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NOVEMBER 10, 2017

PowerCell Sweden AB will be the primary supplier of fuel cell stacks for Nikola’s pre-production testing vehicles. Nikola plans to announce a secondary stack supplier in 2018 that will act as a backup and overflow for any testing issues or production bottlenecks. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 8, 2020

It is the latest concrete step towards Volvo Cars’ ambition to have climate-neutral manufacturing by 2025, part of a wider climate plan that aims to reduce the overall carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company.

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JUNE 23, 2022

According to the International Maritime Organization (IMO), overall carbon dioxide emissions from shipping increased nearly 10% from 2012–2018, accounting for 2.9% Headquartered in Sweden, Echandia is developing energy storage solutions for maritime electrification in Europe and elsewhere. of global anthropogenic emissions.

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AUGUST 21, 2022

If, for example, one French and three Swedish institutions contributed to a paper, France received 25% of the credit and Sweden 75%. of the most cited papers published in 2018, 2019, and 2020, and the United States for 24.9%. In one study, NISTEP used a method called “fractional counting” to divide the credit.

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MAY 27, 2021

Volvo Cars announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden is its first car manufacturing plant to reach fully climate-neutral status. This makes Torslanda the second plant in its overall manufacturing network to reach this status, after the Skövde engine plant in Sweden became climate-neutral in 2018. Torslanda plant.

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APRIL 5, 2022

In 2018, Weifu Group led Protean’s Series E funding round to support the industrialization of ProteanDrive, which included the launch of the joint venture, WFDT, in China. Protean Electric was acquired by BEDEO in November 2021 from National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS), a subsidiary of Evergrande New Energy Vehicle Group.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

in 2018), while diesel accounted for 30.5% chargeable vehicles (one percentage point more than in 2018). digit gains were also seen in Belgium (+17.7%), Slovenia (+18.2%), Hungary (+18.4%), Sweden (+30.5%) and Romania (+31.1%). compared to 2018). of registrations (35.9% Last year, 3.0% to 1 million units.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The lab comes in addition to ongoing e-motor development in Gothenburg, Sweden, and battery labs in China and Sweden. As a first tangible step towards its 2040 vision, the company aims to reduce its lifecycle carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

In Sweden, the ID.3 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. in Germany in the BEV market and 23% in the Netherlands. in 2020.

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APRIL 27, 2020

from 594 units in 2018 to 1,607 buses sold in 2019. France (585 units), Spain (463), Italy (303) and Sweden (284) were the largest EU markets for natural gas buses, the latter also recording the highest percentage increase across the region (+283.8%). Across the entire European Union, only eight gasoline buses were sold in 2019.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The project, called “European Battery Innovation” (EuBatIn) was jointly prepared and notified by Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. In 2018, the Commission adopted the Strategic Action Plan for Batteries and has promoted a wide range of initiatives as part of the plan.

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OCTOBER 30, 2020

They will form a team of advanced specialists from both companies and launch activities in Södertälje (Sweden) and in a second step in Tokyo (Japan). In 2018, Hino and TRATON signed an agreement aiming for a mutually beneficial strategic long-term partnership.

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JUNE 17, 2021

As part of the collaboration, Volvo Cars will be the first car maker to secure SSAB steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron from HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå, Sweden. In the short term, these and other steps aim to reduce the life cycle carbon footprint per car by 40% between 2018 and 2025. Source: HYBRIT.

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MARCH 18, 2018

In proportion to its population, the Nordic region—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden—is strikingly ahead of the rest of the world in adopting electric cars. Norway, Iceland and Sweden have the highest ratios of EVs per person, globally.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

New research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, finds that the discharge water from ships’ exhaust gas treatment systems—i.e., Worth noting is that the study’s data was collected in 2018, and at that time there were approximately 180 ships with scrubbers in the Baltic Sea.

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MAY 19, 2019

The availability of sustainable aviation fuel at Arlanda and Caen airports follows the announcement last month that as part of a collaboration agreement signed in October 2018, Air BP and Neste are ready to supply sustainable alternative fuel to airline and airport customers in Sweden.

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DECEMBER 11, 2022

Most recently, Elli added about 24,000 Vattenfall stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden along with 1,000 high-power charging points (HPC) operated by Fastned in the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, France and Switzerland. Elli was founded in 2018 and has offices in Berlin, Wolfsburg and Munich.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. The Volvo FL Electric trucks are part of a pre-series developed in collaboration with selected customers.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Sweden-based e-scooter operator VOI Technology has raised $85 million from new investors and existing to continue its mission of building a profitable micro-mobility business that transforms the future of urban transport. VOI launched in September 2018.

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JULY 16, 2020

The battery cells will be produced in Europe at the Northvolt gigafactory currently under construction in Skellefteå in northern Sweden (series plant Northvolt Ett) from 2024. Northvolt will obtain 100% of the energy needed to produce the battery cells regionally in northern Sweden and exclusively from wind and hydroelectric power.

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JUNE 27, 2020

After a steady decline from 2010 to 2016 of almost 22 grams of CO 2 per kilometer (g CO 2 /km), average emissions from new passenger cars increased in 2017 and in 2018 (by 2.8 g/km more than in 2018. in 2018 to 1.3% The average mass of new cars increased by 30 kg from 2018 to 2019. g CO 2 /km in total). g CO 2 /km).

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JULY 26, 2019

compared to the 552,500 units of June 2018. The noticeable YoY drop can be partially explained by the record month of registrations seen in Sweden in June 2018, which came ahead of a new tax hike which hit the market in July of that year. of total registrations. June’s results confirm that conditions in Europe are getting worse.

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JANUARY 2, 2018

In a curious twist, Eriq Gardner reports that the controversial Music Modernization Act has already prompted the inevitible litigation from a publisher seeking to beat the bill’s new safe harbor deadline applicable to lawsuits filed after January 1, 2018. 1, 2018, which helps explain the New Year’s Eve filing.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2019

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. Strong results in Spain, Poland and the Netherlands were offset by falls in the UK, Italy and Sweden.

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MARCH 4, 2020

g/km higher than in 2018, the delta was lower than the difference between the 2017 and 2018 results—where the growth was 2.4 Four of the five major markets in Europe posted higher averages in 2019 than in 2018. g/km in 2018 to 111.1 In 2018, for every BEV registered there were 2.3 —Felipe Munoz.

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MAY 7, 2018

From 2018, live and anonymized data will be shared between selected Volvo trucks sold in Sweden and Norway with the company’s own hazard-alert systems, and Volvo cars equipped with Volvo Cars’ Hazard Light Alert system. This is particularly useful on blind corners and over the crest of hills in the road.

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DECEMBER 12, 2017

Today, we've got not only a first-drive report on the 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In Hybrid, but some thoughts on an ad for the car, along with a new small EV with a twist, and some surprising news about diesels from VW. We finally have all the details from our first drive of the 2018 Honda Clarity Plug-In.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Abellio is due to commence passenger services on behalf of the state of Saxony-Anhalt in December 2018 on 16 non-electrified lines in Saxony-Anhalt using 54 Coradia Lint trains. The contract covering the conversion of the first three of these vehicles to MTU hybrid drives is planned to be signed by the end of 2018.

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DECEMBER 10, 2019

The European Commission has approved under EU State aid rules an Important Project of Common European interest (IPCEI) jointly notified by Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden to support research and innovation in the common European priority area of batteries. billion in funding.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The Member States will provide up to €5.2 Background.

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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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AUGUST 1, 2018

But it was the positive economic situation across the continent that boosted results, JATO said, as midsize markets such as the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden all posted increases, and smaller markets like Hungary, Greece, Romania, Croatia and Lithuania similarly posted significant increases. —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst.

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JULY 23, 2019

A first pilot is intended to start later this year at its manufacturing plant in Torslanda, Sweden. Volvo Cars believes using UVeye’s technology could further improve the quality of cars leaving the factory and ensure that even tiny faults are detected.

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MARCH 22, 2017

Volvo CE teamed up with its customer Skanska Sweden, the Swedish Energy Agency and two Swedish universities—Linköping University and Mälardalen University—in October 2015 to collaborate on the SEK 203-million (US$23-million) project. Skanska Sweden is providing logistical solutions, application relevance and job site knowledge.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

state reached a crucial tipping point, with BEVs making up 5 percent of new car sales in 2018, and adoption rates have jumped drastically since then. According to data from Bloomberg Green , BEV adoption in California has jumped 20 percent in the last five years, going from just 2 percent of new car sales to 22 percent so far this year.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) has spent more time dealing with financial problems than advancing its plan to build electric cars, primarily for the Chinese market. Since purchasing the remains of Saab in 2012, NEVS has only built a handful of cars, mostly gasoline versions of the Saab 9-3.

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JULY 18, 2019

AstraZeneca’s EV fleet will soon be fully powered by renewable power, with 61% (EOY 2018) of their total electricity use sourced or generated from renewable sources. By the end of 2019, AstraZeneca will operate: 120 EVs in the UK (23% of UK fleet). 213 in Spain (35% of Spanish fleet). 245 in France (over 50% of French fleet).

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