Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Switzerland-based Climeworks, a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), recently launched the world’s first commercial plant that captures atmospheric CO 2 for supply and sale to a customer. Once the filter is saturated, the CO 2 is then isolated at a temperature of about 100 °C.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

The 9150 C-V2X chipset is designed to offer the industry enhanced V2X capabilities, including extended communication range, improved reliability and NLOS performance to expand support for safety and autonomous driving use cases. Thomas Müller, head of electrics/electronics, Audi. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Audi AG, BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm Incorporated have formed the “5G Automotive Association”. The association will develop, test and promote communications solutions, support standardization and accelerate commercial availability and global market penetration.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2016

LanzaTech has been selected by the Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) to receive a $4-million award to design and plan a demonstration-scale facility using industrial off gases to produce 3 million gallons/year of low-carbon jet and diesel fuels. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

Volkswagen Group brands and their industry partners have been working in this field for some time; Audi has been operating the world’s first industrial power-to-gas plant in Werlte (Emsland) since 2013, with the Audi e-gas produced from wind power being fed into the natural gas grid. With the SEAT Arona 1.0

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

The fuel is produced from materials such as used oil from restaurants and the food industry. In the course of their journeys, they carry about 250,000 new vehicles of the Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Volkswagen Passenger Cars and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brands every year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2017

HERE Technologies has launched the new generation of its HERE Real-Time Traffic service—the first global service on the market that integrates live vehicle sensor data from Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz vehicles with traffic probe information, resulting in significantly higher accuracy and more precise information about traffic conditions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Audi gained a wealth of experience from the 1.4 Ahead of the closing conference in Leipzig today, Audi revealed some of the electric driving results for its two models involved: the A1 e-tron prototype and the production A3 Sportback e-tron. million kilometers (869,919.7 Earlier post.) miles) a day.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

On the eve of the Paris Motor Show, HERE, the high-definition mapping and location services business company acquired by Audi, BMW and Daimler ( earlier post ), announced next-generation vehicle-sourced data services. HERE believes that industry collaboration is essential to address the major challenges faced by road users everywhere.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2014

Separately, Audi of America, also part of the larger Volkswagen Group, also announced its own carbon offset program for the Audi A3 Sportback e-tron plug-in hybrid (PHEV) ( earlier post ) with 3Degrees, as well as SunPower and Bosch partnerships. SunPower: residential solar with energy storage. Installation costs will be extra.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2014

Under the agreement, GBE will supply Audi with isooctane derived from isobutene produced at its new pre-commercial pilot system at the Fraunhofer CBP in Leuna. Under the agreement, GBE will supply Audi with isooctane derived from isobutene produced at its new pre-commercial pilot system at the Fraunhofer CBP in Leuna.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Audi e-fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

Audi is using Sierra Wireless AirPrime embedded wireless modules to help develop and test an LTE-connected infotainment system. ( These technologies are constantly evolving through what have become known as generations of commercial cellular / mobile systems. LTE = Long Term Evolution for higher speed wireless communication.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2017

At CES 2017, Audi AG, Ericsson, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., ConVeX will be executed by a cross-industry consortium that brings diverse expertise to the trial. Therefore the key to success is cross-industry collaboration—and so we are very happy to work together in the ConVeX consortium on new solutions for our customers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2021

The European Commission has found that Daimler, BMW and Volkswagen group (Volkswagen, Audi and Porsche) breached EU antitrust rules by colluding on technical development of NO x aftertreatment systems. The automakers also exchanged commercially sensitive information on these elements. This was confirmed by the European Commission.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2018

The group comprises Volkswagen, Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Bugatti; VWGoA is the first automotive OEM to join the Detroit-based Manufacturing USA institute. The innovative research being done and the network of industry and academic experts available at LIFT were keys drivers in our decision to join.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Israeli automotive tech company Mobileye will provide driving assistance software based on its SuperVision and Chauffeur platforms to VW’s luxury brands such as Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Porsche. Mobileye is also set to supply further automated driving software to Volkswagen’s commercial vehicles unit.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2018

Global Bioenergies (GBE), the company developing a process converting renewable resources into isobutene via fermentation ( earlier post ), and SkyNRG, world market leader in sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), will collaborate to accelerate the commercialization of Global Bioenergies’ approach to process isobutene into a jet fuel blending component.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2013

The funding will support the company’s growth strategy as it further develops designs and products for wireless charging in the consumer electronics, electric vehicles, defense and medical device industries, as well as allowing WiTricity to pursue other strategic growth opportunities in the wireless power field. annually to be worth $4.5

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2012

Jochem Heizmann, currently Group Board of Management member with responsibility for Commercial Vehicles, will head the new function. In this context, the Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles brand will become part of the Commercial Vehicles business area going forward.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2012

Industry involvement. There is heavy involvement from industry and government in the effort. Auto OEMs participating include Audi; BMW; Chrysler; Coda; Daimler; Fisker; Ford; GM; Honda; Mitsubishi; Nissan; Phoenix; and Toyota. Other infrastructure companies include Better Place, NRG Energy and Southern California Edison.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

a subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, announced continued efforts with China’s growing ecosystem of leading automakers and suppliers to commercialize LTE Vehicle-to-Everything (LTE-V2X) direct communication technology based on 3GPP Release 14 specifications. Qualcomm Technologies, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The PowerPhase HD 220 T system includes the most powerful electric motor UQM has yet manufactured, and an all-new controller designed specifically for the commercial vehicle market. UQM Technologies, Inc. The PowerPhase Pro electric propulsion system that is in volume production will also be part of the UQM display.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2015

In 2014, Global Bioenergies signed a collaboration agreement with Audi on the development of bio-isooctane—a high-performance drop-in biofuel for gasoline engines—derived from bio-isobutene. Gaseous isobutene is one of the main building blocks of the petrochemical industry. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2017

The incentive is currently being prepared by the Group’s Volkswagen Passenger Cars, Audi, SEAT, ŠKODA, Porsche and Volkswagen Commercial vehicles brands and will be on offer soon. The auto industry and the Federal government will each contribute €250 million.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2017

5GAA includes 33 members, of which 8 are founding members (AUDI AG, BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm Incorporated). 5GAA includes 33 members, of which 8 are founding members (AUDI AG, BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ericsson, Huawei, Intel, Nokia and Qualcomm Incorporated).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

Whereas the company’s primary focus has historically been to use industrial-grade or waste-derived sugars as feedstocks, the technological maturity of the process now allows consideration of a broader range of feedstocks, including non-biomass-derived sources of carbon. —Jennifer Holmgren, CEO of LanzaTech.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

He was appointed Board Member for Engineering at Bentley in 2003 before taking over as Managing Director of the German Association of the Automotive Industry in 2012. He began his career at Audi in Ingolstadt in 1987. Having started his career at Ford, he was Head of Volkswagen Group Research from 2000 to 2003.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2017

It also has an industrial joint venture with Fiat in India. With more than 9 million Tata vehicles plying in India, Tata Motors is the country’s market leader in commercial vehicles and among the top in passenger vehicles. ŠKODA became the fourth brand of the Volkswagen Group, alongside VW, Audi and SEAT, in 1991 via a joint venture.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2016

The two will partner to develop an embedded, end-to-end parking solution for the auto industry. Atlanta-based Parkmobile is the largest provider of mobile payments for on- and off-street parking and mobility-related services for municipalities, universities, commercial operators and transit facilities in the US. INRIX, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2016

With a nameplate capacity of 100 tons/year, the demo plant will allow the conversion of various resources (industrial-grade sugar from beets and cane, glucose syrup from cereals, second-generation sugars extracted from wheat straw, bagasse, wood chips…), into high-purity isobutene. Global Bioenergies is partnering with Audi, earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2020

Hager Group and Audi are thus bidirectional charging at home, otherwise known as Vehicle to Home (V2H). Audi and the Hager Group have developed a research and solution approach that creates financial incentives and offers greater security of supply. —Martin Dehm, technical project manager for bidirectional charging at Audi.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

The consortium has now selected the bio-isobutene process developed by the French industrial biotech Global Bioenergies for the conversion of wood-derived sugars into a high-performance gasoline. Global Bioenergies is also partnering with Audi on the production of bio-isobutene-derived iso-octane.( Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

Beginning in 2012, Volkswagen measured the environmental impacts from the use of pre-commercial renewable diesel formulas with TDI Clean Diesel technology found in the 2012 Passat TDI (which uses a NO x storage system) and 2012 Jetta TDI (SCR system). Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

If we count the Toyota HiLux and Ford Ranger as the light commercial pickups they are, the best-selling car in Australia in 2023 so far is the Tesla Model 3. Sales figures for the first month of the year, released by the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries (FCAI), show we bought 2,927 Model 3s in January.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2015

Global Bioenergies has just delivered the first batch of renewable gasoline produced using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway to its partner Audi. Ahead of IBN-One’s formation, Global Bioenergies and Cristal Union conducted a preliminary design study at several potential industrial sites. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2011

Our collaboration with ReGen Nautic showcases the additional growth opportunities when electric propulsion technology is introduced into industries beyond the automotive sector. —Eric Ridenour, UQM Technologies President and CEO.

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