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MAY 19, 2019

Neste and Air BP are supporting the business aviation sector’s Sustainable Alternative Jet Fuel (SAJF) initiative and helping drive its adoption with operators and aircraft manufacturers.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

3 was the most frequently delivered BEV in Finland, Slovenia and Norway in December. In the German fleet market, the share of BEV and PHEV vehicles ordered increased to around 22% in total, up from around 2% in 2018 and some 5% in 2019. —Klaus Zellmer, the board member responsible for Sales of Volkswagen Passenger Cars.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

A total of 20 stations will be opened to the public this year, located on major roads in Germany, Norway and Austria, at intervals of 120 km, through partnerships with “Tank & Rast”, “Circle K” and “OMV”.

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MARCH 12, 2021

Due to its topography, Norway makes extensive use of aviation for regional connectivity and has an ambition for all domestic flights to be zero emissions by 2040. Rolls-Royce will bring its expertise in propulsion and power systems, Tecnam will provide aircraft design, manufacturing and certification capabilities.

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APRIL 11, 2018

At Nikola, Schneider will spearhead efforts with the Fuel Cell R&D Division working with Bosch in Germany ( earlier post ) and the hydrogen fueling technology team for the Nikola stations with NEL Hydrogen in Norway. We are excited to introduce industry veterans into our company structure to help prepare for the manufacturing rollout.

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MAY 25, 2018

In 126 “mystery shopper” experiences at 82 car dealerships across Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden, the team found that that dealers were dismissive of EVs; misinformed shoppers on vehicle specifications; omitted EVs from the sales conversation; and strongly oriented customers towards gasoline and diesel vehicle options.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

As a leading manufacturer, we are already advising our costumers today on how to make the most of our buses and especially our electric buses. In 2018 Daimler Buses saw major sales growth, selling 30,900 buses and chassis worldwide (compared with 28,700 in the prior year). —Martin Müller-Elschner, CEO of IVU Traffic Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2019

Since 2018, the Passat and Tiguan have been available as plug-in hybrids in China, where they were followed by battery electric versions of the Bora and Lavida this year. The main sales markets in 2019 were China, Norway, Germany, the USA and the United Kingdom. 2020 will be a key year for the transformation of Volkswagen.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2017

Norway-based Hexagon Composites’ subsidiary Hexagon Lincoln has completed the development and initial deliveries of storage tanks for a Toyota heavy-duty hydrogen fuel cell truck. Hexagon received the order from Hydrogenics Corporation, a leading developer and manufacturer of hydrogen generation and hydrogen-based power modules.

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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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2019

—is establishing a Marine Center of Excellence (Marine CoE) dedicated to fuel cell marine applications at the company’s engineering, manufacturing and service facility in Hobro, Denmark. The Marine CoE will design and manufacture heavy duty fuel cell modules to address zero-emission powertrain requirements for the marine industry.

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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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JUNE 29, 2018

Nikola has already placed an initial order amounting to more than US$9 million for two demo-stations for which delivery will commence towards the end of 2018. The electrolyzer stacks will be manufactured in Norway and fueling equipment in Denmark. —Jon André Løkke.

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MARCH 22, 2018

The first two vehicles will be the SEAT Tarraco and the CUPRA Ateca, which are going on sale at the end of 2018. In addition, markets have been opened recently in Norway and New Zealand, now making the company present on all five continents. SEAT is going to launch one new car every six months until 2020.

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JANUARY 26, 2018

million) grant from the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), the JIVE 2 project will deploy 152 fuel cell electric buses across 14 European cities throughout France, Germany, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and the UK. The JIVE 2 project will run for six years from January 2018.

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JULY 23, 2018

The difference these policies can make, if applied in a multi-pronged strategy, can already be seen in countries that strongly support the use of alternative-fuel vehicles, such as China, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden. In Norway, for example, 40% of passenger cars sold in 2017 were either battery-electrics or plug-in hybrids.

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OCTOBER 30, 2022

Most eVTOL manufacturers are targeting 2023 for the start of commercial operations, and the IDTechEx report provides forecasts in unit sales and battery demand through 2042. Broader commitments to climate change are spurring some countries, like Norway and Holland, or companies, like Volvo, to set their own targets.

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DECEMBER 23, 2015

In terms of international electric car market share, Germany with 0.6% (as of 1Q 2015) is far behind Norway (33.1%) and the Netherlands (5.7%). Bain suggests several key areas for action for manufacturers to prepare for and to support what the company sees as an inevitable transition to electromobility: Further develop battery technology.

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APRIL 19, 2022

In 2018, an employee at Apollo Fusion approached the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER), a nonprofit that investigates environmental misconduct in the United States. Today, the only remaining permitted uses for mercury are in fluorescent lighting and dental amalgams, and even those are being phased out.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

The software update for all Audi e-tron 55 quattro production vehicles built between mid-September 2018 (model year 2019) and the end of November 2019 (model year 2020) can now be installed free of charge at Audi service partners. In Norway, the model was the best-selling car across all drive types last year.

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

This survey was conducted online within the United States by The Harris Poll on behalf of Volvo from October 11-17, 2018, among 1,510 U.S. and European countries like Norway and Sweden, 1 the electric vehicle passenger market is expected to reach a valuation of $356 billion by 2023. Methodology. Driven largely in China, the U.S.,

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

In Norway, which has a huge EV appetite, an incredible 92% of all Audi car deliveries there were e-trons. In May 2018, the VW Group, which owns Audi, committed US$48 billion towards creating electric vehicle batteries and outfitting 16 factories to build electric vehicles by the end of 2022.

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Also, another important thing to keep in mind is finding ways to manufacture the EVs economically, safely and environmentally friendly. This involves investment in battery manufacturing facilities, as well as securing a steady supply of critical materials like lithium, cobalt, and nickel. Consider the case of Norway.

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This is more than six times higher than in 2018, just 5 years earlier. Electric cars accounted for around 18% of all cars sold in 2023, up from 14% in 2022 and only 2% five years earlier, in 2018. In 2023, there were over 250 000 new registrations per week, which is more than the annual total in 2013, ten years earlier.

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MAY 26, 2021

so after the Nissan Leaf (Best Seller in 2018, 7th in 2020, 16th now) and the Mitsubishi Outlander PHEV (3rd in 2019, 12th in 2020, now below the Top 20) , the last bastion of success in the Renault-Nissan Alliance is also suffering, so the warning sirens must be ringing in the Renault & Nissan European HQ's. 2 Volkswagen ID.3

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

The MOU signing ceremony took place in the IAA Commercial Vehicles 2018 exhibition’s convention center and was attended by key individuals from each company, including Hyundai Motor’s Executive Vice President and Head of Commercial Vehicle Division, In Cheol Lee, as well as Chairman of H2E, Rolf Huber.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Bloomberg confirms that The adoption curve followed by South Korea starting in 2021 ends up looking a lot like the one taken by China in 2018, which is similar to Norway after its first 5% quarter in 2013. Things like a retooling of factories and reorganization of supply chains are necessary when switching to EV manufacturing.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

and Norway. The new methodology will enable engineers to reduce cable cross sections, thereby reducing their costs, which is the paramount goal for cable manufacturing. 1913–1921, 2018. An electric cable is a complex device to model. Chatzipetros and J.A. Chrysochos et al.,

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AUGUST 9, 2022

EV MYTH ONE: Manufacturing EVs is just as bad for the environment as ICEVs. So, are electric vehicles are still as eco-friendly when the manufacturing process of the car and battery are taken into consideration? Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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Drive Electric

AUGUST 9, 2022

EV MYTH ONE: Manufacturing EVs is just as bad for the environment as ICEVs. What’s less clear, is whether electric vehicles are still as eco-friendly when the manufacturing process of the car and battery are taken into consideration. Vehicle manufacturing is an energy-intensive process. Manufacturing an Electric Vehicle.

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EV Sales

JANUARY 7, 2021

This amazing result translated into a Norway-like 72% PEV (69% BEV) share last month, pulling the 2020 plugin share to 25% (21% BEV), well above the 15% of 2019 and the 6% of 2018, and this share gains even another dimension when we realise that BEVs represented 82% of registrations in 2020, and 96%(!)

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AUGUST 20, 2022

Each stage in production matters—mining, refining, and producing the raw materials, manufacturing the components, and finally assembling them into cells and battery packs. The manufacture of lithium batteries for EVs, like those shown here, is energy intensive, as is the mining and refining of the raw materials. AFP/Getty Images.

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