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How Do Automakers Handle Politics?

The Truth About Cars

As regular readers know, the regulatory side of the automotive industry is hugely important. It's not as fun to read about as a well-written car review of some sexy sports car being tested in Spain, but it matters a lot.

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ArcelorMittal Europe to produce “green steel” starting in 2020

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ArcelorMittal Europe is developing a series of industrial-scale hydrogen projects for use in blast furnace-based steelmaking that will start to deliver substantial CO 2 emissions savings even within the next five years, as well as progressing a project to test the ability of hydrogen to reduce iron ore and form DRI on an industrial scale.

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Spain extends scrappage scheme

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Spain has decided to extend its version of the scrappage scheme, to continue support for car industry. Spanish industry minister, Miguel Sebastian announced an extension of the Plan 200E scheme earlier this week, according to Costa News.

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11 more GM facilities worldwide go landfill-free; total up to 122

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Zaragoza Assembly (Spain). Zaragoza Stamping (Spain). It recycles and reuses every gallon of oil it buys from a refinery several times. The Grand Rapids site also works with a partner that processes wastewater treatment sludge into a fuel source for the building materials industry. Colmotores Assembly (Colombia).

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Think expands to Spain

Green Cars News

Having already established an electric vehicle testing programme in Austria, Think will continue its European expansion in Spain where it will deliver 550 City electric vehicles. According to Richard Canny, CEO of Think, Spain is an important market. NK electric vehicle testing programme Spain Think.

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Cheap solar panels from China are all over Europe – and everyone is freaking out

Baua Electric

Germany’s solar support has been in peril due to a budget crisis, while Spain hasn’t ruled out tariffs on solar panel imports. Back in September, the EU launched an investigation into the Chinese EV industry , as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese EV imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the EU.

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JATO: global vehicle sales fall by 39% in March; electrified vehicles up to 17.4% new registration market share in Europe

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The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. The industry is being impacted largely by the uncertainty for the future, and this issue started to arise even before the pandemic took hold. million units.

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