article thumbnail

Benchmark: Saudi Arabia is building an EV battery supply chain

Green Car Congress

Saudi Arabia has cut a number of deals recently that coud make the country’s lithiu-ion supply chain the most developed in the Middle East, according to an analysis by Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. The Saudi processing plant will process spodumene from a mine that European Lithium is developing in Wolfsberg, Austria. Earlier post.)

article thumbnail

IIASA study proposes solid air hydrogen liquefaction as efficient addition to hydrogen liquefaction supply chain

Green Car Congress

A new approach developed by researchers from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) in Austria and international colleagues proposes using solid air (nitrogen or oxygen) as a medium for recycling cooling energy across the hydrogen liquefaction supply chain.

Hydrogen 273
article thumbnail

AustroCel Hallein supplying OMV with celluosic ethanol

Green Car Congress

In the first year AustroCel Hallein will supply more than 1.5 AustroCel Hallein GmbH is the market leader in China for textile fibers from coniferous wood, with total revenue of around €130 million. The Hallein-based bioethanol plant has an annual capacity of up to 35 million liters (9.2

Supplies 243
article thumbnail

First full-electric Volta Zero drives off the line in Steyr; production verification prototypes

Green Car Congress

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 manufacturing contract has a value of up to €1 billion over its lifetime.

Austria 221
article thumbnail

Stadler wins contracts for up to 120 battery-powered trains, 25 hydrogen trains

Green Car Congress

Separately, Italian railway operators Azienda Regionale Sarda Trasporti (ARST) and Ferrovie della Calabria (FdC) awarded Stadler two framework agreements for the supply and maintenance of 10 hydrogen trains for ARST in Sardinia and 15 similar vehicles for FdC in Calabria.

article thumbnail

Volta trucks to enter US market with Class 7 electric truck in LA by end of next year

Green Car Congress

Volta Trucks has outlined its strategic roadmap for its entry into the North American market. The plan will see the first Volta Zero vehicles operating on Los Angeles’ streets by the end of next year. The Volta Zero is a purpose-built 100% battery-electric medium-duty truck specifically designed for urban logistics.

article thumbnail

European Lithium executes binding lithium offtake agreement with BMW; advance payment of US$15M

Green Car Congress

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

BMW 221