Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

Ford announced a new global battery center of excellence—called Ford Ion Park—to accelerate research and development of battery and battery cell technology, including future battery manufacturing. —Hau Thai-Tang, Ford’s chief product platform and operations officer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Audi of America is offering qualified customers who purchase or lease a 2021 Audi e-tron or e-tron Sportback a subscription to Arcadia at no additional charge for up to five years. Audi was among the first automotive manufacturers to publicly support and align its actions with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. 2021 Audi e-tron.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

The electric buses will be fitted with Solaris High Energy batteries with a total capacity of 240 kWh. devices integrated in the charging station that are lowered onto the bus roof to recharge the batteries. Another 500 battery buses are being manufactured. Malbork has opted for inverted pantographs, i.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Honda last week announced key targets for sales of electrified vehicles in North America, with a plan to make battery-electric and fuel cell electric vehicles (BEVs and FCEVs) to represent 100% of its vehicle sales by 2040, progressing from sales of 40% by 2030 and 80% by 2035. Advanced Battery Technology.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Honda announced an initial annual sales target of 70,000 units for the Prologue SUV, Honda’s first new volume battery-electric vehicle (BEV), when it goes on sale in 2024. Honda anticipates these regions will represent the bulk of sales at the onset of launch due to higher customer acceptance and regulatory requirements.

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Teslarati

JUNE 21, 2023

Tesla is rumored to be purchasing wireless charging company Wiferion, a Freiberg, Germany-based entity with charging and power solutions. The shareholders intend to sell their shares in the company to Tesla International BV by means of a purchase agreement,” the filing said. It also bought Hibar Systems in late 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) plans to purchase seven Mack LR Electric refuse models, which will operate in each of the city’s boroughs. —Jonathan Randall, Mack Trucks senior vice president of sales and commercial operations.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

These core business aims include: Accelerating electrification and achieving annual sales of 1.2 Starting with an annual global sales goal of 3.15 The company will make the sales of these vehicles the focus of future business growth. million BEV sales in 2030. Kia also announced its four key business targets for 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2021

This is NIO’s inaugural second-generation battery swap station and also the first under the NIO-Sinopec partnership, representing the rollout of NIO Power Swap Station 2.0. As a smart battery swap system enabled by software-defined cloud computing, NIO Power Swap Station 2.0 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Increasing future sales for BEVs will rely on companies improving awareness of their product. Globally, vehicle owners and those considering purchasing BEV agree the top benefits of going electric are improving the environment, adding convenience and reducing ownership costs.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The zero-emission electric commercial vehicle market has a challenge at its core: battery sourcing and supply conditions. It’s critically important to understand the issues and complexities of the commercial vehicle industry’s battery needs and challenges.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Lithium-ion battery pack prices, which were above $1,200 per kilowatt-hour in 2010, have fallen 89% in real terms to $132/kWh in 2021, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). These prices are an average across multiple battery end-uses, including different types of electric vehicles, buses and stationary storage projects.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

Ford has also started providing manufacturing expertise to help scientific instrument provider Thermo Fisher Scientific quickly expand production of COVID-19 collection kits to test for the virus. With this additional help, 3M and Ford were able to increase the output of PAPRs and N95 respirators at 3M’s US-based manufacturing facilities.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Ahead of next month’s budget, the industry body called for Britain to support consumers by temporarily halving VAT on new BEV purchases. Overall new car sales in January rose 8.2% to 147,876 units, the best since 2020, buoyed by strong demand in the fleet market, The Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders ( SMMT ) said.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2020

General Motors and Honda have agreed to develop jointly two all-new electric vehicles for Honda, based on GM’s highly flexible global EV platform powered by proprietary Ultium batteries. GM unveiled the platform and batteries in early March. General Motors’ all-new modular platform and battery system, Ultium. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

MAY 2, 2022

based EV battery manufacturing, a small part of a much larger push toward transitioning to electric vehicles. Electric vehicle manufacturing has boosted globally, but the United States is working toward making more parts of the supply chain available in the U.S. based EV battery manufacturing appeared first on TESLARATI.

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EV Adoption

AUGUST 18, 2021

Arguably the biggest flaw in the Plug-In Electric Drive Vehicle Credit ( IRC 30D ) regulations is the triggering of a phaseout schedule of the tax credit when a manufacturer sells 200,000 total EVs (BEV and PHEV). In this part 2 article, we’ll dive deeply into the elimination of the per manufacturer 200,000 EVs sold phaseout.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2022

Under the terms of the MoU, Compass Minerals would supply LGES with with a battery-grade lithium product from its lithium brine development project at its Ogden, Utah, solar evaporation facility. As outlined in the MOU, purchase pricing would be based on market price and sales volume thresholds would be dependent upon product qualifications.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2020

USA Rare Earth, LLC, the funding and development partner of the Round Top Heavy Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Project in West Texas, has purchased the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Solid Power, a leading developer of all-solid-state battery cells for electric vehicles ( earlier post ), announced a partnership with SK Innovation to manufacture automotive-scale all-solid-state batteries under a memorandum of understanding (MoU) and joint development agreement (JDA). Source: Solid Power, June 2021.

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Teslarati

MARCH 16, 2023

Foxconn, the iPhone manufacturer that bailed out Lordstown Motors from bankruptcy, announced that it would build electric vehicle batteries in Wisconsin and Ohio on Thursday, hoping to take advantage of the Inflation Reduction Act that incentivizes domestic cell manufacturing. The sale was finalized in May 2022.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2023

This drives not only a rise in fuel and electric energy consumption, but also creates a wider footprint in vehicle and battery production. Consumers and manufacturers share the burden for this trend given their steady interest in larger cars—in particular SUVs—as their vehicle of choice, commented Green NCAP.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2018

The Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers (Auto Alliance) is strongly supporting the passage of Maryland’s SB 1234 , a bill that would require the State of Maryland to purchase zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) for state fleets. The bill also includes a reporting requirement for State agencies that purchase vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

IDTechEx expects electric motorcycle sales in Europe to have grown at least 50% year-on-year in 2020, building on the momentum of recent years. This high-power need, coupled with the limited space on the motorcycle, means manufacturers rarely use off-the-shelf parts and design motors in-house from scratch.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Founded in 2012, Orange EV was the first US-based manufacturer to offer 100% electric Class 8 vehicles and the first to offer electric yard truck rentals. Orange EV is committed to being the one-stop source for all electric yard truck needs—purchases, leases, and rentals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The BMW Group is deepening its existing business relationships with battery cell manufacturers CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. The BMW Group is the first customer of the CATL battery cell plant currently under construction in Erfurt, Germany. In this way, we are securing our long-term battery cell needs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

The BMW Group has signed a long-term supply contract worth €2 billion for battery cells with the Swedish company Northvolt. The battery cells will be produced in Europe at the Northvolt gigafactory currently under construction in Skellefteå in northern Sweden (series plant Northvolt Ett) from 2024.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Chinese automotive manufacturer BYD sold 18,220 pure-electric passenger vehicles in November, up by 22.1% November sales of plug-in hybrids passenger vehicles hit 7,333, up by 2.9% Sales of pure-electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids January-November 2020 were 139,246 and 69,390, respectively, down by 19.9% from a year earlier.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

With immediate effect, responsibility for global battery business is to be held by the newly created company “PowerCo”. In addition to cell production, the new company will be responsible for activities along the entire battery value chain. Future gigafactory for battery cells at the Salzgitter site: Salzgiga. Unified cell.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Colorado has voted to approve a new standard on the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs), with an additional goal set for 2032 and new guidance for increasing EV sales beginning in 2027. Notably, the release says that the standard does not prohibit the sale or use of non-electric vehicles with internal combustion engines (ICEs).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2021

Phillips 66 has entered into an agreement to acquire a 16% stake in NOVONIX Limited, an Australia-based company that develops and supplies synthetic graphite materials for lithium-ion battery anodes. This strategic investment enables Phillips 66 to directly support the development of the US battery supply chain.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2021

General Motors and POSCO Chemical plan to form a joint venture through which the parties will construct a factory in North America to process critical battery materials for GM’s Ultium electric vehicle platform. —Doug Parks, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain.

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CN EV Post

APRIL 11, 2023

China's new energy vehicle (NEV) sales in March were 653,000 units, up 34.8 percent from February, according to data released today by the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM). China saw BEV sales of 490,000 units in March, up 23.8 PHEV sales were 163,000 units, up 84.3 percent year-on-year and up 24.4

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2022

Among the changes are an extension of the tax credit through 2032, the removal of the unit-sales cap of 200,000 per OEM, and a new mandate for qualified cars being assembled in North America. It will also jeopardize our collective target of 40-50 percent electric vehicle sales by 2030. Specifically, the bill requires (Part 4, Sec.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Proterra announced that Broward County Transit (BCT) has agreed to purchase 12 40-foot Proterra ZX5 battery-electric transit buses with 660 kWh of onboard energy and the DuoPower drivetrain. With Broward County’s purchase, Proterra has now sold more than 1,000 battery-electric transit buses in North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2020

GlobalData’s analysis suggests that low oil prices will lead to a longer waits for the reduced fuel costs offered by electric vehicles (EVs) to amortize their higher purchase prices. Higher prices at the pumps mean EVs make up their extra purchase cost sooner, while lower fuel prices see ICE cars remain cheaper than EVs for longer.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

A new report from Kelley Blue Book indicates electric vehicle sales peaked in the United States in Q4 2021, accounting for 4.5 percent of all automobile sales in the final three months of the year. Tesla led all manufacturers in the EV segment with 72 percent of all EV sales for the year. million, it says.

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