Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2018

Volvo Cars revealed the new S60 mid-size premium sports sedan at the company’s new—and first—US manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2017 Volvo Cars was the first global car maker to announce its strategy that from 2019 all new models will be electrified.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

A study of a 2017 Toyota Mirai fuel cell by Argonne National Laboratory found fuel cell stack efficiency below 50% and fuel cell system efficiency dropping below 40% at high loads. Clemson is a leading public research institution in South Carolina. Department of Automotive Engineering, Clemson University, Clemson, SC.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

Airless technology is completely new in terms of design, in terms of production, in terms of homologation, so we have to learn everything,” Roget summed. Michelin needs all that data, because despite its more than 130 years making pneumatic tires, airless tires bring new challenges.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Many trials with OEM vehicles have started up in 2012, and at least one vendor—Evatran, which markets its products under the marque “Plugless Power”—intends to bring a system to market in the first half of 2013. Evatran plans to have over twenty installations as part of the Apollo Trial Program.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

To provide a cost assessment study that demonstrates the stack can achieve the automotive stack production cost below the target of 50 €/kW for an annual production rate of 50,000 units. With this step the capability of serial production will also be demonstrated. Gerd Wingefeld, Chief Technology Officer at SGL Group.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2013

Costs continued to decline, especially for light duty vehicle applications; the cost per kilowatt (kW) for high volume production of transportation fuel cells moved closer to DOE’s target of $30 per kW. Daimler, Ford, and Nissan joined forces to develop a common fuel cell system and launch commercial FCEVs as early as 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

The forthcoming Polestar 3 will be manufactured alongside new Volvo vehicles at the Volvo Cars production center in Ridgeville, South Carolina. Polestar vehicles built in South Carolina will be for sale in the United States. Polestar was launched in 2017 by Volvo Cars and Geely Holding.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

With the eCitan and, in the future, the EQT, we are completing our product range this year, offering eVans in all segments. As early as 2010, the Vito E-Cell was the first small series of battery-electric vehicles to roll off the production line. The eVito was presented in 2017, followed by the eSprinter in 2019 and the EQV in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Hyundai began leasing its first series production fuel cell electric vehicle at select dealerships in Southern California. Many automakers anticipate commercialization by 2017. Achievements include the launch of H 2 USA ( earlier post ), a public private partnership focusing on overcoming the barriers to hydrogen infrastructure.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Since its launch in 2017, the company has set out to create a “circular supply chain” of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles and clean-energy products. The 600-acre campus will be one of the biggest economic-development projects in the history of South Carolina. Last year alone, the United States deployed 4.8

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