Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2022

JERA, the largest power generation company in Japan, responsible for about 30% of Japan’s electricity, and Toyota Motor have built and deployed the first large-capacity “Sweep Energy Storage System”. The project plans to operate grid storage batteries for recharge and discharge operations, connected to the Chubu Electric Power Grid Co.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2018

billion in the third quarter of 2018, down 6% from the same period last year, according to the latest Clean Energy Investment Trends report from research company Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). billion in the first nine months of 2018, making this year certain to be the strongest since at least 2011. Japan at $4 billion, down 21%.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2020

The Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty truck with a range of approximately 200 kilometers is in intensive use with customers in Germany and Switzerland; the first customer handover took place in 2018. By the end of the decade, Daimler Trucks & Buses will add hydrogen-powered series-production vehicles to its product range.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2022

GM and Honda also will discuss future EV battery technology collaboration opportunities, to further drive down the cost of electrification, improve performance and drive sustainability for future vehicles. Honda has established a demonstration line in Japan for all-solid-state batteries and is making further progress toward mass-production.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The falling cost of batteries is set to drive a boom in the installation of energy storage systems around the world in the years from now to 2040, according to the latest annual forecast from research company Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). China, the US, India, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, South Korea and the UK will be the leading countries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2018

Lithium brine operations typically have a much lower cost of production than hard-rock lithium deposits. The cash operating cost of approximately US$3,500/t positions the Company as being one of the lowest cost lithium producers globally.

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Setec Powerr

JULY 28, 2022

In August 2018, the China Electricity Council and the CHAdeMO Association of Japan signed a technology and standards cooperation agreement to jointly promote the research of high-power charging technology and the development of international standards. Japan prepared a new generation charging standard CHAdeMO3.0

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

New analysis from consultancy Frost & Sullivan—“Key Focus Areas for Driving Interface Systems for Passenger Cars”—projects that shift-by-wire technology is likely to be adopted in premium segment cars globally and across volume segments in mature markets such as North America, Germany and Japan by 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2018

and 17% in Japan. China is already dominant in this market, with a 59% global share of production capacity in 2018, and this is forecast to rise to 73% by 2021. It shows electric buses in almost all charging configurations having a lower total cost of ownership than conventional municipal buses by 2019.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Contrary to popular belief that the high cost of EVs is the impediment, the survey reveals that safety concerns and charging concerns run high on customers’ minds. The study was conducted by Frost & Sullivan in January 2018 in six countries: Singapore, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

As the two companies have emphasized from the beginning, Bosco reinforced that the current scope of the collaboration focuses on reducing the high cost of fuel cell specific systems: i.e., the fuel cell stack; balance of plant components; and hydrogen storage system (HSS). The focus on the GM-Honda work is on reducing costs.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

The duo created a lithium-ion battery with lower voltage but also lower cost and greater safety. Twenty-five years later, the battery is gaining momentum in the auto industry as a means of reducing the cost of electric cars. Goodenough [left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Akira Yoshino [middle] and M.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2016

Honda’s current state-of-the-art vehicle is the Clarity Fuel Cell, currently available in Japan, and to be available in the US and Europe by the end of the year. Cost, productivity, efficiency and fuel economy now offer the highest focus for technology investment, he said. Earlier post ). kW/L–approximately a 60% improvement.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2015

Japan, Korea, and China also benefit from a significant population of key, LIB-specific upstream materials suppliers (for electrodes, separators, electrolytes, etc.) However, the report also notes, if moderate demand estimates are met, today’s manufacturing capacity (and commensurate underutilization) may rationalize by 2017-2018.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 20, 2024

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 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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2013

The proposed Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standards are similar to levels already being achieved in California, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and several other countries. Costs and impacts. EPA calculates that the program will cost about a penny per gallon of gasoline, and about $130 per vehicle. Model Year. LDT2,3,4 and MDPV.

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DECEMBER 29, 2006

There's really only one way to read the Kyodo News (Japan) report that Honda President Takeo Fukui said in an interview that Honda thinks it will be able to mass produce fuel-cell vehicles for the general market by 2018. In 2018, I believe the development [of a fuel-cell car] will have been very advanced.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Navigant’s analysis indicates that only buyers in California and Oregon will purchase sufficient numbers of vehicles in order to meet the ZEV requirement in 2018 and 2019. Germany, the United Kingdom, several Nordic countries, Japan, and South Korea are continuing to pursue their hydrogen infrastructure roadmaps. H2USA, the new U.S.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2019

In the product launch event, Yang Hongxin, General Manager of SVOLT, said that the NMx battery cell rivals the NCM811 cell in performance, while reducing the cost of materials by 5%-15% and the cell balance of materials (BOM) cost by around 5%, and allows the materials to rise above strategic resources. SVOLT product roadmap.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2014

The Tier 3 gasoline sulfur standards are similar to levels already being achieved in California, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and several other countries. The sulfur standards will cost less than a penny per gallon of gasoline on average once the standards are fully in place. Tier 3 Vehicle Emission and Fuel Standards Program.

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Cars That Think

JULY 16, 2022

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. Navy P-8 Poseidon aircraft, equipped to detect submarines, awaits refueling in Okinawa, Japan, in 2020. Meanwhile, the U.S.

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Qnovo

JUNE 24, 2019

As batteries increasingly become the energy source powering everything from smartphones to electric cars, one key economic metric to pay attention to is $/kWh: the cost per unit of energy stored within the battery. For the big manufacturers in Japan, Korea and China, the cost metric stands today somewhere between $100 and $150 per kWh.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 16, 2021

While the Concorde successfully overcame the technical hurdles standing in the way of supersonic passenger service, it succumbed to economics: The cost of fuel and maintenance was especially high for these planes. Boom went on to garner more than US $150 million from various venture funds and Japan Airlines.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Additionally, with the Mercedes-Benz eActros for distribution transport, which was already presented in 2018 and has been tested intensively since then by customers in everyday transport operations, Daimler Trucks will start series production of a purely battery-powered heavy-duty truck next year. Mercedes-Benz eActros LongHaul. ePowertrain.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Even if electrochemists should replicate that feat, providing us with 1,000 Wh/kg batteries in 2050, it would still fall far short of what's needed to fly a wide-body plane nonstop from New York to Tokyo, something that All Nippon Airways, Japan Airlines, and United Airlines have been doing for years with the Boeing 777.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2018

A team led by researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan has fabricated non-noble-metal electrodes for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) for electrochemical water splitting using a bicontinuous and open porous NiMo alloy covered by nitrogen-doped (N-doped) graphene with nanometer-sized holes. Credit: ACS, Ito et al. 7b04091.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

The first public demonstrations of the technology occurred in late 2018, by NTT Docomo in Japan and Metawave , of Carlsbad, Calif. And yet one of the first major projects, the European-funded Visorsurf , began just five years ago and ran until 2020. But which is preferable?

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 27, 2022

In Kim’s lab, students began to explore emerging technologies—including polysilicon thin-film transistors (for LCD panels), infrared sensors (for military use), and rapid thermal processing (which increased efficiency and reduced costs of semiconductor production)—and published their results in prestigious international journals.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 8, 2023

Crosstrek Sport, Limited and Wilderness are built in Lafayette, Indiana, while the Base and Premium come from Gunma, Japan. Because of this we don’t address issues such as long-term reliability or total cost of ownership. The Crosstrek has a loyal customer base that sees a Subaru in their future for a long, long time. Video by Subaru.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The technologies, called Open RAN and which would provide new ways to mix and match network components by “opening up” the interfaces between them, are widely believed to be an important opportunity to drive down the costs of network deployments and allow new players to enter a rigid market. and Japan in developing Open RAN.

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Get Electric Vehicle

AUGUST 4, 2022

The rest of society will follow once the obstacles are resolved for the early adopters (in this example, range, cost, charging infrastructure, limited supply, and choice). According to the analysis, the “major challenge” for consumers is the cost of an EV. The Promising Markets. The $36,000 Challenge.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

ABB is currently providing UPS systems for Formula E’s broadcast center, and it provided 50-kilowatt chargers for the Jaguar I-Pace trophy, a racing series that was presented before the main Formula E races for two seasons from 2018 to 2020. This was really the focus in 2010 through 2013.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Nickel and cobalt cathodes were sold under the brand Tocantins and have an established customer base in key regions of demand today: the United States, Europe and Japan. M3 Engineering (M3) based in Tucson, Arizona, prepared capital and operating cost estimates to BFS level of accuracy (+/- 15%). lb of contained cobalt.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

Covered in greater detail in an earlier post , the battery-electric e-tron quattro concept provides a very close foreshadowing of the production model to follow in 2018. In China and Japan, where other standards already exist (GB/T and CHAdeMO, respectively), country-specific requirements will be accommodated.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2013

Topics included the upcoming introduction of the blue e-motion Golf electric vehicle, sometimes called the e-Golf, near the end of 2013 (early 2014 for the US market), as well as Volkswagen’s goal of achieving 3% of its global sales through plug-in vehicles by 2018. Volkswagen sold 9.07 million vehicles in 2012 to Toyota’s 9.7

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