Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2023

The BMW Group broke ground for a new high-voltage battery assembly plant in Woodruff, South Carolina. The BMW Group Plant Woodruff will produce sixth-generation batteries to supply fully electric vehicles at nearby BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg. Close connection of battery production with vehicle production is part of our strategy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2022

The new data quantifies and reaffirms that as battery electric vehicles become more widely available reducing mass through the application of aluminum, at optimized levels, offers significant net cost savings. —Blake Zuidema, director of technical development for Novelis and Aluminum Transportation Group (ATG) technical committee chair.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2023

TeraWatt Infrastructure hosted a groundbreaking event in Inglewood, California for a new charging site for light-duty fleets in the LA area. The multi-tenant Inglewood site is slated to be operational in early 2024 and will feature 26 DC Fast Chargers, as well as a driver amenities building.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2023

In addition, the two companies will collaborate on an innovative value chain concept for battery materials and its recycling. Due to aluminum’s superior properties in pliability, light weight and strength, the ratio of aluminum in Porsche cars has been increasing steadily. kilograms of CO₂ per kilogram aluminum used.

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Porsche Carbon Batteries Battery 284

Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

million for the Recirculate project, which will address the most pressing challenges in the European battery recycling sector and battery materials logistics. The main goal of the project is to enhance end-of-life battery repair, reuse, remanufacture and recycling. The European Union has awarded €4.9

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Prior to this modification, California utilities were guided by a California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) decision established in 2010 that exempted light-duty vehicle charging station providers from being regulated as a utility but did not explicitly exempt medium- and heavy-duty charging station providers.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ford announced that it intends to invest up to £230 million (US$316 million) at its Halewood vehicle transmission facility to transform it to build electric power units for future Ford all-electric passenger and commercial vehicles sold in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Under the dual electrification strategy, all new vehicles will be purely electric starting from 2025 with fuel cell EVs and battery EVs. To drive the shift to electrification, Genesis will focus on a dual electrification strategy involving fuel cell and battery EVs. They also presented an improved high-fidelity sound system.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2022

The Van Hool A12 Battery Electric is the first vehicle in a completely new range of buses in four different lengths (12m, 13m, 18m and 24m) equipped with exclusively zero emission powertrains: battery-electric, fuel cell (hydrogen) and trolley. The buses are fitted with the newest generation LED headlights with daytime driving lights.

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Hydrogen Range Batteries Battery 418

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2023

The Ram Truck brand introduced its Ram 1500 Revolution Battery-electric Vehicle (BEV) Concept at CES 2023. Based on the company’s STLA Frame platform, the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept features a body-on-frame design that incorporates the battery pack efficiently.

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Concept Electric Vehicles Batteries Battery 452

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

CODEMGE’s US$60-million investment will go towards the building of the plant in Belo Horizonte with Phase 1 having a cell capacity of 2 million cells per annum. OXIS Energy Brazil Holdings will manage the plant. OXIS expects to complete Phase 1 in 2022. OXIS has developed Li-S pouch cells with nominal voltage of 2.1

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Brazil Li-ion Building Energy 308

Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2022

Yamato Transport and Commercial Japan Partnership Technologies Corporation (CJPT) will begin studying the standardization and commercialization of replaceable and rechargeable cartridge batteries. Reduce logistics downtime: Battery replacement can reduce vehicle recharging time.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 30, 2023

Italy’s Aehra is building battery repairability into its EV. And the affordable Kia EV6 Light returns. Rivian Tank Turn isn’t going to happen. Dealerships are spending big on EV infrastructure when you add it all up. Africa has its first EV maker with global ambition. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2023

The company says it has leveraged it advanced commercial battery and integration expertise to deliver to the Department of Defense partners a technologically advanced battery pack that can be scaled for use on operational military platforms and will set the stage for standardization of energy dense lithium batteries for the US Navy.

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Batteries Battery Power Powered 195

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

GM Ventures, the automaker’s investment arm, has made a strategic investment in Lithion Recycling’s Series A financing round, supporting a new GM-Lithion strategic partnership agreement to pursue a circular battery ecosystem using Lithion’s advanced battery recycling technology.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2022

Envision AESC, a leading Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, will invest $2 billion to build a new gigafactory in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, Warren County. 1 producer of cars, light trucks and SUVs per capita and the center of Auto Alley in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2023

A crucial aspect of electrified transportation is new demand for metals, and specifically the most non-replaceable metal for EV batteries—lithium. Some level of mining is necessary to build out zero-emission energy systems, the report concedes, but notes that the volume of extraction is not a given. 2°C of warming.

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Batteries Battery Vehicles Cars 397

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Yachts de Luxe (YdL) of Singapore has placed a commercial 10-year worldwide contract with OXIS Energy valued at $5 million to build the world’s first luxury boat to be powered by Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) battery cells and battery systems technology.

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Lithium Sulfur Monaco Energy Batteries 221

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2023

Kia held a groundbreaking ceremony for its dedicated plant for the production of battery-electric purpose-built vehicles (PBV). First battery electric PBV production set for 2025. It plans to produce 150,000 units in the first full year, with the potential to expand in line with future market conditions.

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Kia Production Building Vehicles 195

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2014

BYD will build its first factory in Brazil in the city of Campinas (in the São Paulo region of Brazil). The factory is slated to open in 2015 and will launch the manufacturing and assembly of the BYD’s electric transit bus in South America as well as the Iron-Phosphate battery packs.

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Brazil BYD Building South America 257

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

BrightDrop, GM’s new business focused on electric last-mile deliveries ( earlier post ), has completed the first production builds of the EV600, a key milestone to deliver its first electric light commercial vehicle (eLCV) to FedEx Express in time for the holiday season.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 23, 2021

Rivian’s status charging light bar was seen in action while an R1T pickup truck was charging in an Electrify America station in Glendale, CA. A clear picture of Rivian’s status charging light bar was shared on the Rivian forums. Rivian plans to build out its own charging infrastructure over the next few years.

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Light Charging DC Installation 142

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

QUANTRON QLI FCEV light truck The core of the Canadian-German partnership is the integration of Ballard’s high-performance FCmove fuel cell modules in QUANTRON vehicles. These include the 44-ton QUANTRON QHM FCEV heavy-duty truck—the current European range champion with 54 kg H 2 at 700 bar—and the QUANTRON QLI FCEV light truck.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2020

OXIS Energy and the Minas Gerais Development Company CODEMGE have signed a 15-year lease agreement with Mercedes Benz Brazil (MBB) to take possession of a plant located at the MBB manufacturing site in Juiz de Fora in southeast Brazil to build a Li-sulfur battery manufacturing operation. Earlier post.).

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Brazil Manufacturer Lithium Sulfur Building 186

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2022

JET H2 Energy’s network of hydrogen refueling stations for heavy- and light-duty and passenger vehicles will comprise existing JET-branded retail stations as well as new locations on major transport routes and at customer sites. JET H2 Energy will require governmental funding, where applicable, for the development of the refueling network.

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Hydrogen Europe Energy Building 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

GM is using five used battery packs from Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric cars to help power the new General Motors Enterprise Data Center at the Milford Proving Ground. Even after the battery has reached the end of its useful life in a Chevrolet Volt, up to 80 percent of its storage capacity remains.

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Volt Chevrolet Building Power 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

DNV, an independent energy expert and assurance provider, released the fourth edition of its Battery Scorecard report. This edition of the Battery Scorecard incorporates independent testing results from 19 different battery cell types, as well as an outlook on future battery technologies and a new interactive online dashboard.

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Batteries Battery Energy Storage Grid 150

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Battery-electric AMG derivatives based on the new Mercedes Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA) for luxury and premium-class vehicles. Added to this is the High Performance Battery we developed, which boasts twice the power density of conventional drive batteries and, like many other components, is inspired by technology from Formula 1.

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Mercedes Hybrid Batteries Battery 448

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Audi is establishing a high-voltage battery development center at the Neckarsulm site. Audi is already developing high-voltage batteries for plug-in hybrids (PHEV) in Neckarsulm. A battery center for testing high-voltage storage technologies will go into operation by 2023.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

These will support vehicles ranging from light vehicles to medium- and heavy-duty trucks to large construction equipment. Sweden is a leader in renewable energy, with 98 percent of energy production being fossil free, which enables us to build our products using a more sustainable footprint in support of a zero-emissions future.

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Sweden Building Renewable Manufacturer 186

Teslarati

APRIL 16, 2023

Tesla Gigafactory Mexico is expected to take longer to build because the company is working on a new production line for its $25k compact car. Governor Samuel García Sepúlveda recently announced that Tesla Gigafactory Mexico would take around 12 to 15 months to build–longer than it took Tesla China to build Giga Shanghai.

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Mexico Building Tesla Production 135

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

General Motors has begun deliveries of its first next-generation electric vehicles, the GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 Pickup and BrightDrop EV600 light commercial vehicle, both built on the Ultium Platform. The Ultium Platform also helps GM innovate in core areas such as the interdependent body frame and battery structure of its all-new EVs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2017

ReachNow, the mobility services division of the BMW Group, Woodland Park Zoo, and the City of Seattle celebrated the successful installation of the first of 20 Light & Charge electric vehicle (EV) charging locations that will more than double the number of Fast Chargers publicly available in Seattle. million investment by the BMW Group.

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Seattle Light Installation Charging 247

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2023

Flint will continue building the 3.0L diesel is used in a variety of light-duty truck applications. GM will invest $216 million to prepare the facility to build camshafts, connecting rods and block/head machining supporting future V-8 production at Flint Engine Operations. $55 Work at the facility will begin immediately.

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Teslarati

APRIL 15, 2024

billion battery plant in Indiana, near New Carlisle. battery plant for heavy construction. GM is currently preparing for landscaping, the creation of retention ponds, and the installation of essential utilities for the main building at the site. The battery plant will be producing cylindrical and prismatic cells.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

This month’s progress update recaps a recent visit to France, details an upcoming trip to the United Arab Emirates, and talks about the status of Aptera’s first production-intent solar EV builds. That video followed a separate post from Aptera offering a look at the forthcoming build process of its production-intent solar EVs.

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