Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

In the presence of Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang in Berlin, Volkswagen signed a joint venture agreement with the Chinese automaker Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC). The objective is to deliver 400,000 electric vehicles to the Chinese market in 2020 and 1.5 million electric vehicles in 2025.

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MAY 6, 2024

Tesla’s Senior Vice President of Automotive is reportedly moving back into a position in China, after leaving the country to help with the automaker’s global operations last year. Following the news, Bank of America estimated that adding Tesla’s FSD to the Chinese market could generate as much as $2.3

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

The Chinese EV battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. CATL develops battery systems for global customers in EV, HEV and PHEV applications; its sales of EV batteries amounted to 11.84 GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

The Chinese EV battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. CATL develops battery systems for global customers in EV, HEV and PHEV applications; its sales of EV batteries amounted to 11.84 GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally. GWh in 2017—making it Nº 1 globally.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2020

The proposed cooperation, initially focused on the Chinese market, would enable the parties to bring together the capabilities of two established global leaders across the spectrum of automobile design, engineering and manufacturing and mobile software technology to focus on the growing battery electric vehicle market.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2013

Bosch, a leading supplier of technology for diesel engines, recently provided an overview of trends it sees in the diesel engine marketplace globally. Purchasers of SUVs, who represent one of the fastest-growing segments of the auto market, almost always opt for a diesel engine.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2018

The Chinese government plans to have new-energy vehicles account for more than 20% of the country’s annual car sales by 2025—equating to more than seven million vehicles, based on Chinese government forecasts. Last year we made a commitment to electrification in preparation for an era beyond the internal combustion engine.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2017

KS HUAYU AluTech GmbH, Neckarsulm, Germany, a member of Rheinmetall Automotive, has booked a major order from a globally operating German carmaker for electric motor housings installed in passenger cars. With a range of several hundred kilometers, the vehicles are exclusively destined for the Chinese market. Earlier post.).

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Chinese state media reported that he met Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, during which Li told Musk that Tesla’s development in China could be regarded as a successful example of U.S. Tesla reached an accord with Chinese authorities for a plant in Shanghai, its first outside the United States, in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2017

The Mondeo Energi, to be launched in early 2018, will be the first plug-in hybrid to be manufactured by the Changan Ford JV. According to the Society of Automotive Engineers of China, by 2025 new energy vehicles are expected to account for more than 15% of total passenger vehicle sales in China. Globally, the company is investing $4.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2017

The report says that the C-HR-based EV will be limited to the Chinese market, and that Toyota aims to introduce another mass-produced EV in 2020. EVs and plug-in hybrids—to at least a fifth of new vehicle sales by 2025, with quotas beginning in 2018. China is planning to bring new energy vehicle sales—i.e.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2018

billion) by the end of 2017 following a series of significant program wins with major global automakers. Among these are: GKN’s Multimode eTransmission system is due to launch on a Chinese OEM’s platform across a number of vehicle models from 2018. Sales, which were previously forecast to rise from £33 million (US$45.7

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2017

On display is Dana’s new Spicer electric motor-driven gearbox, which is specifically engineered to deliver better acceleration and higher torque in high-speed battery electric vehicles (BEV). These e-axles are planned for launch in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2016

On the eve of the 2016 Beijing International Automobile Exhibition, Toyota announced that it will launch plug-in hybrid versions of the Corolla and Levin—two mass-market models, both of which have conventional hybrid variants—in China during 2018. Later, the establishment of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing (China) Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

The BMW Group will also source cells manufactured in Europe from the Chinese manufacturer CATL from the plant currently under construction in Erfurt, Germany. The BMW Group recognised Northvolt’s potential and expertise early: In mid-2018, the BMW Group entered a cooperation to develop battery cells with the company formed in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In 2022, Mercedes-Benz’ global portfolio will include eight all-electric Mercedes-EQ models. The global Mercedes-Benz production network is ready for the company’s electric product offensive and is integrating its Mercedes-EQ models into series production in its existing plants. Global battery production network.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Re-Fire has developed a leading position as a system integrator in the fast-moving Chinese fuel cell transportation market. Ballard is the premier global PEM fuel cell technology company, so using Ballard-designed fuel cell stacks in our engines was an easy decision. Ballard’s joint venture in Yunfu, Guangdong Province.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

The dual-clutch gearboxes produced especially for the Chinese market will be used in several Group models in China in the future. With the DQ380 gearbox in combination with the third generation of the new EA888 engine, which is produced at the engine plants in Changchun and Shanghai, Volkswagen will achieve a consumption reduction of 0.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2017

By 2025, we expect our electrified BMW and MINI models to account for between 15 and 25 percent of global sales. The Shenyang location, with its Dadong and Tiexi automotive plants and engine plant with light-metal foundry, plays an important role in the BMW Group’s global production network. —Oliver Zipse.

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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. What's at stake is control of international 5G networks, which are expected to transform global communications.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The original CATL order volume of four billion euros announced in mid-2018 will now be increased to €7.3 billion for the Chinese production site of the BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. Every cell generation is awarded in global competition to the leading manufacturer from both a technology and a business perspective.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2016

China’s Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (ZGH) has raised $400 million through the first Green Bond sale on the offshore market from a Chinese automobile company to support the design, development and production of range-extended electric vehicles by its UK subsidiary, the LondonTaxi Company (LTC), manufacturer of the iconic London Black Cab.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2018

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% This is the largest announced planned commercial fuel cell vehicle deployment in history globally.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

To mark the 25th anniversary of the Renault-Nissan Alliance, the global board made a historic visit to India. It was the first time that all three heads – the global CEOs of both the Renault and Nissan brands as well as the Alliance chairman – convened together outside of France or Japan. The base engine will be the HR10, the 1.0-litre

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CN EV Post

MARCH 21, 2023

Qiantu recently signed a strategic partnership agreement with Mullen Automotive to expand into the Americas, according to a press release from the Chinese startup today. They were renamed S1, A1 and A2 respectively in Malaysia, with the Qiantu K25 making its global debut and not previously launched in China, the company said at the time. ($1

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2022

According to Chinese authorities, the ones on Changbiao are civilian power reactors, designed to generate 600 megawatts of electricity each, which amounts to a little more than 1 percent of the total capacity of China’s nuclear power sector. “My So China could start producing weapons-grade plutonium there very soon.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2015

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation technology ( earlier post ) is at the core of the new Horizon2020 Steelanol project (2015-2018), which seeks to produce bioethanol via an innovative gas fermentation process using exhaust gases emitted by the steel industry. million (US$16.3-million) Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

But it was true what semiconductor engineers in South Korea whispered about his former students: They were everywhere. Starting in the mid-1980s, as chip manufacturing in the country accelerated, engineers who had studied under Kim at. His mother taught elementary school; his father, Kim Byung-Woon, was a textile engineer for.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

Winterkorn noted that the industry is experiencing its worst crisis in decades, with a collapse in the global market of 18% in the first half of this year. Volkswagen is Europe’s largest automaker, and saw its global new vehicle market share increase to 11% during the first quarter of 2009. about 7% of global CO 2 emissions.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The 2018 edition of BP’s Energy Outlook considers the forces shaping the global energy transition out to 2040 and the key uncertainties surrounding that transition. The global energy mix is the most diverse the world has ever seen by 2040, with oil, gas, coal and non-fossil fuels each contributing around a quarter.

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MAY 7, 2024

This is more than six times higher than in 2018, just 5 years earlier. Electric cars accounted for around 18% of all cars sold in 2023, up from 14% in 2022 and only 2% five years earlier, in 2018. Battery electric cars accounted for 70% of the electric car stock in 2023, states the IEA annual report of the EV global parc.

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Last, Chinese car companies will set up shop in India. Great Wall Motors is another Chinese company that was supposed to invest in India. The Chinese electric car market is huge, and in the coming years, the Chinese will start pushing abroad as their home market gets saturated. India won’t be a priority for them.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

—“14 th Annual Global Automotive Executive Survey”. Around 40% of Chinese and 37% of Brazilian manufacturers and suppliers are investing the largest proportion of their powertrain resources in ICE optimization, according to the survey. —“14 th Annual Global Automotive Executive Survey”. Source: KPMG.

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Cars That Think

JULY 16, 2022

For nearly a century, naval engineers have striven to develop ever-faster, ever-quieter submarines. In 2018, NASA launched a satellite with laser imaging technology to monitor changes in Earth’s surface—notably changes in the patterns on the ocean’s surface; the satellite cost more than $1 billion. Lidar has better range and.

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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. Senger observed that Volkswagen will need a global sourcing strategy for batteries, in collaboration with its suppliers. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2018

Continental and Chinese automotive supplier and battery manufacturer CITC (Sichuan Chengfei Integration Technology Co., The joint venture, in which Continental holds 60% and CITC 40% of the shares, will operate globally and supply customers in Europe and North America, as well as China and other Asian markets.

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