Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2016

France-based Total is the first oil supermajor aggressively to enter new areas of business including solar plus storage and distributed generation, notes Lux Research in a new report : “Superpower Darwinism: What Big Oil Can and Cannot Do About Total’s Billion-Dollar Battery Move.”. Asia challenges loom for battery acquirers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2023

Stellantis, TotalEnergies and Mercedes-Benz celebrated the inauguration of Automotive Cells Company’s (ACC) battery gigafactory in Billy-Berclau Douvrin, France—the first of three planned in Europe. The gigafactory will contribute to Stellantis’ goal of increasing battery manufacturing capacity to 250 GWh in Europe by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

Based on these new findings, ACEA calls for an ambitious but more realistic approach to the electrification of Europe’s car fleet, just before the European Commission releases its proposal for post-2021 CO 2 targets for passenger cars and light commercial vehicles next week. Affordability is clearly a major barrier. ECV Units sold.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

With speed limited to 110 km/h (68 mph) and acceleration close to the classic 2CV model, the concept car gains a wider range and significantly improved battery lifespan. As a result, its all-electric powertrain needs only a 40kWh battery to deliver a target range of up to 400 km (248 miles).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

Alliance management expects additional synergies from light commercial vehicles (LCV), aftersales and technology-sharing in electric vehicles, autonomous drive, connected cars and new mobility services. A new family of EV motor and batteries to be introduced from 2020, shared across the member companies.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

Wind farms stand idle for days on end, a fire interrupts a vital cable from France, a combination of post-Covid economic recovery and Russia tightening supply means the gas price has shot through the roof – and so the market price of both home heating and electricity is rocketing. This was plain wrong.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2014

Possibilities include dramatic reductions in the cost of EV batteries that lead to more cost- competitive vehicles, greater state or federal incentives, or increasing taxes on fossil fuels. Tesla is also readying the Model X, a more affordable crossover for launch by the end of 2014. Tesla Motors will have a bumpy year.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Stellantis Ventures, the corporate venture fund of Stellantis, today announced its participation as a strategic investor in Tiamat, a France-based company that is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. To achieve these sales targets, Stellantis is securing approximately 400 GWh of battery capacity.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Axon Automotive uses novel manufacturing techniques to make carbon fibre technology, which has been associated with racing cars, affordable for eco cars. By designing light cars and giving them good aerodynamics you can radically lower vehicle emissions. Axon’s Managing Director, Dr Steve Cousins. Axon Automotive Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

Renault believed it was essential for Next Two to be affordable; the prototype which incorporates technologies that are sufficiently well-developed to be built into production models in the medium-term future, said Frédéric Mathis, the Next Two project leader. The New Face of Industry in France policy. —Carlos Ghosn, CEO Renault.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

has announced its participation as a strategic investor in Tiamat , a France-based company that is developing and commercializing sodium-ion battery technology. The investment supports Stellantis’ mission to provide clean, safe and affordable mobility to customers around the world. and sodium-ion with Tiamat.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Zunum expects to light up thirty thousand airports around the world with frequent and affordable air service. It will be powered by dual power sources: propulsion batteries, and a Safran turboshaft from the 1,700 to 2,000 shaft horsepower (shp) Ardiden range.

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Axon Automotive uses revolutionary manufacturing techniques to make carbon fibre technology, which has been associated with racing cars, affordable for eco cars. “By By designing light cars and giving them good aerodynamics you can radically lower vehicle emissions,” says Axon’s Managing Director, Dr Steve Cousins. “As

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 8, 2022

The Mercedes-Benz Vision EQXX, and its showroom-bound tech, looks to banish range anxiety for good: In April, the sleek prototype sedan completed a 621-mile (1,000-kilometer) trek through the Alps from Mercedes’ Sindelfingen facility to the Côte d'Azur in Cassis, France with battery juice to spare. On the sunnier May drive to the U.K.,

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

In a decisive step towards advancing the European Union’s Green Deal objectives, the ALMA Project (Advanced Light Materials and Processes for the Eco-Design of Electric Vehicles) has announced a transformative breakthrough in the road transport sector, attained through sustainable lightweighting. What is the ALMA Project?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2015

TDI quattro plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ); the Audi A7 h-tron quattro fuel cell vehicle ( earlier post ); the Audi e-tron quattro concept battery-electric SUV ( earlier post ); the Audi TT clubsport turbo concept ( earlier post ); the Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept ( earlier post ); and the Audi R18 e-tron quattro ( earlier post ).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Electronic quartz watches arrived on the scene around 1970, and even today, they have advantages over their smartwatch brethren with batteries that last years, not days. You don’t need to maybe go to a country where labor is more affordable. So you can imagine having a longer battery life as well. So that’s a big point.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2009

Renault used the Annual General Meeting of its shareholders today in Paris, France, as the stage for introducing its new prototype electric vehicle, Kangoo be bop Z.E. is equipped with a lithium-ion battery pack produced by AESC (Automotive Electric Supply Corporation), a Nissan-NEC joint venture which was founded in April 2007.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 20, 2024

Furthermore, Stellantis will comply with California’s zero-emissions light-duty vehicle sales requirements through 2030 even if CARB is unable to enforce its standards as a result of judicial or federal action. Together, we have found a win-win solution that is good for the customer and good for the planet,” Tavares said.

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