Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2020

With 860,000 electric vehicles sold in China in 2019, China is by far the largest EV market in the world. EV sales are expected to reach 25% of the Chinese market by 2030. Chinese ICE passenger car market. The Renault City K-ZE, introduced in 2019, was the sixth all-electric vehicle in the Renault range. LCV market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2019

The core components for electric cars are developed and produced for the new electric vehicles at the Volkswagen Group Components plants: the electric drive comes from Kassel; the Salzgitter plant supplies its colleagues in Hessen with rotors and stators. Volkswagen Group Components supplies core components for this vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

The BMW Group has signed a long-term supply contract worth €2 billion for battery cells with the Swedish company Northvolt. That is why we now have a contractual agreement with our cell manufacturers that they will only use green power to produce our fifth-generation battery cells.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 31, 2024

Volkswagen operates a plant in Xinjiang as part of a joint venture with Chinese state-owned carmaker SAIC Motor. Automakers including Tesla, General Motors, Volkswagen and Toyota are failing to ensure they are not using forced labor as part of their China supply chains, a report released Thursday by Human Rights Watch says.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2020

Yibin Tianyi Lithium has a 5-year offtake agreement with Pilbara to take up to 75ktpy of spodumene concentrate, with an initial 60kt to be supplied in 2020. It also holds a 9% stake in AVZ, an Australian listed mining company which owns the Manono lithium project in DRC.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 23, 2024

Chinese EVs will grow, whether you like it or not China is actually a little late to the EV party. Chinese EV sales have started taking off overseas , particularly in Europe. They contend that the Chinese government unfairly subsidizes its auto sector, making prices uncompetitively low. Namely: China.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2016

The global fuel cell market in the automotive industry is set to grow at a rapid CAGR of more than 45% (in terms of unit shipments) through 2019, according to a new report by global technology research and advisory company Technavio. Technavio lead automotive manufacturing research analyst Sayani Roy.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

CAGR between 2010 and 2019, accelerating since 2016, according to Roskill Information Services. Consumption has benefited from the restructuring of the Chinese steel industry and from the new regulations prescribing stricter standards for construction. Another key characteristic of the niobium market is its highly concentrated supply.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

High-efficiency battery systems will also be manufactured and assembled within the production network. —Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG, Production and Supply Chain. In May 2019 production of the EQC (combined power consumption: 21.5 kWh/100 km) started in Vitoria, northern Spain.

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Teslarati

MAY 4, 2021

While things tend to change on a somewhat regular basis as far as plans for something as large as a vehicle manufacturing plant, Tesla knew that its initial battery fulfillment plans likely wouldn’t come from the planned Giga Berlin 4680 cell production lines. So this is not something that is to the exclusion of suppliers.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2020

Spherical graphite being an intermediate product based on raw material natural flake graphite feedstock that is the precursor to anode material manufacture.). However, production had already been significantly reduced by two-thirds from Q4 2019. Location of Vidalia and planned/existing battery production capacity in the US.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2015

Toyota is embarking on a multi-year plan to realign its manufacturing operations in North America in support of the Toyota New Global Architecture (TNGA) ( earlier post ), a comprehensive approach to achieving sustainable growth by making ever-better vehicles more efficiently. TMMK) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Indiana, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Chinese medium and heavy rare earths producer Southern Rare Earth has continued to raise its weekly prices for terbium, holmium, gadolinium and dysprosium, supported by a shortage of spot supplies and firmer magnet demand, according to Argus. Prices for 99.5% Argus assessed the range for 99.5-99.9%

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Baua Electric

APRIL 26, 2024

Huawei Technologies has two huge booths at this week’s event, and there are at least seven Chinese automakers touting its Qiankun installed in their cars as the most sophisticated advanced driving assistance system (ADAS) to date. “We have grown side-by-side with Huawei for three years, and our achievements are obvious to all.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2018

There is now a significant wave of interest in battery raw material supply security, mainly from Asia, to underpin the growth of Li-ion battery production over the next decade. In cobalt, LG Chem announced in April 2018 the creation of two joint ventures with Huayou Cobalt for the manufacturing of cobalt precursor and cathode materials.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2018

The Chinese start-up Byton, which is developing fully networked and highly automated electric vehicles ( earlier post ) has commissioned Dürr to construct a complete paint shop. The first three paint shops with this technology will go into operation early 2019. Further projects are already being planned, according to Dürr.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The British premium automobile manufacturer MINI is realigning its model range, with a focus on drivetrain technologies, vehicle segments and services of the future. kWh/100 km; combined CO 2 emissions: 45 – 40 g/km), vehicles with electrified drive accounted for 5% of the brand’s total sales in 2019.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 27, 2022

billion in its Hong Kong secondary listing back in 2019. . The South Korean company supplies battery cells to big automaker brands like Tesla, General Motors, and Volkswagen. Chinese battery supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) still dwarfs LGES. LG seems ready for growth in the future.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The BMW Group is deepening its existing business relationships with battery cell manufacturers CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. billion for the Chinese production site of the BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. The BMW Group will double its sales of electrified vehicles between 2019 and 2021. Limited) and Samsung SDI.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2017

Dana is also collaborating with automotive manufacturers to develop all-wheel-drive (AWD) e-axles that deliver superior performance, packaging, and reliability, while meeting customer demand for AWD functionality paired with traditional front-wheel-drive hybrids. These e-axles are planned for launch in 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

Only research grants and subsidies are taken into account (not credit programs for manufacturing, budgets for purchase incentives, etc.). Added to that, we are seeing many high-tech start-ups in the Chinese market who boast the funding to work their way into the premium segment step by step. Chinese OEMs will produce some 3.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In Shanghai, Ford Motor Executive Chairman Bill Ford and CEO Jim Hackett outlined the next phase of the company’s China expansion strategy, focused on SUVs, electric and connected vehicles, a streamlined business structure and closer connections to Chinese customers. —Jason Luo, chairman and CEO, Ford China.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2020

Despite the rapid growth in recent years, as of 2019, total nickel sulfate consumed still only represented a trivial part of the total consumption of nickel, which explains why such refined chemical product only appeared on the nickel radar recently. However, Roskill cautions, the road will be a bumpy one.

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Baua Electric

MAY 31, 2023

Musk is anticipated to seek advice from Tesla’s Shanghai manufacturing unit, population ordinary with the subject mentioned Tuesday, asking to not be recognized for the reason that knowledge is non-public. The town of Shanghai was once instrumental in serving to Musk temporarily arrange Tesla’s manufacturing unit there.

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Green Car Congress

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. OEMs need to design large EVs from scratch and manufacture at volume to realize economy-of-scale savings.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

The tight supply/demand situation for graphite electrodes is expected to persist for much longer than many market observers expect. At the same time, consumption of graphite electrodes in electric arc furnaces (EAFs) began to rise as the Chinese government took steps to halt production of poor quality induction furnace steel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2019, Japan’s crude steel production was 99Mt falling to 83Mt in 2020, implying a 64% capacity utilization. The steel quality gap between Japanese and Chinese material has narrowed; Korea is another strong regional player. —Nikkei report. The Japanese steel industry has a total capacity of 130 Mtpy.

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Teslarati

JUNE 23, 2022

On Thursday, Chinese battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), announced that mass production of its most current product, Qilin, is efficient and enables electric cars to travel longer. The volume utilization efficiency was 50 percent when CATL unveiled the first iteration of cell-to-pack (CtP) technology in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2019

Daimler AG and Zhejiang Geely Holding Group , the German and Chinese automotive groups, have formed a 50-50 globally focused joint venture to own, operate and further develop smart, the pioneer of small urban vehicles, as a leader in premium-electrified vehicles. The joint venture is expected to be finalized by the end of 2019.

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Electric Vehicles India

JULY 2, 2021

Japanese car giant Nissan has announced a new EV manufacturing hub ‘EV36Zero’ in Sunderland and UK to produce a new electric crossover. billion with its Chinese partner to build a giant battery plant that will power 100,000 vehicles a year including a new crossover model. million cars last year, about 23% down from 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

The first EQ series model—the EQC—will roll off the line at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen in the year 2019. The pioneering 48-volt on-board power supply is celebrating its premiere in the new generation of the S-Class and will be gradually introduced in various model series. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2018

Among these are: GKN’s Multimode eTransmission system is due to launch on a Chinese OEM’s platform across a number of vehicle models from 2018. GKN is due to supply a semi-integrated electric driveline unit from 2019 for a new vehicle launched by a premium European automaker.

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Teslarati

MARCH 18, 2024

On Monday, March 18, Nvidia announced plans to expand its partnerships with BYD and other Chinese automakers. The software company is collaborating with Chinese automakers, building self-driving vehicles with AI-augmented infotainment systems. The top Chinese automaker will use Nvidia’s Drive Thor chip in its next vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

The Audi Q4 e-tron concept gives an advance look at what will be the fifth series production electric vehicle that the manufacturer will introduce by the end of 2020. Sales of the Audi e-tron have already started, and the first vehicles will be delivered to the customers before the end of March 2019. The system power is 225 kW.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In addition, about 90% of the world’s supply of lithium is controlled by Chinese companies. ” Musk pointed to data from the information service World of Statistics showing that the price of lithium hydroxide had risen to $78,032 per metric ton from $6,800 in 2019. The world needs to do something about this.

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Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

They still cause an impact on climate by the manufacturing of the car and not least the battery. To produce the batteries, the battery materials are mined and refined, its cells, modules are manufactured which results in the need for the huge energy which generates GHG emissions on higher amounts which are affecting the climate.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

First Solar signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Chinese government to build a 2 gigawatt solar power plant in Ordos City, Inner Mongolia, China. Phases 2 and 3 will be completed in 2014 and Phase 4 will be completed by 2019. The Chinese feed-in tariff will be critical to this project. First Solar CEO Mike Ahearn.

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