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Volvo Trucks opens its first battery plant; cells and modules from Samsung SDI

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Volvo Trucks is opening its first battery assembly plant. Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full electric heavy-duty trucks. By 2030, at least 50 percent of all trucks we sell globally will be electric and by 2040, we will be a carbon-neutral company.

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Volvo Cars building €1.2B EV manufacturing plant in Slovakia; third in Europe

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Volvo Cars will build a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential. billion; Volvo expects around 20% to be funded by governmental support. Volvo Cars has an ambition to move towards annual sales of 1.2

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Volvo Cars? Chengdu car plant powered by 100% renewable electricity; 65% hydropower

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The Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Chengdu, the company’s largest in China, is now powered by 100% renewable electricity, taking the company’s global renewable electricity mix in its manufacturing network to 80%. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company. Hydropower station dam in Chengdu.

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BMW Group to lead €19.5M HyCET project consortium on hydrogen combustion engine trucks

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The other HyCET project partners are DEUTZ AG, DHL Freight GmbH, KEYOU GmbH, TotalEnergies Marketing Deutschland GmbH and Volvo Group. As part of the HyCET project, this engine will be installed in an 18-tonne truck to demonstrate its practicality for mobile applications. liter hydrogen engine. The TCG 7.8

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Number of electric buses in Europe has increased from around 200 to 2,200 in 5 years

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Volvo has now upgraded its hybrid buses. In its ‘Aiming for Zero’ objective, VDL Bus&Coach is building a new, climate-neutral factory in Roeselare (Belgium), where the first buses will be built from the end of 2021 to the beginning of 2022. The first series-produced MAN Lion City buses will be delivered in the autumn of 2020.

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ABB launches automated fast charging system for electric buses; inverted pantograph

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With its automated rooftop connection and a typical charge time of 4–6 minutes, the system can easily be integrated in existing bus lines by installing fast chargers at end points, terminals, depots and/or intermediate stops. ABB is introducing an automated fast charging system which allows electric city buses to drive 24/7.

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Oil companies “break the circle”! Total Energy to build tens of thousands of charging piles in China

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According to the plan, the company will focus on developing electric vehicle high-power charging infrastructure and services in Hubei Province, and install and operate more than 11,000 high-power charging piles by 2025. First, the requirement for global carbon neutrality fundamentally drives the rise of the electrification era.

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