Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

We look forward to demonstrating what has already been proven in Germany—that hydrogen represents a highly suitable way forward in both cases. The world’s first two hydrogen trains have already been in regular passenger service in Lower Saxony in Germany since September 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2023

Global research and advisory firm Aranca has launched the Green Hydrogen Hub —an interactive online tool that tracks all green hydrogen proejcts that have come into operations since 2018. It currently is tracking 461 projects. Users can register to gain full access to 10,000+ datapoints showcased on the platform.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2018

The Volkswagen Group rolled out a new diesel swapping program in Germany. Environmental incentives for scrappage of Euro-1 to Euro-4 diesel vehicles of any make are again being offered by some of the Group’s brands throughout Germany. million low-emission new Euro-6 diesel vehicles took to the roads in Germany, replacing old vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2019

According to a new study published by the ifo Institue Center for Economic Studies (CESifo) in Germany, EVs will barely help cut CO 2 emissions in the country over the coming years, as the introduction of electric vehicles does not necessarily lead to a reduction in CO 2 emissions from road traffic given the current power generation mix.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

During a year-long trial period the truck will operate as a daily shuttle between DHL’s logistics center and a BMW Group production plant in southern Germany. During a year-long trial period the truck will operate as a daily shuttle between DHL’s logistics center and a BMW Group production plant in southern Germany.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Webasto, a global systems partner to the automotive industry, has started the production of batteries for electric vehicles in Germany. The cells for the Webasto standard battery are sourced from Samsung SDI—a Webasto partner in the field of battery systems since 2018. Entry into the Chinese market is in preparation.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Audi introduced its flagship electric SUV e-tron in 2018. The market launch of the new Audi Q8 e-tron and Audi Q8 Sportback e-tron, which will be available to order starting in mid-November, is planned to happen at the end of February 2023 in Germany and the most important European markets.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2019

Leclanché announced in December 2018 that it would triple current factory capacity to more than 3 million cells per year, or 1 GWh per year by 2020. The group is headquartered in Germany and has production facilities in China, Poland and the USA as well as subsidiaries in Japan and France.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Data source: International Group of Liquefied Natural Gas Importers (2018–2021) and CEDIGAZ (2022–1H23) Note:1H23=first half of 2023. Includes annual liquefied natural gas exports by country for 2018–2022 and 1H23 average exports for 2023. Australia exported the world’s second-largest volume of LNG in 1H23, averaging 10.6 Chart: EIA.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 2, 2020

Germany saw a major increase in electric-car adoption, according to Clean Energy Wire. The number of new EV registrations rose 61% percent in 2019, compared to a 24% increase for 2018. This robust growth cemented Germany's position as the largest.

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Teslarati

APRIL 22, 2024

reductions with additional price cuts in its key markets of China and Germany, where it has additional Gigafactory locations. Credit: Tesla In Germany, Tesla cut the price of the Model 3 rear-wheel-drive to 40,990 euros (~$43,650) from 42,990 euros (~$45,780). Late on Sunday, Tesla followed the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

The European Commission (EC) last week approved an increase in state funding by €300 million (US$332 million) for the purchase of electric buses in Germany in accordance with EU state aid rules. The total state funding for this now amounts to €650 million (US$719 million).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

As of July 2018, all BMW gasoline and plug-in hybrid models available in Germany will be fitted as standard with a gasoline particulate filter (GPF) and thus will comply with the exhaust standard Euro 6d-TEMP.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

Germany currently has a total of 32 hydrogen refueling stations in operation, sponsored by the German government via its National Innovation Programme for Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technology (NIP). By 2018, the plan is to have 100 filling stations. Altogether, the German government contributed €1.8 million (US$2.1

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

The BMW Group is systematically expanding the intelligent connectivity capabilities of its vehicles by seamlessly integrating Amazon’s voice-controlled personal assistant Alexa into all BMW and MINI models from mid-2018. From mid-2018 Amazon Alexa will be available in all BMW and MINI vehicles in USA, UK and Germany.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2017

In Germany, Audi is extending its trade-in bonus for customers who switch from diesel-powered cars that meet the Euro 1 through Euro 4 emissions standards to an Audi that meets the Euro 6 standard. SEAT, ŠKODA, Volkswagen and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands in Germany have also extended their similar offerings.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. From Thuringia, which is located in the center of Germany, every major German city can be reached in a maximum of 5 hours by truck. With the opening of the production facility in Germany, the company underlines the importance of the German market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

million) 15 MWh battery storage project from swb, an energy services provider in Germany. Commissioning of the complete system is scheduled for March 2018. Leclanché SA has received an order for a €5-million (US$5.8-million) Usual battery storage applications use the battery for symmetrical services, such as charging and discharging.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2020

Two pre-series trains of Alstom’s Coradia iLint model have been in passenger service since September 2018. —Jörg Nikutta, Managing Director for Germany and Austria of Alstom Transport Deutschland GmbH. The project is of a great importance to industrial policy that goes far beyond Germany. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

CATL) is building its first plant outside of China in Thuringia, Germany. From Thuringia, which is located in the center of Germany, every major German city can be reached in a maximum of 5 hours by truck. With the opening of the production facility in Germany, the company underlines the importance of the German market.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2022

Just three and a half years ago, Benchmark’s lithium-ion Battery Gigafactory Assessment (September 2018) reported Europe’s battery cell capacity to be at 120GWh by 2030—enough cells for 2.2 Benchmark will explore this topic at its upcoming Battery Megafactories Europe 2022 , 22-23 March, Berlin, Germany.). CATL (Germany): 80 GWh.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2017

The goal of our funding is to make Germany the leading market for automated and networked driving. Starting in early 2018, the first test runs will take place on the A9 freeway between the DB Schenker locations in Munich and Nuremberg. Over the course of 2018, there should be up to three trips per day with real loads.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

In 2018 methanol was produced from steel mill gases for the first time. As part of the Carbon2Chem project, thyssenkrupp’s alkaline water electrolysis unit is already successfully supplying hydrogen for the production of chemicals from steel mill waste gases. In the following year the production of ammonia succeeded.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2020

In 2019, global deployment of nickel in passenger EV batteries amounted to 59,271 tonnes, an increase of 39% over the amount deployed in 2018, according to Adamas Intelligence’s web-based EV Battery Capacity and Battery Metals Tracker. Overall, in 2019 the sales-weighted average amount of nickel deployed globally per EV was 12.9

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Talga has been developing Talnode-Si since 2018 at its facilities in Cambridge, UK, with commercial samples being produced at its pilot facility in Rudolstadt, Germany. Recent qualification and pilot trials completed with a global EV manufacturer confirmed Talnode-Si performance under commercial cell manufacturing conditions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

The Volkswagen Group and bp intend to work together on extending and speeding up the deployment of ultra-fast electric vehicle (EV) charging facilities at bp retail sites across the UK, Germany and elsewhere in Europe. bp estimates approximately 90% of people in the UK and Germany live within a 20-minute drive of a bp or Aral site.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

Lamborghini, a Volkswagen Group company, confirmed that a luxury SUV will join its product range as its third series model, with market introduction planned for 2018. Target markets will be primarily the US, China, the Middle East, United Kingdom, Germany and Russia.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Super E10 (10% ethanol-gasoline blend) will become available at the more than 14,000 service stations in Germany as of 1 January 2011. Previously, biofuel in Germany had only 5% ethanol content. Deutsche Welle.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

bp has begun producing sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from used cooking oil in co-processing process with crude oil at its plant in Lingen, Germany. This is the first industrial production facility in Germany to use this process for SAF production based on biomass waste and residues. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

in 2018), while diesel accounted for 30.5% chargeable vehicles (one percentage point more than in 2018). Diesel demand increased again in two of the biggest EU car markets: France (+7.3%) and Germany (+4.3%). compared to 2018). of registrations (35.9% Last year, 3.0% of new passenger cars in the EU were electrically?chargeable

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 7, 2022

Europe’s biggest auto market, Germany, saw plugin electric vehicles grab 25.3% Overall auto volume fell 10% YoY, and was down by 35% from the 2018-2019 seasonal average. share in May 2022, from 23.4% Full battery electrics increased their share by close to 1.25x, whilst plugin hybrid share dipped slightly.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2020

Four of the five major EU markets recorded double-digit losses in the diesel segment: Spain (-13.8%), the United Kingdom (-12.0%), Italy (-11.8%) and Germany (-10.1%). from 594 units in 2018 to 1,607 buses sold in 2019. France was the only market to post modest growth (+2.4%) in registrations of new diesel buses. of total EU bus sales.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Europe’s largest auto market, Germany, saw plugin electric vehicles take 28.5% Overall auto volumes were 199,183 units, fractionally up YOY, but dramatically down by some 37% from the 2018-2019 seasonal average of 315,000 units. The Tesla Model Y […].

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2017

The new sites are both conveniently located directly on the A661 and A66 motorways at key points of intersection for people driving from north to south through Germany. By 2018, there should be 100 stations. At present, Germany has another 27 hydrogen stations in the pipeline or under construction. million (US$1.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

Since 2018, intensive practical tests of the battery-electric Mercedes-Benz eActros for distribution transport have been carried out with numerous customers in Germany and other European countries. Now CATL is expanding globally, and has opened subsidiaries in Munich (Germany); Paris (France); Yokohama (Japan); and Detroit (USA).

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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.

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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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