article thumbnail

Magna Steyr might form Chinese language vehicles in Europe

Baua Electric

Magna World is in talks to make automobiles for Chinese language manufacturers in Europe as they make bigger within the patch. The provider’s Magna Steyr guarantee production facility in Graz, Austria has some alternative output capability, in step with Magna Europe President Uwe Geissinger.

Chinese 52
article thumbnail

UP Catalyst offering carbon-negative graphite for European battery supply chain

Green Car Congress

According to the European Carbon and Graphite Association (ECGA), there are only two small mines in the EU—located in Austria and in Germany—but the mined grades are not suitable for energy storage applications. Every battery manufacturer is challenged by insufficient raw materials.

Carbon 186
article thumbnail

BMW investing €400M in new vehicle assembly at Munich plant as part of shift to electromobility; engine production being concentrated at Steyr and Hams Hall

Green Car Congress

The combustion engines with four, six, eight and 12 cylinders produced there will be manufactured at the company’s locations in Steyr in Austria and Hams Hall in the UK going forward. The Chinese plant in Dadong also began producing the BMW iX3 this year. Rendering of the new assembly hall.

BMW 396
article thumbnail

Magna and BAIC to form two JVs to engineer and build premium EVs for customers in China; first production in 2020

Green Car Congress

The Zhenjiang facility where Magna and BJEV plan to engineer and build electric vehicles for the Chinese market. For the first time we will be providing our customers with cars engineered and built outside our complete vehicle manufacturing facility in Graz, Austria. These joint venture operations mark an historic milestone for Magna.

2020 225
article thumbnail

Ansys releases pre-lockdown global survey on vehicle electrification

Green Car Congress

Global findings reveal more optimism for EVs—just 6% of Chinese respondents and 4% of Indian respondents will wait to buy an EV until gas-powered vehicles cease production. The sample included 16,037 adults 18-and-over, from the UK, US, DACH (Austria, Germany and Switzerland), France, Sweden, Japan, China and India.

article thumbnail

SGL Carbon produces prototypes of fully integrated composite battery enclosures for NIO; battery swapping

Green Car Congress

In collaboration with SGL Carbon, Chinese automotive manufacturer NIO has developed prototypes for battery enclosures made of carbon-fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) for its NIO high performance electric vehicles. Besides producing the bottom and cover plate, the SGL site in Ried, Austria, also assembled the individual components.

article thumbnail

Ecoclean cuts BMW engine plant robot cell power and water consumption by ~30%

Green Car Congress

At the BWM Group’s engine plant in Steyr (Austria), in a reference project accompanied by the Technical University of Vienna, Ecoclean Monschau (formerly Dürr Ecoclean) has significantly raised the energy efficiency of a. Steyr/Austria-based engine plant. flexible EcoCFlex Classic robot cell that had been in service for several.

Water 170