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SEPTEMBER 26, 2020

Volkswagen has already been using the e-Golf successfully for its own car sharing service We Share since 2018. In addition, with the demanding continuous operation of battery-electric vehicles in a ride hailing service, we will gain valuable experience which we will be able to use for future vehicles. —Holger B. —Holger B.

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MARCH 31, 2021

Mercedes-Benz will build the next generation eSprinter electric van, which is based on the newly developed Electric Versatility Platform ( earlier post ), at three locations: North Charleston, South Carolina; and Düsseldorf and Ludwigsfelde in Germany. Mercedes-Benz is investing around €350 million in the next generation eSprinter.

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JANUARY 24, 2019

Sacramento’s SMUD, the US’ sixth-largest community-owned, not-for-profit, electric service provider, will develop a model for a future Mobility Center that will foster innovation in the clean transportation sector and serve as a catalyst for carbon reduction and inclusive economic development.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Voltabox has 8 years of experience in battery development for the public transport market segment. Voltabox can now tap into a promising new subsegment of this market through the e-troFit cooperation. Since 2013, the Group has equipped several hundred trolleybuses worldwide with lithium-ion battery systems.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

LNG imports reached 482 billion cubic meters in 2019, up 13% from 2018, and while this figure is expected to fall by around 4.2% We have already seen unprecedented coal-to-gas switching in Europe, and clean air policies in major growth markets such as India and China will drive more gas adoption in the next few years. Low-carbon gas.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Digital and Head of Marketing & Sales, Product Line e-Mobility at Volkswagen. In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies. Mobile charging – also with Plug & Charge in future.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

The companies are to start using battery-electric vehicles in the logistics provider’s normal operations in a pilot phase in Stuttgart and Hamburg in early 2018. By the end of 2020, Hermes Germany intends to deploy 1,500 Mercedes-Benz Vito and Sprinter electric vans in urban areas across Germany. The test started in April 2016.

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DECEMBER 28, 2015

Half of the planned investment will take place at the Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm sites in Germany. Audi plans to enter a new market segment with the Audi Q2 model next year, and will also present the the successor of the Audi Q5. Earlier post.) Audi’s share of the purchase price amounts to €0.85

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MARCH 4, 2020

In addition to the European car market recording tepid growth in 2019, CO 2 emissions have continued to increase, despite new regulation designed to curtail this, according to JATO Dynamics. Last year, the volume-weighted average CO 2 emissions for European markets were at their highest recorded levels since 2014. —Felipe Munoz.

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MAY 29, 2017

Mercedes-Benz announced that its Rastatt plant—the company’s lead plant in global production of compact cars—will produce compact-class electric EQ models in the future. Future EQ models can be integrated in the series production of existing Mercedes-Benz plants on four continents.

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MAY 4, 2021

The initial plan is to make the fuel available at regular filling stations over the course of the year, starting in Germany. Since the end of 2018, R33 Blue Diesel has been the only diesel fuel that Bosch company filling stations offer for company cars and internal delivery vehicles. emissions from the vehicle fleet.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

China continues to be the leading country for e-mobility in terms of industry and market, according to the E-Mobility Index 2019 from fka GmbH and Roland Berger GmbH. Japanese manufacturers are placing few new all-electric vehicles on the market. Compared to the previous period (2018), Chinese sales are growing at approximately 160%.

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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). kWh/100 km) at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen (Germany) was integrated into ongoing series production. BBAC), launched EQC production for the local market in China.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2023

NIO officially opened its new 1,500 square meter Innovation Center in Berlin, Germany. NIO has since its beginning been committed to creating smart electric vehicles based on flexible and future-proof software platforms that run on suitable digital hardware. The most recent version, NIO Technology Platform 2.0

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DECEMBER 27, 2013

Between 2014 and 2018, Audi will invest a total of around €22 billion (US$30 billion) into new models, innovations and the continuous expansion of the worldwide production network. 70% of the investment is intended for new models and technologies. Investment in fixed assets will amount to €16 billion (US$22 billion).

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MAY 29, 2018

The team reviewed models from 16 countries, including the United States, Germany, China, South Korea, the United Kingdom and Ireland. The studies provided vastly different projections of future PEV market shares, mainly in the US and Germany. —Thomas Stephens, Argonne National Laboratory. Gnann et al.

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AUGUST 7, 2013

In addition to the ongoing strength in the European market and India (the second-largest diesel market after Europe, Bosch sees potential strength in North America and China. Because diesel vehicles already account for a high share of the European market, opportunities for growth are correspondingly moderate.

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Daimler AG will make investments in the high nine figures (euro) in the new model series by the time of the market launch. The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe. Our future X-Class will be a pickup that knows no compromise. in Germany, 1.3% in Germany, 1.3%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The project’s first fuel cell system will be installed in a heavy-duty truck for real-world testing in the near future. These collaborative efforts are being supported by the Energy Research Program of the Bavarian State Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Daimler Trucks & Buses, one of the world’s largest commercial vehicle manufacturers, aims to offer only new vehicles that are CO 2 -neutral in driving operation (“tank-to-wheel”) in the triad markets of Europe, Japan and NAFTA by 2039. The first hand-off to a customer was in 2018.

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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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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

In March 2018, Freudenberg announced it had acquired a 31% ownership stake in XALT Energy through a multi-million dollar investment in its operations. This acquisition is a crucial part of our future business strategy to transform as a supplier into a market leader of new mobility technologies and services. Earlier post.)

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JULY 10, 2018

The production of future battery-electric MINI vehicles in China, the world’s largest market for electromobility, is a key element of MINI’s continued strategic development within the BMW Group’s Strategy NUMBER ONE > NEXT. The signing of agreement follows a letter of intent signed with Great Wall Motor on 23 February 2018.

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DECEMBER 11, 2018

With extensive orders for battery cells until the year 2030, we set another important milestone for the electrification of our future electric vehicles of the EQ product and technology brand. The global battery production network of Mercedes-Benz Cars will in the future consist of eight factories on three continents.

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JULY 3, 2018

With Solaris, CAF will broaden its range of products enabling it to meet the current and future needs in urban transportation, particularly in electric mobility and multimodal door-to-door solutions. CAF’s investment in Solaris confirms our commitment to the vision of profitable growth and opens new strategic markets to CAF.

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JANUARY 11, 2012

According to Frost & Sullivan, technological developments such as the integration of radar and camera as well as sensor fusion between multiple applications are enabling a price reduction which may well lead to a 40% penetration of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in compact cars by 2018. —Manish Garg.

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JULY 10, 2018

The production of future battery-electric MINI vehicles in China, the world’s largest market for electromobility, is a key element of MINI’s continued strategic development within the BMW Group’s Strategy NUMBER ONE > NEXT. The signing of agreement follows a letter of intent signed with Great Wall Motor on 23 February 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2019

At the site of the Mercedes-Benz Untertürkheim plant in Germany, the construction of the battery factory at the Brühl sub-plant has begun with the symbolic foundation-laying ceremony. Daimler purchases the battery cells on the world market.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Japan is the next market to follow. In the future, public charging at publicly accessible stations along central transport routes will also be an important aspect—a comprehensive charging infrastructure maximizes the operating range of battery-electric trucks. The focus of activities is currently on the United States and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2015

Daimler Trucks will begin production of the new medium-duty DD5 and DD8 diesel engines for the NAFTA market in Detroit effective 2018. The plant is currently beginning localized series production of the DT12 automated transmission for the NAFTA market as well.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2020

Since signing a strategic agreement in August 2018, Bosch and Ceres have been successfully collaborating in the development of fuel-cell stacks for stationary applications. This enabled Bosch to start initial low-volume production of pilot fuel-cell systems in autumn 2019 in Germany.

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JULY 24, 2019

These are intended for the plug-in hybrid models of the new BMW X5 and the future BMW X3, also produced in Spartanburg. This means we could double the number of batteries produced if needed to meet market demand. —Michael Nikolaides, Senior Vice President Engines and Electrified Drivetrains, BMW Group.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Dürr is positioning itself in the growing Li-ion battery market as a supplier of production technology and is expanding its market access to battery manufacturers through a cooperation with Techno Smart, a leading Japanese manufacturer of coating systems.

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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. Production of the EQC, a fully-electric SUV, will start in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

As part of its Easy Mobility strategy, SEAT’s objective is to build its product and service portfolio by presenting new solutions to the market in the framework of urban mobility. In this sense, within the Volkswagen Group’s micromobility strategy, the automotive group’s different brands plan to launch urban mobility solutions in the future.

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JULY 9, 2018

Furthermore, the all-electric BMW iX3 ( earlier post ) to be produced by BBA—the first BMW brand model to be driven purely by electric power—is planned for export to markets outside of China. The BMW iX3 is also intended for export to markets outside of China. The BMW X3 is the sixth BMW model localized in China.

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