Automobile Industry Climate Germany International 
Green Car Congress
JUNE 15, 2013
Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. This scenario would ensure that Germany meets its climate targets, Siemens said. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. Electricity prices in comparison.
Green Car Congress
JULY 23, 2015
At the same time, it places German activities in the field of electromobility within an international context. The study found that activities of international car manufacturers in the field of electrified vehicle concepts (XEV) worldwide increased significantly for the first time from 2006 and especially from 2009 onwards.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 10, 2023
Just as tourists in Paris are drawn to the Louvre, visitors to Stuttgart, Germany, also flock to museums displaying the great works of the city. Their gleaming galleries feature many historic and influential cars, almost all of them powered by petroleum-fueled internal combustion (IC) engines.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 17, 2009
Peripheral circumstances However, as we reported last year, TNT Germany has set its cards on compressed natural gas (CNG), hoping to switch to biogas in the future. They range from Amsterdam and Zaanstad, aiming to become climate neutral cities, to small rental company StudentCar. In the Netherlands TNT is still piloting EVs.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 12, 2015
—Rupert Stadler, Audi CEO, at the International Vienna Motor Symposium in 2014. The e-gas is virtually identical to fossil natural gas and is distributed via an existing infrastructure—the German natural gas network—to the CNG filling stations beginning in Germany in fall 2013. Audi e-gas. Earlier post.)
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). 9/11/07 FRANKFURT, Germany -- General Motors will begin testing the revolutionary electric drive system in the Chevrolet Volt concept car on the road in vehicles next spring, company Vice Chairman Bob Lutz said.
Teslarati
AUGUST 7, 2021
What is particularly interesting is that there is a reason why Tesla does not use union work in its Fremont Factory, unlike its Grohmann facility in Germany. “It was considered the worst workforce in the automobile industry in the United States. “EV powertrains are simple compared to internal combustion engines.
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