Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2010

SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers LLC, the joint venture between SGL Group and BMW Group ( earlier post ), will build a carbon fiber manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, WA. The CFRP parts and components will then be made from these fabrics at the BMW Group Plant Landshut, Germany. SGL Group holds 51% of the shares and the BMW Group 49%.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2010

SGL Automotive Carbon Fibers LLC, the joint venture between SGL Group and BMW Group, recently announced that it will build a carbon fiber manufacturing plant in Moses Lake, WA. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.)

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 11, 2010

BMW has recognized that they simply teed up GM and Nissan to benefit from the MINI E experience. Will MINI E drivers be so loyal to BMW they'll forgo the opportunity to actually purchase a plug-in car? But they still want us to believe that their fuel cell vehicles will hit showrooms in 2015. No word on when.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

Founded in 2002, Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) is an international cooperation that includes BMW Group; Berliner Verkehrsbetriebe BVG; Daimler; Ford; GM/Opel; Hamburger Hochbahn; Linde; Shell; StatoilHydro; TOTAL; Vattenfall Europe; and Volkswagen. Toyota aims at the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles around 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

The objective of the taskforce is initially to create a guideline for demonstration projects and design verification and later standardize in 2015 with field confirmation. The taskforce has taken recommendations from JARI and developed a draft concept of charging categories per power level, static charging (e.g., Source: J2954.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

Fritz Henderson, GM’s President and CEO: “ We had a couple of Audi and BMW customers sit in an Equinox and say ‘this vehicle should be priced well above what it is’—Chevrolet should blow people away for what they get for their money. ”. The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform.

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