cryoshelter’s liquid hydrogen storage business

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APRIL 22, 2022

Cryoshelter is a cryogenic storage technology company founded in 2008 in Austria by Dr. Matthias Rebernik (currently holds approximately 80% of the shares in the company) whose PhD thesis was part of the LH2-tank project for the BMW Hydrogen 7 ( earlier post ).

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Hydrogen Austria Gas Legal

Western European Passenger Car Purchases Shifted to Higher Share for Small Cars, Lower Share for Diesels in 2009

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FEBRUARY 4, 2010

in 2008 to 44.9% Average engine size and power decreased, with the average displacement dropping to 1,626 cm 3 from 1,706 cm 3 in 2008, and average power dropping to 82 kW from 86 kW in 2008. lower than in 2008, and 9.5% less than in 2008 and 9.5% Click to enlarge. between January and November 2009. In total, 14.5

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Europe Passenger Car Registrations Down 7.4% in April

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MAY 17, 2010

in comparison to January-April 2008. Of the largest markets, Germany registered the largest number of new cars (259,414 units) though new registrations declined the most (-31.7%) percentage-wise, followed by Italy (-15.7%), the Czech Republic (-13.2%), Poland (-11.9%) and Austria (-11.6%). in Austria to +12.9% Source: ACEA.

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Euro Auto Production Down 35% in First Quarter 2009; Second Half Production May be Down 25%; Small Cars Hit New Record Share

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JULY 15, 2009

In Austria, production went down by 69.2%. over the whole year 2008. At the same time, average engine size and power fell from 1,706cc (whole year 2008) to 1,635cc, and 86kW (whole year 2008) to 82 kW. in the last quarter of 2008. in Austria, 5.1% for passenger cars and 37.6% for commercial vehicles.

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2009 Production Austria 2008

Portions Of Swiss-Italian Border May Be Redrawn To Reflect Changes In Glaciers and Snowfields

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Italy had previously reached a similar agreement with Austria, and is in talks with France about proposed changes in their shared border. WGMS/UNEP: Global Glacier Changes : Fact and Figures, 2008. Maximum border shift is expected to be in the range of 100 to 150 meters at some locations. Jack Rosebro.

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EU Likely to Miss 2010 Air Pollutant Limits; NOx the Toughest

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

Others, such as Ireland, Austria and Belgium, are projected to miss their limits by as much as up to 60%. Still, five Member States (Austria, Belgium, France, Ireland and Spain) would still under these circumstances miss their ceilings by significant amounts.

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Pollution 2010 Ireland Spain

JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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APRIL 30, 2020

This represents the largest year-on-year monthly decrease since 1980, when JATO Dynamics started to collect data—even surpassing the global financial crisis in November 2008, which saw a 25% decline in sales. This result follows declines in January and February, taking the quarterly volume down to 3.04 million units.

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European Biodiesel Production Up 16.6% in 2009

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JULY 23, 2010

2008, 54% in 2006 and 65% in 2005); in 2007, the industry growth rate was. slight decrease compared to 2008 due to the reorganization of the sector, EBB said. 50 000 tonnes between March 2008 and March 2009. This increase is well below the increases in production in three of the four prior years (35% in. some 22 million tonnes.

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2009 Production 2008 Italy

CEN and ETSI deliver first set of standards for Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) in Europe

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FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The European Commission published an Action plan for the deployment of ITS in Europe in 2008. The authorities in Austria, Germany and the Netherlands have agreed to cooperate on the implementation of ITS infrastructure along the route between Rotterdam and Vienna (via Frankfurt).

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Standards Transportation Europe Macedonia

Euro car market has best H1 of century; diesels down 17%; AFVs up 31% for 5.4% of total; SUVs booming

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AUGUST 1, 2018

The Golf was the top-selling car in Germany, Austria, Luxembourg, Latvia and Belgium. The Captur was the top-selling small SUV with 121,200 registrations—ahead of both the Peugeot 2008 and Dacia Duster. It also recorded more registrations of its alternative fuel types, which counted for 6% of its total volume.

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SUV Diesel Market Finland

New Car Registrations in UK fall 30.9% in January; Industry Urges UK Government to Provide Scrappage Incentives to Boost Demand

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FEBRUARY 5, 2009

This would be some 410,000 units off the 2008 total and almost 685,000 units down on 2007. Alternatively fuelled vehicle (AFV) demand showed a particularly sharp decline, down 47.4%, in part reflecting strong growth in 2008. In January, diesel penetration rose 0.7 Paul Everitt, SMMT chief executive. Vehicle Criteria.

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Scrappage Industrial Industry 2008

EEA finds only mixed progress for Europe’s transport sector in meeting environment, climate goals; GHG emissions up 25% since 1990

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

Oil consumption by the transport sector will need to fall by more than two-thirds to meet the objective of reducing consumption by 70% by 2050 compared with 2008 levels. Three Member States (Austria, Finland and Sweden) have already reached the 10 % goal. The share of renewable energy in transport in the EU rose from 6.7%

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Copenhagen Diagnosis Released, Detailing Accelerating Indicators of Climate Change In Last Three Years

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

A team of 26 climate scientists from Australia, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States have published the “Copenhagen Diagnosis”, an interim synthesis report on developments in climate change science from mid-2006 to the present day. surface temperatures, 1980-2008.

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Climate Change Climate 2008 2009

Magna Steyr to Provide Li-ion Battery Systems for Volvo I-SAM Heavy-Duty Hybrids; A123Systems Cells

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JULY 10, 2009

Production of these battery systems, which incorporate A123Systems’ 32113 Li-ion cells, will begin in August 2009 at Magna Steyr’s facility in Graz, Austria.

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Li-ion Volvo Hybrid Batteries

EEA Report: Trends in European Transport Are Heading in the Wrong Direction

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APRIL 5, 2009

EEA member countries include: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxemburg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom.

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Transportation Czech Republic 2006 Romania

Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

League table results: Ranking 2008. Country/Average CO2 2008(g/km)/AverageCO2 2007/Rank 2007. Austria / 158 / 163 / 16. Car makers – Ranking by average CO2 in 2008. Ranking in 2008. Manufacturer/ranking 2007/ Average CO2 in 2008(g/km). Portugal / 138 / 144 / 1. France / 140 / 149 / 4. Fiat/ 2/ 138.

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Europe March 2021

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APRIL 26, 2021

Regarding March, the Model 3 hade several 4-digit scores, namely in the United Kingdom (6,500 units), France (4,524), Germany (3,699), Norway (2,169), Italy (1,363) and Sweden and Austria, both with 1,192 units each. #2 The Mini Cooper EV scored a record 3,324 units performance.

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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AUGUST 30, 2009

An unmodified Volkswagen Golf 5 FSI was operated successfully on HE15 (15% hydrous ethanol blended with gasoline), meeting European exhaust emission standards in testing conducted by the Netherlands research organization TNO Automotive and by SGS Drive Technology Center of Austria. Brewster, S.C.,

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Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

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APRIL 21, 2010

The seventeen EU countries that levy passenger car taxes partially or totally based on the car’s carbon dioxide emissions and/or fuel consumption are: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom.

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Tax Plug-in Czech Republic Latvia

Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

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JUNE 25, 2015

The Part‑Time Scientists team was initiated in late 2008 by Robert Böhme, who works as an IT consultant in Berlin. The majority of the roughly 35 current engineers on the team come from Germany and Austria. Temperatures fluctuate here by up to 300 ˚C. Audi lunar quattro. Click to enlarge.

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Benteler-SGL inaugurates new composites production facility in Austria

TECO 2030 aims to build hydrogen fuel cell gigafactory in Norway

Hexagon Purus to acquire 40% stake in Cryoshelter’s liquid hydrogen storage business

Western European Passenger Car Purchases Shifted to Higher Share for Small Cars, Lower Share for Diesels in 2009

Europe Passenger Car Registrations Down 7.4% in April

Euro Auto Production Down 35% in First Quarter 2009; Second Half Production May be Down 25%; Small Cars Hit New Record Share

Portions Of Swiss-Italian Border May Be Redrawn To Reflect Changes In Glaciers and Snowfields

EU Likely to Miss 2010 Air Pollutant Limits; NOx the Toughest

JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

European Biodiesel Production Up 16.6% in 2009

CEN and ETSI deliver first set of standards for Cooperative Intelligent Transport Systems (C-ITS) in Europe

Euro car market has best H1 of century; diesels down 17%; AFVs up 31% for 5.4% of total; SUVs booming

New Car Registrations in UK fall 30.9% in January; Industry Urges UK Government to Provide Scrappage Incentives to Boost Demand

EEA finds only mixed progress for Europe’s transport sector in meeting environment, climate goals; GHG emissions up 25% since 1990

Copenhagen Diagnosis Released, Detailing Accelerating Indicators of Climate Change In Last Three Years

Magna Steyr to Provide Li-ion Battery Systems for Volvo I-SAM Heavy-Duty Hybrids; A123Systems Cells

EEA Report: Trends in European Transport Are Heading in the Wrong Direction

Carmakers are going green but British motorists are not

Europe March 2021

Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

Growing Number of EU Countries Levying CO2 Taxes on Cars and Incentivizing Plug-ins

Audi going to the moon; Audi lunar e-quattro rover

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