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JULY 10, 2018

CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. From Thuringia, which is located in the center of Germany, every major German city can be reached in a maximum of 5 hours by truck. With the opening of the production facility in Germany, the company underlines the importance of the German market.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

The BMW Connected personal digital mobility assistant will be available via an Alexa skill on all Alexa-enabled devices when the service is available in the UK and Germany. BMW is the first car maker to announce integration with Alexa in the UK and Germany, enabling vehicle functions to be operated from users’ homes by voice.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2017

The EU remains well below its target of 130 g CO 2 /km set for 2015; however, compared to 2016, annual improvements in vehicle efficiency need to increase significantly in each of the coming five years in order to achieve the second average emissions target of 95 g CO 2 /km by 2021. Source: EEA. Click to enlarge. With an average of 118.1

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JULY 20, 2017

My goal is that Germany is the leading provider of automated and networked vehicles, becoming the lead market and the first country to start the regular operation of this technology. Since December 2016, the research program has already funded 20 projects with a total of around €47 million (US$54 million).

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

diesel; the company’s partner Toolfuel distributes it in Germany. On top of that, Bosch aims to make synthetic and renewable fuels available for company cars and internal delivery vehicles at all its company filling stations across Germany. This is three times the amount of carbon dioxide Germany emitted in 2016.

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AUGUST 8, 2017

Volkswagen is offering an incentive of up to €10,000 (US$11,815)—depending upon the model purchased—for the purchase of Euro 6 vehicles in Germany if an older diesel vehicle (Euro 1 to Euro 4 standards) is scrapped at the same time. Applications for the incentives can be made with immediate effect to Volkswagen dealers in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2017

Ford Mustang, the top-selling sports car in the US over the last 50 years, became best-selling sports car in the world in 2016, according to Ford analysis of IHS Markit global automotive registration data in the sports car segment. More than 150,000 Mustangs were sold in 2016, according to IHS Markit new vehicle registration data.

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JANUARY 17, 2021

Italy, Poland, Germany, the UK, Spain and France, which buy 70% of the urban buses sold in Europe, lag behind. However, Germany is now financing 80% of the higher purchase cost of e-buses. In Sweden, Norway and Finland, respectively 26%, 24%, and 23% of urban buses registered in 2019 were zero-emission (electric or hydrogen).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Audi management said that the company will continue with its high levels of investment in 2016, with planned capital expenditure to amount to more than €3 billion (US$3.3 Half of the planned investment will take place at the Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm sites in Germany.

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MARCH 1, 2016

Daimler is investing €500 million (US$544 million) to build a second battery factory in Germany to produce lithium-ion batteries for Mercedes-Benz and smart hybrid and electric vehicles. We are now devoting another 500 million Euros to build a second battery factory in Germany. The topping-out ceremony will then follow in spring 2017.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

Bosch has begun on-road testing of autonomous driving in Japan, its third location for the development work after Germany and the US. Like their colleagues in Germany and the US, the team in Japan is already conducting tests with automated test vehicles on public roads.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Back in 2016, CleanTechnica produced on a series of events called the Cleantech Revolution Tour. Poland was not officially part of the rEVolution at that time, but a number of EV aficionados and cleantech lovers convinced CleanTechnica to hold one of the events in Wrocław (as well as Berlin and Leipzig in Germany).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2016

In Europe, three weeks after implementation of its technical corrections for EA189 engines affected by the NO x cheating ( earlier post ), the Volkswagen Group reports successful completion of more than 50% of the first wave in Germany. liter engine will be carried out from the third quarter of 2016. Modification of the 1.2-liter

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NOVEMBER 26, 2015

LG Chem is providing 140 MWh worth of batteries for use in ESS systems for STEAG power plants in Germany. LG Chem’s storage systems are due to be commissioned in STEAG’s power plants in Herne, Lünen and Duisburg-Walsum, as well as in Bexbach, Fenne and Weiher starting in the middle of 2016 and running until the beginning of 2017.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Getrag will supply European customers with the new transmission from its plant in Neuenstein, Germany. Hybrid versions of this transmission can be used in vehicles without major changes in installation space, starting in 2016. Transmission specialist Getrag has begun production of the new seven-speed 7DCT300 dual-clutch transmission.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2017

Tesla posted a strong increase in automotive revenue in the fourth quarter of 2016, rising 79% year-on-year to $1.994 billion. However, the company dropped back to a net loss for the quarter of $121 million. Total revenue for the full year hit $7 billion. In early February, Tesla began building Model 3 prototypes.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2019

In France, which liberalized the taxi market in 2015, the number of reported PHV drivers doubled in three years (from more than 15,000 in 2016 to 30,000 in 2019). The number of Uber drivers in London almost doubled in three years (from 25,000 in 2016 to 45,000 in 2018), accounting for roughly half the total PHV licence number.

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MAY 27, 2021

The new PEUGEOT e-EXPERT Hydrogen will first be offered to professional customers (direct sales), in France and Germany, from the end of 2021. It will be produced in France, in Valenciennes, and then transformed in the Stellantis competence center dedicated to hydrogen technology in Germany, in Rüsselsheim.

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APRIL 19, 2020

As far back as 2016, Volkswagen unveiled a Tiguan PHEV concept, based on the second-generation Tiguan. In 2008, Volkswagen manufactured more than 150,000 units, making it the most successful SUV in Germany. The second-generation Tiguan arrived on the market in April 2016. Earlier post.). Design sketch of the new Tiguan.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2014

million units by 2016. Next year, the first Volkswagen Component Academy outside Germany is to be established in Tianjin. A test and analysis center for all DSG transmissions produced in China is also to be established at Tianjin from 2016 onwards. Volkswagen Component Academy. Test and analysis center.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2011

has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with members of the Clean Energy Partnership (CEP) to help promote fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) in Germany. billion) and covers the period 2007-2016. Kia Motor Corp. The combined budget for the Program amounts to €1.4 billion (US$1.9

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MAY 29, 2017

The Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant in Germany is the biggest employer in the region, with a workforce of around 6,500 employees. In 2016, more than 300,000 vehicles rolled off its production lines. The A-Class, B-Class and the compact SUV GLA are manufactured at the location.

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AUGUST 27, 2020

In the course of the recently adopted hydrogen strategies of the European Union and Germany, politicians pointed out the need for large scale electrolyzers for the production of sustainable steel products. Salzgitter Flachstahl GmbH and Sunfire began the original GrInHy project in 2016. prototype system layout.

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JUNE 9, 2023

The Ligier JS2 RH2 has already been driven on test tracks in Germany and will be further developed and tested during the summer. The Ligier JS2 RH2 was officially presented to the public for the first time as part of the 100 th anniversary of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

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AUGUST 1, 2022

Cummins has invested $24 million in Germany-based VoltStorage, a developer of stationary flow batteries. Headquartered in Munich, VoltStorage was founded in 2016 by Jakob Bitner, Michael Peither and Felix Kiefl. The company says that it has the largest fleet of operating flow batteries in the world.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2020

This represents a market share of 47.5%, with gasoline going below the mark of 50% for the first time since 2016. Both Germany and France recorded percentage increases of more than 400% each. Gasoline car sales posted an even stronger drop (-24.3%), going from more than 1.7 million units last year to 1.3

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JUNE 15, 2023

Honeywell UOP Ecofining technology will be installed at the following bp sites: Cherry Point refinery in Blaine, Washington; Rotterdam II refinery in Rotterdam, Netherlands; Lingen refinery in Lower Saxony, Germany; Castellón de la Plana refinery in Castellón, Spain; and Kwinana Oil refinery in Kwinana, Australia.

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JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. Operation of this technology under dynamic conditions will be confirmed during a year-long test.

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MARCH 28, 2023

NIO customers in Norway, Germany, Sweden and the Netherlands who have a dynamic power contract with Tibber can easily connect their NIO vehicles to Tibber's app, the article said. Tibber was founded in 2016 and focuses on using technology to help customers save energy and money.

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JULY 24, 2023

SFC Energy has been active in India since 2016 and is now investing in the local market development as well as in its own production capacities. The company is headquartered in Brunnthal/Munich, Germany, operates production facilities in the Netherlands, Romania, Canada and India.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Synhelion is currently implementing an industrial-scale plant to produce sustainable kerosene from solar energy in Jülich in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and has chosen INERATEC as partner for the fuel production from the solar syngas. These are fully compatible with existing global fuel infrastructure.

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JUNE 29, 2022

Hoeller Electrolyzer, based in Wismar, Germany, is an early-stage technology company that is developing highly efficient polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) stacks, under the brand name Prometheus, for the cost-effective production of hydrogen. Otto Preiss, COO and Chief Technology Officer, Rolls-Royce Power Systems.

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JULY 1, 2021

BMW i Ventures was established as an independent venture capital firm in 2016. Alongside the creation of this new fund, BMW i Ventures also announced that Marcus Behrendt and Kasper Sage were named the two new managing partners of BMW i Ventures as Dr. Ulrich Quay will move into a new role at BMW Group in Munich, Germany.

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Today, we drive the 2016 Ram 1500 EcoDiesel HFE full-size pickup truck, and continue to delve into the features of our 2015 Volkswagen e-Golf long-term test car. Also, Germany finally unveils an electric-car incentive program after much discussion. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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AUGUST 31, 2020

GWe started supplying electricity, compared to an average annual objective for 2016-2020 of 10 GWe. Thirteen reactors shut down in 2019, four in Japan had not generated since 2011 and three were shut down due to phase-out policies in South Korea, Germany and Taiwan. Six reactors, with a combined capacity of 5.2

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JANUARY 6, 2021

Amazon Air, which formed in 2016, currently operates a fleet of about 70 aircraft, including Boeing 737s and Boeing 767s. Last year, Amazon launched its first air hub at Leipzig/Halle Airport in Germany and new regional air operations at Lakeland Linder International Airport, John F.

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JUNE 12, 2021

This is what researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research (TROPOS) conclude from a measurement campaign in the Thuringian Forest in Germany. At that time, a total of about 50 cloud researchers from Germany, France, England and the US had participated in the measurements in the middle of Germany. Poulain, L.,

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