Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

Samsung SDI has decided to use Hungary as its Li-ion battery production base in Europe. The new battery plant will be built in Goed, north of Budapest in a 330,000 m 2 site, using existing facilities previously used for display production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2018

GS Yuasa Corporation will establish a manufacturing subsidiary company, GS Yuasa Hungary Ltd. in Hungary and build a new plant for lithium-ion batteries. Lithium-ion batteries will be assembled in a new plant with lithium-ion cells made in Japan.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2023

The high-voltage batteries required for this will likewise be manufactured locally. The virtual ground-breaking for a new assembly site for high-voltage batteries also took place as part of the anniversary celebrations. Rendering of the future high-voltage battery assembly in Shenyang.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

SK IE Technology (SKIET) signed an MOU with Sunwoda , the 9 th largest battery manufacturer in terms of global market share (according to SNE Research in 2022), to strengthen cooperation in supplying battery separators. This marks SKIET’s first large-scale supply of EV battery separators to a Chinese EV battery manufacturer.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has opened a new production facility at its Szombathely location in the west of Hungary. Designed as a “factory for tomorrow,” it features a high degree of automation, modular production buildings, and end-to-end digitalization. Image: Schaeffler.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The BMW Group is investing €800 million in Plant San Luis Potosí in Mexico for integration of fully-electric models of NEUE KLASSE and construction of local high-voltage battery assembly. More than 500 additional employees will work there, producing next-generation batteries for fully-electric vehicles. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 12, 2022

Europe has become the fastest growing region for new electric vehicle (EV) lithium-ion battery capacity outside of China, according to Benchmark Minerals. Benchmark will explore this topic at its upcoming Battery Megafactories Europe 2022 , 22-23 March, Berlin, Germany.). Samsung SDI (Hungary): 20 GWh. million EVs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The company also said that it plans to build 20 Power Swap Stations (PSS) in Europe this year. By 2025, NIO aims to build 1,000 PSS outside of China, most of which will be in Europe. NIO is committed to a comprehensive battery charging system in the new markets. In 2023, this number is expected to reach 120.

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InsideEVs

AUGUST 12, 2022

The lithium-ion cells and modules from this factory will be used by European electric car manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Total lithium-ion capacity existing or being built has doubled since the beginning of 2021, following announcements of new plants by Chinese and South Korean battery producers, according to Benchmark’s Gigafactory Assessment. Battery capacity is currently growing at twice the speed of lithium raw material supply. trillion (US$1.4

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2021

The majority of the projects are targeted at making copper foil for lithium-ion batteries to meet demand from EVs. Copper foil is the most commonly used anode current collector in Li-ion batteries; it not only lets electric current flow but also dissipates the heat generated by the battery.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is starting construction of its first “Full-Flex Plant“ in Kecskemét, Hungary, about 90 km in the south of Budapest. With an investment of one billion euros, we are building in Hungary the first ‘Full-Flex Plant’ in the global production network of Mercedes-Benz Cars.

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2023

of the power old within the manufacturing procedure, “but on a sunny summer day, we can get up to 50 percent,” Peter D’hoore, head of exterior communications at Audi Brussels, advised Car Information throughout a excursion in December. megawatts of electrical energy, relying at the quantity of light.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2022

Stellantis partner Samsung SDI hinted at the possibility of building a new EV battery factory in the United States. Stellantis and SDI entered into a multi-billion-dollar joint venture (JV) in October 2021 to produce lithium-ion batteries for the North American market. Samsung SDI Batteries. 6 battery for 2024, Gen.7

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

Ford announced a series of initiatives for sourcing battery capacity and raw materials that light a clear path to reach its targeted annual run rate of 600,000 electric vehicles by late 2023 and more than 2 million by the end of 2026. Ford is building on agreements tied to its 600,000 run rate milestone and is taking them even further.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

While SK On is pushing for LFP battery production, the firm is also developing prismatic and cylindrical-type EV batteries. Choi did not disclose the names of automakers but said the company plans to start mass producing LFP batteries once discussions are finalized. “We developed it, and we are ready to produce it.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

After Europe, the international version of the EQB, produced in Kecskemét, Hungary, will be launched at the end of the year, followed by the US market launch in 2022. The usable capacity of the batteries in Europe is 66.5 These batteries are manufactured at the Daimler plants in Kamenz (Germany) and Jawor (Poland).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

High-efficiency battery systems will also be manufactured and assembled within the production network. Local production of highly efficient battery systems plays a central role in the Mercedes-Benz strategy - coupled with a comprehensive sustainability concept that spans the entire life cycle of the battery all the way to recycling.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

million fully battery-electric vehicles last year, coming close to Tesla’s projected goal of 1.8 Adding up sales for all so-called new energy vehicles, including battery-only vehicles and hybrids, BYD sold 3 million vehicles in 2023. million in 2022, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

The Hambach site in France features many years of experience in building fully electric cars. In 2007 smart launched a battery-powered vehicle as a pioneer in e-mobility and has been producing electric smarts in series since 2012. We are investing a total of around 500 million euros in the Hambach plant and in the product.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Want to know whether a company is serious about building EVs? The truth is, if you really want to know whether a company is going to build EVs, you have to see […]. Don’t take its plans at face value. Don’t take even its final assembly plants for granted, especially if it’s on a flexible architecture.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

Building on the experience gained during the series production of electric vehicles at the location, the workforce is being prepared for the new models and further technological developments with comprehensive training programs. The A-Class, B-Class and the compact SUV GLA are manufactured at the location. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Opel/Vauxhall will build an all-new small car targeted at the segment below the Corsa at its Eisenach plant in the east German state of Thuringia. At a later stage, this car might also provide the opportunity of a battery-electric (BEV) version for zero-emission driving in city areas. To date, Opel/Vauxhall has invested €1.5

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

meeting with the President of Hungary, according to a new report. Musk met with Hungary President Katalin Novák at Gigafactory Texas on Monday, as reported by Daily News Hungary (via Sawyer Merritt ). According to Daily News Hungary , the two parties talked about the demographic crisis in the Western world.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2016

Building upon the complementary scope and portfolio of the partners, the joint venture will provide substantial synergies in manufacturing and sourcing and create a base for sustained growth and profitability. The project is subject to consultation of the employee representatives.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Project 2012 is an initiative of Northern Lights Energy which has committed to build in Iceland, the first nationwide charging infrastructure in the world, before the yearend 2012. Tags: Electric (Battery). Importing and distributing EVs in Iceland is a key factor in reaching the goal.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2016

At its Győr engine plant in Hungary, Audi is developing a possible future production process for the electric drive motor to be used in the 2018 C-BEV. Modular assembly uses 19 island stations, some of which are used several times within the build process. Győr is also the Audi Technology Center for Electric Drives.)

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 5, 2023

0-liter powerplant delivers 375 hp, an build up of 40 hp when put next with its predecessor, and is going from 0 to 60 mph in 5.2 A battery-electric model of the X5, constructed at the Neue Klasse platform, is deliberate for the U.S. Manufacturing of the U.S.-made kilowatt-hour battery. A redesign may practice in 2027.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

The Atto-3 SUV / Source: BYD Europe After recently reducing prices of its refreshed Han and Tang models , Build Your Dreams (BYD) just launched a new version of its top-selling EV Yuan Plus – known as the Atto 3 in overseas markets – to $16,644 in China, making it one of the lowest-priced EVs out there.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Why hes banking on an obscure Chinese electric car company and a CEO who - no joke - drinks his own battery fluid. BYD CEO Wang Chuan-Fu figured out how to make cheaper batteries than the Japanese by replacing machines with migrant workers. The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments. —Allan Ray Restauro, metals and mining analyst at BNEF and lead author.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Last December, the US Treasury Department released a new list of guidelines for federal subsidies that excluded vehicles containing battery components manufactured or assembled by a “foreign entity of concern” (aka China). billion battery-making plant in Michigan – a project that was stopped last September.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It was started by a chemist and government researcher named Wang Chuan-Fu in 1995 (same year as Yahoo) to make rechargeable batteries, which it learned to do very well. Within a few years, BYD’s batteries were cheaper and just as reliable as those made by industry giants ony and Sanyo. BYD is an amazing company.

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