Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Groupe Renault and Brilliance China Automotive Holdings Limited have signed a contract for the formation of a joint venture to manufacture and sell light commercial vehicles (LCV) under the Jinbei, Renault and Huasong brands with the goal of achieving 150,000 sales annually by 2022 and an acceleration of electrifying powertrains.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has opened a new production facility at its Szombathely location in the west of Hungary. The facility is Schaeffler’s first production plant fully dedicated to electro-mobility and gives the group a new center of excellence for the production of components and systems for electrified powertrains.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

The partnership comes as the European auto industry readies for a “battery passport” that will trace the content and carbon footprint of EV cells sold in Europe. ACC is a joint venture between Stellantis, TotalEnergies and Mercedes-Benz Group. billion) investment. The French plant should start mass production soon.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2013

Provisional 2030 economic impact of achieving the 2020 targets in the two Phase I scenarios—Current Policy Initiatives and Tech 1— compared to baseline. In the second scenario, Tech 1, cars and vans achieve slightly higher efficiency levels in 2020 and continue along a similar trajectory of around 3% annual improvement.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 13, 2024

BYD announced it would enter the European car market in 2020. Meanwhile, recent research from Rhodium Group shows the tariffs may not be enough to slow BYD and other Chinese EV makers from gaining market share. BYD, Volkswagen EV prices in Europe and China (Source: Rhodium Group) Volkswagen’s ID.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization operated by Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors, has reopened four requests for proposal information (RFPIs) for the development of advanced high-performance batteries for vehicle applications. Each requires a 50% minimum cost share.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

At the start of the new fiscal year on 1 October 2020, thyssenkrupp will commence the operational realignment of its automotive system engineering activities. Going forward, a solution will be found for this business outside the thyssenkrupp group, either in partnerships or under new owners.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

On top of that we can help to ensure that Europe remains at the heart of the auto industry even in an electric era. With Mercedes-Benz as a new partner, ACC aims to more than double capacity at its European sites to support Europe’s industrial competitiveness in the design and manufacturing of battery cells.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

develop the Volkswagen Automotive Cloud, one of the largest dedicated automotive industry clouds for all future Volkswagen digital services and mobility offerings. Digital technology is rapidly changing every aspect of the auto industry—from the manufacturing process to the car itself. Earlier post.). Herbert Diess.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2017

Baidu, the leading Chinese language Internet search provider, announced a new project—named “Apollo”—intended provide an open, complete and reliable software platform for its partners in the automotive and autonomous driving industry to develop their own autonomous driving systems with reference vehicles and hardware platform.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

million (2.1%) since last year and the highest annual increase the auto industry has seen in the US since IHS began tracking VIO growth. IHS Automotive has expected this and has been preparing customers and industry leaders in the aftermarket to respond to this slowdown in growth. years in 2016 but not reach 11.7 until 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2010

Ford plans to survey 35 top global suppliers on their energy use and estimated greenhouse gas emissions as part of a broader effort to reduce carbon emissions within the auto industry. Tony Brown, Ford group vice president, Global Purchasing. Bosch and Johnson Controls.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

When he proposes steps to improve oil industry safety, we hope he won’t say, “Let’s make sure this never happens again.” How President Obama Can Announce Drive Star to Cut Oil Use in Half by 2020. Well, America’s auto industry delivered over 100,000. That helped us become the world’s greatest industrial power.

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Push EVs

MAY 17, 2023

Overall auto volume was 132,990 units, up 11.6% YoY, though still down from the roughly 170,000 pre-2020 seasonal norm. Group partner company Nissan has suffered a similar fate. Over a longer time period, Tesla has been doing slightly better than Volkswagen Group until recently. share of sales in April 2023, up from 16.2%

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Plug In India

DECEMBER 30, 2020

By Kamlesh Mallick 2020. The Indian electric vehicle industry too suffered a setback during the first six months of the year. Yet, by the end of the year, there is a huge wave of optimism in the industry for the coming year. This report logs the highs and lows of the Indian EV industry for 2020. What a year!

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Push EVs

JANUARY 9, 2023

The UK’s auto market saw plugin electric vehicles take 39.4% Overall auto volumes were up 18% year on year in December, but still down compared to pre-2020 norms. Since we reached the end of another year, the UK auto industry association, the SMMT , provided a top 10 chart of the bestselling BEV models for the year.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 11, 2021

The Indian market has now witnessed some decent growth in the EV industry in FY20-21. However, there is an increase in the number of sales in electric four-wheelers from 3,000 units in FY2019-2020 to 4,588 units in FY2020-21, which is a 52.93 It has announced the sales of the automobile industry for May 2021. per cent growth.

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Push EVs

JULY 15, 2023

Overall auto volume was 280,047 units, up 24.7% YoY, still far down on the pre-2020 norm (roughly 330,000). The Tesla Model Y was the best selling BEV in June, and third best seller of any auto. Now we can have a quick look at manufacturing group performance: Over the past 3 months Volkswagen Group’s lead has extended.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2014

Fields said that Ford’s investments in products, people, plants and technology, combined with industry growth, are not only delivering a year of growth in terms of revenue, pricing power, operating margins and profitability in 2014, but are setting the stage for growth in and beyond 2015. That’s a tremendous amount of growth. Earlier post.).

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Plug In India

MARCH 15, 2023

The interesting thing is before electric cars were popular, no one in the auto industry or mainstream media even questioned where petrol or the metals used in engines are coming from. The reality is these mines are not even in use by the battery industry and they are not Lithium Mines. Graphite and Silicon are used in the Anode.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2014

Since the MOU signing, state regulators, the auto industry and infrastructure developers and other stakeholders have shared information and best practices to help move this effort forward. The plan calls for a goal that by 2020, all interested state agency employees with plug-in vehicles (PEVs) will have a place to charge them.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2009

Winterkorn made the remarks during a presentation at the 17 th Handelsblatt-Jahrestagung in Munich on 3 July, during which he outlined VW’s approach to future mobility in the current context of the economic crisis, pessimism about the industry and technology potential. in pure electric vehicles in 2020. Background.

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Wallbox

JUNE 30, 2021

In 1989 , Morten Harket, A-ha’s heartthrob frontman, and Frederic Hauge, environmental group Bellona’s president, drove an imported electric Fiat around Norway’s capital, Oslo. As our previous article shows, EVs have proven to be more resilient to the 2020 market downturn than conventional vehicles and the trend looks positive.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2022

In 2021, sports utilities and crossovers accounted for 58% of all Ford passenger vehicle sold in the continent, up nearly 20 percentage points from 2020. and Koç Holding have signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding for a new, industry-leading joint venture business in Turkey. New battery gigafactory in Turkey.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The United States Department of Energy has confirmed plans to loan $544 million to South Korean tech conglomerate SK Group under the conditions it be used to expand semiconductor production in the Midwest. Demand has ballooned for silicon carbide semiconductors within the automotive sector in recent years.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 28, 2023

Not likely, counter Mercedes-Benz’s chief technology officer Markus Schäfer and Renault Group CEO Luca de Meo. The articles are based on scores of interviews I conducted with managers and engineers in the auto and energy industries, as well as policy experts, academic researchers, market analysts, historians, and EV owners.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

One of the most vexing social challenges confronting the transition to EVs at scale is dealing with the effects that governmental EV transition policies will have on millions of jobs across a wide swath of industries. President Biden says his EV policies will result in “one million new jobs in the American automobile industry.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

The joint industry proposal will enable the use of one type of plug independent of car make, electricity provider or country. industry with needed lead time to implement these new solutions in their vehicle development programs and to make necessary adaptations to the infrastructure. cost reductions for the industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2009

During the intervening six and half years in the US alone, the auto industry will sell a projected 70-80 million internal combustion engine cars, pointing out the importance of improving today’s technology. Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) challenge. Earlier post.)]. Earlier post.)]. CAFE mpg US (cars / trucks). 27.5 / 22.2.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 23, 2022

With less than eight years for the United States to meet the objective of a 50-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions , many environmental advocacy groups argue that an even faster transition to EVs is mandatory. Consumer subsidies, industry incentives or both? However, that is still far short of RMI’s 70 million target.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 7, 2023

The US electrical power industry alone “is influenced by a variety of decision-makers, including over 200 investor-owned utilities, 10 federal power authorities, over 2000 publicly-owned utilities, about 900 rural electric cooperatives, seven RTOs [ Regional Transmission Organizations ], 48 state regulatory bodies [e.g.,

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Push EVs

MARCH 11, 2023

Germany, Europe’s single largest auto market, saw plugin electric vehicles take 21.5% Overall auto volume was 206,210 units, up by some 3% YoY, but still some 18% down from pre-2020 seasonal norms. The Tesla Model Y was the month’s bestselling plugin, and second overall auto (behind the VW Golf). year on year.

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Get Electric Vehicle

MAY 28, 2022

A recent report from the Environmental Defense Fund indicates that electric vehicle sales volumes are growing at a rapid pace, signalling an epochal shift in the auto industry over the next decade. Disrupting The Industry With A Total Shift. Yes, there were huge changes in the automotive industry throughout the years.

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Charged EVs

JULY 29, 2021

Originally rated at 124 miles of range, in 2020 the model received a range boost to 170 miles, and it remains on sale. Within the auto industry, it’s said that Toyota is not afraid of competition from most other makers. But Prius-like compact hatchbacks are a fast-fading segment, and that car is too small for most US buyers.

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Plug In India

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The entire auto industry has given up on investing in Hydrogen cars. Paul Scott, a founder of the EV advocacy group PlugInAmerica, is leading the boycott effort and he said. " Also in early 2020, Toyota announced a new joint-venture with China’s biggest electric vehicle manufacturer: BYD. Understand this.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

However, Lucid Group CEO Peter Rawlinson in a non-too subtle dig at both Ford and GM said , “The correct solution for an affordable pickup truck today is the internal combustion engine.” It has already started to increase the cost of its Chevrolet Bolt EVs , which it had slashed last year, “due to ongoing industry-related pricing pressures.”

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

In general, reaction to the move was positive from manufacturing trade assocations and labor groups, but negative from economists and consumer advocates. This isn’t the first move that Biden has made to limit the ability of the Chinese auto industry to operate in the US. We imagine more info will come on that soon.

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