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Samsung SDI building Li-ion battery plant in Hungary; global triangular production structure

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Samsung SDI has decided to use Hungary as its Li-ion battery production base in Europe. The new facility in Hungary will enable Samsung SDI to establish a global triangular production structure along with existing plants in Ulsan, Korea and Xian, China.

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Benchmark Minerals: Europe’s EV gigafactory capacity pipeline to grow 6-fold to 789.2 GWh to 2030

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Just three and a half years ago, Benchmark’s lithium-ion Battery Gigafactory Assessment (September 2018) reported Europe’s battery cell capacity to be at 120GWh by 2030—enough cells for 2.2 Samsung SDI (Hungary): 20 GWh. SK Innovation (Hungary): 7.5 million EVs. Now this planned annual capacity figure stands at 789.2

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Audi adjustments what, the way it builds to pressure out CO2

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of the power old within the manufacturing procedure, “but on a sunny summer day, we can get up to 50 percent,” Peter D’hoore, head of exterior communications at Audi Brussels, advised Car Information throughout a excursion in December. megawatts of electrical energy, relying at the quantity of light.

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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.

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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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While development of the principle is ongoing, Audi has begun to use modular assembly in developing the production process for the electric motor for the 2018 e-tron SUV (C-BEV) ( earlier post ). Modular assembly uses 19 island stations, some of which are used several times within the build process.

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Mercedes-Benz to invest ~€500M to produce electric compact EQ model at Hambach plant

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The Hambach site in France features many years of experience in building fully electric cars. In Germany the smart brand is the market leader among all-electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2018. Thereby, smart will be the first automotive brand of the world, which completely changes from combustion engines to electric drives.

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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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Building on the experience gained during the series production of electric vehicles at the location, the workforce is being prepared for the new models and further technological developments with comprehensive training programs. The A-Class, B-Class and the compact SUV GLA are manufactured at the location.

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