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BMW-led Car2Car project seeks to improve quality of secondary raw materials from recycled vehicles

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The BMW Group is heading up a new project that explores the circular economy in automotive manufacturing. The BMW Group is targeting increasing the proportion of secondary materials in its brands’ new models from around 30% at present to 50%. The BMW Group is supplying 500 end-of-life vehicles for the purposes of the project.

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BMW Group increasing use of digitalization and Industry 4.0 in production logistics

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The BMW Group is increasingly relying on innovations from the fields of digitalization and Industry 4.0 Innovations coming out of many pilot projects are being implemented worldwide in logistics at BMW Group plants. —Jürgen Maidl, head of Logistics for the BMW Group production network. in production logistics.

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Galp and Northvolt establish JV for lithium conversion plant in Portugal; initial annual capacity of 35,000 tons of lithium hydroxide

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Additionally, the JV is seeking to enable use of green energy to power the conversion process, thereby minimizing and eventually avoiding reliance on natural gas as is the conventional approach. Galp offers various types of energy from electricity produced from renewable sources to natural gas and liquid fuels.

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Germany’s BMVI awarding €23.5M to hydrogen mobility projects

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Hydrogen, fuel cells and electricity move the future. EvoBus GmbH, €3,309,652 for the development of a battery electric city bus with fuel cell range extender. Günsel Fördertechnik and Fahrzeugbau GmbH, €1,024,094 for the procurement of 89 hydrogen-powered industrial trucks for intralogistic use at the BMW Leipzig plant.

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AAA: EV HVAC use in frigid temperatures causes substantial drop in range

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C) and the HVAC system is used to heat the inside of an electric vehicle, the average driving range is decreased by 41%. Testing was performed according to guidelines established in SAE International standard J1634, Battery Electric Vehicle Energy Consumption and Range Test Procedure.

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SAE World Congress technical track on advances in fuel cell vehicle applications

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During the PFL 720 sessions at last year’s Congress, Toyota presented a set of four technical papers describing some of the technology innovations used in its production fuel cell hybrid electric vehicle Mirai. As was the case last year, the 2016 PFL 720 / PFL 799 combination is chaired by Jesse Schneider of BMW. Earlier post.).

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ISO 19880 – New technical ISO document for hydrogen fueling station standardization

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At the Fuel Cell Seminar in Los Angeles, California today, Jesse Schneider (BMW), the ANSI Convener of ISO Working Group 24 (from the Technical Committee on Fueling Stations) gave an overview presentation on the new ISO 19880 technical report for hydrogen fueling stations. Hydrogen and electrical safety. Equipment & components.

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