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Alstom and MOL to explore use of hydrogen technologies for rail transport in Hungary

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As part of its National Hydrogen Strategy, Hungary has been investigating the feasibility of introducing hydrogen technology to rail transportation. Alstom is a pioneer of hydrogen technology, having introduced the Coradia iLint to the German market in September 2018 ( earlier post ).

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Benchmark Minerals: Europe’s EV gigafactory capacity pipeline to grow 6-fold to 789.2 GWh to 2030

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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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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased in 2018

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According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU) in 2018 increased for the second consecutive year, reaching 120.4 g CO 2 /km in 2018. Vans registered in the EU and Iceland in 2018 emitted on average 158.1

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4Q 2019: EU diesel demand continues to drop while gasoline gains; plug-ins up 80.5% y-o-y

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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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Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant to produce compact electric EQ vehicles; 3rd center of competence for EQ models in Germany

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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. The Mercedes-Benz Rastatt plant in Germany is the biggest employer in the region, with a workforce of around 6,500 employees.

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The Ford Focus is over, and so are thousands of jobs

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Photo by Wallace Chuck on Pexels.com Ford is laying off some 3,500 workers in Germany as the automaker ends the production of the Focus – the once crazily popular car that never managed to get off the ground with its electric version – in 2025. But Ford pulled the plug on European sales in 2017, and 2018 in the US due to weak sales.

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European car market logs best year for alternative fueled vehicles, lowest diesel share since 2001

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The European car market remained stable during 2018, as 15.6 Throughout 2018 we continued to see the effects of the diesel crisis, as announcements of policy changes by governments led to confusion and panic among consumers. 2018 also marked the best ever performance for AFVs, recording 944,800 registrations and a 6.1%

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