Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Volvo has received an order for 11 electric hybrid buses and 2 ABB automated electric bus fast-chargers to the city of Namur in Belgium with public transport authority and operator TEC. This is the largest order to date for the company’s electric bus system. TEC is buying the bus system as a turn-key solution.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2018

A new European Joint Research Center (JRC) analysis on the deployment of electric vehicles (EV) in Europe concludes that although the sector evolved significantly between 2010 and 2017, progress is still small to be characterized as full-scale commercialization. In 2010, electric vehicles still represented a niche market.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Late last year, Volvo launched its very first all-electric model in North America. It’s called the XC40 Recharge, and the earliest versions aren’t cheap, priced from about $55,000 including delivery. That’s partly due to the weight; the electric XC40 is a whopping 900 pounds heavier than the AWD gasoline version.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2017

UK-based Connected Energy and Groupe Renault have installed two quick-charge stations based on Connected Energy’s E-STOR energy storage technology on highways in Belgium and Germany. The E-STOR technology developed by Connected Energy uses second-life batteries from Renault electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2011

PrimoveCity addresses the range and recharging constraints of electric vehicles and is intended to provide common technology for all forms of electric vehicles, including trams, buses, commercial vehicles, taxis and cars. This summer tests will also begin with an automobile.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2012

phosphate-based cathode materials for use in lithium-ion (Li-ion) rechargeable batteries. beLife will initially focus on developing advanced, cost-competitive products and production processes for lithium iron phosphate cathode materials used in lithium-ion rechargeable batteries. well as batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

In January 2011, Shanghai was selected as an international electric vehicle pilot city by the Chinese government and the Jiading district of Shanghai was announced as an electric vehicle demonstration zone. In June 2011, Volvo Car Corporation started the production of the Volvo C30 Electric.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Umicore, a global materials technology group, is a pioneer in the recycling of rechargeable batteries; its battery recycling plant in Hoboken, Belgium, has an annual capacity of 7,000 tons of lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries and battery production scrap, the equivalent of 35,000 electric vehicle (EV) batteries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2019

Imec also announced that it has started to upscale the materials and processes in a pilot line for fabrication of solid-state pouch cells at the EnergyVille Campus in Genk (Belgium) and is set-up in collaboration with the University of Hasselt.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

UK based Elektromotive is making headway in the electric vehicle recharging market after appointing ThePluginCompany to install networks of charging stations across Belgium and Luxembourg. Elektromotive has also exported its technology to the Netherlands, Iceland, Saudi Arabia, Ireland, Germany and Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2014

The goal is to develop high-energy, durable lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles by improving the cycle life of the battery electrodes. Photo-electrochemically rechargeable zinc-air batteries. Investigators: Zhenan Bao, Chemical Engineering; Yi Cui, Materials Science and Engineering. modified plants.

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Clean Fleet Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

Road Test: 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge Twin AWD Ultimate The First Volvo Compact SUV Coupe EV The 2023 Volvo C40 Recharge was the first electric-only and the smallest SUV from Volvo, falling in-line with the EX90 and XC40 Recharge. This felt quick and made freeway merging a breeze.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2015

After all safety checks are performed the system will provide the bus with a powerful fast recharge. (A ABB’s automated solution can be used with any electric bus provided it has the correct rooftop interface. ABB’s automatic DC charging system is based on IEC 61851-23 , the international standard for fast charging electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2023

New research commissioned by Shell and conducted by LCP Delta suggests electric vehicle adoption is accelerating in several key European markets and it is having a positive impact on driver perceptions, including range anxiety. The latest findings reflect the rapid growth in global EV sales witnessed over the last 12 months.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Consumers’ expectations around the performance and purchase price of electric vehicles are so divergent from the actual offerings available today, that no more than 2–4% of consumers worldwide would have their expectations met, according to a new survey from Deloitte. Vehicle range is clearly an issue among consumers.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 1, 2009

Last week we told you that the company was heading to Belgium and Luxembourg (see article ), and now it will play a pivotal role in the introduction of an electric vehicle recharging infrastructure in Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

V eBikes are launching first in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, due to the popularity of lithium-ion battery-powered eBikes in those markets. In Belgium and the Netherlands, the AR?V V was selected as part of a global crowdsourcing campaign announced in November 2018. Preorders are now available via [link]. In Germany, the AR?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

during the conference Thermal Investigations of ICs and Systems (Therminic), 7-9 October in Leuven, Belgium. to help commercialize the advanced cooling system using microchannels for electronic components in hybrid and electric cars. The researchers also have published several related papers in peer-reviewed journals. in Kokomo, Ind.,

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Umicore is actively working with cell manufacturers to advance SSB tech, and recently opened a material prototyping center in Belgium that supports all the steps in SSB production, from formulation to testing. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Umicore is actively working with cell manufacturers to advance SSB tech, and recently opened a material prototyping center in Belgium that supports all the steps in SSB production, from formulation to testing. Robert Privette: Rechargeable batteries are among the building blocks for the green energy transition.

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Driivz

MAY 1, 2022

Utilities are emerging as dominant players in the global race to electric vehicle adoption beyond just the power supplier. They have insights to the customers’ electrical usage. In fact, EDF is targeting a 30 percent market share for EV charging in France, Belgium, Italy, and the UK. California as the EV Leader.

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Charged EVs

JANUARY 5, 2024

Choosing “best of” or “most important” new cars is always dicey, and doubly so with electric vehicles. Like the larger XC40 Recharge, it’s relatively slab-sided and upright, and its 7.0-inch Expect US EX30s to come from Europe, once that line is up and running, to avoid import tariffs on China-built vehicles.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

Choosing “best of” or “most important” new cars is always dicey, and doubly so with electric vehicles. Like the larger XC40 Recharge, it’s relatively slab-sided and upright, and its 7.0-inch Expect US EX30s to come from Europe, once that line is up and running, to avoid import tariffs on China-built vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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