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Volvo Cars building €1.2B EV manufacturing plant in Slovakia; third in Europe

Green Car Congress

Volvo Cars will build a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential. Volvo Cars has an ambition to move towards annual sales of 1.2 The new facility represents an investment of around €1.2

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USA’s Group 14 Rockets Into EV Batteries With Slovakia Mashup

CleanTechnica EVs

With a little assist from the US Department of Energy, new EV batteries featuring silicon are about to hit the road.

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InoBat claims 20% range boost by 2023, Gigafactory by 2025

Green Car Reports

Slovakia-based battery startup InoBat Auto announced Friday that it will introduce an electric-car battery with greater energy density than anything else currently on the market. InoBat plans to produce its.

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Electric-Car Battery Swapping, Slovakian Style (Well, Vans, Anyway)

Green Car Reports

Battery swapping was once hailed as the miracle cure for short-range electric cars, but the trials and tribulations of Better Place have shown that isn''t necessarily the case. That could be in the commercial vehicle world, as demonstrated by the GreenWay Project in Slovakia.

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased in 2018

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The main factors contributing to the increase of new passenger cars’ emissions in 2018 include the growing share of gasoline cars in new registrations, in particular in the sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment. Moreover, the market penetration of zero- and low-emission vehicles, including electric cars, remained slow in 2018.

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased again in 2019

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2 -emissions-from-new-cars-vans-2019">According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU), Iceland, Norway and the United Kingdom (UK), increased in 2019, for the third consecutive year. g CO 2 /km in total).

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Volkswagen to invest ~$1.2B in Zwickau plant to convert to pure e-mobility facility; MEB-based EVs

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As the Group announced earlier ( earlier post ), the Zwickau site is being remodeled for the launch in 2020 of the first series production of electric vehicles on the MEB platform (the I.D. The new vehicle generation will be launched at almost the same time in Europe, China and the USA. will be about 100,000 vehicles.

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