Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Russia-based RUSAL, a global aluminum producer, opened the first phase of its low-carbon aluminum production plant, Taishet Aluminum Smelter (TaAZ), in Taishet, Siberia. Full scope CO 2 emissions will be one of the lowest in the industry, the company claims. of global production of aluminum and 6.5%

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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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

The “&Charge” platform is currently available in Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. Porsche Digital is the technological and digital forge of the Zuffenhausen-based sports car manufacturer. Its central task is to find and scale new digital business models and optimize existing products.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2018

Ltd (BJEV)—a subsidiary of the BAIC Group for electric cars—for the engineering and complete vehicle manufacturing of electric vehicles. The joint ventures will also be set up to offer engineering and complete vehicle manufacturing capacity to other potential customers. —Xu Heyi, Chairman of BAIC Group.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2022

The company will invest €60 million in the construction of its first production facility, called “Plant One”, of which €30 million comes from a European Investment Bank (EIB) loan facility. The plant will have a production capacity of 100 MWh. LeydenJar has demonstrated production of its anode material at pilot plant scale.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Conventional production of graphite not only takes place far away from battery manufacturing centers but also poses environmental challenges. Every battery manufacturer is challenged by insufficient raw materials. The process is powered by either wind, solar or hydro energy resulting in a carbon negative production line.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2014

The three-year research project “eRamp”, intended to strengthen and expand Germany and Europe as centers of expertise for the manufacture of power electronics, launched at Infineon Technologies in Dresden. The German project partners will investigate and develop new methods for speeding up the start of the production run.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2014

Siemens AG and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd. MHI) concluded an agreement with Siemens AG of Germany calling for the establishment of a joint-venture company (JV) in steel and metal production machinery effective as of January 2015 subject to regulatory approvals. The JV’s CEO is currently being selected.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ElringKlinger AG and the Dutch vehicle manufacturer VDL Bus & Coach BV have agreed on a strategic partnership for the development and industrialization of fuel cell stacks and systems for mobile and stationary applications. ElringKlinger AG will focus on the customer-specific development and production of fuel cell stacks.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2023

Three EV industry collaborators—Mer Germany, Hubject, and Driivz—will demonstrate ISO 15118-based Plug&Charge technology at the Intercharge Network Conference ( ICNC23 ) in Berlin later this month. —Anton Achatz, director of business development and product management, Mer Germany How Plug&Charge works.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Samsung SDI has decided to use Hungary as its Li-ion battery production base in Europe. The new battery plant will be built in Goed, north of Budapest in a 330,000 m 2 site, using existing facilities previously used for display production.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2014

BMW has awarded ENGEL Austria another contract to supply system solutions to BMW’s Leipzig factory, where ENGEL duo injection moulding machines are used to manufacture car body shell components for the BMW i3 electric vehicle. ENGEL delivered the first manufacturing cells of this type to Leipzig back in March 2013.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Coradia iLint trains have run more than 200,000 km with zero CO 2 emission in passenger service in Germany and Austria and has been successfully tested in the Netherlands. Alstom is a pioneer of hydrogen technology, having introduced the Coradia iLint to the German market in September 2018 ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

In light of energy diversification, the move away from fossil fuels, and the need to reduce CO 2 emissions, demand for green hydrogen is growing rapidly—not only in energy-intensive industries such as steel, chemicals, and heavy-duty freight, but also in private real estate. Production is expected to start this year.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

The new location will produce the latest generation of the BMW TwinPower Turbo three and four-cylinder gasoline engines and forms part of the BBA production network based in Shenyang in Northeastern China. Both the engine plant and the light metal foundry incorporate the latest state-of-the-art production standards.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

These forecasts show that the commercial vehicle industry is only at the beginning of electrification. The number of batteries that have come to the end of their service life in vehicles will therefore only reach industrial levels in around 10 to 15 years. kWh per pack are being handed over to a storage system manufacturer.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

THINK, the Scandinavian electric vehicle (EV) maker, has re-started production of the THINK City—one of the first urban EVs—at a new facility with manufacturing partner Valmet Automotive in Uusikaupunki, Finland. The THINK City in production at Valmet. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

BMW’s new 530e plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) will be produced at Magna’s contract manufacturing plant in Graz, Austria, starting in summer 2017. Magna’s Graz facility will then be the production home for two premium electrified vehicles: the BMW 530e and the previously awarded Jaguar I-PACE.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2016

To meet the requirements for series production in the automotive industry, Hexcel installed a fully automated production line in Austria that converts unidirectional prepreg into bidirectional preforms in seconds. The prepreg is made from Hexcel’s HexPly M77 resin system that cures in 1.5 minutes at 160 °C.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2019

Henkel is partnering in a research and development project called SYMPA, sponsored by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and the Federal Ministry Republic of Austria Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2017

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. BMW Steyr therefore contacted the equipment manufacturer, inquiring. Steyr/Austria-based engine plant.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. The industry is being impacted largely by the uncertainty for the future, and this issue started to arise even before the pandemic took hold. million units.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The Fusilier is set to be tested on the gruelling Shoeckl mountain facility in Austria, a place that also forms the test base for the mighty Mercedes-Benz G-Wagen, which will soon be available as the all-electric EQG. And, of course, for those looking to venture beyond the existing EV charging network, there’s a plug-in hybrid model.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

SAIC Mobility Europe, a division of China’s largest vehicle manufacturer, SAIC, is introducing the Maxus light commercial vehicle brand. It is available initially to fleets in France, Germany, Austria and Benelux, with other markets to follow soon. It is offering these large panel vans from its sites across Germany and Austria.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 31, 2022

In 2020, after performing a comparative study of network providers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, umlaut adapted its testing methodology to the US market , where testing took place in EV hotspot California in early September 2020. Its methodology is respected as the de facto industry standard. The testing experts: umlaut.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

First, environmental plant closures in the raw material coal needle coke industry hampered the production of graphite electrodes. At the same time, consumption of graphite electrodes in electric arc furnaces (EAFs) began to rise as the Chinese government took steps to halt production of poor quality induction furnace steel.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2014

In a new report, “Strategic Analysis of the European Market for V2V and V2I Communication Systems”, Frost & Sullivan finds that Daimler and Volvo are expected to lead the implementation of V2V (vehicle-to-vehicle) communication systems among vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) across Europe.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

The BMW i3 model in volume production today includes an AS8510 in the battery sensor. The device supports the functional safety compliance efforts of car manufacturers in line with the requirements of the ISO 26262 standard. —Bernd Gessner, Vice-President and General Manager of the automotive business unit at ams.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2017

From 2019, Volkswagen will start fitting its first models with pWLAN as standard in order to serve as an additional communication technology for the exchange of selected information relevant to traffic between cars made by different manufacturers. —Johannes Neft, Head of Vehicle Body Development for the Volkswagen brand.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

The Release 1 specifications developed by CEN and ETSI will enable vehicles made by different manufacturers to communicate with each other and with the road infrastructure systems. The Release 1 specifications will be tested under real road conditions and may be improved if necessary.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

German manufacturer Schaeffler sees an opportunity: it is introducing a new generator at the heart of a smart drivetrain concept that some observers are calling bike-by-wire. No wonder industrial designers and engineers have toiled for years on the concept: it's a hard thing to beat pedal-turns-sprocket. It's a bike with no chain.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

261 mpg US), will go into limited production at the company’s Osnabrück factory in Germany. Dr. Ferdinand Piëch, who is today Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Volkswagen AG, formulated the goal of bringing to market a production car that was practical in everyday use with fuel consumption of one liter per 100 km. Manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The higher-voltage variant will support moves by European vehicle manufacturers announced earlier this year to introduce 48 volt passenger vehicle power networks to help meet the requirement for lower fuel consumption and CO 2 emissions. TDI models, but even lower CO 2 emissions and fuel consumption than the current production 1.4l

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2012

The production-ready technology offers the potential of a mass-market, gasoline-fueled family car with drivability, performance and 5.6 The low voltage (12V) “micro-mild” technology demonstrator includes a production-ready electric supercharger recently sold by CPT to the leading French tier 1 supplier Valeo ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

WorldAutoSteel,the automotive group of the World Steel Association, has presented findings on the progress of FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) Phase 2, a global steel industry effort to develop advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) architectures for electrified vehicles that reduce life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Nucor Corporation – USA.

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JUNE 29, 2018

Now, Magna will form two joint ventures with Beijing Automotive Industry Holding Corp aka BAIC. One joint venture will focus on engineering, the other will manufacture pure electric vehicles. Magna Steyr is known for engineering and manufacturing vehicles for other companies. China “is a large market, BAIC is a strong partner.

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Charged EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Since then, it has built an extensive database of information about how different cells from different manufacturers age and perform over time. That’s what TWAICE is doing—battery analytics, all along the life cycle and for different industries. Charged : What exactly is the product?

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