Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2018

The Zhenjiang facility where Magna and BJEV plan to engineer and build electric vehicles for the Chinese market. The plant has the capacity to build up to 180,000 vehicles per year. China is currently the world’s leading market for electric mobility. —Don Walker, CEO of Magna International Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand. The construction phase is planned for 2020 to 2022.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Xiaomi’s experience and insight in consumer behavior, technology knowhow and market trends can add tremendous value to what Xpeng Motors is set to achieve. It has received funding from prominent Chinese and international investors including Alibaba Group and IDG Capital. Xpeng Motors achieved numerous milestones this year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Russia-based Nornickel, the world’s largest producer of palladium and high-grade nickel producer, as well as one of the leading platinum and copper producers, announced the successful placement of CNY (Chinese Yuan) 5 billion (~US$716 million ) exchange-traded bonds (series БО-001Р-06-CNY) on 22 December. The bonds mature in 3.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

GAC R&D Center) introduced three co-developed electric concept cars at Auto Guangzhou 2018, featuring futuristic designs that address the diverse needs of China’s drivers. Car sharing and electrification are highly important developments in the world’s largest auto market. —Zhang Fan, Vice President, GAC R&D Center.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 15, 2015

National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) has spent more time dealing with financial problems than advancing its plan to build electric cars, primarily for the Chinese market. Since purchasing the remains of Saab in 2012, NEVS has only built a handful of cars, mostly gasoline versions of the Saab 9-3.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2019

In January 2019, the Chinese market saw 253% more nickel deployed in passenger EV batteries than the same month the year prior, according to a model-by-model build-up using Adamas Intelligence’s EV Battery Capacity and Battery Metals Tracker.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2015

Johnson Controls plans to build a new automotive battery manufacturing facility in the city of Shenyang in northeastern China as it continues to invest in the world’s largest new vehicle market. Construction of the new plant is expected to begin early next year with production starting in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2016

BAIC Group), to build its fourth Chinese automotive battery manufacturing plant. This joint venture is a strategic move to position Johnson Controls and Bohai Piston to take advantage of what will be the world’s largest automotive battery market by 2020. It is expected to start operations in 2018. Approximately 23.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Yibin Tianyi Lithium—a joint venture of Canmax, CATL and Tianyuan Group established in 2018—has formally commissioned a 20ktpy lithium hydroxide plant in Yibin, Sichuan province. Meanwhile, hydroxide prices have flattened out as there remains a build-up of hydroxide capacity in China ahead of the demand profile, Roskill says.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2021

China’s outbound investments—its operations in foreign countries—are expanding global supply as well as providing critical raw material to its internal markets. Chinese domestic production constitutes almost 8% of global mined copper tonnage, slightly ahead of the US with about 6%. to-4 t per MW. —Koelsch et al.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2018

Automotive applications were the largest market for Li-ion batteries in 2017, with Chinese sales of plug-in electric vehicles (PEV) increasing by around 20% y-o-y. This placed strain on the battery supply chain which is likely to continue, with Roskill estimating that Chinese PEV sales could reach around one million units in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2013

The new plant in Changsha, being built in cooperation with the Chinese joint venture Shanghai-Volkswagen (SVW), is scheduled for completion end of 2015 and will manufacture approximately 300,000 vehicles per year. Volkswagen is expanding its capacity in China to four million vehicles per year by 2018, said Prof. billion (US$12.5-billion)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The new electric car brand Aion S—recently unveiled at Auto Guangzhou 2018 by GAC NE, GAC MOTOR’s new energy vehicle arm—will be the first line of cars to adopt Nidec’s fully integrated traction motor system (E-Axle) ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2018

GKN Driveline is expanding its presence in China with the construction of a new plant in Pinghu, Zhejiang Province, through its Chinese joint venture Shanghai GKN HUAYU Driveline Systems (SDS). It is expected to commence operation during the second quarter of 2018. It will also produce gear sets for all-wheel drive final drive systems.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Borgward Group AG, the reincarnation of the German automaker that ceased operations in 1961 ( earlier post ), will be returning to Bremen and building a production facility there. Production will be launched at the plant a year later, in 2018. The BX7 is a model for the globally popular market for large mid-size SUVs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2019

The commodities market endured yet another annus horribilis , with just four commodities—natural gas, uranium, cocoa and wheat—recording any uptick at all. And just like other financial markets, trader sentiment plays a big role in determining trajectories. It’s back with a vengeance in 2019. dollar makes it all the more remarkable.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In Shanghai, Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Hackett outlined the next phase of the company’s China expansion strategy, focused on SUVs, electric and connected vehicles, a streamlined business structure and closer connections to Chinese customers. The progress we have achieved in China is just the start.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

The announcement builds on Volvo Cars’ 2017 announcement that all new models released from 2019 will be available as either a mild-hybrid, plug-in hybrid or battery-electric vehicle. Today we reinforce and expand that commitment in the world’s leading market for electrified cars. New Volvo XC40 T5 plug-in hybrid.

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MARCH 16, 2023

Image from Enovate's Weibo) Enovate Motors, the Chinese new energy vehicle (NEV) startup that announced late last year that it would build a production base in Saudi Arabia, is actually facing financial woes in its home market. The Enovate brand was officially launched in November 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2017

Coupled with the knowhow of building and operating Europe’s largest and most automated lithium cell manufacturing facility, Leclanché is the ideal technology licensing and manufacturing partner to help Chinese companies leapfrog the competition and dominate the global battery market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Just a few months later the German-Chinese production joint venture, Beijing Benz Automotive Co. BBAC), launched EQC production for the local market in China. EQA production will also follow next year (2021) at BBAC in Beijing for the Chinese market. In May 2019 production of the EQC (combined power consumption: 21.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

Released at the Baidu Create 2018 AI developer conference earlier this month, Xiaodu In-Car OS is an AI-based IoV solution that is open platform, end-to-end and multi-mode. Xiaodu In-Car OS was demonstrated at Baidu Create 2018 by a Kia Sportage. The partnership’s ultimate goal is to secure an upper hand in the competitive IoT market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

Released at the Baidu Create 2018 AI developer conference earlier this month, Xiaodu In-Car OS is an AI-based IoV solution that is open platform, end-to-end and multi-mode. Xiaodu In-Car OS was demonstrated at Baidu Create 2018 by a Kia Sportage. The partnership’s ultimate goal is to secure an upper hand in the competitive IoT market.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

The goal is to competitively produce bio-succinic acid in China and quickly penetrate the world’s largest succinic acid market. CJCJ would incur all capital costs required to retrofit their fermentation facility, including the capital needed during plant commissioning and startup, and production would begin in Q1 2018.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Development work on these continues; Audi, for example, is refining MLB evo—the second-generation of MLB and the foundation for the battery-electric e-tron quattro SUV due out in 2018. I believe when we enter the market in 2020, this is exactly the time when e-mobility will accelerate out of its niche. Earlier post.)

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

US sanctions targeting China's telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies have crippled the company, effectively forcing it out of the global smartphone market and now threatening its domestic phone business as well. They have also shrunk Huawei's market for fifth-generation wireless network infrastructure around the world.

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Teslarati

JUNE 21, 2023

Electric vehicles were still a far cry from what they are today, and while there were other options on the market, gas-powered options still dominated the overall market. Fast-forward to 2018, when Tesla decided to open its first vehicle production factory outside of the United States in Shanghai.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2013

The Volkswagen Group, through its two Chinese joint ventures, will be investing more than €9.8 The Volkswagen Group is building seven new plants in China. By 2018, the workforce is to increase from 75,000 to 100,000 people. We will be launching the largest investment program in China’s automotive history. Dr. Martin Winterkorn.

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JULY 11, 2022

The drone footage was provided by longtime Tesla watcher Wu Wa , who has been following the progress of the electric car maker’s China operations since initial ground-clearing activities began in the Giga Shanghai complex in late 2018.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

The battery factory will supply the nearby Dadong plant, which is operated by the BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) joint venture and will produce the BMW 5 Series Plug-in Hybrid for the local market. It contributes to the strategy of globally balanced growth, with production capacity in the respective regional markets.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This strategic collaboration with Weichai—a leading automotive equipment manufacturer specializing in the production of powertrains, automobiles, intelligent logistics, automotive parts and components—underscores our high conviction in the opportunity for Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles, or FCEVs, in China’s Heavy Duty Motive market.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2018

a commitment by Weichai to build and supply at least 2,000 fuel cell modules for commercial vehicles in China. In addition, Zhongshan Broad-Ocean Motor —a current Ballard strategic investor and Chinese partner—has agreed to invest a further approximately $20 million at the same 15% premium to maintain its 9.9%

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Earlier this year, local reports from Chinese media outlets hinted that a vehicle that’s more affordable than the Model 3 would likely start testing at the latter half of the year. . Such an idea is not that wild either, considering that GM’s Cruise debuted the exact same concept back in 2018.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 5, 2022

60,000 for the electric scooter, putting it in a class by itself given that most electric scooters available in the market right now cost over a lakh. Oppo is a subsidiary of BBK Electronics, a Chinese conglomerate that also owns Vivo, OnePlus, Realme, and Iooo and all of them operate in India in different segments. Competition.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

It was a show of strength, a commitment to the Indian market and a celebration too. million cars from both brands in the domestic market and exported 1.2 The arrest of Carlos Ghosn in 2018 dealt a significant blow to Renault-Nissan’s ambitions in India, a country Ghosn himself was a vocal advocate of. lakh cars back then.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

The two companies will collaborate closely in the field of fully electric vehicles and other relevant fields, including intelligent transportation systems and automated driving, striving to build a stable partnership on a long-term basis. In 2025, we expect a market share for fully electric drive systems of around 10 percent.

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