Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

A study by a team from Carnegie Mellon University and Yale University suggests that BEVs could constitute the majority or near-majority of cars and SUVs by 2030, given widespread BEV availability and technology trends. Their open-access paper is published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). Forsythe et al.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Revealed to the world Wednesday morning in Stockholm, this new battery-electric seven-seat crossover is the successor to the XC90 SUV that redefined the brand and captured awards all over the world when it debuted in 2016.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2022

Mercedes-Benz is exclusively producing the all-electric EQS SUV at its North American passenger vehicle plant. The full-size EQS SUV is integrated in series production at the Mercedes-Benz Tuscaloosa plant in Alabama, which has been the production site for large Mercedes-Benz SUVs since 1997.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

CBAK Energy Technology, a lithium-ion battery manufacturer and electric energy solution provider, signed a three-year strategic agreement with Anhui Jianghuai Motors Group Co., It owns a world-class battery cooling technology and is the sole producer of such technology in China. Ltd for joint product development.

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EV Central

MAY 27, 2024

Nissan says it is on track to launch its first production electric car powered by its pioneering solid-state batteries in 2028 following real-world trials in 2026.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2022

NIO held a product launch event that premiered the ES7, a smart electric mid-large SUV, and the 2022 ES8, ES6, and EC6. It will gradually achieve a safe, reassuring, point-to-point autonomous driving experience in scenarios such as highways, urban areas, parking, and battery swapping. 0 to 100 km/h acceleration is within 3.9

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2023

Maserati, the Italian luxury and performance automotive brand and the only luxury brand of the Stellantis Group, is partnering with Future Energy to electrify its dealer network. This partnership proves Maserati’s dedication to helping their dealers adapt their business processes and embrace the future of electrification.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Some future versions of the Lucid Air and Gravity SUV may make their impressive range claims with U.S.-made made batteries. confirmed a multi-year agreement that will keep Lucid supplied as it ramps up the rest of the Lucid Air lineup in 2023 and starts production of the Gravity SUV in 2024.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2023

The Volkswagen Group and its battery company PowerCo have selected St. It will equip the Group brand’s BEVs in the region with advanced battery cells, and is part of a larger plan that Volkswagen and PowerCo agreed upon with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s government in August last year. More details on gigafactory St.

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Toyota today provided a preview of its future battery electric vehicle strategy for Europe with the unveiling of the new Urban SUV Concept. Presented at the company’s annual Kenshiki forum in Brussels, the concept car hints at a production version of a new dedicated battery-electric vehicle, planned for market launch in 2024.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 10, 2023

Rivian is laying off some of its in-house battery workers at its factory in Normal, Illinois, including the company’s head of cell engineering. Earlier this week, a report from The Information revealed that Rivian is laying off roughly 20 workers on its in-house battery cell development team at the Illinois factory.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

The heart of GM’s strategy is a modular propulsion system and a highly flexible, third-generation global EV platform powered by proprietary Ultium batteries. GM’s all-new modular platform and battery system, Ultium. GM’s joint venture with LG Chem to develop and mass produce battery cells will drive cell costs below $100 per kWh.

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EV Specifications

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Kenshiki means insight in Japanese and this year’s edition to an audience of over 300 media, focused on the battery-electric and hydrogen-powered vehicles which will play a significant role in the company's multi-pathway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

Rapidly moving towards becoming a fully electric car company, Volvo Cars is bringing battery cell technology development and production closer to home and aims to tailor its future batteries to the needs of its customers: a longer range and faster charging times. —Henrik Green, chief technology officer.

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EV Central

APRIL 25, 2024

.” Showcasing the brand’s next generation design language, a BZ3C small/medium coupe-styled crossover SUV and BZ3X five-seat medium/large SUV were unveiled – both based on Toyota’s BZ concepts shown at 2023’s Shanghai Motor Show. Sadly, no technical details were revealed either. ” Lovely.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

An entry-level Toyota EV is unlikely in the near future due to high battery costs, an executive said in a recently published interview with Autocar. And it definitely won’t be among the five new electric SUVs Toyota plans to launch by 2026, Autocar noted. Toyota has launched a C-HR plug-in hybrid in Europe, too.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2023

It is the brand’s second pure EV to arrive in the region, following on from the Honda e city car, and is designed to meet the growing customer demand for all-electric B-segment SUVs. In addition, a new typeface spells out ‘Honda’ on the tailgate for a premium look that will feature on the brand’s future EVs.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

Lotus has unveiled the electric Lotus Eletre (formerly codenamed Type 132), the first of a new breed of pure electric SUVs. The Eletre is 4WD, has a battery capacity that’s more than 100 kWh and with power from 600hp. The Eletre is built on Lotus’ all-new and versatile Electric Premium Architecture (EPA).

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

The BMW Vision Neue Klasse X is an electric SUV that forecasts a model due to start production in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2025. Like the previous sedan concept, the Vision Neue Klasse X features a minimalist look , although the SUV sports a prominent version of BMW’s signature twin-kidney grille.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 22, 2024

The BMW Vision Neue Klasse X is an electric SUV that forecasts a model due to start production in Debrecen, Hungary, in 2025. Like the previous sedan concept, the Vision Neue Klasse X features a minimalist look , although the SUV sports a prominent version of BMW’s signature twin-kidney grille.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

A new report from Lux Research, Electric Vehicle Lightweighting 2030 , analyzes the future of vehicle lightweighting and necessary BEV success factors over the next decade. Mass distribution: BEVs have predominantly located their batteries in a low, flat container on the floor of their vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

The Toyota bZ4X Concept is the company’s vision for the first of a global series of battery-electric vehicles to be introduced under the “Toyota bZ” brand umbrella. Jointly developed with Subaru, the Toyota bZ4X SUV Concept features the new e-TNGA BEV-dedicated platform. —Lisa Materazzo, group vice president of Toyota Marketing.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2023

As part of the investment, the Halewood plant in the UK will become an all-electric production facility and the next generation medium-size SUV architecture, electrified modular architecture (EMA), will now be pure-electric. JLR (Jaguar Land Rover) will invest £15 billion (US$18.7

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Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2024

4 units with SK On battery components qualify for the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) full $7,500 federal tax credit for electric vehicles. 4 starts with an MSRP of $38,995 for the Standard variant, which has a 62 kWh battery and an EPA-estimated range of 209 miles. 4 with two battery and powertrain options. The 2023 ID.4

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Volkswagen Group Components contributes around 40% of the overall added value of the first fully electric SUV by the Volkswagen brand, the world e-car ID.4. 4 for the German, Chinese, and in future, US markets. Braunschweig: New center for battery system expertise. Salzgitter: Blueprint for the future.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2022

VinFast’s factory will create a major manufacturing center in Chatham County’s Triangle Innovation Point megasite, covering an area of 800-hectares, with 3 main areas: electric car and bus production and assembly, EV battery production and ancillary industries for suppliers. The capacity of phase 1 is expected to be 150,000 vehicles per year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

4 electric compact SUV this year. The high-voltage battery is positioned near the center of the underbody to create a low center of gravity and an optimum in terms of driving dynamics, along with an extremely well-balanced axle load distribution. The fully digital cockpit of the zero-emission SUV has been clearly structured.

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Teslarati

MAY 31, 2023

The veteran automaker plans to invest more in its North Carolina battery plant in preparation for a new battery-electric SUV. Toyota’s electric SUV will be assembled in the United States, qualifying for the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) electric vehicle (EV) tax incentives. Toyota is investing another $2.1

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2019

Mercedes-Benz Cars will build a battery factory at the site in Jawor, Poland, and thus extend its global battery production network to nine factories. We will produce batteries on our own, what we consider a significant success factor in the era of electric mobility. Global battery production network.

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Poland Mercedes Global Building 249

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Daimler will buy more than €20 billion (US$23 billion) of battery cells for electric drive vehicles by 2030, the company announced. The suppliers are already producing battery cells in Asia and Europe and are continuing to expand in Europe and additionally in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

billion at its Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to produce a variety of all-electric trucks and SUVs. Through this investment, GM is taking a big step forward in making our vision of an all-electric future a reality. General Motors will invest $2.2 Detroit-Hamtramck will be GM’s first fully-dedicated electric vehicle assembly plant.

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EV Specifications

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

billion investment at its flagship Kentucky facility for future electrification efforts including the assembly of an all-new, three-row battery electric SUV for the U.S. Toyota announced a $1.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2022

The 2022 report accounts for a broader range of vehicle technologies and considers both current (2020) and expected future (2030-2035) conditions. Selected fuel pathways were constrained to those deemed to be nationally scalable in the future. It is hard to overstate the importance of the improvements in battery costs on this analysis.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

The EQB range will include several models with front-wheel and all-wheel drive, various power ratings—some of which will exceed 200 kW—plus batteries with usable capacities starting from 66.5 The usable capacity of the batteries in Europe is 66.5 The battery sits within a frame made out of extruded sections.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Volkswagen Group of America announced it will introduce a new battery-electric compact SUV in the US in 2020. The new SUV will be based on the I.D. The new SUV will offer a range of more than 200 miles. The modular electric platform (MEB) the three vehicles share will underpin all future Volkswagen-branded EVs.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

We are investing aggressively in a comprehensive and highly-integrated plan to make sure that GM leads in all aspects of the transformation to a more sustainable future. In addition, GM will add additional US assembly capacity for EV SUVs. —GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra. Separately, GM will supply HYDROTEC to Navistar, Inc.,

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Baua Electric

MARCH 7, 2024

The Rivian R2 is two years away, but with the debut of an R2S in prototype form Thursday, it’s clear this electric SUV will arrive with a proposition unlike any EV yet: A boxy silhouette, rugged off-road chops, a range easily topping 300 miles, and a target price effectively below today’s average new-vehicle price, regardless of the fuel.

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