Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2022

Components for the production of batteries at Audi’s Brussels plant will no longer be delivered by truck from Hungary, but by rail with DB Cargo. The switch in means of delivery between Hungary and Brussels, which was started in May and is scheduled to be completed by the beginning of 2023, is a preview of the car manufacturer’s future.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2020

The Local Transport Authority of Lower Saxony (Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen, LNVG) was the first company to believe in hydrogen, investing in it with the order of 14 Coradia iLint trains and thirty years of maintenance and power supply. This project showcases the importance of green mobility for the state of Lower Saxony.

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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

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Full-electric commercial vehicle manufacturer and services provider Volta Trucks announced the successful and oversubscribed conclusion of its Series C funding round with a €230-million (US$260-million) capital raise. B-FLEXION, formerly Waypoint Capital, also became investors in the Volta Trucks journey.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 20, 2018

High growth in demand for lithium batteries is spurring three-fold growth in mine production of lithium over the next four years, with 86kt of new lithium metal capacity coming on stream, according to data and analytics company GlobalData. After moderate growth in lithium supply between 2010 and 2017 of 6.4%

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MARCH 18, 2020

Volvo Cars is significantly cutting CO 2 emissions in its logistics operations by switching transports between its manufacturing plants and new car depots from trucks to trains. On another route, from Ghent to a second depot in Austria, emissions were cut by almost half since switching to rail transports.

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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

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

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

TECO 2030 ( earlier post ) is aiming to establish Norway’s first large-scale production of fuel cells, optimized to be the heart of hydrogen-powered ships and other heavy-duty installations. This will be the first volume production of fuel cells in Norway and a hub for the Norwegian hydrogen industry. gigawatt, per year.

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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. The battery is used to store braking energy, to boost acceleration and for auxiliary supply.

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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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Volta began series production in Austria ahead of those planned deliveries in Q3 2023, but things started to go south once its battery supplier Proterra filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last summer. Beyond the UK, Volta Trucks says its customer trials will expand in Q2 to customers in Germany, France, Nordics, and Austria.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2015

The production of new three and four-cylinder engines is already being ramped up on new production lines, and more than one million components will be machined at the plant for the first time this year as supply extends to other plants in the Group. The investment project, part of £750 million (US$1.15

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

With pilot plants scheduled to commence operation in the coming year, the company plans to supply these smart modules to manufacturers of electrolysis plants and industrial service providers from 2025 onward. As such, the manufacturing operation will generate economies of scale, Bosch says. jovice (Czech Republic).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2016

Hexcel supplies BMW with preforms made of unidirectional carbon prepreg set in various orientations and combined with adhesive. 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.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2014

MRC) recently executed a share sales and purchase agreement by which it will acquire 51% of Wethje Holding GmbH , a German company engaged in manufacturing of carbon fiber reinforced plastics (CFRP) parts for automobile applications, from Wethje parent Cross Industries AG. Mitsubishi Rayon Co.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

SGL Group, a leading manufacturer of carbon-based products and materials, will sell its graphite electrode (GE) business to Showa Denko (Japan). Jürgen Köhler, CEO of SGL Group.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2014

(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 new JV will be established in the United Kingdom integrating Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery, Inc. (MH)—an

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

The tight supply/demand situation for graphite electrodes is expected to persist for much longer than many market observers expect. First, environmental plant closures in the raw material coal needle coke industry hampered the production of graphite electrodes. ROW still far from developing a spherical graphite supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2011

The Oxford Catalysts Group has raised £21 million (US$34 million) before expenses from the conditional placing of 26,250,000 new shares, which will be used to accelerate its ongoing transition from a research and development organization to a commercial product company.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Siemens will deploy Cohda’s technology for various ITS field tests and pilot projects, including the A58 motorway in the Netherlands, A9 motorway in Germany, and the Living Lab in Austria. Cohda products have undergone about one million vehicle-days of testing in these trials. THEO-P1 is based on 802.11p, 5.9

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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

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The Fisker Ocean is being manufactured by Magna-Steyr at a carbon-neutral factory in Graz, Austria. Fisker estimates that the EPA range of the front-wheel-drive, single-motor Fisker Ocean Sport will be 250 miles on a single charge, using a lithium-ion phosphate (LFP) battery cell chemistry in Touring Range packs to be supplied by CATL.

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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

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

CEO Elon Musk said that Tesla is continuing to expand production and plans to deliver slightly less than 6,000 Model S vehicles in Q4, which would increase total expected deliveries to 21,500 vehicles worldwide for 2013. Tesla also continues to supply full electric powertrains to Toyota for the RAV4 EV. GAAP and non-GAAP reporting.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

In 1975, General Ernesto Geisel, then-president of Brazil, ordered the country’s gasoline supply mixed with 10% ethanol. The level was raised to 25% over the next five years, which was intended to maintain a constant Brazilian gasoline supply for an ever-increasing demand.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

Meanwhile, manufacturers continued to market new products. Just four years later, Excelsior Supply Co. Austria, Germany, and Japan became famous for exporting figural bulbs. For the next several decades, decorative lights remained the playthings of the wealthy elite. In 1890, the Edison Lamp Co. began advertising.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2022

The ground-up design of the Volta Zero uses a compact eAxle, comprising the electric motor, transmission, and axle all in one unit, supplied by Michigan-based Meritor, and high-voltage batteries located within the chassis rails from California-based Proterra.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2012

The new Pike Pulse Grid for EVSE manufacturers. Pike Research forecasts that global sales of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37% between 2012 and 2020 as the global market for plug-in vehicles (PEVs) grows, rising from less than 200,000 units sold in 2012 to almost 2.4

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Production capacity of the XCIENT Fuel Cell will reach 2,000 units per year by 2021 to support its expansion into Europe, the US and China as demand for clean mobility grows. In the US, Hyundai is collaborating with logistics leaders to supply mass-produced fuel cell heavy-duty trucks. The increase in capacity will be backed by a US$1.3-billion

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Beginning in 2019 and over a five-year period, Hyundai Motor and H2 Energy will provide 1,000 heavy-duty fuel cell electric trucks ( earlier post ) and an adequate supply chain for renewable hydrogen. Hyundai Motor Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Swiss hydrogen company H2 Energy (H2E).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Granholm announced that LG Chem will establish a new electrolyte production plant in Holland in West Michigan, expanding the state’s battery supply chain. The new electrolyte production plant will be located near LG Chem’s $303-million battery cell plant in Holland which is under construction.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2014

Five different manufacturers will deploy a total of 110 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles at several European locations (Bolzano, Copenhagen, Innsbruck, London, Munich, Stuttgart) and develop new clusters of hydrogen refueling stations. These stations will share internationally agreed fuel and re-fueling standards. million (US$4.7

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MARCH 13, 2014

earlier post ) and a pre-production prototype of the plug-in hybrid electric Golf GTE ( earlier post ). The smoothness, quiet, handling and performance of the production e-Golf is markedly improved from the prototype e-Golf, based on the earlier A6-generation Golf, we had a chance to drive two years ago. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 12, 2017

This electric powertrain is designed in a way that means that it can be used to drive future distribution trucks and city buses manufactured by the Volkswagen Truck & Bus brands as a universal modular element. Today, we are one of the leading companies when it comes to developing technology and products for the future of transportation.

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