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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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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CleanTechnica EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

BYD has been ramping up production of EVs and opening new production facilities in China and has also recently announced plans for new plants outside China as well. Through smart partnerships with local firms, BYD is taking electric vehicles to the world. The work that BYD is doing should really be commended.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

In keeping with this strategic shift of business, OMV will reduce its oil and gas production by around 20% by 2030 and will completely cease oil and gas production for energy use by 2050. Growth is also set to be achieved by diversifying the portfolio towards adjacent products and new product groups.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Volvo announced Thursday that production of its first fully electric vehicle, the XC40 T8 Recharge, has started in Ghent, Belgium. The electric SUV is bound for the U.S. starting late this year, and in terms of pricing, performance, and packaging, it’s shaping up to be one of the closest rivals yet to the Tesla Model Y.

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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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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The first Audi Q8 e-tron rolled off the production line at Audi’s factory in Brussels, Belgium on December 14th. The event in and of itself was fairly mundane, with employees and company leadership standing at the end of the production line to drive the vehicles off the line.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A team from KU Leuven and the University of Antwerp in Belgium has developed a new process that is suitable for the distributed, small-scale production of “green” ammonia. The industrial production of ammonia via the Haber-Bosch process amounts to ca. kg CO 2 production per 1 kg of NH 3. 150 million tons annually.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

German automaker Volkswagen has reported its full-year 2023 delivery numbers, featuring more deliveries of battery electric vehicles (BEVs) than ever before. Still, the company remains far off from the world’s top EV seller, though the company has emphasized that its products are heading in the right direction. 4 units for a 62.9

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Volvo Trucks has announced that they have begun production of their all-electric semi-trucks. According to a press release from the company, Volvo Trucks is beginning production of their all-electric heavy trucks that they will sell in Europe. The post Volvo Trucks starts production of electric semis appeared first on TESLARATI.

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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 100% electrically driven vehicle has a range of up to 500 km (310 miles), depending on the climate conditions and the route’s topography.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Real-world evaluation is currently being carried out alongside ongoing digital development, with the vehicle soon to begin winter testing in northern Japan. Toyota says it is now around 40% along the path to commercialization of products such as the Corolla Cross H2 Concept. By equipping the 1.6l Earlier post.).

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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. Brussels plays a pioneering role, but we developed this sustainable logistics concept for battery modules and cells in Audi’s entire production network.

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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

AUGUST 11, 2015

The first five production Toyota Mirai fuel cell vehicles ( earlier post ) for Europe were unloaded in Bristol, UK and Zeebrugge, Belgium, respectively on 8 and 10 August. Already sold in Japan since last December, the Toyota Mirai will be launched in Europe from September in the UK, Denmark and Germany.

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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

DECEMBER 26, 2021

In a pilot electric trucking project, sennder transported 17+ tonnes of product for Cabot from the port of Rotterdam to Antwerp, Belgium and then returned to base—a round trip covering a distance of more than 300 km (186 miles). The pilot project was conducted to test the long-term capabilities of 40+ tonne electric trucks.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

Scania, a member of the Volkswagen Group, and Northvolt, a 2016 startup building a European Gigafactory (planned 32 GWh annual capacity) for Li-ion batteries ( earlier post ), have agreed to develop and commercialize battery cell technology for heavy commercial vehicles. Scania is investing €10 million (US$12.5 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

Building upon the success of the Volta Zero—a purpose-built full-electric 16-tonne commercial vehicle designed for inner-city last mile deliveries ( earlier post )—Volta Trucks plans to expand its product portfolio with three additional variants within the medium- to lower end of the heavy-duty class.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Volvo Cars launched the battery-electric Volvo C40 Recharge; based on the CMA vehicle platform it is the first Volvo model designed as pure electric only. 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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Teslarati

AUGUST 22, 2021

“After four days of overhaul at Tesla’s Shanghai plant last week, the production capacity of Phase 2 Model Y has reached 1,000 units per day. It can be said that the Y-type production has entered high-yield stage. Several Tesla observers already informed Teslarati of Model Ys in Norway and Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Both the Land Cruiser and Hilux will join the Proace family of light commercial vehicles in being compatible with HVO100 diesel. The principal technical change from current vehicles is an adjustment of the fuel injection system to increase fuel volume. Vehicles will be built to this new specification from the first quarter of 2023.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2020

These kilometers can then be redeemed, as charge credits for electric vehicles or free trips with public e-scooters and car-sharing services, among other things. The “&Charge” platform is currently available in Germany, Austria, Belgium and the Netherlands. Other countries are to follow shortly.

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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. AKASOL is now expanding its production facilities in order to meet growing demand and further customer orders.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

With the all-electric vans hitting 12,500 pre-orders, recent statements from the company’s leadership recently suggested that Volkswagen is currently considering expanding its ID Buzz production. “And that’s without any of the customers even seeing or touching the vehicle at the dealership or even being able to drive it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2014

Visteon Corporation has been awarded the first production program for its Fusion connected platform by a leading European-based vehicle manufacturer. The vehicle line is expected to launch in 2018. Prepares the vehicle infrastructure for assisted / autonomous driving.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

BYD only sold 4,140 cars in Germany in 2023, but is looking for 10% market share after its factory in Hungary starts production in a few years. BYD ATTO 3 (Source: BYD) VW has also been slashing prices on the ID line in France, Belgium, Germany, and Norway, among other countries. Meanwhile, Tesla shares were down 1.6%

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

The agreement centers on the development of production facilities using Vertimass’ catalytic technology to convert renewable ethanol into renewable-propane and sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). The technology enables flexible production of the renewable fuels to align with regional market demand.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Ford is targeting zero emissions for all vehicle sales and carbon neutrality across its European footprint of facilities, logistics and suppliers by 2035, and carbon neutrality globally no later than 2050. Additionally purchases of Ford Pro Special Vehicles with a customized box for inner city distribution in Germany, were concluded.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

The new plant will be climate-neutral and build only electric cars, underpinning the company’s ambition to become fully electric by 2030 and climate-neutral by 2040, and to continue expanding its global production capacity to match its growth ambitions. Volvo Cars has an ambition to move towards annual sales of 1.2

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2020

For example, by implementing rail transport it reduced CO 2 emissions by almost 75% on the route between its Ghent, Belgium-based manufacturing plant and a purpose-built depot in northern Italy. Already now, cars are transported from its China-based manufacturing plants to the Ghent port in Belgium by train two times a week.

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Teslarati

MAY 18, 2022

Tesla China may not be at full capacity yet, but its vehicle export activities are already hitting their pace. Not long after the electric vehicle maker sent over a batch of Model 3 and Model Y to Europe, thousands of new vehicles were sighted being loaded onto a cargo ship to begin their journey to a port in Belgium. .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

Vehicle production will begin in Ghent, Belgium this fall with the first US customer deliveries planned for the fourth quarter of 2021. All Volvo Car model year 2022 pure electric vehicles in the United States will come with 250 kWh of complimentary charging on Electrify America’s network, to be used within the first 3 years.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

Volvo has joined Tesla in stopping its EV production in Europe due to the threat of violence from Iran-backed Houthi fighters attacking commercial ships traveling in the Red Sea. Volvo said it would halt production at its factory in Ghent, Belgium, for three days after rerouting ships to avoid potential violence.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The aim of this work is to provide drivers of electric vehicles with a tightly knit international charging network which is easily accessible. As a mobility service provider, Elli offers its services to the drivers of electric vehicles made by all manufacturers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

A Tier-2 supplier headquartered in Belgium, BMT Drive Solutions—acting under the brand name of VCST—is involved in the mass-production of gears & shafts (from 20,000 up to 2 million parts/year.pgm) for major OEMs (such as VW, Ford, Porsche, DAF or Cummins) & Tier 1s. tons or busses up to 18 tons).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

This program complements the benefits of driving an electric vehicle, with the US Department of Energy reporting that electric vehicle owners do 80% of their vehicle charging at home. The company has set itself the goal of reducing vehicle-specific CO 2 emissions by 30% by 2025. seconds and a top track speed of 124 mph.

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