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APRIL 17, 2023

The 16-ton Volta Zero truck has begun series production in Steyr, Austria, as the company begins a test drive program to educate customers and ensure quality before the first customer deliveries later this year.

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AUGUST 9, 2020

entered a memorandum of understanding with Canada-based Magna International to build its Ocean electric SUV—in Graz, Austria. On Friday, Fisker Inc.

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AUGUST 20, 2022

These low-floor solo buses will be used on behalf of the transport association Ost-Region (VOR) for the “Schweinbarther Kreuz” project in the southern Weinviertel region of Lower Austria. They are the first all-electric Mercedes-Benz buses in regular service on Austria’s roads.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Magna has been awarded a contract to manufacture an all-new INEOS Automotive electric off-road vehicle, expected to start production in Graz, Austria in 2026. Part of the development process for this new 4X4 will include a rigorous testing program on Austria’s Schöckl mountain, which is close to Magna's complete vehicle assembly facility.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

ÖBB Postbus in Austria has ordered five hydrogen buses from Solaris. The hydrogen-fueled vehicles will be deployed in the picturesque city of Villach in south-east Austria. The participants include the largest carriers in Austria, city authorities and energy firms. ÖBB Postbus is the biggest bus operator in Austria.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Phillips 66 and H2 Energy Europe will develop up to 250 retail hydrogen refueling stations across Germany, Austria and Denmark by 2026 through a 50-50 joint venture between their subsidiaries, Phillips 66 Limited and H2 Energy Europe AG. The agreement is subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions.

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MARCH 5, 2022

Austrian bus company Österreichische Postbus AG (ÖBB Postbus) has signed another framework agreement with Solaris for the delivery of up to 106 battery-electric and hydrogen buses that would be deployed throughout Austria. ÖBB Postbus is the largest bus company in Austria and a leader in regional public bus transport.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Austria is offering would-be electric-car owners (and current ones) a tempting incentive to go tailpipe-emissions-free: permission to drive faster than those with gasoline, diesel, or hybrid vehicles.

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JULY 3, 2022

From 2025 onwards, the next generation of BMW e-drives will be manufactured in its engine plant in Steyr, Austria—with both production and development on site—with eventual annual production capacity of more than 600,000 units. The BMW Group’s largest engine plant: Steyr plant in Upper Austria.

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

In BMW vehicles with BMW Operating System 7 and 8, a new service for convenient payment processing of parking fees is now available in Germany and Austria. After the start in Germany and Austria, the function will be rolled out in other European countries from 2023. Other European countries will follow.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Series production Volta Zeros are due to start rolling off the line of the company’s contract manufacturing facility in Steyr, Austria, in early Q2 2023, with the plant ready to meet the demand for its purpose-built full-electric medium-duty urban delivery truck.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Production of the Fisker Ocean has started on schedule at contractor Magna Steyr's Austrian factory, Fisker announced at the 2022 Los Angeles Auto Show. That paves the way for its planned U.S. launch as a 2023 model. The electric SUV was announced at the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show, before Fisker had settled on a platform for the vehicle.

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APRIL 18, 2023

Volta Trucks has started series production of the 16-tonne all-electric Volta Zero at Steyr Automotive, the company’s partner in contract manufacturing, in Steyr, Austria.

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EV Obssesion

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Steyr Automotive and Volta Trucks sign a manufacturing agreement which will see Volta Zero production commence in Austria on time, at the end of 2022. The post Volta Trucks Confirms the Full-Electric Volta Zero will be Manufactured in Steyr, Austria appeared first on EV Obsession.

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OCTOBER 19, 2012

Austria-based oil and gas company OMV opened the first public hydrogen filling station in Vienna, Austria. OMV has been researching the alternative drive concept for vehicles with hydrogen and fuel cells for several years.

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MAY 31, 2023

Test engineers chose a route across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria for the trip. As part of a series of tests, the electric truck already successfully passed the Arlberg Pass in Austria last year. Some sections of the tests were carried out at an altitude of more than 1,800 meters above sea level. eActros 300/400.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Benteler-SGL GmbH, a joint venture between Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbH and SGL Group, has inaugurated its new production facility in Ort im Innkreis, Austria. 2009, the joint venture company additionally took over the automobile business unit of Composite Technology GmbH in Ried im Innkreis, Austria, from the Fischer Group.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Enel, as coordinator, and Austria’s main utility Verbund are collaborating on a fast-recharging network project in Italy and Austria, alongside some of the world’s largest EV carmakers including Renault, Nissan, BMW and Volkswagen Group Italia (represented by Volkswagen and Audi). A grant agreement worth a maximum of €4.2

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AUGUST 27, 2022

The Coradia iLint has also been successfully tested in Austria, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. The systems allow the train to emit only steam and condensed water while in service and operate with low noise levels that improve both operator and passenger comfort.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

VW has given Magna Steyr, the division of the automotive supplier that builds the rugged G-Class for Mercedes-Benz in Graz, Austria, an order worth $492 million to develop the models, Automotive News.

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JULY 25, 2023

They are intended for use in the eastern region in Austria, where they will replace the current diesel fleet. This means that the regional train can be battery operated on almost all of the non-electrified routes in Austria, for example. The vehicle has an operating range of around 100 kilometers.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The first Volta Zero vehicle has been completed at the company’s contract manufacturing facility in Steyr, Austria. Volta Trucks’ contract manufacturing facility is run by Steyr Automotive, formerly MAN Truck and Bus Austria. The start of series production of customer-specification vehicles is on track to start in early 2023.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 19, 2023

Ineos Automotive, the company behind the old school Grenadier off-roader, will launch an electric SUV, to be built by Magna at the latter's Graz, Austria, factory starting in 2026.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2022

European Lithium signed a binding long term lithium offtake agreement via its wholly-owned Austrian subsidiary ECM Lithium AT GmbH with BMW to secure the company’s first offtake of battery grade lithium hydroxide (LiOH) from its Wolfsberg Lithium Project underground mine in Austria.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Now its main Bavarian plant will be converted for the production of EVs only, while the company relocates its ICE production to the UK and Austria. German automaker BMW has finally called it a wrap on the production of internal combustion engines, in its own country at least.

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MARCH 13, 2023

Customer’s own series production Volta Zeros are due to start rolling off the line of the company’s contract manufacturing facility in Steyr, Austria, in early Q2 2023. The vehicle underwent multiple systems and individual component testing on areas such as braking, steering, lighting and glazing, along with the vehicle safety systems.

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JULY 21, 2023

Urbino hydrogen buses have been contracted by customers from Austria, France, Spain, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, Slovakia, Switzerland, Sweden and Italy. Furthermore, ongoing operations are assisted by eSConnect, Solaris’ bus fleet monitoring, and management system.

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OCTOBER 24, 2022

AUDI AG and the Austria-based green tech company Krajete GmbH are jointly developing new technologies for filtering emissions from ambient air. In addition to robust adsorber materials, these direct air capturing technologies (DAC) are based, above all, on innovative processes. They make far-reaching energy and cost reductions possible.

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JULY 9, 2020

The hydrogen bus Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen is being tested again in Austria. After successful test runs in Vienna in June, the bus was handed over to the Dr. Richard Group, the largest private bus operator in Austria, which presented the vehicle in St. Pölten on 7 July 2020. The cooperation of the two firms started back in 2010.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 29, 2017

Initiatives in Germany and Austria should see major improvements to charging networks in a short period of time, as both countries aggressively promote electric cars in an effort to reduce emissions. Austria hopes to unify what is.

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MAY 5, 2021

The first Urbino hydrogen models are already cruising on European streets, and dozens more of these buses have been already ordered by carriers in Germany, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands.

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JUNE 18, 2021

The BMW Group has created a closed-loop material cycle for tungsten used in drill and milling bits for industrial machinery used in producing cars; the company is collecting old drill and milling bits at its plants in Germany and Austria for recycling. About half of this comes from the BMW Group plant in Steyr, Austria.

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MAY 15, 2021

Orders for hydrogen technology-based Solaris buses are gathering pace—the group of clients commissioning the hydrogen model has been recently joined by carriers from Germany, Austria, the Netherlands and Sweden.

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JUNE 24, 2023

Porsche and the Frauscher Shipyard in Austria are developing an electric yacht—the Frauscher x Porsche 850 Fantom Air—that is intended to set standards on the water with its typical Porsche E-Performance. The yacht will be built in the Frauscher Shipyard in Ohlsdorf, Austria. meter long and 2.49-meter

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DECEMBER 19, 2022

TECO 2030 plans to assemble and test the first FCM400 (Fuel Cell Module 400 kW) during the summer of 2023 at AVL’s s facility in Graz, Austria. The stacks are then combined together with balance of plant (BoP) components into a fuel cell module.

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MARCH 2, 2023

Under the agreement, bp pulse plans to install ultra-fast charging at APCOA car parks—Urban Hubs—in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland and the UK over the next three years to help expand its charging network in city centers and further to accelerate urban e-mobility infrastructure throughout Europe.

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JULY 14, 2020

OECD Europe: Austria; Belgium; Czech Republic; Denmark; Estonia; Finland; France; Germany; Greece; Hungary; Iceland; Ireland; Italy; Latvia; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; Switzerland; Norway; Poland; Portugal; Slovak Republic; Slovenia; Spain; Sweden; Turkey; United Kingdom. OECD = Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.

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