Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

OCSiAl , the world’s largest manufacturer of graphene nanotubes, has been granted approval by Luxembourg authorities for a production plant, together with an associated R&D center, in Differdange, Luxembourg. OCSiAl’s graphene nanotube synthesis facility, expected to be the largest of its kind, is scheduled to begin production in 2025.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Fisker is ramping up production capacity of the Fisker Ocean all-electric SUV in September, as well as expanding retail, delivery, and service operations across multiple markets in North America and Europe. Additional plans will be announced soon.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Volvo Trucks is beginning series production of the electric versions of the company’s most important product range, its heavy-duty trucks: Volvo FH, Volvo FM and Volvo FMX. With these new additions, Volvo Trucks has six electric truck models in series production globally—the broadest electric truck line up in the industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2017

Solaris—one of the leading bus manufacturers in Europe—has secured an order for more than 200 hybrid buses from Société Régionale Wallonne du Transport, the primary bus operator in Wallonia, Belgium. For Solaris, this order is its biggest success in Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The facility will produce syngas and hydrogen for captive use within BASF’s production Verbund. The production technologies deployed in the syngas plant will mainly utilize CO 2 off-gas, a by-product of the ethylene oxide process and excess fuel gas from steam cracker operations, to manufacture syngas.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

This alliance will divide key activities in the research, development, production and integration of cells and battery systems designed for powering aircraft. SOLiTHOR will be responsible for cell research, development, testing characterization, format design and production of 10Ah-40Ah cells. It will also certify the battery system.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2022

Components for the production of batteries at Audi’s Brussels plant will no longer be delivered by truck from Hungary, but by rail with DB Cargo. The switch in means of delivery between Hungary and Brussels, which was started in May and is scheduled to be completed by the beginning of 2023, is a preview of the car manufacturer’s future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Van Hool, an independent Belgian manufacturer of buses, coaches and industrial vehicles, has shipped the first CX45E, a 100% battery electric coach, to the US. The CX45E was designed, developed and prototyped at the parent company in Koningshooikt, Belgium. An additional ten units will be shipped to the US in the first half of 2021.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Electric vehicle maker Fisker stated that it is ramping the production of its all-electric Ocean crossover SUV to 300 units per day. The production of the Fisker Ocean currently stands at about 180 units per day. In a press release , Fisker noted that production partner Magna Steyr had built a total of 3,123 Ocean units.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2020

Volvo Cars is significantly cutting CO 2 emissions in its logistics operations by switching transports between its manufacturing plants and new car depots from trucks to trains. —Javier Varela, Senior Vice President of Manufacturing and Logistics at Volvo Cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2022

Located in Ghent, Belgium, the plant will supply ready-to-install batteries for Volvo Trucks’ full electric heavy-duty trucks. Series production starts in the third quarter of this year. We started series-production of electric trucks already in 2019 and are leading the market both in Europe and North America.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Lizzie Boakes is a life cycle analyst in the Sustainable Semiconductor Technologies and Systems Program at IMEC , the Belgium-based nanotech research organization. And the global impact of the semiconductor chip manufacturing itself is expected to increase as well because of the fact that we need more and more of these chips.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

Major cathode material producer Pulead (China) and phosphate leader Prayon (Belgium) have entered into an agreement to form a joint venture for the manufacture and sale of lithium iron phosphate (LFP) under licence from LiFePO 4 +C Licensing LLC. Even in the short term, demand far outstrips licensees’ production capacity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In particular, TotalEnergies has the ambition by 2030 to operate directly or indirectly up to 150 hydrogen refueling stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France. The truck manufacturer will support its customers to ensure easy operability and highly competitive uptime.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

The C40 Recharge will go in production this fall and will be built alongside the XC40 Recharge at the Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Ghent, Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

Initial production of green hydrogen is expected in late 2024, and plant commissioning will be in 2025. At the center of the largest chemical industry cluster in Europe and close to the North Sea, it provides transportation connections to Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, and France. NextGen District.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2022

At an event held at its steel plant in Ghent, Belgium, ArcelorMittal inaugurated its flagship carbon capture and utilization (CCU) project. Earlier post.) The €200-million Steelanol project is a first of its kind for the European steel industry. It will reduce annual carbon emissions from the Ghent plant by 125,000 tonnes.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2023

In total, the manufacturer has sold almost 5,000 electric trucks in about 40 countries. Now, its electric product range is being made available in new markets in Asia, Latin America and Africa. In the third quarter of 2023, serial production will also start at Volvo’s largest factory in Ghent, Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Umicore last week inaugurated its carbon-neutral production facility for cathode active materials (CAM) for electric vehicles in Nysa, Poland. Construction of the plant began in 2019 and production started in July this year. —Mathias Miedreich, CEO of Umicore. Currently, Umicore in Nysa employs about 240 people.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Toyota says it is now around 40% along the path to commercialization of products such as the Corolla Cross H2 Concept. Outside Japan, in August this year, a Toyota hydrogen-engine vehicle drove on European public roads for the first time when the GR Yaris H2 was put through its paces in a demonstration run at the WRC in Ypres, Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

The “&Charge” platform is currently available in Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. Porsche Digital is the technological and digital forge of the Zuffenhausen-based sports car manufacturer. Its central task is to find and scale new digital business models and optimize existing products.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Umicore will build an industrial scale recycling facility for end-of-life rechargeable batteries in Hoboken, Belgium. This recycling process has high metal yields and will cut CO 2 emissions compared to the primary production of cobalt and nickel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2017

At Busworld Europe in Belgium later this month, AKASOL will present its AKASYSTEM OEM battery system as a complete roof installation including the chiller and other additional components. From 2018, two well-known European bus manufacturers will use the technology in Germany, with plans to equip around 10,000 e-buses over the next few years.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2020

BASF now has the worldwide distribution rights for RheoFalt smart additives to modify asphalt and bitumen manufactured by the Netherlands-based company Ventraco. Excluded from the agreement are Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands, where Ventraco will continue to supply the products.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

These new generation batteries will provide performance, cost and safety advantages, compared to current lithium-ion products. Should the development be successful, the next step will be to work together with industrial partners on new manufacturing processes, and on cell and system industrialization.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2022

This was carried out by E-Trucks Europe, a specialist manufacturer of hydrogen-electric commercial vehicles based in Belgium, in collaboration with Wietholt, a DAF authorized dealer in Dorsten, Germany. Wietholt is also a service partner of Allison Transmission.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

The joint venture will accelerate the affordability and availability of green hydrogen through increased technological innovation, research and development, and manufacturing capacity. As one of the largest hydrogen energy suppliers in China, Sinopec's annual hydrogen production reaches 3.5

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Baua Electric

APRIL 12, 2024

This strategic acquisition, quick on the heels of the acquisition of the Belgium based Quad Industries, marks another significant step forward in Naxnova’s expansion strategy reinforcing their commitment towards delivering innovative solutions to customers worldwide, the company announced in a media release.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Belgium-based Punch Group has acquired GM’s propulsion engineering center in Turin, Italy. The transaction between the two companies includes an engineering services agreement (ESA) to support GM’s global product programs through the end of 2021.

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Teslarati

JUNE 7, 2023

Eneco, an energy producer in the Netherlands, is relying on Tesla to power its biggest battery project to date, which will be used to “more efficiently balance Belgium’s electricity grid” and is expected to be operational in 2024. This project is an important step for us towards a CO2-neutral energy system in 2035.”

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2018

the leading producer of flat-rolled aluminum products and the world’s largest recycler of aluminum, has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Aleris Corporation, a global supplier of aerospace and automotive rolled aluminum products, for approximately $2.6 Novelis Inc., billion including the assumption of debt.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 24, 2022

Australia is the largest lithium exporter in the world, accounting for 46% of the world’s lithium production in 2021. Australia’s lithium production is forecast to grow from 335,000 tonnes of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) in 2021–22 to 399,000 tonnes in 2022–23 and 470,000 tonnes of LCE in 2023–24. billion in 2021–22 to $16.1

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Baua Electric

APRIL 17, 2024

Kolkata-based Ramkrishna Forgings is a manufacturer and supplier of closed-die forgings of carbon and alloy steel, micro-alloy steel, and stainless steel forgings. Kolkata-based Ramkrishna Forgings is a manufacturer and supplier of closed-die forgings of carbon and alloy steel, micro-alloy steel, and stainless steel forgings.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2023

With HVO the CO 2 footprint of the mtu systems for dynamic uninterruptible power supply (DUPS) can be reduced by up to 90% (depending on the fuel’s manufacturing process and feedstock), particulate emissions by up to 80% and nitrogen oxide emissions by up to eight percent compared to fossil diesel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2019

stake in the capital of Canada-based Hydrogenics Corporation , a leader in electrolytic hydrogen production equipment and fuel cells. Indeed it enables the production of totally carbon-free hydrogen, thanks namely to renewable electricity. Air Liquide has acquired an 18.6%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Most recently, Elli added about 24,000 Vattenfall stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden along with 1,000 high-power charging points (HPC) operated by Fastned in the Netherlands, Germany, Great Britain, Belgium, France and Switzerland. The key to everyday electric mobility is easy charging without any range anxiety.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

The C40 Recharge will go into production this fall and will be built alongside the XC40 Recharge at the Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Ghent, Belgium. Unlimited data enables superior connectivity and the C40 Recharge is designed to receive software updates over the air.

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