Green Car Congress
JUNE 28, 2023
The BMW Group broke ground for a new high-voltage battery assembly plant in Woodruff, South Carolina. Close connection of battery production with vehicle production is part of our strategy. The BMW Group has set itself the goal of reducing CO 2 emissions in its global production network by 80% by 2030 compared to 2019.
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
Major German car parts maker ZF Friedrichshafen is investing a hefty $500 million into its transmission plant in South Carolina – all to transform it into a “flexible manufacturer of parts” for both ICE and plug-in hybrids, and for both passenger cars and large commercial vehicles by launching production of its PowerLine transmission in the US.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 22, 2018
Volvo Cars revealed the new S60 mid-size premium sports sedan at the company’s new—and first—US manufacturing plant in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2017 Volvo Cars was the first global car maker to announce its strategy that from 2019 all new models will be electrified.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 11, 2020
The X5 xDrive45e is built at Plant Spartanburg, South Carolina, BMW Group’s largest global production plant. In 2019, the high-voltage battery assembly area at Plant Spartanburg doubled in size in preparation for the new X3 xDrive30e and X5 xDrive45e. 120 people currently work on the battery assembly line.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2019
To understand the complex connections that make up the O. Brodie (2019) “Gut anatomical properties and microbial functional assembly promote lignocellulose deconstruction and colony subsistence of a wood-feeding beetle” Nature Microbiology doi: 10.1038/s41564-019-0384-y. Credit: Javier Ceja-Navarro/Berkeley Lab). Filley, Timothy D.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 29, 2022
Similar mismatches in supply and demand contributed to massive cascading blackouts in August 2003 in the northeastern United States and Canada, in July 2012 in India , and in March 2019 in Venezuela. Ideally, you’d want farms in these areas to use greener, grid-connected electric pumps rather than diesel ones.
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