A consortium led by South Korea’s POSCO and Samsung SDI, and including China’s Sichuan Fulin Industrial Group and Chile’s Molyment, has won a bid to build a cathode materials plant in Chile to support that country’s Li-ion batteries project. POSCO and Samsung SDI will jointly invest about $54 million in the plant, which will produce 3,200 tonnes of cathode a year starting in the second half of 2021, which will be used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. MORE
Estonian media reports that Swedish bioenergy company Varmlandsmetanol AB is interested in building a €350-million (US $412 million) biomethanol plant in Estonia. We have the technology, we have the material to build the plant, but legislation does not allow for it yet. MORE
The announcement that BYD, the Chinese battery giant turned automaker, has actually begun selling its plug-in hybrid, is pretty big news. Shares rose about 15% on the Hong Kong stock exchange Monday. Earlier this year Warren Buffet invested over $200 million in the company (10% share). MORE
Under a proposal submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) this week, San Diego-based SDG&E is seeking approval to build charging infrastructure to enable about 3,000 medium/heavy-duty vehicles to go electric. To clean up the air in areas suffering from the highest levels of tailpipe emissions, 40% of the installations will be targeted for vehicles and equipment that are based in or travel through disadvantaged communities. MORE
Mercedes-Benz is in the process of building out hubs for the production of electric vehicles and batteries around the globe. As batteries are the heart of our electric vehicles we put a great emphasis on building them in our own factories. MORE
Ford Motor Company is exploring how large-scale one-piece auto parts, such as spoilers, could be printed for prototyping and future production vehicles, as the first automaker to pilot the Stratasys Infinite Build 3D printer. MORE
This morning, in Japan, Nissan unveiled what its lineup has long been missing: strong hybrid technology. The company's new e-Power hybrid system, demonstrated in a Nissan Note hatchback, contains a gasoline engine and an electric traction motor. MORE
Detroit has public transportation, an effective freeway system, rail lines, a modern airport, and uniquely for the USA – land and buildings available for pennies on the dollar. One of the houses Power House Productions is transforming in Detroit – and none too soon. MORE
This sounds like an interesting new twist on the Chevy Volt saga. Electric luxury cars on the horizon. Count me in MORE
Interviews/Podcast Build Your BaseTest to understand where a product design fails and use parallel solution paths. Several listeners have asked about medical device products and I searched for someone with deep experience in this area. MORE
Van Hool has been building hydrogen buses for the American market since 2005 and for the European market since 2007. MORE
Siemens has been commissioned by the German state of Hesse to build an overhead contact line for electrified freight transport on a ten-kilometer stretch of autobahn. MORE
You can build your own electric car. It's not rocket science, and there are conversion kits available MORE
NextEV and the Nanjing Municipal Government signed a strategic partnership agreement to build a 3 billion RMB (US$463 million) plant facility for the development and production of high-performance motors and electronic modules in the Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone. To this end, NextEV is willing to share our technologies, and build key components for other domestic electric vehicle manufacturers. MORE
I've been considering for a while on building an all electric car. I live in an area where I have to drive to get pretty much anywhere, and decided the MORE
I collected the car last weekend and, having not seen it in the flesh, i was very pleased with what I'd bought. It's a MK2 golf with 9'' ADC motor fitted, battery tray up front and one sunk into the rear where the fuel tank was. It needs a reasonable amount of attention but is a greater starter project for my first EV. The lights, etc run from a dedicated 12V battery (missing) and all the wiring is there so it should just be a matter of sticking the battery in. MORE
CEO Elon Musk hopes to be building 5,000 cars each week by the end of the year; he previously set a goal of producing 500,000 cars across all model lines by the end of 2018. Tesla says it will put its mass-priced Model 3 electric car into production by July, and ramp up production extremely quickly from there. The Model 3 is the vital linchpin of. management Tesla Motors Executives plug-in cars Tesla Model 3 MORE
A research demonstration unveiled at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE ORNL) combines clean energy technologies into a 3D-printed building and a 3D-printed natural gas-powered hybrid vehicle to showcase a new approach to energy use, storage and consumption. MORE
Shell and ITM Power will build the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plant at Rhineland refinery, Germany. The REFHYNE electrolyzer has been designed as the building block for future electrolyzers up to 100MW and beyond. Earlier post.) With a peak capacity of 10 megawatts, the hydrogen will be used for the processing and upgrading of products at the refinery’s Wesseling site as well as testing the technology and exploring application in other sectors. MORE
Dürr is building a fully automatic paint shop for a Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC) plant in China. The plant is designed to handle 100,000 units per year, will commence operation in June 2018, and will produce battery-electric cars on behalf of a local electric car manufacturer. MORE
Paul Holmes discovered he could build an electric car for about $2000. In this interview, we'll talk about how he built his electric car.and why MORE
General Motors has consistently declined to fund public charging stations that increase the utility and long-distance potential of the electric cars it sells. The company said firmly two years ago it had no intention of spending money on a charging network, a stance that distinguished GM from BMW, Nissan, and Volkswagen, not to mention Tesla. General Motors GM plug-in cars Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) charging infrastructure Fast Charging eVgo charging network Maven MORE
Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 San Luis Potosí will build the BMW brand’s best-selling model series, the BMW 3 Series Sedan. MORE
A new solar array and two wind turbines feed the administration building’s circuit breaker panel, where the five Volt batteries work in parallel to supply power to the building, delivering net-zero energy use on an annual basis. MORE
Volkswagen Braunschweig has been awarded the contract to further the development and production of battery systems for the Modular Electric Drive Modular System (MEB). MORE
The Colorado Energy Office (CEO) has released a request for applications ( RFA ) inviting private sector partners to build fast-charging stations for electric vehicles (EVs) along most major highway corridors in Colorado, including I-25, I-70, US 36, US 40, US 50, US 160, US 285 and US 550. MORE
Specialty chemicals company Clariant announced the approval by its Board of Directors to invest in a new full-scale commercial plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues using its sunliquid technology. The new plant, with an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons, will be built in the southwestern part of Romania. MORE
General Motors will build production versions of its Cruise AV ( earlier post ) at its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan. The Orion plant will continue to build the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Sonic as well as the Cruise AV. MORE
That perspective is why I never really liked the often repeated maxims (usually spouted by coaches, and most frequently football coaches) about how sports build character, create leaders, or somehow make people 'better' by virtue of their participation. MORE
Alstom will build 14 Coradia iLint fuel-cell trains ( earlier post ) for the Local Transport Authority of Lower Saxony (Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen, LNVG). MORE
IBM, its Research Alliance partners GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, and equipment suppliers have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5 nanometer (nm) chips. MORE
Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. This leads to intelligent and more efficient microgrids that can interact with building energy management systems (BEMS). MORE
AM General, the firm best known for building Hummer H1s in both civilian and military versions, has been selected by a rather different governmental agency to create a prototype with a different kind of civic duty in mind. Postal trucks, those white boxes that deliver you mail, haven't changed in decades. But that's all set to change. DON'T MISS. government fleet MORE
At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota Motor North America announced that it will build the world’s first megawatt-scale carbonate fuel cell power generation plant with a hydrogen fueling station to support its operations at the Port of Long Beach. The Tri-Gen facility will use bio-waste sourced from California agricultural waste to generate water, electricity and hydrogen. When it comes online in 2020, Tri-Gen will generate approximately 2.35 MW of electricity and 1.2 MORE
a carbon science company engaged in the design and build of energy storage carbon materials, and a battery manufacturing partner will build a high-powered full-scale lithium-ion battery with recycled/upcycled material from an electric car power pack and upcycled anode material from Saint Jean Carbon. The outcome—if successful—will be step one in a multi-design build project that would ideally see a test vehicle built using the batteries. Saint Jean Carbon Inc., MORE
DiDi Chuxing has entered a joint venture to build its own charging networks for electric vehicles (EVs). We have started new joint venture projects to build our own EV charging systems. DiDi is the world’s largest online transportation platform with more than 450 million users and 21 million drivers. As many as 25 million rides are completed on its network daily, twice as many as the rest of the world combined. MORE
This equipment will also be available to companies who would benefit from the opportunity to test their materials and processes without the time and expense of building their own pilot plant facility. MORE
We believe it is time to come together and shape the new era of 5G and, to that goal, it is critical to build a sustainable ecosystem by inviting all industry stakeholders to share their perspectives on how 5G will develop over the next few years. Samsung Electronics hosted the first Silicon Valley 5G Summit , held at Samsung Research America in San Jose, California. MORE
The latest $2.7-million investment, awarded in July 2016, is for taking the technology from a concept design into the building and testing phase, including production of two fully working units. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a $2.7m MORE
France-based advanced battery-maker Saft, a wholly-owned subsidiary of international energy giant Total, is building an alliance with other European partners to launch an ambitious program of research, development and industrialization for new generations of batteries focusing on advanced high-density Li-ion and solid-state battery technology. MORE
NASA has awarded a contract for the design, building and testing of a supersonic aircraft that reduces a sonic boom to a gentle thump. Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company was selected for the Low-Boom Flight Demonstration contract, a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract valued at $247.5 million. MORE
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Mitsubishi Motors and ENGIE are partnered in a project to explore the potential for electric vehicles to act as a means of energy storage for an office building. This leads to intelligent and more efficient microgrids that can interact with building energy management systems (BEMS).
DIY Electric Car
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I collected the car last weekend and, having not seen it in the flesh, i was very pleased with what I'd bought. It's a MK2 golf with 9'' ADC motor fitted, battery tray up front and one sunk into the rear where the fuel tank was. It needs a reasonable amount of attention but is a greater starter project for my first EV. The lights, etc run from a dedicated 12V battery (missing) and all the wiring is there so it should just be a matter of sticking the battery in.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2018
Volkswagen Braunschweig has been awarded the contract to further the development and production of battery systems for the Modular Electric Drive Modular System (MEB).
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Electric Cars are for Girls
SEPTEMBER 2, 2011
You can build your own electric car. It's not rocket science, and there are conversion kits available
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 11, 2017
Siemens has been commissioned by the German state of Hesse to build an overhead contact line for electrified freight transport on a ten-kilometer stretch of autobahn.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 18, 2018
Shell and ITM Power will build the world’s largest hydrogen electrolysis plant at Rhineland refinery, Germany. The REFHYNE electrolyzer has been designed as the building block for future electrolyzers up to 100MW and beyond. Earlier post.) With a peak capacity of 10 megawatts, the hydrogen will be used for the processing and upgrading of products at the refinery’s Wesseling site as well as testing the technology and exploring application in other sectors.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 12, 2018
Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 San Luis Potosí will build the BMW brand’s best-selling model series, the BMW 3 Series Sedan.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 16, 2018
General Motors will build production versions of its Cruise AV ( earlier post ) at its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan. The Orion plant will continue to build the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Sonic as well as the Cruise AV.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2017
IBM, its Research Alliance partners GLOBALFOUNDRIES and Samsung, and equipment suppliers have developed an industry-first process to build silicon nanosheet transistors that will enable 5 nanometer (nm) chips.
Plugs and Cars
DECEMBER 16, 2008
The announcement that BYD, the Chinese battery giant turned automaker, has actually begun selling its plug-in hybrid, is pretty big news. Shares rose about 15% on the Hong Kong stock exchange Monday. Earlier this year Warren Buffet invested over $200 million in the company (10% share).
Electric Cars are for Girls
FEBRUARY 20, 2010
I've been considering for a while on building an all electric car. I live in an area where I have to drive to get pretty much anywhere, and decided the
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2018
A consortium led by South Korea’s POSCO and Samsung SDI, and including China’s Sichuan Fulin Industrial Group and Chile’s Molyment, has won a bid to build a cathode materials plant in Chile to support that country’s Li-ion batteries project. POSCO and Samsung SDI will jointly invest about $54 million in the plant, which will produce 3,200 tonnes of cathode a year starting in the second half of 2021, which will be used to make lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2015
A new solar array and two wind turbines feed the administration building’s circuit breaker panel, where the five Volt batteries work in parallel to supply power to the building, delivering net-zero energy use on an annual basis.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 3, 2017
DiDi Chuxing has entered a joint venture to build its own charging networks for electric vehicles (EVs). We have started new joint venture projects to build our own EV charging systems. DiDi is the world’s largest online transportation platform with more than 450 million users and 21 million drivers. As many as 25 million rides are completed on its network daily, twice as many as the rest of the world combined.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 20, 2017
Estonian media reports that Swedish bioenergy company Varmlandsmetanol AB is interested in building a €350-million (US $412 million) biomethanol plant in Estonia. We have the technology, we have the material to build the plant, but legislation does not allow for it yet.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 18, 2018
Dürr is building a fully automatic paint shop for a Anhui Jianghuai Automobile (JAC) plant in China. The plant is designed to handle 100,000 units per year, will commence operation in June 2018, and will produce battery-electric cars on behalf of a local electric car manufacturer.
Electric Cars are for Girls
JUNE 1, 2009
Paul Holmes discovered he could build an electric car for about $2000. In this interview, we'll talk about how he built his electric car.and why
Green Car Congress
MARCH 1, 2018
Van Hool has been building hydrogen buses for the American market since 2005 and for the European market since 2007.
Green Car Reports
DECEMBER 21, 2017
That perspective is why I never really liked the often repeated maxims (usually spouted by coaches, and most frequently football coaches) about how sports build character, create leaders, or somehow make people 'better' by virtue of their participation.
Creative Greenius
JULY 27, 2013
Detroit has public transportation, an effective freeway system, rail lines, a modern airport, and uniquely for the USA – land and buildings available for pennies on the dollar. One of the houses Power House Productions is transforming in Detroit – and none too soon.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 29, 2018
Mercedes-Benz is in the process of building out hubs for the production of electric vehicles and batteries around the globe. As batteries are the heart of our electric vehicles we put a great emphasis on building them in our own factories.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 1, 2017
Specialty chemicals company Clariant announced the approval by its Board of Directors to invest in a new full-scale commercial plant for the production of cellulosic ethanol from agricultural residues using its sunliquid technology. The new plant, with an annual production capacity of 50,000 tons, will be built in the southwestern part of Romania.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 25, 2016
a carbon science company engaged in the design and build of energy storage carbon materials, and a battery manufacturing partner will build a high-powered full-scale lithium-ion battery with recycled/upcycled material from an electric car power pack and upcycled anode material from Saint Jean Carbon. The outcome—if successful—will be step one in a multi-design build project that would ideally see a test vehicle built using the batteries. Saint Jean Carbon Inc.,
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 21, 2016
We believe it is time to come together and shape the new era of 5G and, to that goal, it is critical to build a sustainable ecosystem by inviting all industry stakeholders to share their perspectives on how 5G will develop over the next few years. Samsung Electronics hosted the first Silicon Valley 5G Summit , held at Samsung Research America in San Jose, California.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 10, 2017
Alstom will build 14 Coradia iLint fuel-cell trains ( earlier post ) for the Local Transport Authority of Lower Saxony (Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen, LNVG).
Electric Cars are for Girls
AUGUST 17, 2011
This sounds like an interesting new twist on the Chevy Volt saga. Electric luxury cars on the horizon. Count me in
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 14, 2016
This equipment will also be available to companies who would benefit from the opportunity to test their materials and processes without the time and expense of building their own pilot plant facility.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 24, 2018
Under a proposal submitted to the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) this week, San Diego-based SDG&E is seeking approval to build charging infrastructure to enable about 3,000 medium/heavy-duty vehicles to go electric. To clean up the air in areas suffering from the highest levels of tailpipe emissions, 40% of the installations will be targeted for vehicles and equipment that are based in or travel through disadvantaged communities.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 30, 2017
At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota Motor North America announced that it will build the world’s first megawatt-scale carbonate fuel cell power generation plant with a hydrogen fueling station to support its operations at the Port of Long Beach. The Tri-Gen facility will use bio-waste sourced from California agricultural waste to generate water, electricity and hydrogen. When it comes online in 2020, Tri-Gen will generate approximately 2.35 MW of electricity and 1.2
Green Car Reports
NOVEMBER 2, 2016
This morning, in Japan, Nissan unveiled what its lineup has long been missing: strong hybrid technology. The company's new e-Power hybrid system, demonstrated in a Nissan Note hatchback, contains a gasoline engine and an electric traction motor.
Green Car Reports
SEPTEMBER 23, 2016
AM General, the firm best known for building Hummer H1s in both civilian and military versions, has been selected by a rather different governmental agency to create a prototype with a different kind of civic duty in mind. Postal trucks, those white boxes that deliver you mail, haven't changed in decades. But that's all set to change. DON'T MISS. government fleet
Green Car Reports
APRIL 12, 2018
General Motors has consistently declined to fund public charging stations that increase the utility and long-distance potential of the electric cars it sells. The company said firmly two years ago it had no intention of spending money on a charging network, a stance that distinguished GM from BMW, Nissan, and Volkswagen, not to mention Tesla. General Motors GM plug-in cars Battery Electric Vehicle (BEV) charging infrastructure Fast Charging eVgo charging network Maven
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 23, 2018
France-based advanced battery-maker Saft, a wholly-owned subsidiary of international energy giant Total, is building an alliance with other European partners to launch an ambitious program of research, development and industrialization for new generations of batteries focusing on advanced high-density Li-ion and solid-state battery technology.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 9, 2017
Ford Motor Company is exploring how large-scale one-piece auto parts, such as spoilers, could be printed for prototyping and future production vehicles, as the first automaker to pilot the Stratasys Infinite Build 3D printer.
Green Car Congress
MAY 3, 2016
NextEV and the Nanjing Municipal Government signed a strategic partnership agreement to build a 3 billion RMB (US$463 million) plant facility for the development and production of high-performance motors and electronic modules in the Nanjing Economic and Technological Development Zone. To this end, NextEV is willing to share our technologies, and build key components for other domestic electric vehicle manufacturers.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 24, 2015
A research demonstration unveiled at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE ORNL) combines clean energy technologies into a 3D-printed building and a 3D-printed natural gas-powered hybrid vehicle to showcase a new approach to energy use, storage and consumption.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 31, 2016
The latest $2.7-million investment, awarded in July 2016, is for taking the technology from a concept design into the building and testing phase, including production of two fully working units. The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has announced a $2.7m
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 25, 2017
Interviews/Podcast Build Your BaseTest to understand where a product design fails and use parallel solution paths. Several listeners have asked about medical device products and I searched for someone with deep experience in this area.
Green Car Reports
MARCH 6, 2017
CEO Elon Musk hopes to be building 5,000 cars each week by the end of the year; he previously set a goal of producing 500,000 cars across all model lines by the end of 2018. Tesla says it will put its mass-priced Model 3 electric car into production by July, and ramp up production extremely quickly from there. The Model 3 is the vital linchpin of. management Tesla Motors Executives plug-in cars Tesla Model 3
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