Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2020

The first fully-electric BMW iX3 has left the production line at the BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture (BBA) in Shenyang, China. The workforce at the BBA Plant Dadong in Shenyang already celebrated the successful start of production on 29 September 2020.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2021

The fully electric compact model is the first electric SUV to be produced by Audi in Germany. The Q4 e-tron features a Volkswagen-made modular electric drive matrix (MEB), a highly versatile and variable platform that is suitable for numerous fully electric models and offers considerable scope for leveraging synergies.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Volvo Group’s American subsidiary Mack Trucks announced plans to commercialize the Mack LR Electric, its refuse model equipped with a fully electric integrated Mack drivetrain. Orders for the Mack LR Electric will open in Q4 2020, with deliveries beginning in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2021

We expect at least 50 percent of the vehicles we deliver to our customers worldwide to be fully electric by 2030. And we are systematically expanding our production network for electric drive trains in response to this. Now, the location will also produce electric drivetrain components.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

against 2020). The BMW Group will use the additional capacity to manufacture models for the Chinese market locally, which are also being produced in other plants. It will also be used to manufacture additional fully electric models in China. (CBA), indirectly holds the remaining 25%. BMW iX in Shanghai.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

The BMW Group is going for breadth with its fully electric vehicles; the company will offer at least one fully electric model on the road in around 90% of its current market segments by 2023, according to Group management. By 2027, fully electric vehicles will account for at least 50% of all MINI deliveries to customers.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The proceeds of the bond will be used to fund the design, development and manufacturing of fully electric cars in line with the company’s recently established Green Finance Framework. The settlement date is expected to be 7 October 2020 and the bonds will be listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

Celebrating the start of pre-production, a first China-specific all-electric Volkswagen ID. The start of series production of all-electric cars based on the MEB platform in Anting is scheduled for October 2020. family in China as well, a brand-new generation of fully electric and connected vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The BMW Group will increase e-component production capacity at its manufacturing base in Leipzig with another eight production lines by 2024. The battery cells they will process will be manufactured by external suppliers working to BMW Group specifications. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Both models are now discontinued.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2022

Volkswagen Group China unveiled its first electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) passenger drone prototype, as part of its strategy to explore and break new ground in fully electric and sustainable individual mobility concepts.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Volvo Trucks will deliver fully electric heavy-duty trucks to Amazon in Germany by year end. The 20 Volvo FH Electric are expected to drive more than one million road kilometers annually. The Volvo FH, FM and FMX Electric models have a GCW of up to 44 tonnes.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

This transition will be achieved through a combination of fully electric vehicles, vehicles with plug-in idle mitigation units and plug-in hybrids. By 2025, all light duty vehicles (LDVs) reaching the end of their life cycle will be replaced with an electric vehicle, with all LDVs being electrified by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Livent will supply the lithium directly to the BMW Group’s battery cell manufacturers from 2022 on. The BMW Group and BASF commissioned a scientific analysis of the water use of different lithium mining methods in South America from the University of Alaska Anchorage and University of Massachusetts Amherst in late 2020.

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EV Sales

JANUARY 25, 2021

This impressive result shooted December's plugin share to 23% share (14% BEV) , helping the 2020 numbers to rise 142% over those of the previous year, to well over 1 million units, and pulling the market into the. Disruption Zone , as the 2020 PEV share ended at 11% share (6.2% for BEVs alone), a significant departure from the 3.6%

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

Green Automotive Company has (GAC) acquired 21.63% of Viridian Motor Corporation (VMC), a US-based electric truck manufacturer. Viridian Motor Corporation (VMC) is building fully electric, light-duty trucks using its own electric drive train and battery packs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2022

All proceeds are earmarked for funding and accelerating the company’s transformation towards becoming a fully electric carmaker by 2030 and becoming climate-neutral and circular by 2040. Volvo Cars was the first established car maker to commit to full electrification and aims to sell only pure electric cars by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

Ford management gave an update on its product line plans, touting that by 2020, the company will offer “North America’s freshest lineup among all full-line automakers,” with its average showroom age dropping from 5.7 By 2020, trucks and SUVs—including electrified vehicles—are to represent 86% of Ford’s product mix.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

Ford detailed seven of the 13 new global electrified vehicles it plans to introduce in the next five years, including hybrid versions of the iconic F-150 pickup and Mustang in the US, a plug-in hybrid (PHEV) Transit Custom van in Europe and a fully electric SUV with an expected range of at least 300 miles (483 km) for customers globally.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2019

More than 100 electric school buses, powered by a Cummins fully electric drivetrain, have been ordered to date from Blue Bird Corporation, a school bus manufacturer highly focused on alternative fuel technologies. Blue Bird electric buses are already operating in California, North Dakota and Washington.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The BMW Group is deepening its existing business relationships with battery cell manufacturers CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. billion (contract duration from 2020 to 2031), with €4.5 Every cell generation is awarded in global competition to the leading manufacturer from both a technology and a business perspective.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2021

Thus far, fully electric variants have also tended to be of the smaller to mid-size models in an OEMs range, which were easier to electrify to meet emissions targets. —“Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chain Analysis”. Source: “Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chain Analysis”.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The announcement comes after Ford reporting, in the fourth quarter of 2020, a return to profit in Europe and announced it was investing at least $22 billion globally in electrification through 2025, nearly twice the company’s previous EV investment plans. Ford Cologne Electrification Center highlighted in blue.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2020

With this order the BMW Group will cover about one-fifth of its cobalt needs for the fifth generation of electric drive trains. The contract between the BMW Group and the Managem Group is for a term of five years (2020 – 2025). By 2023, we aim to have 25 electrified models in our line-up—more than half of them fully-electric.

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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. —Peter Carlsson, CEO and Co-Founder, Northvolt.

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Electric Vehicles India

JUNE 8, 2021

Haryana government working on EV policy to manufacture EVs . The government of Haryana is working out a policy to manufacture electric vehicles and convert petrol-diesel vehicles into electric vehicles in the state. A megaproject has been allotted ?70.8 billion to a private company at IMT Sohna. Haryana draft EV Policy

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2022

Last year, almost 40% of all new Porsche vehicles delivered in Europe were already at least partly electric—i.e. plug-in hybrids or fully electric models. With almost 96,000 deliveries, an increase of 8% was recorded here compared to 2020. In 2021, Porsche increased its deliveries in all global sales regions.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

model series is for the fully electric version, with around 20,000 orders received over the first three months of this year. GTE models took the lead in 2014 and their second model generation features an increased electric range due to more battery capacity. Volkswagen reports that, even before the launch of the new ID.3

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) plans to purchase seven Mack LR Electric refuse models, which will operate in each of the city’s boroughs. DSNY took delivery of its first fully electric refuse vehicle, a Mack LR Electric demonstration model, in September 2020, when it began rigorous real-world testing in Brooklyn.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Volvo Group’s subsidiary Mack Trucks has delivered a pre-production Mack LR Electric model ( earlier post ) to Republic Services to begin in-service trials in the demanding refuse segment. Republic will test the LR Electric model in Hickory, North Carolina on one of its residential recycling collection routes.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

In a seamless transition, further e-drive components will be manufactured there with immediate effect in addition to producing high-voltage battery modules, which is already being done since May 2021. In this way, the electric mobility expertise of the workforce, which has been built up over the past years, will be used and advanced further.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2020

Audi will not extend its commitment in the DTM touring car racing series beyond the 2020 season. The brand has been represented in Formula E ever since the popular fully electric racing series was started in 2014. the DTM’s umbrella organization, on Monday. —Member of the Board for Development Hans-Joachim Rothenpieler.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The brand currently has two fully-electric cars in its program. Work on converting the Zwickau plant to be run exclusively as an electric mobility site is already underway, and in addition the plants in Emden and Hanover will switch to the production of electric vehicles from 2022. With the fully-electric ID.1

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2018

Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler predicts that in 2030 some 30% of all newly registered passenger cars will be fully electric and 40% will be propelled by hybrid powertrains—i.e., 70% of all passenger cars will be using at least one electric motor as a source of propulsion.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

Transdev, a leading operator and global integrator of mobility solutions, is partnering with ZF and e.GO, a manufacturer of electric vehicles to develop a new shared mobility solution by integrating the autonomous driven e.GO Mover, a fully electric, connected and automated shuttle. and ZF) is providing the e.GO

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2020

The components will be manufactured by Pierburg Huayu Pump Technology (PHP), a Shanghai-based joint venture company of Rheinmetall Automotive. The pumps will be installed in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) in the Chinese plants of the customer. The ramp-up phase of production started last year.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Tesla led all manufacturers in the EV segment with 72 percent of all EV sales for the year. The KBB report says nearly 500,000 fully-electric vehicles were purchased last year. Whether it would be a fully-electric car, hybrid, or plug-in hybrid, consumer data seems to show more emphasis on buying sustainable vehicle options.

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