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Audi Hungaria starts operation of Europe’s biggest solar roof installation

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r in Hungary is engaged in decarbonization by means of three mechanisms. Audi Hungaria is the biggest user of industrial geothermal energy in Hungary. Since 2015 the company has made use of 250 gigawatt-hours of geothermal energy, reducing emissions of CO2 by 50,000 tonnes. In addition, the site at Gy?r

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Mercedes-Benz Cars invests €1B in new “Full-Flex” car plant in Hungary; Factory 56 applied to full plant

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Mercedes-Benz Cars is starting construction of its first “Full-Flex Plant“ in Kecskemét, Hungary, about 90 km in the south of Budapest. With an investment of one billion euros, we are building in Hungary the first ‘Full-Flex Plant’ in the global production network of Mercedes-Benz Cars. Modern logistics concepts are also integrated.

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Apollo Tyres celebrates Vredestein acquisition with new tulip variant | Autocar Professional

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Vredestein was founded in 1908 to design and manufacture bicycle tyres in Loosduinen in the Netherlands. In the same year, the company invested in the Enschede manufacturing plant to increase production capacity and meet growing demand in Europe.

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JATO Dynamics: in decline of Euro new car market, electrified vehicles increase share to almost 13%

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This equates to a decline of 7.0%, as last month saw the lowest number of registrations since 2015, when only 955,113 units were registered. Against this negative backdrop, electrified vehicles (HEVs, PHEVs and BEVs) were once again the outlier in the industry. to 2,194,706 units. —Felipe Munoz.

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Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant to produce compact electric EQ vehicles; 3rd center of competence for EQ models in Germany

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In 2015, Rastatt plant management and works council reached an agreement for competitiveness and future development and agreed to produce the next Mercedes-Benz compact car generation in Rastatt. Together with our ambitious colleagues, we as a works council want to help to shape the change in the automotive industry for electric mobility.

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Audi developing modular assembly principle as successor to production line; Gy?r testing for 2018 e-tron electric motor production

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For Audi, these are the driverless transport systems (DTS), which began testing at Ingolstadt in 2015. At its Győr engine plant in Hungary, Audi is developing a possible future production process for the electric drive motor to be used in the 2018 C-BEV. Earlier post. A central computer controls the DTS activity, albeit flexibly.

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Bosch supplying factory equipment for battery production; €250M business by 2025

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We know batteries like the back of our hand, as well as how they have to be manufactured. —Rolf Najork, the member of the Bosch board of management responsible for industrial technology. The company is investing some €70 million (US$82 million) this year in expanding local manufacturing operations.

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