Green Car Reports

JULY 10, 2023

Fisker is pointing to supplier issues as the reason behind a slow production ramp-up of its Ocean electric SUV. The company on Friday reported that just 1,022 Oceans were produced in the second quarter at contractor Magna's facility in Austria.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Norway-based TECO 2030 has completed production of its first fuel cell stack developed and purposely designed for heavy-duty and marine applications. 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. —Tore Enger, CEO of TECO 2030.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Fisker is ramping up production capacity of the Fisker Ocean all-electric SUV in September, as well as expanding retail, delivery, and service operations across multiple markets in North America and Europe. In the US, more than 450 Fisker Oceans have been either delivered to customers or are in the process of being delivered.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2022

The Coradia iLint has also been successfully tested in Austria, the Netherlands, Poland and Sweden. The hydrogen fuel cell systems used in the trains are assembled at Cummins’ Hydrogen Fuel Cell Systems Production Center in Herten, Germany.

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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. GSM spent a further €1.83

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Electric vehicle maker Fisker stated that it is ramping the production of its all-electric Ocean crossover SUV to 300 units per day. The production of the Fisker Ocean currently stands at about 180 units per day. In a press release , Fisker noted that production partner Magna Steyr had built a total of 3,123 Ocean units.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2023

The certification of the all-electric Volta Zero comes as the second-generation Production Verification prototypes are soon to be delivered to customers across Europe as part of a pilot fleet of vehicles. It’s the process used to ensure that all vehicles meet the stringent and relevant environmental, safety and security standards.

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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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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2021

Wolftank Hydrogen and Snam4Mobility may possibly extend their collaboration to the neighboring markets of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Snam will be able to leverage the expertise acquired in the hydrogen sector, including through its dedicated business unit, for the development of sustainable mobility projects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

With the pandemic spreading across the globe, strict lockdowns in key markets, combined with consumer panic and economic uncertainty, have all contributed to the huge decrease in sales last month. Registrations fell in all 27 markets, but with varying severity. This downward trend is not simply due to the restrictions of free movement.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2017

Consultancy Frost & Sullivan recently selected Austria-based Kreisel Electric ( earlier post ) as the winner of the 2017 European Electric Vehicle Technology Leadership Award. The company features the safest lithium-ion cells with a guaranteed service life of 400,000 kms: This makes it unique and remains the lightest battery on the market.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Germany-based ElringKlinger and France-based Plastic Omnium, two automotive supplier leaders in their respective business areas, will create EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies, a joint venture dedicated to fuel cell stack development, production and commercialization. ElringKlinger PEMFC modules.

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DECEMBER 29, 2022

Researchers at the University of Vienna (Austria) have demonstrated that tire wear particle (TWP)-derived compounds are readily taken up by lettuce with measured maximum leaf concentrations between ∼0.75 Not only the parent compounds but also their transformation products, many of which are still unknown, may exert harmful effects on biota.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

The set of type 4 composite tanks (of the latest generation available on the market), placed longitudinally above the first axle of the vehicle, has a total volume of 1560 liters. The sole by-products generated during the operation of the Solaris Urbino 12 hydrogen are heat and steam.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

The energy system will power and heat Raven SR’s S-Series hydrogen production facility at a sanitary landfill in Richmond, California. The hydrogen product will be resold to power fuel cells in heavy-duty trucks. Earlier post.). This project will initially process up to 99.9

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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. Batteries underpin growth in natural graphite.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2018

The Zhenjiang facility where Magna and BJEV plan to engineer and build electric vehicles for the Chinese market. The engineering and manufacturing joint ventures are expected to take over an existing BAIC manufacturing facility in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, where the first production vehicles are planned for 2020. Earlier post.)

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JULY 20, 2022

Phillips 66 and H2 Energy Europe have closed on a 50-50 joint venture to set up and operate a network of hydrogen refueling retail sites in Germany, Austria and Denmark. and H2 Energy Holding AG, a leading hydrogen provider in Europe with investments in the production, distribution and utilization of green hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ElringKlinger AG will focus on the customer-specific development and production of fuel cell stacks. Another cooperation partner is ElringKlinger Fuelcell Systems Austria GmbH (EKAT), which has expertise within the area of complete fuel cell systems. Earlier post.). The cooperation agreement is therefore initially limited until 2021.

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Teslarati

APRIL 28, 2021

Austria – 1,192 Model 3 cars sold . 4 rounded out the top 5 models in the European plug-in market. And this is only three and a half years into production and was just two factories. Austria – 1,192 Model 3 cars sold . 4 rounded out the top 5 models in the European plug-in market.

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JUNE 2, 2023

This is an exciting partnership for the development and production of battery packs for high performance electric vehicles. A strategic model roll out is planned for key markets, including North America, Europe, China, and the Gulf States. Deliveries are expected to start in late 2025.

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APRIL 2, 2014

Infineon, a global market leader in power semiconductors, is leading the €55-million (US$75.7-million) eRamp research activities will focus on the rapid introduction of new production technologies and further exploration of chip packaging technologies for power semiconductors. million) project. Manufacturing Power Electronics'

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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 The Studio F.A.

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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. Approximately one quarter of production will serve the domestic Russian market. of global production of aluminum and 6.5%

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

In 2019 alone, around 40 million tons of freight were transported by truck via the four-lane transit route located at an altitude of up to 1,370 meters at the border between Austria and Italy. Start of series production is planned for the second half of the decade. That corresponds to almost 2.5 million trucks per year.

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JUNE 18, 2021

Fisker and Magna also confirmed that production of the all-electric Fisker Ocean SUV is projected to start on 17 November 2022 at Magna’s manufacturing facility in Graz, Austria, where they have produced more than 3.7 million vehicles for several global automakers.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

By 2023, Volta appeared poised to hit the European market following more purchase commitments and necessary certification in place to begin official sales. By October 2023, Volta Trucks announced that it, too, was filing for bankruptcy, citing tight capital markets.

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JANUARY 20, 2023

The country is the second largest in terms of value for the company after its home market of Saudi Arabia. Aside from these green hydrogen and green ammonia projects, ACWA Power also has five existing projects in Uzbekistan, including four wind projects and a combined gas cycle turbine facility.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Alstom is a pioneer of hydrogen technology, having introduced the Coradia iLint to the German market in September 2018 ( earlier post ). 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.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

The “&Charge” platform is currently available in Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. Its central task is to find and scale new digital business models and optimize existing products. The entirely owned subsidiary of Porsche AG develops digital products and services and designs industry solutions.

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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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APRIL 22, 2022

Cryoshelter is a cryogenic storage technology company founded in 2008 in Austria by Dr. Matthias Rebernik (currently holds approximately 80% of the shares in the company) whose PhD thesis was part of the LH2-tank project for the BMW Hydrogen 7 ( earlier post ).

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AUGUST 26, 2010

In response to reports from its dealers, Audi is increasing the production capacity of the new A1, which goes on sale tomorrow in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg and Switzerland, followed by most other European markets from mid-September, by 20%. The Audi A1 is initially launching with three engine options: the 1.2

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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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FEBRUARY 8, 2017

The green hydrogen generated there will be fed directly into the internal gas network, allowing the testing of the use of hydrogen in various process stages of steel production. Moreover, if the electrolysis is undertaken with electricity from renewable sources, the hydrogen production is virtually climate-neutral.

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