Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full electric heavy-duty trucks. We started series-production of electric trucks already in 2019 and are leading the market both in Europe and North America. Volvo Trucks is opening its first battery assembly plant.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2017

Audi will begin production of the Audi e-tron Sportback—Audi’s second production electric car—at Audi Brussels (Belgium) in 2019. The Audi e-tron electric SUV—the first electric model—will drive off the assembly line there as of 2018. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

The company already has alternative power facilities located in the United Kingdom, Belgium and Germany. Cummins also owns a facility in Oevel, Belgium, responsible for the assembly and integration of both PEM and alkaline electrolyzers. —Amy Davis, President of New Power at Cummins.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Its state-of-the-art product and process technologies complement our metals refining and cathode precursor production facility in Finland as well as our world-class R&D and pioneering battery recycling activities in Belgium. Construction of the plant began in 2019 and production started in July this year.

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Poland Europe Batteries Battery 273

Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

Punch Powertrain will also transfer its current DT2-related facilities in Sint-Truiden, Belgium, and Eindhoven, the Netherlands. In April 2019 Groupe PSA and Punch Powertrain originally signed an agreement to establish their first Joint Venture “Punch Powertrain PSA e-transmissions assembly”.

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Green Car Congress

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. The project complements the first IPCEI in the battery value chain that the Commission approved in December 2019 with €3.2

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Batteries Battery Croatia Slovakia 482

Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

GVB has been using electric buses since the end of 2019: 44 are currently in service and an additional 31 will enter service during the summer period, bringing the total number of electric buses to 75 in 2022. VDL Bus & Coach will deliver 30 articulated new generation VDL Citeas of type LF-181 and 54 VDL Citeas LF-122.

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Finland Belgium Electric Electrical 273

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Excluded from the agreement are Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, where Ventraco will continue to supply the products. Since the beginning of 2019, BASF Asphalt Performance has been working on new and sustainable solutions for asphalt mixtures within the central Asphalt Performance platform.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2019

In France, which liberalized the taxi market in 2015, the number of reported PHV drivers doubled in three years (from more than 15,000 in 2016 to 30,000 in 2019). million users in London in 2019 and with 2.7 This has made Uber one of the biggest taxi services in Europe, with 3.6 million users in France in 2017.

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Pollution Taxi London San Francisco 493

Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

The European sales performance was significantly impacted in April due to restriced movement in several key markets including Germany, the UK, France, Italy and Belgium. In the the first four months of the year, sales declined by 30.3% year-on-year. During the month, SUVs accounted for 66.3% of the company’s total sales, up from 62.4%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2023

In line with the UN Paris Climate Agreement and the EU Green Deal, ATS, MPET and PSAA aim to reduce their carbon emissions by 50% by 2030 with 2019 as a baseline and have net-zero emissions for all their terminals by 2050.

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Hydrogen Fuel Diesel Belgium 221

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2019

The co-operation will enable Borealis to start using Neste’s 100% renewable propane produced with Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL technology as renewable feedstock at its facilities in Kallo and Beringen, Belgium, starting end of 2019.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Since then, it has operated autonomous vehicles in Australia, Belgium, Canada, the US and the UK, carrying 200,000 passengers and covering more than 100,000 km. The autonomous minibus, which will drive along a 1.6 km route, will serve the National Museum of Science and Technology, the Maritime Museum, the Nordic Museum and Vasa Museum.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles Sweden Belgium 186

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Through its subsidiaries in Belgium (Elia) and the north and east of Germany (50Hertz), the company operates 19,192 km of high-voltage connections. The Elia Group is a key player in electricity transmission in Europe. The Group ensures that production and consumption are balanced, supplying 30 million end users with electricity.

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Grid Connect Connected Belgium 247

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

In January 2019, the company signed a Framework Agreement setting out further details of the plan. The site would ultimately be the third-largest BASF site worldwide, following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium. This entity will oversee the operations of the new Verbund site, underlining BASF’s commitment to the China market.

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Green Car Congress

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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Batteries Battery Poland Finland 259

Green Car Congress

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

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2018

Van Hool, the Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicles manufacturer, has landed a significant contract with RVK Köln and WSW Wuppertal (Germany), to supply 40 hydrogen buses of the latest generation. The first buses will be delivered in the spring of 2019. These are to be delivered in the second half of 2019.

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Hydrogen Germany Europe Fuel 284

Baua Electric

APRIL 11, 2024

In the overall bus market, including long-haul interurban coaches, electric bus market share was “only” 22%—but that represents a five-fold increase in market share since 2019. In Germany, Austria and Belgium, by contrast, diesel buses still made up 75% of new bus sales.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2019

At the end of March 2019, Hynamics teams have identified and are working on some 40 target projects, in France as well as other European countries including Belgium, Germany and the United Kingdom. These services constitute an additional asset for the Electric Mobility Plan announced by the Group in October 2018.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

The 18 European countries covered in the study are Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom. Countries from Eastern Europe were not included due to the lack of air pollution exposure data in the region.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

In January 2019, the company signed a Framework Agreement setting out further details of the plan. The site would ultimately be the third-largest BASF site worldwide, following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium. This entity will oversee the operations of the new Verbund site, underlining BASF’s commitment to the China market.

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China Asia Belgium 2018 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2020

ArcelorMittal announced in September 2019 that it had commissioned technology provider Midrex Technologies to design a demonstration plant at its Hamburg site to produce steel with hydrogen. At ArcelorMittal Dunkerque a study has been launched to build a large-scale DRI plant, combined with an electric arc furnace.

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Europe Green 2020 Hydrogen 382

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2020

Together with food box provider HelloFresh from Belgium, the company held a series of workshops, created process analyses and, on the basis of accompanying the drivers on their routes, determined the needs and requirements of the customers.

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Mercedes Concept Belgium Batteries 243

Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Despite this, it is unlikely we will see volumes surpass the 15 million units recorded in 2019. Market share grew fastest in established EV markets Finland, Denmark, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg. Purchasing a vehicle has become more expensive, and attitudes to ownership continue to change.” to 6.8%) and Latvia (6.6%

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Europe Latvia Slovenia Estonia 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2019

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

Unveiled in 2019, the Polestar 2 put the brand on a new path toward becoming an all-electric automaker. The Polestar 2 is already a market leader in several regions like Norway, Sweden, Germany, Belgium, and others. A new Polestar electric car is destined to replace the Polestar 2 , the EV that started it all.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

It kicked off last November in the US, France, Germany, Belgium, The Netherlands and the UK. In Portugal, the number of drivers also tripled in 2019 to reach almost 20,000 professional drivers. The #TrueCostOfUber campaign has now launched in Madrid and Lisbon.

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Diesel Taxi Re-Charge Pollution 243

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2012

Towards the end of 2019, ABB estimates that the market for charging infrastructure solutions will reach $1 billion. ABB will feature its Combo prototype again at eCarTec as well as a live demonstration at the Combo Alliance Booth.

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Plug in America

JUNE 10, 2021

For example, the market share for plug-in vehicles in Germany grew from 3% in 2019 to 13.5% million in 2019, despite the COVID-19 pandemic and accompanying economic downturn. In addition, the adoption of supportive policies will help boost the shift to electric transportation. in 2020, and the UK market went from 3.2%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

BASF signed the first Memorandum of Understanding for the Verbund site with the Guangdong Provincial Government in Berlin in July 2018, and in January 2019 the company signed a Framework Agreement setting out further details of the plan.

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Engine Building China Asia 186

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2019

For 2019, Poland-based Solaris claims to have concluded the most contracts for the construction of electric buses. In its ‘Aiming for Zero’ objective, VDL Bus&Coach is building a new, climate-neutral factory in Roeselare (Belgium), where the first buses will be built from the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. The Member States will provide up to €5.4 billion in public funding, which is expected to unlock additional €8.8

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

In December 2019, MAN Truck & Bus delivered the first two 12-meter electric buses to the transport operators Hamburger Hochbahn AG and Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH for everyday use in the Hanseatic port city. The use of an electric drive system has also benefited the vehicle’s interior, as the engine tunnel has been omitted.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Under H2ME, these initiatives will deploy 200 FCEVs, 125 fuel cell range-extended electric (FC RE-EVs) commercial vans and 29 new HRSs in 10 countries (Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and the UK) by 2019.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

In 2019, Tesla began releasing over-the-air software updates addressing the findings of Lennert Wouters of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium (KU Leuven). Wouters discovered a security flaw that allowed car thieves to clone a key fob in less than two seconds.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2018

An additional 12 new markets for Polestar 1 have been added and will open for pre-orders simultaneously, including Switzerland, the UK, Belgium, Finland, France, Poland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Portugal and Canada. Development at the new Polestar Production Center in Chengdu, China, is progressing with suitable pace, the company said.

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