Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2018

Renault is presenting the new turbocharged gasoline 1.3 The new unit will feature under the hoods of Captur and Scénic, and will become available for other Renault models in the course of 2018. It has a global calling and will be manufactured in five plants to the tune of around one million units annually in the future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

MAN also presented an all-electric prototype of a semitrailer tractor unit for urban distribution transport. Further, MAN intends to begin producing electric versions of the MAN TGM series—manufactured at its Steyr, Austria site—from the end of 2018. CNL practical tests as a step towards series introduction.

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JUNE 10, 2023

Developed with future competition in its sights, the prototype’s unveiling was spurred by a recent announcement by the ACO, the organizer of Le Mans 24 Hours, that it would allow hydrogen-engine vehicles to compete in addition to fuel cell electric vehicles―in the race’s hydrogen category. —ACO President Pierre Fillon

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

Warm season average present-day daily maximum ozone levels (AVGMDA8) at urban (left) and non-urban sites (right). A large international team produced this first surface ozone assessment report based on all available surface observations across the globe using data from more than 4,800 monitoring stations. Source: University of Leicester.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Toyota’s Voice Assistant, which leverages technology from Google Cloud, was co-developed between the Toyota Motor North America Connected Technologies and Toyota Connected organizations since 2018. The partnership highlights the AI and machine learning innovation brought forth in the latest Toyota and Lexus infotainment systems.

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JULY 28, 2021

Rivian has already had the trademarks to the R1T and R1S logos and naming rights since October 10, 2018. Preparing for the electric car surge that will undoubtedly occur in the next several years, Rivian is slotting the namesake of its future cars already as deliveries of its first two cars will take place before the end of the year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2014

The report, based on WSD’s independent consultation with steel, aluminum and automotive experts, is formally being presented to steel executives today at the worldsteel Annual Conference in Moscow. Aluminum automotive sheet deliveries will show spectacular gains through 2018, the WSD report says. —“AutoBody Warfare”.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2015

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. In 2018, Audi will launch its first large‑series battery‑electric vehicle, based on the Audi e-tron Quattro concept. Earlier post.) Audi’s share of the purchase price amounts to €0.85

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2021

Safran presented the first electric motor from its ENGINeUS range designed for future hybrid and electric aircraft, at NBAA’s Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition (NBAA-BACE) in Orlando, Florida in 2018. —Hervé Blanc, Executive Vice President and General Manager Power with Safran Electrical & Power.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2016

He presented the SAE TIR J2954 on Tuesday in a keynote talk during the 4 th Conference for Electric Roads and Vehicles (CERV) in Logan, Utah. Future revisions may include even higher power levels: 3.7kW (WPT 1) specified in TIR J2954. Wireless power transfer using SAE TIR J2954 is a game changer for PH/EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2020

These challenges may be limiting in the near term, but they present opportunities for new competitors to establish a footprint in the future automotive market. At the same time, global automotive markets hit a peak in 2017-2018, and before the coronavirus crisis, it was not expected to regain this peak until 2021-2022.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2019

This participation will secure access for the Group to future-oriented augmented reality in the field of display technologies for the automobile. The visible 3D world is always present, no matter where a viewer looks at the display—same as in real life. In contrast, in the full-electric Volkswagen ID.3,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2020

As we see travel resume, hydrogen presents a key solution to enable a sustainable recovery for the industry using liquid renewable fuel, and to grow future resilience from threats like oil shocks. —Michael Edwards.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Yibin Tianyi Lithium—a joint venture of Canmax, CATL and Tianyuan Group established in 2018—has formally commissioned a 20ktpy lithium hydroxide plant in Yibin, Sichuan province. The trial run of phase I started in July and the plant is running at 30tpd at present.

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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. An important key aspect for the future is the gradual electrification of our fleet in urban areas. —Frank Rausch, CEO of Hermes Germany GmbH. Earlier post.)

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JULY 18, 2016

Daimler is highlighting its development of the semi-automated Mercedes-Benz Future Bus with CityPilot. The technology of the CityPilot in the Mercedes-Benz Future Bus is based on that of the autonomously driving Mercedes-Benz Actros truck with Highway Pilot presented two years ago. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2018

This planning round bears a clear signature: We are taking a very systematic approach to electric mobility and will be much more focused in future. We are consistently prioritizing our resources for future-oriented products and services that are highly attractive and relevant to the market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2018

Commercial vehicle manufacturer MAN Truck & Bus, a member of the Volkswagen Group, will showcase its advances in the fields of electromobility, digitization and autonomous vehicles at IAA Commercial Vehicles 2018 in September. For us, one thing is clear: the future of urban passenger and cargo transport is electric.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

AMPLY expects savings to increase as Tri Delta Transit expands its electric bus fleet in the future. Such savings and LCFS credits can be reinvested into operations to accelerate a transit authority’s ability to adopt a zero-emissions future. Tri Delta Transit launched its electric bus program in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2020

The vehicle has been further elaborated into the concept eCanter F-CELL, a light-duty truck that was presented recently in Kawasaki. In addition to the next generation of the eCanter, MFTBC will continue to collaborate within the Electric Mobility Group to roll out electric models for all FUSO truck and bus segments in the future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2018

s solid-state batteries present the next-generation post lithium-ion era of future battery technologies, that offer bulk electrodes with high energy densities, enhanced safety, faster charge times and lower costs. In January 2018 at CES, Fisker displayed a working solid-state battery in a case and an actual bulk battery without a case.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Preserving and displaying the Envoy’s functionality a quarter century after its heyday presented a special challenge. Filmmakers Sarah Kerruish, Matt Maude, and Michael Stern took this archival treasure trove and turned it into the award-winning 2018 documentary General Magic.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

Lithium and cobalt are fundamental components of present lithium-ion batteries. The researchers present these results in the journal Nature Reviews Materials as part of a cost and resource analysis of sodium-ion batteries. … For cobalt, the scenario-based demand analysis depicts a very different picture. —Vaalma et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2019

The US has been the largest market for Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) both in terms of cumulative installed capacity and by market value for projects installed up to 2018 and is likely to continue to lead the market at the country level. —Bhavana Sri, Power Analyst for GlobalData.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2018

The California Air Resources Board has released the 2018 issue of its Annual Evaluation of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicle Deployment and Hydrogen Fuel Station Network Development , pursuant to the requirements of AB 8 (2013). The most recent industry estimates indicate a total of 4,819 vehicles deployed through May of 2018. Source: ARB.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2019

The model, which incorporates data from more than 30 peer-reviewed studies, shows that at present, the cheapest energy storage mechanism is pumped-storage hydroelectricity, where water is pumped to a higher elevation with spare energy, then released to harvest the energy when needed. —senior author Iain Staffell. 2018.12.008.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2017

Audi presented the Audi Q8 concept at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) 2017. The concept full-size SUV is the basis for a production model that Audi will launch on the market in 2018; whether or not the first production version will be a plug-in hybrid has yet to be determined. In “auto” display mode, the 12.3-inch

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

For the 2018 iTech Energy Cycle, NASA and ARPA-E are seeking to identify the nation’s top entrepreneurs and researchers to present their innovative technologies to address energy-specific challenges.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

Instead of continuing to be driven elsewhere as used vehicles, buses originally equipped with conventional combustion engines are given a second life by e-troFit and will be environmentally friendly and locally emission-free in the future, which makes them future-proof for operators. —Andreas Hager, CEO of e-troFit GmbH.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2019

The move will strengthen the strategic partnership formed between the companies in 2018, under which Hyundai, Kia, and Aurora have been collaborating on self-driving technologies on Hyundai’s flagship fuel cell vehicle NEXO.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2019

Autonomous vehicles, innovative safety systems and intelligent mobility solutions contribute to a future of road traffic with zero accidents and zero emissions. At CES 2019, ZF is presenting its initial application options for the expanded platform. This will be accompanied by digitalizing the entire value chain.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2018

As agreed in the pact for the future, Volkswagen will pool production of its Golf family at the Wolfsburg plant from the next generation onwards. In addition, the plant will be adding a further Group model in the successful SUV segment, the Seat Tarraco, to its production portfolio from the end of 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2019

The workshop will begin with an overview of the various strategies currently being utilized to reduce emissions from heavy-duty vehicles, and will include a discussion of concepts that could be implemented now and in the near future.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Porsche is inviting developers from around the world to work on digital mobility solutions for future Porsche sports cars with the launch of the second edition of the “Porsche Next OI” developer competition. Porsche launched the first open innovation competition for digital developments in February 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2020

MISC Berhad, Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI), Lloyd’s Register and MAN Energy Solutions will work together on a joint development project (JDP) for an ammonia-fueled tanker to support shipping’s drive towards a decarbonized future. The transition from current to future applications is also a huge challenge for ammonia.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The finalists will enter partnership with LG Chem to develop joint technology and have access to commercialization opportunities in the future. The selected companies will then be invited to Demo Day in Silicon Valley around February of next year to present their business plans. LG Chem will offer more than $1.9

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

are collaborating to develop two future connected vehicle applications that can help improve safety in school zones and around school buses when children are present. Modified Audi e-tron test vehicles will implement C-V2X capabilities that Audi hopes to bring to consumers in future vehicle generations.

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