Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is starting construction of its first “Full-Flex Plant“ in Kecskemét, Hungary, about 90 km in the south of Budapest. Overall, the company is investing €1 billion in the new car plant and creating more than 2,500 jobs. The company is now transferring the blue print of “Factory 56” to a complete factory.

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Teslarati

MARCH 20, 2022

Stellantis partner Samsung SDI hinted at the possibility of building a new EV battery factory in the United States. During InterBattery 2022, Samsung SDI CEO Choi Yoon-ho said that the company might build a new EV battery company in the U.S., depending on demand in the future. depending on demand in the future. “We

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Although BYD began selling EVs in Europe in 2021 (in Norway), the company only sold 15,644 electric cars in the region last year. Even before it begins producing vehicles at its Hungary plant. The company’s European boss confirmed the plant will begin production in 2026. share of the European EV market.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Rimac’s tech division will supply batteries for BMW’s future electric cars. Rimac to supply BMW with EV batteries The collaboration is Rimac Tech’s “largest and most ambitious project” the company has undertaken. For its next-gen models, BMW is turning to Croatian electric hypercar specialist Rimac for EV batteries.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Rumors started brewing about the future of the plant in two years ago, when Ford made the call to build its next-gen EVs in Spain and not reboot and retrain workers at Saarlouis. BYD was reported to be among the companies interested, but the Chinese automaker has since announced it is opening its first European plant in Hungary.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

Mercedes-Benz announced that its Rastatt plant—the company’s lead plant in global production of compact cars—will produce compact-class electric EQ models in the future. The decision is based on a declaration of intent, which the company has set up with the works council. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

The company has received more than 40,000 A-Class orders to date. The new Mercedes-Benz compacts are produced in a network of the Mercedes-Benz plants in Rastatt, Germany, and Kecskemét, Hungary. It furthermore plans to build premium compact cars for the Chinese markets locally and close to the customers in the future.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

The company assumes that unit sales of electric models will represent a share of somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of total Mercedes-Benz sales by 2025. The Hambach site in France features many years of experience in building fully electric cars. From 2020, the brand smart will only offer electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

With the production launch of the electric compact SUV EQA at the Rastatt plant (Germany) and the current decision to locate EQB production in the Hungarian plant in Kecskemét, the company is taking further important steps toward making its product portfolio CO? The work on the building has already been completed. solutions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2010

Opel/Vauxhall will build an all-new small car targeted at the segment below the Corsa at its Eisenach plant in the east German state of Thuringia. Opel Eisenach has 1,600 employees who are currently building the three-door version of the Corsa. To date, Opel/Vauxhall has invested €1.5 billion (US$2 billion) into Eisenach site.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Despite the recent public debate, there is no doubt the future of the car is electric,” Audi’s boss explained. “At Döllner, who took over for Markus Duesmann in September, said the company is accelerating development on a new entry-level electric car that will be the electric equivalent to the A3 or Q3.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2012

Production at the Szentgotthardt plant in Hungary will begin in late 2012. Power builds up very smoothly and quietly —director of gasoline engines, Thomas Johnen. If we run these two plants with three shifts, the production costs for the next Astra generation will be significantly below the costs of building the current Astra.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

HAC is also focused on building a sustainable development community within and beyond IEEE. In October the committee led a G-STIC panel that provided an overview of several IEEE programs including IEEE Entrepreneurship , which provides mentoring and other resources to members who want to start their own company.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

And it's already clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the arrival of the future along several dimensions. We propose to build on this foundation and find a way to learn not just from crises but even during the crisis itself. Remote working has become the new status quo in many sectors.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

Now they’re ramping up production and building a fleet of gigantic auto-carrier ships—it certainly appears that they’re planning to flood the global market (they’re exporting gas-burners too). The company now has enough production capacity in China to manufacture four million cars per year. You have no future.” You will die.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

The automotive industry is widely viewed as being the industry in which the greatest volume of advanced composite materials will be used in the future to produce light vehicles. The grant opportunity allows the consortium to aim to deliver fundamental solutions to the key challenges faced by the future development of EESVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

BYD is an amazing company. As if that were not enough, I’m hearing now that BYD is on the verge of a breakthrough in the solar power business and that the company has big plans to make rechargeable batteries at a utility scale to store energy from intermittent, renewable sources like wind and solar. Not so this time around.

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