Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2020

It builds on a project launched last year to demonstrate how hydrogen production facilities could be installed at operating nuclear power plants. This is a game-changer for both nuclear energy and carbon-free hydrogen production for numerous industries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2022

As of 2026, Audi will only launch all-electric models onto the global market, gradually phasing out production of its combustion models by 2033. Based on this clear decision made as part of its Vorsprung 2030 corporate strategy, Audi is now taking steps to prepare its global facilities for the production of all-electric cars.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Tesla Cybertruck production specs are here, and they are quite a bit different from the figures that were announced for the vehicle back in late 2019. Dimensions The original Cybertruck prototype from 2019 was a hulking steel beast that was announced with a length of 231.7 inches, a width of 79.8 inches, a width of 79.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2021

Rio Tinto has commenced production of battery-grade lithium from waste rock at a lithium demonstration plant at the Boron mine site in California. An initial small-scale trial in 2019 successfully proved the process of roasting and leaching waste rock to recover high grades of lithium.

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The Driven EV News

MARCH 27, 2024

The last diesel-fuelled Volvo has rolled off the production line. Diesel cars accounted for most of Volvo's Europe sales in 2019, but it vows to produce EVs only by 2030. The post RIP Volvo diesel cars: Last XC90 diesel rolls off production line appeared first on The Driven.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The Tesla Cybertruck production specs are here, and they are quite a bit different from the figures that were announced for the vehicle back in late 2019. Dimensions The original Cybertruck prototype from 2019 was a hulking steel beast that was announced with a length of 231.7 inches, a width of 79.8 inches, a width of 79.8

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 12, 2021

Kia EV6 ( earlier post )has achieved product carbon footprint certification and ‘ Carbon Measured ’ label from the global climate change and sustainability consultancy the Carbon Trust, becoming the first Korean vehicle manufacturer to achieve the certificate. The EV6 is the first model to be launched under this new strategy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Bosch plans to start full-scale production of distributed power stations based on solid oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) technology; hence its agreement to intensify its alliance with Ceres Power. For SOFC systems, Bosch is aiming for an annual production capacity of some 200 megawatts.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2021

The Cummins electrolyzer system is installed at the Air Liquide hydrogen production facility in Bécancour, Québec. The HyLYZER PEM electrolyzer technology is the result of more than 20 years of development by Hydrogenics, a Canadian company that was acquired by Cummins in September of 2019, a company which Air Liquide retains a 19% stake.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2021

US crude oil production averaged 11.3 million b/d in 2019, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). The 2020 decrease in production was the largest annual decline in the EIA’s records. The production decline resulted from reduced drilling activity related to low oil prices in 2020. million b/d.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2018

The first mobile quick charging stations will be set up as early as the first half of 2019 in Wolfsburg as part of a pilot project, and will support the expansion of a charging infrastructure in the urban area. The start of production is planned for 2020. Volkswagen is previewing the company’s future mobile quick charging station.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2019, 409,801 commercial vehicles were registered in Germany, of these, 38,620 semitrailer trucks. The pace of fuel cell development will be set by production technology. A crucial step of fuel cell production is manufacture of the membrane electrode assembly (MEA). until 2030 to heavy-duty vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

ExxonMobil has started production at Guyana’s second offshore oil development on the Stabroek Block, Liza Phase 2, bringing total production capacity to more than 340,000 barrels per day in only seven years since the country’s first discovery. Hess Guyana Exploration Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

One of Europe’s most modern automotive manufacturing sites, Hambach is home to a highly experienced and capable workforce, has an excellent track record among Mercedes plants for the quality of its output, and recently benefited from a major investment to enable the production of larger vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Methanol fuel cell developer and manufacturer Blue World Technologies ( earlier post ) is starting limited production—the first step in commercializing its methanol fuel cell technology. Methanol fuel cell production. Now the company is starting a limited methanol fuel cell production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2022

In this analysis, I examined the relation between crude-oil production and crude-oil reserves in the world overall and in the United States alone. This variable is inversely related to the reserves-to-production ratio.) Production (billion barrels). Production as % of reserves. Production (billion barrels).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2019

BYTON revealed more about the interior of its first production model, the M-Byte SUV ( earlier post ), at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2019 in Las Vegas. The production version of the BYTON M-Byte is slated to debut in mid-2019, with mass-production starting at the end of the year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Texas (Toyota Texas, TMMTX) has started production for the all-new, all-hybrid 2023 Toyota Sequoia. In 2019 Toyota announced a $391-million investment in Toyota Texas, which paved the way for the all-new Tundra and Sequoia to be built exclusively in Texas. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that US crude oil production will average 11.9 million barrels per day in 2023, which would surpass the record average production of 12.3 million barrels per day set in 2019. US coal production will total 598 million short tons in 2022, which is a 3% increase from 2021.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2021

As we near the start of vehicle production, it’s vital that we keep looking forward and pushing through to Rivian’s next phase of growth. This infusion of funds from trusted partners allows Rivian to scale new vehicle programs, expand our domestic facility footprint, and fuel international product rollout. billion since 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2020

Volkswagen has begun conversion of its Emden, Germany plant to support the production of Evs; the first electric cars are to roll off the production line there from 2022. With the conversion of our plant at Emden into a production location for electric vehicles, Volkswagen is forcing the pace of system change.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2023

have begun production from the MJ field, following testing and commissioning activities. The MJ field represents the last of three major new deepwater developments the RIL-bp consortium have brought into production in block KG D6 off the east coast of India. Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) and bp p.l.c.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

This makes the car manufacturer’s main plant the only production facility for MEB battery systems in Europe outside Germany. Around 250 employees will soon be assembling more than 250,000 MEB battery systems a year on the newly constructed production line. The largest battery with 12 modules boasts an 82-kWh capacity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

A team from the University of Cordoba in Spain and the University of Tehran in Iran has been searching for ways to increase hydrogen production by using microorganisms, specifically microalgae and bacteria. This study is a proof of concept for the synergetic biohydrogen production in alga-bacteria co-cultures. —Fakhimi et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The BMW Group will invest more than £600 million (US$751 million) in the MINI factories at Oxford and Swindon for all-electric MINI production. With this new investment we will develop the Oxford plant for production of the new generation of electric MINIs and set the path for purely electric car manufacturing in the future.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2021

The company plans to keep its own water consumption to a minimum and stop using drinking water in vehicle production in the future. In the long term, Audi plans to implement closed water cycles at all production locations. Water is also essential in automotive production, for example in the paint shop or for leak tests.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For the first time, the IHS Markit base case scenario for refined products expects total global demand in 2050 to be lower than 2019 levels. Under the new IHS Markit Inflections base case scenario, global refined product demand is expected to peak in 2036. MMbd), placing it below 2019 baseline levels.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2021

has launched China’s first automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR production line and will start mass production and delivery of the automotive-grade solid-state LiDAR RS-LiDAR-M1 for contract projects in Q2 this year. RoboSense (Suteng Innovation Technology Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that liquid fuels production in Brazil, Canada, and China will increase this year and next, contributing to growth in overall non-OPEC petroleum production. The United States will account for about 60% of the growth in combined liquid fuels production in all non-OPEC countries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2022

To meet the market’s needs, the licensed manufacturers of OCSiAl’s graphene nanotube dispersion in China are ramping up production capacities. Electrode sample with 0.06% of SWCNTs shows good coverage of the particle’s surface. According to the manufacturers, the combined capacity of their facilities will reach 40,000 tonnes in 2023–2024.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2019

Honda has confirmed the global premiere of a prototype version of its new electric vehicle at the Geneva Motor Show in March 2019. A mass production version of the car will be on sale later in the year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2022

In addition to conventional drive units and components, the Mercedes-Benz Stuttgart-Untertürkheim plant is already responsible for the production of batteries and axles for plug-in hybrids and fully electric Mercedes-EQ models. Sketch of the electric drive of the Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2021

As manufacturers set to ramp product back up to produce everything from automobiles, airplanes and construction tools, they will begin to return to normal production cycles. This also means they will face their usual litany of production challenges. for production and manufacturing, and tungsten is among them. government.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

ŠKODA AUTO has begun series production of the electric ENYAQ iV at its main plant in Mladá Boleslav. The battery-electric SUV is the first ŠKODA series production model based on the Volkswagen Group’s Modular Electrification Toolkit (MEB). —Michael Oeljeklaus, ŠKODA AUTO Board Member for Production and Logistics.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2020

The BFS confirms that 10ktpa of AAM production can be achieved via expansion of the existing plant and infrastructure within Syrah’s existing 25-acre industrial site. Syrah intends to initially expand natural graphite AAM production capacity at Vidalia to 10ktpa, and then increase in line with growing market demand.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

By 2022, electric car capacity at the Ghent plant will have more than tripled from today’s levels and will amount to around 60% of the plant’s total production capacity. The share of Recharge cars as a percentage of total sales more than doubled in 2020, compared to 2019. Volvo XC40 Recharge production in Ghent, Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its 28 th annual Inventory of US Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks (GHG Inventory), which presents a national-level overview of annual greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 to 2019. from 2018 to 2019, and CO 2 emissions just from fossil fuel combustion decreased 2.7% Source: EPA.

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