Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2023

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.

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Green Car Congress

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. The company intends to supply its sites with green hydrogen and build relationships with customers and original equipment manufacturers.

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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

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

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

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. Brussels plays a pioneering role, but we developed this sustainable logistics concept for battery modules and cells in Audi’s entire production network.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

Hydrogen researchers at Graz University of Technology (Austria), together with the Graz-based start-up Rouge H2 Engineering , have developed a cost-effective process for the decentralized production of high-purity hydrogen using chemical looping. Both the transportation and the storage contribute considerably to the hydrogen price.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Previous Series B investor, Agility, a leading provider of supply chain services, innovation, and investment, also joined the capital raise. This latest capital raise will fund all the company’s engineering and business operations through until after the start of series production of the 16-tonne full-electric Volta Zero at the end of 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2023

This is an exciting partnership for the development and production of battery packs for high performance electric vehicles. To ensure optimum efficiency, AEHRA is a targeting a peak voltage at full charge of 925 volts with the capacity to charge at up to 350 kilowatts.

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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

JUNE 26, 2012

Austria-based SEE ALGAE Technology GmbH ( SAT ), a developer of infrastructure for the commercial production of high-quality algae, signed an agreement to supply and to install a 1 hectare dual-use algae production plant for Brazil-based Grupo JB, one of the leading bioethanol producers in Brazil.

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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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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Use” was jointly prepared and notified by thirteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. The Member States will provide up to €5.2

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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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Baua Electric

APRIL 4, 2024

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

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 Austria is a leading supplier of lightweight solutions for the international automotive industry.

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Teslarati

JULY 21, 2021

The global semiconductor shortage is halting production lines of both BMW and Daimler’s facilities in Germany. BMW announced that the semiconductor shortage affected production by around 10,000 units this week, and the problems are expected to continue into next week. The company delivered 2.324 million cars last year.

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Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2020

On another route, from Ghent to a second depot in Austria, emissions were cut by almost half since switching to rail transports. These trains already replace the equivalent of dozens of trucks per week, a number likely to increase once the next generation XC90 goes into production.

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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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BMW Light Engine China 150

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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BMW Engine Production Austria 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2018

Global Bioenergies will lead a consortium including Sekab, Graanul Invest, Neste Engineering Solutions, Repsol, Peab Asfalt, SkyNRG, Ajinomoto Eurolysine, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a 3-year project (called REWOFUEL) to demonstrate the production of isobutene-derived gasoline and jetfuel from wood residuals.

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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. Two key factors are involved in ramping up hydrogen production: speed and cost. Production is expected to start this year.

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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

OCTOBER 30, 2013

In Argentina, gasoline must contain 5% ethanol (E5) and the fuel ethanol production is government controlled under a quota system which assigns supply shares to the producers. The start-up phase of the facility was performed without any problems and full production capacity was reached within less than a month.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

This milestone follows record production in 2011 and confirmation that facilities are to be upgraded to enable production of the new generation of engines. More than three million engines have been produced to date at the Hams Hall engine plant for a wide range of BMW and MINI vehicles.

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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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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

British automaker Jaguar – set to become an EV-only brand next year – is officially ending production of its ICE vehicles by June and stepping into a new era of very expensive but powerful EVs. But production is ending in June, while the I-Pace will continue to be built until likely next year.

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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

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). Following the closing of the transaction, approximately 900 employees and six production sites in Germany, Austria, Spain, USA, and Malaysia will be transferred from SGL Group to their new owner.

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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

AUGUST 16, 2014

Wethje shall become a consolidated subsidiary of MRC subject to fulfillment of closing conditions including approvals by appropriate authorities required in Germany and Austria. MRC aims to strengthen and expand the carbon fiber intermediate materials business for automobile applications in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2018

For around ten years, MAN Truck & Bus has been working on innovative concepts for supplying and removing material in the urban environment. Advancing these ideas consistently, the sales of MAN’s first fully electric-powered production vehicle are now underway with the eTGE. The average speed reached during this is low.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2013

Siemens and its partners are launching a large smart city project in Vienna, Austria. Power supply, building systems, intelligent power grids, and information and communication technologies will interact optimally. Decentralized power generation from renewable energy sources will supply Aspern’s electrical needs.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The Elon Musk and Herbert Diess budding bromance seems to be going strong, with the Tesla CEO making a surprise appearance at the Volkswagen managers’ 2021 Leadership Summit in Alpbach, Austria. Musk shared that he perceived himself as an engineer, first and foremost, one that has an eye for supply chains, logistics, and production.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2010

kg of FT liquids per liter of catalyst per hour—some 4 to 8 times greater productivity than conventional systems. Güssing, in South Burgenland, Austria, is a pioneering “eco-town” of around 10,000 people. The FT demonstration, which is being managed by SGC Energia, SGPS, S.A. —Vianney Vales, CEO of SGCE.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

Through the swap, BASF aims to further expand its production of oil and gas via its wholly owned subsidiary Wintershall —Germany’s largest internationally active crude oil and natural gas producer—and to exit the gas trading and storage business. Start of production is planned for 2016. This is equivalent to a total of 2.4

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