Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. The two companies have partnered before, with the Weda Bay Nickel project in Indonesia.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Global Power Synergy PLC (GPSC) is building a battery manufacturing facility in Thailand using 24M’s novel SemiSolid lithium-ion technology ( earlier post ). GPSC is the main power and utility company of PTT Group. Construction of the new plant is expected to be completed and production commenced in December 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

GM is aggressively scaling battery cell and EV production in North America to reach our target of more than 1 million units of annual capacity by 2025, and we plan to eliminate tailpipe emissions from all our new light-duty vehicles by 2035—so we are building a supply chain and recycling strategy that can grow with us.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2023

The Volkswagen Group’s battery company PowerCo SE aims to build its largest gigafactory to date in St. Since 2020, Ontario has attracted almost CAD$ 13 billion in electric vehicle and EV battery investments. Thomas, Ontario/Canada with an annual production capacity of up to 90 GWh in the final expansion phase.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

Founded in 2020 by aviation industry veterans Paul Eremenko, John-Paul Clarke, Jason Chua, and Jon Gordon, Universal Hydrogen is stitching together the end-to-end hydrogen value chain for aviation, both for hydrogen fuel and hydrogen-powered airplanes. The company also secured interest from multiple airlines to serve as early customers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2021

Lightning eMotors, a leading provider of commercial electric vehicles for fleets, announced a $45-million order for its zero-emission powertrain systems from Faribault, Minnesota-based motorcoach supplier ABC Companies. —Roman Cornell, president and chief commercial officer of ABC Companies. —Roman Cornell.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Royal Dutch Shell will build an 820,000-tonnes-a-year biofuels facility at the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, the Netherlands, formerly known as the Pernis refinery. When built, Porthos will transport and store CO 2 that is captured by various companies, including Shell. The project aims to capture up to 2.5

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2020

ABC Companies, a leading provider to the motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transportation market in the United States and Canada, will soon be the first to offer a motorcoach-diesel-to-electric-repower program for North American operators. —Roman Cornell, president and chief commercial officer of ABC Companies.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2020

The two companies plan to build the first US modular thermochemical waste-to-hydrogen production facility in California in the fourth quarter of 2020, with a pipeline of additional projects to follow in 2021. Ways2H Inc., JBEC has developed a biomass gasification process that uses alumina balls as a heat carrier.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2021

European battery-maker Northvolt has acquired Cuberg , a US-based battery technology company delivering high-performance lithium-metal cells produced on existing lithium-ion manufacturing lines for electromobility solutions. Department of Energy, and the TomKat Center at Stanford. —Peter Carlsson, CEO and Co-Founder, Northvolt.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2021

Leading silicon and carbon products company Elkem has successfully commissioned its industrial pilot for battery materials in Kristiansand, Norway, starting industrial scale pilot production for customers. Elkem is currently inviting external industrial and financial partners to participate. —Chris York, Vice President at Vianode.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

At ArcelorMittal Dunkerque, the company is developing a hybrid blast furnace process, which involves using DRI gas injection technology in the blast furnace shaft as well as using gas injection in the blast furnace tuyeres, using plasma technology to create a reducing gas.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2018

Toyota projects that global sales of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEV) will increase significantly after 2020 to at least 30,000 per year from today’s 3,000. Artist rendering of the FC stack production building within the Honsha Plant premises. Previously, the hydrogen tanks were assembled at the Honsha plant on a smaller scale.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Nornickel, the largest industrial company in the Russian Arctic, has unique expertise in operating the Northern Sea Route, a strategic transport artery of the global logistics system. In 2020, the Nornickel fleet transported more than 1.5 Parts are free of ice for only two months per year. Source: Dorofeeva et al.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2021

China-based battery maker CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd) and its subsidiary Shenzhen Dynanonic signed an agreement with Jiang’an county government (located in south-west China’s Sichuan province) to build a lithium iron phosphate (LFP) cathode materials plant with a production capacity of 80 tpy. —Zeng Yuqun.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

The FLITE (Fuel via Low Carbon Integrated Technology from Ethanol) consortium, led by SkyNRG and with LanzaTech as the technology provider, will build the first-of-its-kind LanzaJet Alcohol to Jet (AtJ) facility. The FLITE project kick-off was held on 8 December 2020. The consortium consists of leaders from their respective industries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2018

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, will introduce its first fully electric vehicle in 2020. The EV launch comes as part of a product offensive, in which SEAT will launch one new car every six months until 2020. SEAT is going to launch one new car every six months until 2020. —SEAT President Luca de Meo. billion (US$4.1

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JUNE 3, 2020

The number of available and announced models of zero-emission trucks, buses and off-road equipment in the United States and Canada is on track to rise nearly 78% by the end of 2020 compared to year-end 2019, according to the Zero-Emission Technology Inventory ( ZETI ), a product of CALSTART’s Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero program.

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MARCH 7, 2021

An example is the Helios project in NEOM, Saudi Arabia, announced in July 2020, which includes the world’s largest ammonia loop delivered by Topsoe. Mogensen (2020) “Recent advances in solid oxide cell technology for electrolysis” Science doi: 10.1126/science.aba6118. —Amy Hebert, Chief Commercial Officer of Haldor Topsoe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand. The construction phase is planned for 2020 to 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2021

Plug Power plans to build a green hydrogen production plant in Camden County, Georgia, to serve customers across the southeastern United States. Additionally, the company is entering into a Memorandum of Understanding with Camden County Joint Development Authority for land and local site support.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Almost half of global consumers (46%) are considering purchasing a car in the next 12 months, an increase from 35% in April 2020. 81% of consumers said they will avoid using car-pool services owing to health and safety concerns, compared with just 42% in April 2020. The automotive industry has to adapt to these emerging needs.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

We are building a sustainable and resilient North America-focused supply chain for EVs covering the entire ecosystem from raw materials to battery cell manufacturing and recycling. The new facility will supply the Ultium Cells LLC facilities GM and LG Energy Solution are building in Lordstown, Ohio and Spring Hill, Tennessee.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2020

ITM Power is establishing ITM Motive as a separate, wholly owned subsidiary for building, owning and operating a portfolio of hydrogen refueling stations in the UK. On establishment, ITM Motive will own and operate a network of eight publicly accessible hydrogen refueling stations, which will expand to 11 by the end of 2020.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

The SLAM algorithm does not require permanent navigation transmitters to be installed in buildings and can therefore be set up quickly in a new environment without requiring any structural adjustments. The next generation of the STR will be rolled out at the end of 2020.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Under the changing situation, there is not much time left for traditional oil companies to “break the circle” Total Energy launches new company. Among the oil companies breaking through the siege of new energy vehicles, the international giant Total Energy has found a suitable breakthrough: charging piles.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 21, 2019

The 2020 Porsche Taycan will be the first widely available electric car designed around 800 volts—and in Porsche's newest advertisement, the company wants to make sure the power supply is ready.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

The Volkswagen Group is establishing a Group company for energy offerings and charging solutions, underlining its strategic goal of becoming a leading provider of sustainable mobility. The new company will play its part with energy offerings from renewable sources and smart charging solutions. —Thorsten Nicklaß.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 17, 2019

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has announced plans to build up to 80,000 copies of a new electric Fiat 500 at the company's Mirafiori, Italy, factory starting in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

By opening the company’s first EV battery system factory on the East Coast of the United States, Proterra will bring battery production closer to its Proterra Powered customers and its own Proterra Transit electric bus manufacturing operations.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

Group14 Technologies, a global provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, and SK materials, one of the world’s top manufacturers of special gases and industrial gases, are forming a joint venture to build a factory for lithium-silicon battery materials in South Korea.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

OXIS Energy and the Minas Gerais Development Company CODEMGE have signed a 15-year lease agreement with Mercedes Benz Brazil (MBB) to take possession of a plant located at the MBB manufacturing site in Juiz de Fora in southeast Brazil to build a Li-sulfur battery manufacturing operation. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 21, 2020

The company has also signed a leasing agreement on a new production building at the Port of Aalborg. At the beginning of 2020, Blue World Technologies was expected to close an investment round, but COVID-19 threw a spanner in the works which resulted in the investment round not being realized at that time.

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MAY 12, 2022

The company said it will expanding existing co-processing volumes to approximately 5,500 barrels per day, and build a stand-alone renewable diesel complex within the Burnaby Refinery capable of producing approximately 6,500 barrels per day of renewable diesel.

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MARCH 21, 2019

The plant will become the production home to vehicles from the company’s next-generation battery electric flexible architecture. These vehicles will follow the all-electric performance SUV coming in 2020 from Ford’s Cuautitlan, Mexico, plant.

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MAY 13, 2023

TSMC), which was already building a $12 billion fab in Arizona , upped the investment to $40 billion with a second plant. The United States today manufactures just 12 percent of the world’s chips, down from 37 percent in 1990, according to a September 2020 report by the Semiconductor Industry Association.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

The company unveiled its second production model, the P7 sedan in April, rolled out the 10,000 th unit of its first production model, the G3 2019 smart SUV, in June, and in July it released the enhanced version, the G3 2020 with a 520 km (323-mile) NEDC driving range. Xpeng Motors achieved numerous milestones this year.

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