Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

Audi AG plans an outlay of approximately €37 billion for research and development expenditure and investment in property, plant and equipment over the next five years (2020 to 2024). The manufacturer is planning an upfront expenditure of €12 billion solely for electric mobility—more than ever before. —Alexander Seitz.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

At the 2019 Geneva Motor Show, Audi is showing four battery-electric drive vehicles, the series versions of which will celebrate their premiere by the end of 2020. The first member of the new quartet of battery-electric vehicles, the Audi e-tron, will be supplied to customers soon. Audi e-tron GT concept.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 16, 2021

After reporting on top electric vehicle sales in 10 European countries, a reader indicated it would be even more interesting to see the combined sales numbers of different automotive groups or alliances in that region. It was an interesting idea, so I ran with it.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2018

Audi aims to sell approximately 800,000 fully electric cars and plug-in hybrids in the year 2025. At today’s Annual General Meeting of Audi AG, the Board of Management is presenting the updated “Audi.Vorsprung.2025.” —Rupert Stadler, Chairman of the Board of Management of Audi AG.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

one of the largest school bus makers in the US, has joined a first-of-its-kind collaboration with Audi of America, Applied Information, and Temple, Inc., —Brad Stertz, director, Government Affairs, Audi of America. Audi believes C-V2X can provide significant safety benefits to alleviate traffic risks facing vulnerable road users.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

is leading the development of the Small BEV family for the Volkswagen Group and will start producing fully electric vehicles by 2025 for different brands. and the Volkswagen Group to the electrification of Spain with the Future: Fast Forward project. The plant has a total surface area of 2.8 million square meters.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Audi will now phase out gas engines by the year 2033, CEO Markus Duesmann announced at the Berlin Climate Conference earlier today. Duesmann said that “Audi is ready to make its decisive and powerful move into the electric age,” finally accepting the challenge of ditching gas engines for electric ones.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

The Volkswagen Group is expanding its successful business relationships in China with a particular focus on e-mobility. A day earlier, the Volkswagen Group China joined the automakers JAC and SEAT in signing letters of intent in which the three underscored their commitment to e-mobility. The fully electric, fully connected I.D.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2023

Participating Volkswagen dealerships will offer Redwood bins for easy and safe drop off of rechargeable batteries and consumer devices, including cell phones, laptops, tablets, cordless power tools, electric toothbrushes, wireless headphones, and old vacuum batteries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

BMW Group will end its involvement in the ABB FIA Formula E World Championship at the end of the coming season. BMW Group has always used Formula E as a tech lab for production. The same engineers who develop the drivetrains for electric production vehicles are also responsible for the drivetrains in the race cars.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 16, 2022

Sales of full electric vehicles (BEVs) were up in September by 33% year over year (YoY). It seems the German automotive market has bottomed out. After growing 3% in August, September brought a solid 14% increase in sales, while plugins grew even faster.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Despite smaller growth rates, the European passenger plugin vehicle market is still in the fast lane. More than 221,000 plugin vehicles were registered in November — which is +33% year over year (YoY). This performance is even more impressive when we consider that the overall auto market continued to fall off a cliff — down […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Despite smaller growth rates, the European passenger plugin vehicle market is still in the fast lane. More than 184,000 plugin vehicles were registered in October — which is +26% year over year (YoY). This performance is even more impressive when we consider that the overall auto market continues to fall off a cliff — down […].

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2024

Volkswagen Group, including Porsche , saw EV sales dip in the first three months of the year as the company prepares to launch new electric models. Volkswagen EV sales dip in Q1 with new models coming Although overall VW Group deliveries were up 3% through the first three months of 2024, sales of electric cars fell in the quarter.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2022

—Thomas Schmall, Volkswagen Group Board of Management member for Technology and CEO of Volkswagen Group Components. Industry experts anticipate that in 2030 more than half of all new vehicles will be fully electric. India is one of the Global Top-5 Automotive Markets with about three million vehicles per year.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 3, 2023

The European automotive market is back in the black, with a 17% growth rate in November. It seems the worst of the automotive component crisis is over. Although, with an energy-derived recession knocking on the door, this uptick might not last for long…. Looking at the plugin vehicle market in particular, things are also better. […].

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

Audi’s e-tron quattro battery-electric SUV concept, which made its formal debut at IAA in Frankfurt ( earlier post ), is a strong indicator of Audi’s series-production electric SUV due in 2018—especially in terms of the powertrain. Audi has several development models already on the road. Audi's MLB.

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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Sales of full electric vehicles (BEVs) were up in August by 13% year over year (YoY). It seems the German automotive market has bottomed out, having grown 3% in August, while plugins are also recovering. There were 31,734 BEV registrations last month, representing 16% of the overall market.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 23, 2022

And it seems all this doom and gloom has finally got to EVs, with sales of full electric vehicles (BEVs) dropping in June by 4% year over year (YoY). With several disruptions affecting it, the overall German automotive market is still in the red, with the market dropping 11% last month year over year. There […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

After over a year in the red, Europe was back in black in August, with a 3% growth rate. September confirmed the trend with a 9% increase in market sales, signaling that the worst of the production constraints might be over. Although, with an energy-derived recession knocking on the door, this uptick might not last […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 20, 2022

Sales of full electric vehicles (BEVs) were up in July by 13% year over year (YoY). With several disruptions affecting it, the overall German automotive market is still in the red. The market dropped 13% last month year over year. It seems all this doom and gloom is affecting plugins differently, however. There were 28,815 […].

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Audi’s Neckarsulm site is the first automotive plant in the Volkswagen Group to use RFID (radio-frequency identification) technology for vehicle identification throughout the entire production process, thereby laying another cornerstone for fully connected production. RFID reader. “On-metal

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Current EV

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

One of the most successful German-engineered luxury automotive brands, Audi AG delivered about 1.845 million vehicles globally in 2019. Audi sold just over 224,000 vehicles in 2019 and launched the brand’s first fully electric vehicle, the Audi e-tron – one of four fully electric models coming to the U.S.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Volkswagen intends to have eight manufacturing facilities in Europe that are completely catered to the company’s transition to electric vehicles across its many brands, including Audi, Porsche, and the Volkswagen ID. Our exceedingly robust and solid financial base, enables us to finance the necessary investments on our own.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 30, 2022

39% of cars sold in November had a plug.

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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

JULY 24, 2020

As this proportion grows, however, the basic dilemma associated with these renewable energy sources remains: first, electricity cannot always be supplied when it is required and second, on sunny days and in high-wind conditions, there is often a lack of capacity for storing the energy generated.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2024

Watch: Volkswagen Virtus: First Drive Review In order to boost its sales in the coming months, Volkswagen is betting big on new models including fully electric vehicles. It recently launched the Volkswagen ID.7 7 EV and plans a record 30 new models in 2024. The brand stated that it started the new year with a clearly positive trend.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 7, 2024

More energy-dense batteries coming in the near future aren’t just destined for fully electric vehicles. 2024 Rivian R1T Could the safest pickup be fully electric? The EPA last week announced tighter federal emissions rules for big trucks that complement smog- and soot-forming emissions rules previously finalized.

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Teslarati

JUNE 24, 2022

Once released, the Celestiq will likely be a significant part of the brand’s push toward electrification, especially considering that the brand plans on being fully electric by 2030, a mere 7-and-a-half years away.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

In addition, Volkswagen brought a pair of the hydrogen Passats to the Los Angeles Auto Show for test drives (and Audi brought a pair of its A7 Sportback h-tron hydrogen fuel cell plug-in hybrids for drives, as well.). The key drive components of the Golf SportWagen HyMotion were developed by Volkswagen Group Research in Germany.

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CleanTechnica EVs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 71% of plugin registrations in August, slightly […]. Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 114% in August 2021 compared to August 2020, scoring 516,000 units (or 7.7% share of the overall auto market).

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 31, 2021

Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) represented 66% of plugin registrations in July, in line with the year-to-date (YTD) tally. Global plugin vehicle registrations were up 94% last month compared to July 2020, scoring 480,000 units (or 7.1% share of the overall auto market). That made it the plugin market’s third best month ever.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 19, 2022

17% of new car sales in Germany fully electric, 32% have a plug It seems the German automotive market has bottomed out and is back on a growth path. October brought a solid 17% increase in sales, but it still wasn’t enough to pull the year-to-date (YTD) numbers out of the red (-6% YoY). Sales […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 30, 2021

Fully electric vehicles (BEVs) jumped 190%, to some 295,000 registrations (or 4.4% Global plugin vehicle registrations were up an impressive 199% last month compared to May 2020, to some 442,000 units (or 6.6% share of the overall auto market). That was the industry’s 3rd best month ever.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 15, 2021

In a red hot market in which fully electric vehicles (BEVs) jumped 183% year over year (YoY) and plugin hybrids (PHEVs) shot up 6-fold in March, plugin sales had their second best month ever in France. In total, 29,737 plugin vehicles were registered, allowing the plugin share to reach 16% last month (8.5% That […].

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 28, 2021

fully electric vehicles), keeping the 2021 plugin vehicle […]. There were more than 159,000 plugin vehicle registrations in April, and 616,000 in the year to date (YTD). That’s +136% year over year (YoY). The plugin vehicle share of the overall auto market in April was 15% (7.1%

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