Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Under the terms of the agreement, BioAmber and CJCJ plan to establish a joint venture in China to produce up to 36,000 metric tons of bio-succinic acid annually and commercialize the output in Asia. The partners would also have a mutual right-of-first-refusal to retrofit additional CJCJ fermentation facilities globally.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2021

BASF will contribute its strength as a leading global CAM supplier to the automotive industry with strong technology and development capabilities, global operations footprint, as well as strategic partnerships for raw materials supply. In Europe, BASF is investing in CAM capacities in Germany and PCAM capacities in Finland.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

With the successful launch and operation of Geespace’s first satellites, the company will become one of the world’s first providers of combined commercial Precise Point Positioning and Real-Time Kinematic services (PPP-RTK). The GeeSAT-1 is the first of many new satellite models from Geespace.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 16, 2023

This should have been obvious to American manufacturers who have historically been required to engage in partnerships with Chinese corporations just to sell within the region. The Blue Oval had already hinted that its strategy in Asia would be changing , especially in regard to China.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2024

Thailand has a robust automotive manufacturing industry currently, and is the largest producer and exporter of vehicles in the region of Southeast Asia. However, it is working toward transitioning to more support of the EV sector, as it wants to become the main EV production location for companies. It has already landed over $1.44

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2019

This increase lifts the total market share of NCM 811 (by capacity deployed) to 2% in May 2019 at the global level, and 4% for the Chinese market, from just 1% and 2% the month prior, respectively, due to the launch of a number of new EV models in China using NCM 811 cells from CATL ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

The data and analytics company notes that such actions will simply mean Western countries will be more reliant on Russian oil and gas for longer. Russia has reportedly been looking to reduce the impact of sanctions by turning to Asia for trade. EV and battery companies in China may well step in and buy the commodity at lower prices.

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Teslarati

MAY 30, 2023

Kenichi Shimomura, principal at Roland Berger, noted that Thailand could be a test of sorts for Tesla as the company attempts to break into the Southeast Asian automotive market. “Tesla sees Thailand as a test market for accelerating its expansion in Southeast Asia,” Shimomura said, as noted in a report from Nikkei Asia.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2013

Navigant ranks Jiangsu Xinri E-Vehicle Company as the top e-scooter company. According to a new Leaderboard report from Navigant Research, Jiangsu Xinri E-Vehicle Company is the best positioned company in the global e-scooter market in terms of strategy and execution. Source: Navigant. Click to enlarge.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

Chinese EV brand Leapmotor, which has a joint venture (JV) with the Amsterdam-based Stellantis, may announce its India entry plan soon. The company conducted a feasibility study this year and the decision has been made; the announcement could happen very shortly and the India entry is likely by year-end, sources added.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Now, as the company looks to expand outside of Asia, it is doubling down on its Chinese production capabilities. The environmental fillings found on a local Chinese government website state that the project will come at an expected cost of 8 billion yuan ($1.2 However, a construction start date was not specified.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 1, 2021

Xiaomi, a Chinese smartphone colossus, has announced they are building their own branded electric vehicles (EVs), just like Apple, Huawei, Sony, and Foxconn. If you’re prepared to lose money, starting a car company is easy. The post Chinese Smartphone Titan Xiaomi Entering the EV Race appeared first on The Truth About Cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

China-based automobile manufacturer Guangzhou Automobile Group (GAC Group), the parent company of GAC Motor, has begun construction of a large industrial park for electric and intelligent vehicles as part of its efforts to boost its electric vehicle business. The company ranked 5 th among all brands in J.D.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 5, 2023

Ford Motor Company is tweaking plans in China and seeking to turn around financial losses after five years of lackluster sales within the region. CEO Jim Farley has reportedly returned from Asia to finalize those plans, which were reiterated during a press call about Ford’s first-quarter earnings held earlier in the week.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 27, 2022

It is now the third-most valuable company in South Korea after Samsung Electronics Co Ltd (005930.KS) LG Energy Solution commands more than 20% of the global EV battery market. The South Korean company supplies battery cells to big automaker brands like Tesla, General Motors, and Volkswagen. LGES priced its IPO at 12.8

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2013

In a new report , Navigant Research forecasts that the global market for e-bicycles will grow at a modest rate of 3.1% The company does not expect China’s 2.8% Asia Pacific is the largest market for Li-ion battery e-bicycles, due to a large Japanese and Chinese market (320,065 and 717,227 e-bicycle sales in 2013, respectively).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2018

Over the next five years INFINITI is planning to localize five new vehicles in China, tripling our sales here in our fastest growth market, globally. As part of our roadmap to electrify our portfolio, we anticipate that by 2025, more than 50% of new INFINITI vehicles sold globally and in China will be electrified. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2012

GSR is honored to lead this round of investment in a disruptive technology that we believe has great promise for the Chinese automotive market and potentially building a global EV platform. The city of Liyang is partnering to provide prototype manufacturing support, with favorable industrial policy. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

APRIL 3, 2023

Automakers and raw material extraction companies are flocking to Indonesia as the race to secure raw materials for EV batteries continues to heat up. But more recently, another set of nickel processing plants has emerged from an Indonesian company, hoping to take advantage of the hype surrounding their island’s top metal.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

BorgWarner signed a strategic agreement with FinDreams Battery, a subsidiary of BYD Company Limited. BYD has agreed to give BorgWarner the right to localize production of LFP battery packs with blade cells in Europe, the Americas, and select regions in the Asia Pacific for eight years.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2010

Many of these cities, relatively unknown outside of China, have populations well above one million people and will help lead the next wave of growth in the Chinese economy. — Nigel Harris, general manager of Changan Ford Sales Company. Ford and its joint venture Changan Ford Mazda Automotive Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

VW Anhui Components Company is the first battery system plant to be wholly owned by the Group in China. Volkswagen Anhui and VW Anhui Components Company, alongside our two strong Joint Ventures, are crucial to our electrification strategy and to achieving our goal of the Volkswagen Group China fleet reachingover 40% NEVs by 2030.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Chinese state-owned automaker Chery is reportedly still looking to the United States as a possible point of expansion. Things have been left intentionally vague this time around, with the company only saying that it would like to move product here eventually. But this isn’t the first time the brand has said so.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 2, 2023

Tesla’s global vice president and CEO of the Greater China region, Tom Zhu, took over responsibilities for sales, service, and deliveries in North America, Electrek reported , citing sources familiar with the matter. but was still the chairman of the company. manager to Tesla plants in California and Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2011

Ltd) to establish a global joint venture to capitalize on the world-wide railroad tie market through the manufacture and sale of Recycled Structural Composite (RSC) ties/sleepers utilizing their respective geographic licenses from Rutgers University. million sleepers annually; and Germany, at roughly 1 million sleepers annually.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Ford Motor Company and Zotye have agreed to establish Zotye Ford Automobile Co., The two companies had signed a memorandum of understanding back in August to explore the possibility of such a venture. We are delighted to have signed this joint venture agreement with Zotye to form our third joint venture automotive company in China.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

While European automakers have been shifting over to direct sales à la Tesla, China’s BYD, for Build Your Dreams, along with Chinese peers Xpend and Great Wall Motor are looking to dealers to build sales and provide networks to help their brands build solid reputations and trust among Europeans. Last year, the company sold 1.6

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

BYD Atto 3 (Source: BYD) Europe and the US say that Chinese EV development is running wild and unchecked and on the verge of overwhelming the global market with, well, EVs the rest of the world can’t compete with. China last year overtook Japan as the world’s biggest car exporter ­– but most of those were ICE vehicles sold to Russia.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

US sanctions targeting China's telecommunications giant Huawei Technologies have crippled the company, effectively forcing it out of the global smartphone market and now threatening its domestic phone business as well. Xu had said earlier that the company's goal now is to simply survive.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

The global CTO elaborates on how the company is in an interesting phase for the next five to seven years, in terms of providing optimal technology but at an affordable price, and how the company is talking to several OEMs, and if the business case is mature enough, they can meet the price point especially for India, and they are prepared.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2017

China’s GAC Motor celebrated the production of its 1 millionth vehicle six years after the company was founded—a white 4WD GS8 that rolled off the assembly line on 15 May at its factory in Guangzhou, China. Power Asia Pacific’s 2016 China Initial Quality Study, the highest among all Chinese brands for the fourth consecutive year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2017

through its wholly owned subsidiary, Sinotruk (BVI) Limited (collectively, CNHTC”, the parent company of Sinotruk, a leading Chinese commercial vehicle manufacturer. The terms of the Agreement were unanimously approved by the boards of directors of both companies. The purchase price is $0.95 million in cash to UQM.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2019

WiTricity’s DRIVE 11 reference designs will comply with the upcoming SAE, ISO/IEC and GB (China) global standards. Founded in 1998, the company has developed and supplied wireless power transfer systems (1kW-300kW) for material handling equipment for more than 16 years. —Jung G. Cho, CEO of Green Power.

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The Truth About Cars

APRIL 21, 2023

The company will reportedly be renting the facility from the city of Trollhattan. Unfortunately, NEVS likewise collapsed after Chinese parent company Evergrande was revealed to be in copious amounts of debt. The site was last used by National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) after Saab folded in 2011.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2015

DFCV) has selected Ricardo to support further development of heavy-duty engines fueled by natural gas for the Chinese market. Under the agreement, Ricardo will leverage a global team to support DFCV to develop and implement improved technologies for natural gas heavy duty truck engines. —Ricardo Asia president Gary Tan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2014

Recent trade deals and high-level cooperation between Russia and China have set off alarm bells in the West as policymakers and oil and gas executives watch the balance of power in global energy markets shift to the East. Related: Should Europe Be Concerned About Russia’s Growing Energy Relationship with Asia? ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2019

Capgemini has identified two groups displaying particularly positive sentiment towards autonomous cars: Chinese consumers and millennials. —Markus Winkler, Global Head of Automotive at Capgemini. 280 executives from OEMs, suppliers, and tech companies were also surveyed.

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