Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The BMW Group is building a high-voltage battery assembly for the vehicles of the NEUE KLASSE at its site in Hungary. The battery assembly will be located on the site of the Debrecen vehicle plant, which started construction about six months ago. All batteries for the vehicles from Plant Debrecen will be assembled on site.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Alstom and MOL, Hungary’s leading oil and gas company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to structure cooperation in examining the use of hydrogen technology in rail transportation. The battery is used to store braking energy, to boost acceleration and for auxiliary supply.

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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

AUGUST 18, 2023

billion (US$886 million) to build a cathode manufacturing facility that will provide materials that ultimately supply batteries for Ford’s future electric vehicles. For SK On, the new facility is part of its efforts to secure a stable supply of key battery materials in North America. million EVs a year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2021

the colorants and functional materials division of Japan’s Toyo Ink Group, will supply the North American and European operations of SK Innovation, a South Korean lithium-ion (li-ion) battery manufacturer, with Toyocolor’s Lioaccum series of conductive carbon nanotube (CNT) dispersions. Toyocolor Co.,

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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. —Executive Vice President Jeong SehWoong.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2021

SK Innovation has decided to spin off its battery production and exploration & production (E&P) business as independent companies. SK Innovation will be a holding company that plays the role of the “Green Portfolio Designer & Developer” and puts greater emphasis on the improvement of the enterprise value. The SK Battery Co.,

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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 30, 2022

South Korea-based SK On (SKO), a global EV battery manufacturer, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Australia’s Global Lithium Resources to explore future business opportunities together in regard to stable supply of lithium. Incorporated in 2018, Global Lithium was listed on the Australian Stock Exchange last year.

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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. Our new facility in Szombathely is a milestone in the transformation of our company and embodies our strategic priorities of innovation, agility and efficiency.

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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

OCTOBER 10, 2022

China-based smart electric vehicle company NIO unveiled details of its products and services for Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden at a European launch event in Berlin. The company also said that it plans to build 20 Power Swap Stations (PSS) in Europe this year. In 2023, this number is expected to reach 120.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

SK On has secured a total of US$2 billion as its investment resource for its European battery business with the aid of Euler Hermes, a trade credit insurance institution of Germany, Korea Trade Insurance Corporation, and the Export-Import Bank of Korea. 3 in Europe currently under construction in Iváncsa, Hungary. trillion (US$2.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

Global lithium ion production capacity could reach over 6,000 GWh (6 TWh) by the end of the decade based on current plans, as companies accelerate gigafactory construction in Europe and the US, according to Benchmark Mineral Intelligence. Battery capacity is currently growing at twice the speed of lithium raw material supply.

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EV Specifications

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Audi commences manufacture of electric motors for the Premium Platform Electric (PPE). Among other provisions, the company has set up its own battery. Among other provisions, the company has set up its own battery. The newly developed electric motors will be used for the first time in the Audi Q6 e-tron series.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Frost & Sullivan projects that the global Li-ion battery materials market will reach $51.60 The advancements in battery chemistries and technologies, upsurge in electric vehicle (EV) sales, evolving regulatory scenario, and increasing consumer preferences toward EVs are expediting market growth worldwide. billion by 2027 from $18.75

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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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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

BMW has announced that it will nearly double its investment in a planned EV production facility in Hungary and add battery production capabilities to the facility as well. In the German brand’s most recent announcement, it will almost double its investment into a new EV production facility in Hungary to $2.08

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The company is investing €400 million in a new vehicle assembly at the main plant in Munich. The combustion engines with four, six, eight and 12 cylinders produced there will be manufactured at the company’s locations in Steyr in Austria and Hams Hall in the UK going forward. —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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JUNE 14, 2022

A particularly efficient thermal management system also ensures that a car travels further on one battery charge and charges faster. In the future, Schaeffler will supply beam axles to automobile manufacturers, particularly in North America. The company is therefore entering a new market segment for electric axle drives.

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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 announced that Contemporary Amperex Technology Co., Driving to more than 2 million EVs by late 2026.

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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. Overall, the company is investing €1 billion in the new car plant and creating more than 2,500 jobs. The company is now transferring the blue print of “Factory 56” to a complete factory.

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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. Although, it does run a battery pack assembly line in Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Chassis, high-voltage battery, and electric all-wheel drive are assembled. As the next step, we will leverage this experience to ramp up battery production in Ingolstadt. The battery assembly facility in Brussels is playing a groundbreaking role for the entire Group. The highly automated manufacture of electric motors in Györ.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

BYD is launching three new battery-electric passenger vehicles in Europe at the Paris Motor Show, including the BYD ATTO 3, a C-segment SUV designed with the European customer in mind; the BYD TANG, a 7-seater with variable all-wheel drive; and the sporty sedan BYD HAN. BYD is not just another car manufacturer. BYD e-Platform 3.0

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

EcoPro BM , a South Korean cathode materials company, has won a 5-year, $33.4-billion trillion KRW) contract to supply high-nickel NCA cathode material to battery manufacturer Samsung SDI. billion (43.87 The contract runs from 2024 through 2028. EcoPro’s NCA and NCM 811 cathodes are its main cathode series.

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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 are flexible.” market at all.

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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. BMW claims new cylindrical battery cells have a volumetric energy density more than 20% higher than the prismatic cells it currently uses. federal tax credits.

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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. BMW claims new cylindrical battery cells have a volumetric energy density more than 20% higher than the prismatic cells it currently uses. federal tax credits.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

With the production launch of the electric compact SUV EQA at the Rastatt plant (Germany) and the current decision to locate EQB production in the Hungarian plant in Kecskemét, the company is taking further important steps toward making its product portfolio CO? Global battery production network. It was designed from the start as a CO?

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 2, 2024

In 2023, the company sold 1.6 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 vehicles. Chinese automakers expect to have sold some 9.4

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Baua Electric

MARCH 25, 2024

Barely four months after China’s BYD produced its six-millionth new energy vehicle (NEV) at the Zhengzhou factory on November 26, the company has rolled out its seven-millionth unit on March 25. The milestone vehicle is a Denza N7 and makes BYD the world’s first automaker to manufacture seven million NEVs.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

The company assumes that unit sales of electric models will represent a share of somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of total Mercedes-Benz sales by 2025. In 2007 smart launched a battery-powered vehicle as a pioneer in e-mobility and has been producing electric smarts in series since 2012. Annette Winkler, Head of smart.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2015

With more than 550 electric taxis on European roads, Nissan is now Europe’s best-selling manufacturer of 100% electric taxis. During 2015, more than 100 electric vehicles were delivered to taxi companies across Europe. based in Budapest, has purchased 65 Nissan LEAFs in a bid to become Hungary’s largest zero-emission fleet.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Northern Lights Energy ( NLE ), the initiator of the 2012 charging infrastructure project and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EV) based in Iceland, has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company to jointly develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland. Tags: Electric (Battery).

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MAY 29, 2017

Mercedes-Benz announced that its Rastatt plant—the company’s lead plant in global production of compact cars—will produce compact-class electric EQ models in the future. The decision is based on a declaration of intent, which the company has set up with the works council. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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