The Truth About Cars

JUNE 24, 2025

A recent interview with an industry whistleblower has suggested that the automotive sector is intentionally designing vehicles to be less robust than their predecessors. A fake name was given to protect his anonymity, presumably because other industry whistleblowers have died under suspicious circumstances (e.g. Boeing engineers).

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Electrek

JUNE 30, 2025

Nissan will build its next-gen electric vehicles at the facility, including the new LEAF, Juke, and Qashqai. Perhaps I dont understand the finance nuances but that seems easily enough to service and thrive. The company is aiming to lay off around 250 workers. Also dont they have a partnership with Renault as well?

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Cars That Think

JUNE 26, 2025

The technology is expected to advance the fields of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, drug discovery, finance, and more. But in software, experiments are done with paper and pencil, and you can build amazing machines quickly,” Müller says. Understand how to manipulate qubit states using gates and build quantum circuits.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Our ambition is to build an advanced innovation center combined with a giga factory, meaning that we will produce fuel cells with a capacity of 1200 megawatts, or 1.2 This will be the first volume production of fuel cells in Norway and a hub for the Norwegian hydrogen industry. Financing alternatives are being evaluated.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2021

million Series A financing round led by prominent Silicon Valley venture fund, Playground Global, with the investor syndicate comprising Fortescue Future Industries, Coatue, Global Founders Capital, Plug Power, Airbus Ventures, JetBlue Technology Ventures, Toyota AI Ventures, Sojitz Corporation, and Future Shape.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Project Volt Gas Volt is based on a long-term financing plan and the use of existing technologies for the large-scale conversion of surplus renewable electricity to methane, with subsequent reuse. Audi, along with ETOGAS, is building the first commercial-scale demonstration plant (6.3 Financing Project VGV: the Green Redemption Fund.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2013

The global geothermal industry surpassed 12,000 MW of geothermal power operational, with about 600 MW of new geothermal power coming online globally, according to a year-end update by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). New project announcements have increased the resource under development to about 30,000 MW.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

The Hydrogen Education Foundation announced the 11 th annual Hydrogen Student Design Contest, which will challenge student teams to develop business and financing models for hydrogen fueling stations. In previous years, teams have designed fueling stations, airport systems, and green buildings—all using hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

Skeleton Technologies, a manufacturer of high power- and energy-density ultracapacitors ( earlier post ) has completed Round A financing of €3.9 The financing will be used for production scale-up and product development in addition to sales and marketing efforts. million (US$5.4 million announced in April 2013.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

China’s Tsingshan , the world’s largest producer of stainless steel, will invest $375 million to build a lithium plant in Argentina with French multinational mining and metallurgy company Eramet. interest, and will retain operational management responsibility; its partner Tsingshan is financing the plant construction in exchange for 49.9%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2019

Airbus and LM Industries, the the parent company of Local Motors and Launch Forth, have formed Neorizon to provide disruptive and innovative products with an initial focus on local mobility and autonomy. —Jay Rogers, CEO and founder of LM Industries. leadership.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Iberdrola and H2 Green Steel (H2GS, earlier post )have signed an agreement to build a plant with an electrolysis capacity of 1 GW. The project will be financed through a combination of public funds, green project financing instruments and own funds.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2023

As part of the FUREC project, RWE plans to build a pre-treatment plant in Zevenellen, Limburg, to convert non-recyclable municipal solid waste (MSW) into solid recovered fuel pellets. The CO 2 released during the hydrogen production is captured and can be stored or possibly used as a raw material by industry in the future.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2021

Seven companies from the GET H2 initiative in Europe want to build a cross-border pipeline for green hydrogen. By using green hydrogen in refineries, in steel production and for other industrial uses, the overall project should be able to avoid CO 2 emissions of up to 16 million tonnes by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2012

China’s State Council has published a plan to develop the domestic energy-saving and new energy vehicle industry, which includes battery-electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid vehicles and fuel cell vehicles. 2012 Chinese Auto Industry Development Report. Developing the industrial system. L/100km (40 mpg US) or less.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

NFI Industries—a leading third-party supply chain solutions provider—is increasing its investment in electromobility solutions with its latest order of 60 Volvo VNR Electric trucks. Twenty of the trucks will be deployed as part of the Joint Electric Truck Scaling Initiative, or JETSI project. emission heavy?

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

GE Capital’s Transportation Finance business and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., Two of the factors that had delayed the transition to natural gas in the over-the-road trucking industry were related to technology and infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Unlike other renewable energy sources, hydrogen can fuel hard-to-decarbonize heavy industrial sectors like steel, heavy transport, and cement. Bloomberg New Energy Finance reports that clean hydrogen could cut up to 34% of global greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels and industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2018

Van Hool, the Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicles manufacturer, has landed a significant contract with RVK Köln and WSW Wuppertal (Germany), to supply 40 hydrogen buses of the latest generation. Van Hool has been building hydrogen buses for the American market since 2005 and for the European market since 2007.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2021

Among other things, we will promote the production of hydrogen on an industrial scale in Australia with German-Australian ‘Hydrogen Hubs’ using German technology and explore possibilities for cooperation within the framework of our new international funding instrument ‘H2-Global’. Co-financing of an AUS-DEU H 2 incubator for applied research.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

EnergyX) has secured commitments of $20 million in financing. EnergyX, along with its new partners and strategic investors including Obsidian Acquisition Partners, Helios Capital, and the University of Texas, hope to build a strong platform that binds together industry, academia, and natural resource management.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Among other projects, the Santiago de Chile-based company is building the Haru Oni eFuel pilot plant in Punta Arenas (Chile). The additional capital will be used to develop industrial eFuel facilities in Chile, the US and Australia, which have large supplies of renewable energy. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

In the DRC, this would mean building processing plants and refineries that would add value and, potentially, jobs within the country. UNCTAD also recommends that the industry find ways to reduce its dependence on critical raw materials. Brazilian mine. Agência Brasil/José Cruz. Source: UN.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

In addition to new investors BlackRock and Sinobioway, existing investors also participated in this financing. This new and significant financing will help accelerate our growth and further expand project development and implementation. Canada-based Enerkem Inc., Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2023

Globally, the battery industry needs to invest at least $514 billion across the whole supply chain to meet expected demand in 2030, and $920 billion by 2035, according to a new analysis by Benchmark. Energy storage might form a relatively small piece of the overall financing required, but it is a strategically critical piece of the puzzle.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2020

The A$300 million (US$193 million) Advancing Hydrogen Fund will be administered by the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC). Hydrogen has the potential to make a substantial contribution to our clean energy transition, reducing emissions across the economy while underpinning the development of an important domestic and export industry.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2021

million in new financing. Niron will use the funding to build its pilot production facility in Minnesota and accelerate the development of its Clean Earth Magnet technology. Niron Magnetics , a company developing high-performance rare-earth-free iron-nitride (FeN) permanent magnets, has raised $21.3

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Electrification Coalition has introduced its EV Policy Showroom, offering policymakers, EV advocates, industry partners and other stakeholders online access to easily navigable data and policy information on the deployment and adoption of electric vehicles and charging infrastructure. Screenshot from EV Policy Dashboard.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

As part of a cross-industry initiative, the BMW Group, BASF SE, Samsung SDI and Samsung Electronics have launched a joint cobalt pilot project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This fully privately financed project seeks to pilot an approach to address challenges in artisanal mining.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Daimler Truck supplies industry leading transportation solutions and services to customers. Both companies operate in industries that are facing major technological and structural changes. Mercedes-Benz is the world’s most valuable luxury car brand, offering the most desirable cars to discerning customers.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Tesla’s leadership status as king of the electric vehicle sector has been established through several years of innovation and the company’s ability to influence an entire industry. Finance to discuss what is priming companies for the future, along with where they rank in terms of preparedness. Yu joined Ya hoo!

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2022

Building sustainable and clean energy systems will be harder, riskier and more expensive without nuclear, according to the new report, Nuclear power and secure energy transitions: From today’s challenges to tomorrow’s clean energy systems.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

START is a significant step forward for the aluminum industry as the first offering of this kind, setting a new standard on transparency, traceability and responsible production from mine to market. Across its aluminum operations, Rio Tinto’s greenhouse gas emissions intensity is 60% lower than the industry average. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2013

biofuel made from cellulose, algae, duckweed, or cyanobacteria) could mitigate the current elevated risk of investing in the industry that is retarding its advance, according to a new paper by a team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) and Johns Hopkins University. The Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS2) in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

Plug Power, Chart Industries, Inc. Plug Power intends to commit €160 million ($200 million), and Chart Industries and Baker Hughes each intend to commit €50 million respectively ($60 million). The Fund will exclusively finance projects in the production, storage and distribution of clean hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

to finance the development and production of low-carbon fuels and energy transition metals. We are not naïve to the potential risks of pioneering new industries such as deepsea minerals and we are closely following NORI’s ongoing assessment of environmental and social impacts of their offshore operations.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson confirmed that the government will accelerate the ban on the sale of new gasoline and diesel vehicles, bringing it forward by ten years to 2030, as part of a “Green Industrial Revolution.” Johnson announced the plan as part of his outline of a 10-point plan supporting the Green Industrial Revolution.

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