Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

In the Netherlands and Germany, Volkswagen Passenger Cars managed to leap to the number one spot in all-electric vehicles over the full-year 2020 with a share of 23.8% in Germany in the BEV market and 23% in the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

As one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, we have the ambition to be the innovation and technology leader also with alternative drive systems. For example, our locally CO 2 -neutral city bus eCitaro has been in series production since 2018 and electrifies public transport in many cities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

The Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant is running at high capacity utilization, and currently creating the conditions for the production start of the next compact car generation in 2018. billion) will be invested in the expansion of the electric fleet in the next few years. Ten billion euros (US$11.2

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2020

Hamburger Hochbahn—one of the biggest public transport carriers in Germany—has announced the list of potential suppliers of 530 electric buses to be delivered between 2021-2125. The complete electric bus fleet is expected to include more than 160 vehicles by the end of 2022. An important criterion for the vehicles is range.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

These services constitute an additional asset for the Electric Mobility Plan announced by the Group in October 2018. At the end of March 2019, Hynamics teams have identified and are working on some 40 target projects, in France as well as other European countries including Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The Volkswagen Group will support Hamburg and ITS Germany in 2021 for hosting the World Congress for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) as a main partner and chair of the Host Organizing Committee. Within the framework of the project, a shuttle-on-demand service using eco-friendly electric vehicles is to be launched in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Within the framework of the initiative, the E-Mobility Group is bringing together the main players—e-truck customers, power grid operators, energy suppliers, charging hardware manufacturers and charging software providers—thus promoting shared infrastructure solutions for truck customers within the network.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

T&E estimates this to be equivalent to around 9% market share of new registrations in 2018. The are currently about 1,600 electric buses are on European roads, with another 1,600 on order (as of mid-2018). Nearly half of delivered and ordered electric buses come from three manufacturers: BYD: 600 units sold and a 20% market share.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2020

The Coradia iLint has been conducting in successful passenger service between Cuxhaven and Buxtehude since September 2018. Our decision to replace the entire diesel fleet in Bremervörde with Alstom’s hydrogen trains makes us a trailblazer in the transportation revolution.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

That is why we now have a contractual agreement with our cell manufacturers that they will only use green power to produce our fifth-generation battery cells. The BMW Group will also source cells manufactured in Europe from the Chinese manufacturer CATL from the plant currently under construction in Erfurt, Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2020

The BMW Group is continuously working to reduce the CO 2 emissions of its new car fleet. The company will achieve the CO 2 fleet target for its European new car registrations also this year. The growing proportion of electrified vehicles is also driving up manufacturing costs. Commitment to achieving CO 2 -targets.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2017

Volkswagen Truck & Bus companies have launched two truck platooning pilot projects: one, with Scania in Singapore ( earlier post ), the other with MAN and Schenker DB in Germany. This marks the first platooning alliance between an automotive manufacturer and a logistics company. They are linked by an “electronic drawbar”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2019

BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) has become the first automobile manufacturer to enable full 5G wireless coverage at all its plants. With this development, BBA becomes the first automobile manufacturer to use 5G technology in automotive development and production. Full 5G coverage, transfer rate of 1 Gbps.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Models along with solutions like Plug & Charge, we as a manufacturer are making a decisive contribution to realising such goals. In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies. Charging at home.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

(PCNA) has enrolled all cars at its two Experience Centers—sand its fleet in the monthly subscription pilot, Porsche Passport—sin Porsche Impact. Following its corporate fleets, PCNA will soon offer Porsche Impact to USA customers who want to reduce the CO 2 footprint of their internal-combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Two vehicles will continue the operational testing with customers in the first test phase.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Series production of the Mercedes-Benz eActros heavy-duty truck is due to start in 2021 at the Wörth plant, alongside the existing manufacture of trucks with combustion engines. At the IAA in 2016, Mercedes-Benz Trucks became the first manufacturer worldwide to present a heavy-duty electric truck. Econic will also be electrified.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2017

Deutsche Post DHL Group and Ford presented the first of their jointly produced electric delivery vans in Cologne, Germany. In 2017, around 150 early build e-vans will be manufactured in the StreetScooter plant in Aachen, Germany. Deutsche Post DHL will use the e-vans to support its urban parcel delivery service in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

In Germany the smart brand is the market leader among all-electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2018. The smart plant in Hambach will become a part of our global compact car production network with the lead plant Rastatt, Germany. The preparations for the new model in Hambach will start shortly.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The BMW Group is deepening its existing business relationships with battery cell manufacturers CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. The original CATL order volume of four billion euros announced in mid-2018 will now be increased to €7.3 We strongly supported and played an active part in establishing CATL in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The EQS, the first electric luxury sedan from Mercedes-Benz, will start in the first half of 2021 in Factory 56 at the Sindelfingen site (Germany). High-efficiency battery systems will also be manufactured and assembled within the production network. neutral vehicle fleet and to the Mercedes-Benz AG electric offensive.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2018

This could result in significant financial penalties for automotive manufacturers in EU member states where CO 2 drives taxes. This is nearly 2g/km higher than the 8g/km previously seen in April 2018. The analysis of the volume weighted effect of re-homologation finds that a difference of 9.6g/km

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2017

Germany-based Li-ion manufacturer AKASOL ( earlier post ) has signed a contract for the supply of Li-ion batteries to an unnamed international commercial vehicle manufacturer in Scandinavia for its entire electric bus fleet through 2023.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Divergence between real-world and manufacturers’ type-approval CO 2 emissions for various real-world data sources, including average estimates for private cars, company cars, and all data sources. Manufacturers measure vehicle fuel consumption in a controlled laboratory environment. Source: The ICCT. Click to enlarge. Source: The ICCT.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Energy storage installations around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF). The remaining significant markets include India, Germany, Latin America, Southeast Asia, France, Australia and the UK.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2018

A new study by MIT researchers, published this month in Atmospheric Environment , finds that in Europe, 10 major auto manufacturers produced diesel cars, sold between 2000 and 2015, that generate up to 16 times more NO x emissions on the road than in regulatory tests—a level that exceeds European limits but does not violate any EU laws.

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MAY 17, 2018

The test fleet is based on the latest BMW 7 Series models, starting with two operating vehicles in May and adding up to seven vehicles by December in China. Now, it is a great honor to be the first international vehicle manufacturer to obtain an autonomous road test license in China. kilometers (3.5 New BMW Group R&D Center in Beijing.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

billion) into its Zwickau, Germany plant to convert it into a pure-play e-mobility facility. In addition, the MEB will be the key tool for meeting demanding fleet targets first in Europe and China and later in the US. As part of a projected €22.8 billion (US$26.9 Volkswagen is investing €2.9

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2017

Over the course of eight hours, 14 entrepreneurial companies from Romania, Spain and Germany presented themselves in 30‑minute sessions in front of eight judges. At the end of 2017 and start of 2018, more teams will move into the factory. Nearly 50 mobility start‑ups applied. One of their goals is to reduce fuel consumption.

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APRIL 14, 2016

mi) driven as part of the four-year Electric Mobility Showcase in Germany. Four ministries lent their support to 90 individual measures in four regions of Germany. By 2018, we will have five plug-in hybrid models in. Audi gained a wealth of experience from the 1.4 million kilometers (869,919.7 Earlier post.) 500 kilometers (310.7

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2013

Belzowski also presented preliminary results from a survey of powertrain experts—from automotive manufacturers, suppliers, government, NGOs, academia and consulting—asking for their predictions of powertrain penetrations for 2016, 2020, and 2025. marketshare by 2018—i.e., The TDI Efficiency Rally fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2013

The Volkswagen Group has set itself the goal of becoming the world’s leading automaker in environmental terms by 2018. In Germany, the Volkswagen Group provides 62% of its own power, with more to come, Thomas said. Plant was built on a brownfield property (former TNT manufacturing site) with no destruction of untouched nature.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Benz unveiled the latest generation of its successful Sprinter model at an event held at a logistics center in the Duisburg, Germany docks. The new Sprinter is available for order now and will be launched in the European market starting in June 2018. Duisburg is home to the world’s largest inland port.) million times. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

All-new in 2018, the 2022 Kia Stinger continues to turn heads by those that know cars. Designed in Kia’s Frankfurt, Germany, design studio and built in Sohari, Korea, the Stinger is truly a world car. Clean Fleet Report spent a fun week in the 2022 Kia Stinger GT-Line RWD. Serious, Affordable Performance. Powertrain.

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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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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The German firm TWAICE was founded in June 2018 by Dr. Michael Baumann and Dr. Stephan Rohr to address these needs. Since then, it has built an extensive database of information about how different cells from different manufacturers age and perform over time. Charged : What exactly is the product?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2022

We actively support public transport companies to decarbonize their fleets and provide them with the corresponding infrastructure. In 2021, almost every second all-electric city bus newly sold in Germany came from Daimler Buses. In the city bus segment, this is to be the case in Europe as early as 2030. We have earmarked a total of 1.25

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