Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2022

Magna continues its growth in electrification with secondary eDrive systems hitting the market in Asia, Europe and North America on Volkswagen’s MEB platform. We take a lot of pride in being the global supplier for all secondary eDrives for Volkswagen’s MEB platform and seeing the initial vehicles hit the market.

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MAY 4, 2025

continued] The post Costa Rica Achieved the Highest EV Market Share in the Americas for 3rd Consecutive Year in 2024 appeared first on CleanTechnica. It was written, translated, and abridged by Mario Duran Ortiz, a civil engineer in Costa Rica with ample knowledge on transportation and who has been reporting on the EV.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2022

Volvo Trucks North America is introducing the Volvo I-Torque. —Johan Agebrand, director of product marketing at Volvo Trucks North America. miles per gallon at 85 mph.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

Canada-based Snow Lake Lithium has outlined the need to create a comprehensive electric vehicle ecosystem across North America to protect the future of its domestic automotive industry. With some 15 million vehicles sold in the US last year, the automotive industry is estimated to contribute $1.1 trillion to the US economy every year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2022

and its CharIN North America Chapter (operating as CharIN Inc.), However, CharIN sai, it encourages stakeholders to investigate ways to focus on market acceleration rather than the creation of yet another form factor alternative, which will lead to further consumer confusion and delay EV adoption. Earlier post.) issued a response.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2023

Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) unveiled the series production of the all new, fully electric Freightliner eM2 for urban delivery applications. The eM2 is ready to order and will start production in autumn this year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 29, 2025

Uruguay has consistently been the second most advanced country in Latin America as far as electrification goes, and it has at times competed with Costa Rica for #1. Being a very small market (with fewer than 100,000 vehicle sales a year), it is subject to high seasonal variability and, as.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2023

Lithium Americas Corp. Established in 1981 and based in Philadelphia, Aquatech is a global leader in water purification technology for industrial and infrastructure markets with a focus on desalination, water recycling and reuse, and zero liquid discharge (ZLD). Sulfuric Acid Plant. EXP Global Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2022

A new NOAA study covering four decades of tropical cyclones found that reducing particulate air pollution in Europe and North America has contributed to an increase in the number of tropical cyclones in the North Atlantic basin and a decrease in the number of these storms in the Southern Hemisphere. Credit: NOAA.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2022

The mobile chargers are lightweight, transportable, and often use existing infrastructure—a convenient option for organizations that are entering the EV market. The electric truck market is expected to experience tremendous growth globally, creating a strong market for EV charger solutions in the coming years.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2022

Syzygy Plasmonics , LOTTE Chemical and LOTTE Fine Chemical (LOTTE Chemical HQ), and Sumitomo Corporation of Americas (SCOA) announced a joint development agreement to test a photocatalytic reactor for clean hydrogen production.

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APRIL 10, 2025

It will be the first time the Cybertruck officially launches outside of North America, and will land in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar in late 2025. After the launch of the Cybertruck, many wondered when Tesla would launch it in a market outside of North America.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

will bring to market a 15-liter natural gas engine for heavy-duty trucks. The launch of our universal 15-liter platform for heavy-duty ensures a full range of natural gas powertrains that are available to meet the emission reduction goals of all customers and end markets. Cummins Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

Volta Trucks has outlined its strategic roadmap for its entry into the North American market. The introduction of Volta Trucks’ 100% battery electric commercial vehicles into North America will be led in 2023 by a Volta Zero Class 7 truck which is equivalent to the existing European 16-ton truck, with a dry or refrigerated cargo box.

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MARCH 10, 2025

Tesla aims to bring the all-electric Cybertruck to a brand new market in what the company believes will be a massive advantage. Tesla Cybertruck gets pushback in Europe, increasing need for ‘international’ version However, Tesla plans to expand Cybertruck into other markets. He continued: We want it here.

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MARCH 18, 2025

The automotive market has felt out of whack for quite some time. Dealer markups may have abated to a degree, with discounts starting to manifest, but we dont really seem to be encountering the kinds of reasonable pricing North America enjoyed prior to 2020. Last year ended relatively strong as volumes surged for December.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Honda has provided the first look at the exterior and interior styling of the all-new Honda Prologue battery-electric SUV that will come to market in North America in 2024. This will enable a customer in targeted markets to easily transition into a Prologue when the new EV launches in 2024. Prologue Dimensions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

The buses were specifically designed for the Barbados market and come equipped with wheelchair accessibility, WiFi and USB charger connectors. BYD, the world’s largest manufacturer of electric vehicles continues to rapidly expand throughout Latin America.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

The Group is the European market leader for battery-electric vehicles by a large margin and achieved the second-largest share of the key US market with about 7.5%. Demand for BEVs was even somewhat stronger in Germany, the Group’s home market, where battery-electric vehicles made up 11.4% These now account for 5.1%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2023

Bridgestone Americas held the world debut of its new Turanza EV grand touring tire, the company’s first replacement tire designed specifically for premium electric vehicles and the first to feature Bridgestone ENLITEN technology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2023

A wave of new planned electric vehicle battery plants will increase North America’s battery manufacturing capacity from 55 Gigawatt-hours per year (GWh/year) in 2021 to 998 GWh/year by 2030, according to the US Department of Energy (DOE). Most of the announced battery plant projects are scheduled to begin production between 2025 and 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Daimler Truck North America (DTNA) and Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY) a leading US foodservice distribution company, have signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) to deliver up to nearly 800 battery-electric Freightliner eCascadia Class 8 tractors by 2026. After well over one million-miles (1.6 Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2023

Seven major global automakers—BMW Group, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz Group, and Stellantis NV—will create a joint venture to build a new charging network that will significantly expand access to high-powered charging in North America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2020

This is due to a combination of sequential gains across most end use markets, an unprecedented and incentivized acceleration in copper-intensive renewable electricity wind power generation projects, and the start-up of multiple new large-scale wire rod plants that has expanded the industrial consuming base.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2021

The company has operations in 16 locations in Asia, Europe and North America with a global workforce of more than 400 employees. The company has delivered more than 300,000 EV batteries to the global EV market with over 2 billion kilometers driven on its systems. Octillion also supplies batteries for the energy-storage market.

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JULY 13, 2023

This will be the most sophisticated vehicle that we have ever built and will be a standout in the EV market and on the road. Kia Georgia is the first manufacturing site in North America for Kia Corporation based in Seoul, Korea. Best of all, it will be assembled in West Point, Georgia. and began mass production on 16 November 2009.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

Genesis Motor America announced the start of sales of its first electric vehicle, the GV60 ( earlier post ). The Genesis GV60 enters the US market with a number of available world-first automotive features, including Face Connect and a Crystal Sphere. Electrify America. Later this year, as part of Hyundai Motor Group’s $7.4-billion

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The world is in a race to dominate the electric vehicle market—the Europeans have made their Battery Alliance a priority and the Chinese are chomping at the bit. But America is sitting on an enormous competitive advantage with the amount of lithium in Southern California. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2022

Volvo Trucks is leading the market for heavy all-electric trucks in Europe, with a market share of 42% in 2021. The company has delivered electric trucks to a wide range of customers in Europe, North America and Australia.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Lightsource bp, together with Xcel Energy and EVRAZ North America , launched its new 300-megawatt Bighorn Solar project. EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel is the largest producer of rail in North America, manufacturing more than 580,000 tons of rail annually. The steelmaking operation melts more than 1.25

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

In Q1 2023, Volkswagen of America reported 67,853 units sold—up 4.4% Volkswagen currently has only one EV on the US market: the ID.4. Volkswagen of America attributed a portion of the significant increase in ID.4 Overall, SUVs accounted for 90% of all Volkswagen of America sales in Q1 2023. Sales of the ID.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2020

Spring Hill Manufacturing is the largest GM facility in North America, totaling 2,100 acres. According to the EPA, GM’s choice to use green power helps advance the voluntary market for renewable energy, as well as the development of those sources.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2021

a Berkshire Hathaway company and the largest shuttle bus manufacturer in North America, entered into a strategic partnership agreement to deploy up to 7,500 zero-emission shuttle buses. All vehicles will be compliant with the Federal Transit Administration’s “Buy America” and the Federal Aviation Administration’s “Buy American” guidelines.

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Electrek

MAY 4, 2025

Electric vehicles share of the market continues to climb in Americas second city, with BEV registrations up more than 50% in the first quarter of 2025 compared with the same period last year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

The Mercedes-Benz EQB electric SUV ( earlier post ) is arriving on the US market this summer, with the the 2022 EQB 300 4MATIC starting from $54,500 and the EQB 350 4MATIC from $58,050. The EQB SUV will be offered in two trim levels for the US market: Exclusive and Pinnacle. Mercedes-Benz unveiled the EQB at Auto Shanghai in 2021.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Hertz is making a significant investment to offer the largest EV rental fleet in North America and one of the largest in the world. Today, 40% of US consumers say they are likely to consider an electric vehicle the next time they are in the market for a new vehicle, according to Pew.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Gatik is the market leader in autonomous middle-mile logistics, and in 2021 launched the world’s first fully driverless commercial delivery service with Walmart. Gatik will collaborate with Cummins to integrate Gatik's autonomous driving system with Cummins’ advanced powertrain solution in Gatik’s fleet of medium-duty trucks.

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