Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2017

The Volkswagen Group has taken an additional important step to implementing its digitalization strategy with the launch of the Future Center Europe, located in Potsdam, Germany. The Future Center’s functions therefore go beyond standard product development. —Peter Wouda, Head of Future Center Europe, Vehicle Design.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2022

Volkswagen has announced it will invest €30 billion to build 6 battery factories in Europe. LEAD says it will become the core supplier for Volkswagen’s 240GWh gigafactory network in Europe by 2030. As a world-class automobile manufacturer, Volkswagen has strict quality standards and requirements for suppliers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

BMW Group, Daimler AG, Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen Group with Audi and Porsche have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to create the highest-powered charging network in Europe. The network will be based on Combined Charging System (CCS) standard technology. —Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG.

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Electrek

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Today, NIO and Changan Automobile announced the two companies had agreed to develop a joint standard for swappable EV batteries. NIO is the largest operator of swappable passenger EV batteries in the world, with over 2,000 battery swap stations in its home market of China, along with a small network in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

The first series-manufactured automobiles for the Chinese market are scheduled to come off the production line from 2024 onwards in Changchun. The Audi A6 e-tron concept shows for the first time what a vehicle based on the PPE platform, reserved exclusively for e-automobiles, could look like: a 4.96-meter-long

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The Ford Mustang Mach-E all-electric vehicle became the first EV to pass the rigorous testing standards set by the Michigan State Police to have a vehicle be considered for inclusion in its fleet. The Mach-E is also close to gaining one of its first inclusions in a Police Force in Europe. Don’t hesitate to contact us with tips!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

Audi’s first plug-in hybrid, the A3 Sportback e-tron ( earlier post ), is now available to order for customers in Europe. Approximately 410 Audi dealers in Europe—including 105 in Germany—are selling the A3 e-tron. TFSI gasoline engine and an electric motor, giving the compact automobile a system output of 150 kW (204 hp).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Adopted in 2014, AFID ( Directive 2014/94/EU ) creates the framework for the development of an alternative fuels infrastructure in Europe, including electricity for electric vehicles as well as hydrogen for fuel cells and LNG for shipping. The law should also set a target of around 1,000 hydrogen stations by 2029.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Amidst an industry-wide transition to electric vehicles (EVs), Japanese automaker Nissan is the latest to announce a total switch from internal combustion engine (ICE) automobiles, at least in one key market. By the end of the decade, Nissan will only sell EVs in Europe, a company executive said this week. automaker’s charging plug.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Following successful exploration, the company is reporting mineral resources of rare earth metals in the Per Geijer deposit exceeding one million tonnes of rare earth oxides—the largest known deposit of its kind in Europe. This is good news, not only for LKAB, the region and the Swedish people, but also for Europe and the climate.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2018

China is pushing toward an all-electric vehicle future, and officials predict that a complete ban on gas-powered automobiles will happen by 2040. A recent McKinsey report claims that China now has a larger EV market—primarily Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs)—than Europe and the United States combined.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

By 2050, it is expected that 74% of Europe’s cars on the road will be battery-powered. Despite the rapid adoption of electric vehicles, there has been little discussion about standardizing battery types. The question of whether governments should mandate increased battery standards is not new.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

The Nikkei reports that the second Hydrogen Energy Ministerial Meeting—a policy platform for global utilization of hydrogen—scheduled to open in Japan on Wednesday will call for 10 million fuel cell vehicles—including trains, planes and automobiles—in 10 years. There are now several hundred fueling stations globally.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2021

SVOLT Energy Technology, a global advanced technology company and spin-off of Chinese automobile manufacturer Great Wall Motors, is the first to begin commercialization of lithium-ion batteries (LIB) utilizing metallic thin-film separator technology from Soteria Battery Innovation Group (BIG). —Carl Hu, CTO at Soteria BIG.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2011

The aim of the initiative is to exchange and develop know-how and experience in selected regions within Europe as well as facilitate the market roll-out of electric vehicles in Europe. It is intended to contribute to the improvement and development of new and existing standards for electromobility. The Commission will make €24.2

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

This portfolio can be flexibly tailored to different vehicle concepts, customer requirements and legal and regulatory requirements in the international automobile markets.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2013

Bradley & Associates, commissioned by the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) and the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT), examines key drivers of EV adoption in the US, Europe and China, with an emphasis on vehicle charging scenarios and infrastructure. Enthusiasm in some areas has been tempered by slow EV uptake.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2017

In the wake of a report by the German television station ZDF identifying widespread aftermarket manipulation of NO x emissions control technologies on trucks, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) is calling for government action to preclude such manipulation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

Savari announced that two leading global automotive manufacturers and one leading OEM in Asia have committed to implementing the Savari V2X Software Stack in new automobiles beginning in 2020. As a result, Savari’s V2X software will be operating in roughly one in three new cars domestically, and one in seven cars worldwide.

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Teslarati

JULY 7, 2022

Volkswagen unveiled a proposal to create facilities with a combined capacity of 240 gigawatt-hours (GWh) by 2030 after repeatedly stating that producing enough batteries to power all automobiles is the most significant difficulty in the transition to electric vehicles. The other two are located in North America. I’d love to hear from you!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2019

These particles are mainly emitted from automobiles, power plants and industry, and known to be hazardous to health. standard is set at 12 microgram per cubic meter of air (µg/m 3 ). µg/m 3 , which is mostly below the current standard, air pollution was associated with an estimated 15,612 deaths in females, and 14,757 deaths in men.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 19, 2024

However, such policies have become contentious with European examples further down the path of progress seeing relatively consistent opposition due to the fact that the ultimate goal is to eliminate the automobile. The new standards will reportedly come into effect in less than a month.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

As of 1 September, all new cars sold in Europe must meet the Euro 6 emissions requirements. Since 1992, the EU has introduced increasingly stricter limits on vehicle emissions through a series of Euro standards. The latest and most stringent of these standards is Euro 6. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

Since 1992, the EU has introduced increasingly stricter limits on vehicle emissions through a series of ‘Euro’ standards, and the industry has played its part by demonstrating technical feasibility as a basis for those standards. The latest and most stringent of these standards is Euro 6. —from the joint letter.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2019

Positioned as the next generation smart device, BYTON is designed for the future of autonomous driving in which the automobile will become a mobile digital lounge. To achieve this, vehicle testing continues in full swing to achieve the highest safety and quality standards of China, the US, and Europe.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 24, 2024

And Stellantis’s CEO Carlos Tarvares says the government needs to step in and do more, a lot more, to promote EVs in a country with only 4% EV adoption rate, reports Automotive News Europe. But Stellantis has been seeking some support in making that happen, via reduced energy costs and EV sales incentives, Automotive News Europe reports.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 25, 2017

Sergio Marchionne, CEO of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, believes diesels will allow the company to meet future, tougher fuel-economy standards. But that faith is being sorely tested at the moment. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) now says the company failed to disclose software for its EcoDiesel 3.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

The average CO 2 emissions figure on new Fiat cars sold in Europe during the first half of 2009 dropped 5.2 g/km reduction in the CO 2 output of new cars sold by the top 25 brands in Europe in 1H 2009, with a similar reduction measured in JATO’s 21 monitored EU markets. Lorenzo Sistino, CEO of Fiat Automobiles. g/km to 129.1

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2018

kg H2 at 700 bar in service in Europe. The hydrogen fuel cell meets the highest standards of an automobile (durability, shock resistance, vibration, hot or cold weather etc.) Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Honeywell and key suppliers will invest approximately $300 million to increase production capacity for HFO-1234yf, its low global warming potential (GWP) refrigerant for mobile air conditioning (MAC) systems in automobiles. All cars sold in Europe after 2017 must meet the new GWP requirement of less than 150. Earlier post.) HFO-1234yf.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2017

The aim of this partnership is to foster cooperation in the field of connected and autonomous driving solutions as well as standardization, spectrum and related use cases. EATA comprises six leading associations and 38 companies at present, including telecom operators, vendors, automobile manufacturers and suppliers for both cars and trucks.

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Baua Electric

MAY 30, 2023

Colorful maps streaming into the automobile serve spare data that turns out to be useful in difficult statuses, comparable to encountering categories of roadway with out a or obscured lane markings. The high-definition maps kick in and inform the automobile the place it must be within the lane, Shashua stated.

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Baua Electric

MAY 31, 2023

France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire joined automaker requires the Eu Union to journey again next anti-pollution law for automobile emissions that will considerably upload to the price of making combustion-engine vehicles. making the similar imposition on their automakers.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

will introduce a 48V Micro Hybrid battery demonstration module as part of its full spectrum of advanced energy storage solutions for automobiles at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Johnson Controls, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2011

Honda Automobile (Thailand) Co., HATC), Honda’s automobile production and sales subsidiary in Thailand, has unveiled the BRIO urban commuter car. Emissions from the Brio meets Euro 4 emission standards. The starting price will be 399,900 baht (US$13,300), with an annual sales plan of 40,000 units. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2009

Start&Stop is being introduced as standard on all Euro5 gasoline and diesel engines. Tags: Engines Europe Fuel Efficiency. The Punto Evo will offer a range of Euro 5 engines, including a 1.3 second-generation Multijet diesel and a 1.4-liter Earlier post.). Fiat is also offering methane and LPG units with the Punto Evo.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2013

Meeting in Chicago, the chief executives of commercial vehicle and engine manufacturers in Europe, Japan, and the United States discussed fuel efficiency and greenhouse gas emissions reductions, diesel fuel specifications, and topics related to heavy-duty engine and vehicle regulation and certification. Earlier post.). —Tom Linebarger.

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