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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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Germany has set a new electric vehicle registration record, as one of every three new vehicles registered in the country in October was electric, according to new data from the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). Sales of gas-powered vehicles have slowed significantly due to supply shortages and extended delivery wait times.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

Magnis Resources Limited, part of a consortium aspiring to build a Li-ion gigafactory in Australia ( earlier post ), signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with German Lithium-ion battery consortium TerraE-Holding GmbH (TerraE) for the supply of raw materials. First stage production is expected to commence in late 2019.

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OCTOBER 2, 2020

Dürr is positioning itself in the growing Li-ion battery market as a supplier of production technology and is expanding its market access to battery manufacturers through a cooperation with Techno Smart, a leading Japanese manufacturer of coating systems. That is why Dürr is bringing the coating specialists technology on board.

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Lithium Ion Manufacturer Batteries Battery 243

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The delivery of the first systems took place on schedule in the fourth quarter of 2019. Now that the framework contract has been concluded, the two companies have formally established a long-term cooperation for a continuous supply of lithium-ion battery systems. e-troFit is a subsidiary of the technology company in-tech GmbH.

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Conversion Diesel Supplies Batteries 273

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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BMW Europe Supplies Batteries 239

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

BASF will build a new battery materials production site in Schwarzheide, Germany, as part of its multi-step investment plan to support the European electric vehicle (EV) value chain. View over BASF Schwarzheide from the evaporation plant with the block field for the planned cathode active materials plant in the background.

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Finland Building Production Germany 284

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JULY 31, 2022

The Slovakian carrier Dopravný podnik Bratislava (DPB) has opted for four hydrogen buses to be manufactured and delivered by Solaris. Urbino 12 Hydrogen in Köln, Germany. Another 700 electric units will be manufactured this year or in the years to follow. The Urbino 12 electric bus has been manufactured since 2012.

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Hydrogen Slovakia Manufacturer Fuel 322

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JUNE 30, 2023

BASF has opened Europe’s first co-located center of battery material production and battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The new plant is not only the first production facility for high-performance cathode active materials in Germany, but also the first fully automated large-scale cathode active materials production facility in Europe.

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Batteries Battery Europe Germany 195

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.

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Hydrogen Germany Europe Fuel 284

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JUNE 18, 2021

The BMW Group has created a closed-loop material cycle for tungsten used in drill and milling bits for industrial machinery used in producing cars; the company is collecting old drill and milling bits at its plants in Germany and Austria for recycling. Virtually full transparency over “3TG” supply chain.

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BMW Austria Production Germany 284

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2019, 409,801 commercial vehicles were registered in Germany, of these, 38,620 semitrailer trucks. Apart from the use of synthetic fuels, we consider hydrogen to have a great potential for energy supply of commercial vehicles. A crucial step of fuel cell production is manufacture of the membrane electrode assembly (MEA).

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Kits Fuel Production Vehicles 493

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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DECEMBER 8, 2020

This is enough to supply around 400,000 people with electricity in their homes. Bosch is planning to produce the stationary fuel-cell systems at its manufacturing sites in Bamberg, Wernau, and Homburg, as well as its development sites in Stuttgart-Feuerbach and Renningen, and will invest hundreds of millions of euros by 2024.

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Production Fuel 2018 Gas-Electric 459

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

The EQS, the first electric luxury sedan from Mercedes-Benz, will start in the first half of 2021 in Factory 56 at the Sindelfingen site (Germany). High-efficiency battery systems will also be manufactured and assembled within the production network. In May 2019 production of the EQC (combined power consumption: 21.5

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Mercedes All-Electric Plug-in Electric 259

Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 30, 2021

Hero Cycles delivers first batch of made in India electric bicycles to Germany . Hero Cycles a leading bicycles brand owned by the largest motorcycle manufacturer in the world Hero Motors has delivered its first batch of made in India electric bicycles to Germany. Hero Supply Chain (HSC).

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

The two companies were selected to design the system by a leading European carmaker that plans to release its first wirelessly-charged vehicles in 2019. Prodrive has deep experience in the technology, engineering practices and highly automated manufacturing processes needed to supply power electronics on a Tier 1 basis to automakers.

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2019 Charging 2017 Germany 150

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APRIL 2, 2019

Dana Incorporated is applying its fuel cell expertise to designing and manufacturing composite and metallic bipolar plates for public transportation systems, such as eBus and hydrail applications. Dana’s fuel-cell technologies and capabilities will be on display at Hannover Messe 2019, April 1-5 in Hannover, Germany.

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Transportation Fuel Hydrogen Germany 236

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MARCH 1, 2021

and HCS Group GmbH, a long-time customer of Gevo, have signed a project memorandum of understanding (MOU) to develop and to build a renewable hydrocarbon facility at HCS Group’s site located in Speyer, Germany, which would utilize Gevo’s low-carbon sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology: Alcohol-to-Jet Synthetic Paraffinic Kerosene.

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Renewable Carbon Europe Fuel 303

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DECEMBER 16, 2021

Models along with solutions like Plug & Charge, we as a manufacturer are making a decisive contribution to realising such goals. In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies.

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Charging Wind Renewable Plug-in 423

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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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DECEMBER 13, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars has entered into a power purchase agreement with Statkraft, Europe’s largest producer of renewable energy, enabling Mercedes-Benz Cars to source electricity directly from wind farms in Germany, whose subsidies from the Renewable Energy Act (EEG) expire after 2020. Statkraft is an important player in energy trading.

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Wind Mercedes Cars Germany 286

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NOVEMBER 24, 2019

By 2022, the new engineering plastics compounding plant will supply an additional capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year in China, bringing BASF’s total capacity of these products in Asia Pacific to 290,000 metric tons per year. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2018

The lag between orders and deliveries is usually 9-12 months; T&E expects all these electric buses to be on the road by mid-2019. The Netherlands, UK, France, Poland and Germany account for more than half the total number of electric buses in Europe (including orders). Yearly electric bus orders in Europe from 2009 to H12018.

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MAY 8, 2020

In addition to a very secure supply base with external producers, we are also systematically building up further capacities. In September 2019, Volkswagen and Northvolt established a joint venture to prepare for the large-scale production of lithium-ion batteries in Germany.

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Batteries Battery Lithium Ion Building 186

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FEBRUARY 9, 2020

The Aluminum Stewardship Initiative (ASI) announced that Novelis’ plant in Ohle, Germany has been successfully certified against the ASI Performance Standard for responsible production, sourcing and stewardship of aluminum. Novelis is the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum.

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Standards Germany 2019 Supplies 170

Teslarati

JUNE 21, 2023

Tesla is rumored to be purchasing wireless charging company Wiferion, a Freiberg, Germany-based entity with charging and power solutions. Wiferion describes itself as “the industry’s leading supplier of automated, wireless power supply systems.” It also bought Hibar Systems in late 2019.

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Purchase Companies Charging Tesla 136

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

Recently the BMW Group signed a cobalt supply contract with Moroccan mining company Managem Group ; the contract has a volume of around €100 million, said Andreas Wendt, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Purchasing and Supplier Network. Sustainability and security of supply are important factors for electromobility.

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Morocco BMW Batteries Battery 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2020

Energy major Total, through its wholly-owned subsidiary Saft, and Groupe PSA with Opel, intend to establish a joint venture named Automotive Cell Company (ACC) to develop EV battery manufacturing in Europe. In 2019, the European Union set ambitious, binding targets to quickly expand the sale of electric vehicles.

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Europe Batteries Battery France 378

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NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The BMW Group is deepening its existing business relationships with battery cell manufacturers CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. The BMW Group is the first customer of the CATL battery cell plant currently under construction in Erfurt, Germany. We strongly supported and played an active part in establishing CATL in Germany.

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BMW Batteries Battery Fully Electric 220

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MAY 25, 2018

The electricity supply for the heavy goods vehicles is provided by means of a pantograph from an overhead power line—the eHighway concept ( earlier post ). Trial operations will be conducted jointly as from early 2019. In Germany alone, heavy goods traffic results in CO 2 emissions of 56 million tonnes per year.

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Power Powered Germany 2019 186

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JANUARY 16, 2020

Founded in 2015, Arrival has production plants and R&D centers in the US, Germany, Tel Aviv, Russia and the UK. Currently, Arrival is carrying out pilot projects with multiple logistics companies in Europe using cargo vans manufactured with the technology.

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Kia Hyundai Commercial Vehicles 259

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FEBRUARY 28, 2023

—Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG The BMW iX5 Hydrogen developed on the basis of the current BMW X5 was first unveiled as a concept at the IAA show in 2019. Fuel cell systems are manufactured in two main steps, based on the individual fuel cells. Earlier post.)

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BMW Hydrogen Fleet Lithium Ion 259

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

By 2022, the new engineering plastics compounding plant will supply an additional capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year in China, bringing BASF’s total capacity of these products in Asia Pacific to 290,000 metric tons per year. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site.

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China Asia Belgium 2018 186

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2020

Ipsos see gains in experience (driven + ridden) with semi-autonomous driving between 2019 and 2020 in each of the four key regions. Interest in autonomous among new vehicle owners has remained stable for the key regions between 2019 and 2020. Now many countries have reduced restrictions and their economies have responded.

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Teslarati

JUNE 4, 2021

Tesla has planned for Giga Berlin to become another battery manufacturing site for its electric cars for some time now. Since the facility was announced in late 2019 by CEO Elon Musk, Giga Berlin remains as somewhat of a hub for Tesla’s entire European operation. What do you think?

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Building Batteries Battery Tesla 145

Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

In Germany the smart brand is the market leader among all-electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2018. The smart plant in Hambach will become a part of our global compact car production network with the lead plant Rastatt, Germany. Production of the EQC, a fully-electric SUV, will start in 2019.

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