CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 13, 2023

VW has a big following in South Africa and has a strong connection to the country due to its manufacturing presence as well as its large retail footprint in the country. VW has a factory in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, where it has the capacity to produce 162,000 vehicles per year. VW produces the ICE […]

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NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The combustion engines with four, six, eight and 12 cylinders produced there will be manufactured at the company’s locations in Steyr in Austria and Hams Hall in the UK going forward. Plant Regensburg will also start manufacturing the new BMW X1 in 2022, which will be available both with an combustion engine and a fully-electric drive train.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 3, 2023

2,142 passenger plug-in hybrid vehicles were built in South Africa from January to May this year. 1,740 plug-in hybrid vehicles were built from January to April, meaning that 402 passenger plug-in hybrid vehicles were built in the month of May.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

This year Nissan will export the South African built Navara pickup trucks to new markets of Algeria, Libya, Sudan, Tunisia and Egypt, Nissan Africa product Marketing Director Stefan Haasbroek said. Africa is the world’s last remaining automotive frontier due to the low level of vehicle ownership.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The Washington Post recently reported on some of the “dirty parts” of EV manufacturing, and it paints a picture of challenges ahead as more people look to make the shift to electrics. Materials like manganese mined in South Africa can have significant negative impacts on local communities and the people doing the mining.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We’re seeing more companies raising funds as they look to make the jump from concept cars to high-volume manufacturing. billion, the Enel Green Power South Africa portfolio, at $1.4 South Africa at $2.6 But the market looks increasingly crowded and consolidation is likely. —Colin McKerracher.

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DECEMBER 23, 2016

Volkswagen is taking a further step to develop market potentials in Africa. At the inauguration, Diess underlined Kenya’s key role within the Volkswagen brand’s Africa strategy: “ After over 60 years of Volkswagen vehicle production in South and North Africa, I am delighted to now have a further site in Kenya. initiative.

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JULY 31, 2017

during steel manufacturing. South Africa has the potential to produce more than 400,000 tonnes of ethanol per year from existing ferroalloy and titania producers. This would prevent the release of more than 700,000 tonnes of CO 2 per annum—the equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from South Africa’s roads.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

The introduction of the one-ton pickup with seating for up to 5 people will make Mercedes-Benz the first premium manufacturer to account for the changing customer requirements in the global segment of mid-size pickups. The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2018

As part of its worldwide regionalization strategy, Volkswagen is planning to expand its business presence significantly in Sub-Saharan Africa. Going forward, the brand will be focusing in particular on new app-based mobility services such as car sharing and ride hailing in Rwanda.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Mercedes-Benz is realigning its global passenger cars manufacturing activities and is strengthening its German passenger cars locations with investments worth billions of euros. “ Now, manufacturing will be organized according to product architectures, independent of individual locations.

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APRIL 24, 2014

The steel-based technology and capital goods group voestalpine’s 17 th production site in the United States began operation , manufacturing ultra-high strength body-in-white components for premium car manufacturers in Cartersville, Georgia. Additional plants and expanded capacity are in the planning stage.

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MARCH 27, 2015

Before the end of the decade, Mercedes-Benz will launch the first pickup from a premium manufacturer. The new Mercedes-Benz midsize pickup will initially be targeted at markets in Latin America, South Africa, Australia, and Europe, all of which are posting sustained growth in this segment.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

Honda Cars India has launched the Elevate in Japan which is their home market. This is the first time in Honda Cars India’s business that a car is being exported from India to Japan. Speaking on this occasion, Mr. Takuya Tsumura, President and CEO, Honda Cars India Ltd.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Full-scale production of Joule will begin at the end of 2013, with cars in showrooms by mid-2014. The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), as potential investor, is party to this Memorandum. Earlier post.) The IDC is currently an investor in Optimal Energy.

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APRIL 9, 2015

Shell, in collaboration with Professor Gordon Murray and engine specialist Osamu Goto will co-engineer an ultra-compact, efficient car for city use based around the internal combustion engine (ICE). The Shell car will be a ground-up, total re-think of the Gordon Murray Design T.25 Once built, the car will be tested on-the-road.

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

Tata Motors Limited, India’s largest automobile manufacturer, has confirmed its long term commitment to advanced research and development in the UK through the participation of its subsidiary, Tata Motors European Technical Centre (TMETC), in the UK’s National Automotive Innovation Campus (NAIC). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 3, 2016

The plant is expected to produce more than 230,000 cars a year by 2020. It will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers in Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. Construction will be completed in 2017, followed by preparation for pilot production of Infiniti vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2009

Anger, frustration, greed, lack of trust are a few of the many sentiments expressed by consumers and future car buyers globally, according to a recent “Tipping Point” study by Synovate Motoresearch, the automotive division of global market research company Synovate. However, consumers across the 16 countries fell into three distinct groups.

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Baua Electric

JULY 3, 2023

But because the shift to EVs continues, Ecu automakers are below rising drive to form upper feature cars extra affordably. For Peugeot, having the ability to draw on applied sciences inside the Stellantis society of manufacturers is essential to generating EVs extra successfully, Jackson stated. “As

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JULY 21, 2011

More than 400,000 of these cars were built in the country at the Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk, the first production facility owned by a global automotive company in Russia, and which started manufacturing the Ford Focus in August 2002. To date, more than 500,000 Ford Focus units have been sold in Russia.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

Mittelbach brings over 20 years of experience from Mercedes, serving as plant manager in East London and South Africa. Before joining Rivian, Materazzo was VP of manufacturing at Stellantis North America. Rivian’s COO, Frank Klein, described Materazzo’s experience in auto manufacturing as “second to none.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2019

The pilot project, which will form part of Volkswagen’s operations in Rwanda, was officially announced today by Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Group South Africa and responsible for the Sub-Sahara Africa Region, in the presence of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Rwanda, Right Honourable Dr. Edouard Ngirente.

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MARCH 10, 2017

The goal of the strategic alliance is to bundle the expertise of both car manufacturers with a view to jointly developing vehicle components and possibly also vehicle concepts. Through subsidiaries and associate companies, Tata Motors has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand, South Africa and Indonesia.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 14, 2022

The Wakoma team operates out of four countries and supports Nimbles in Canada, the Czech Republic, South Africa and the United States, with upcoming deployments planned in India, Kenya, and Mexico. The web of wireless nodes is resilient to the failure of individual nodes, Nitschke says. www.youtube.com.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 18, 2022

EXCLUSIVE FEATURE: EV ute overload: The electric pickup trucks coming soon READ MORE: Why electric cars will be more capable off-road. JAC will roll out right-hand drive SUVs the same year, while passenger cars will follow after that. While there will be ICE offerings, the focus will be on electrification. 2023 JAC T9 Hunter pick-up.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 12, 2023

Each mines usefulness hydropower for manufacturing and are taking into account expansions. billion declare in opposition to South Africa’s Sibanye-Stillwater upcoming Sibanye pulled out of a do business in to procure the similar two mines, bringing up a “geotechnical event” at Santa Rita.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

SDCmaterials, a developer of advanced catalyst products based on a novel materials fabrication and integration platform, announced a partnership and formalized a supply agreement with Car Sound, a leading manufacturer of catalysts and catalytic converters for the automotive aftermarket.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2009

Optimal Energy , the Cape Town, South Africa-based company that unveiled the Joule full battery-electric multi-purpose urban passenger vehicle to the world at the Paris Motor Show in 2008 ( earlier post ), plans to have pilot fleets on the road in South Africa and globally from 2010 onwards, with mass production to start in South Africa from 2012.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

Maruti Suzuki India’s (MSIL’s) latest offering – the fourth-generation Swift hatchback – which was launched on May 9, continues to retain its key USPs that have made it a popular choice among Indian car buyers since 2005. New, three-cylinder fuel-sipping engine One of the key recipients of this investment is the development of the new 1.2-litre

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2015

The primary target markets for the truck are Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars“. Market Background Vehicle Manufacturers' The vehicle will have all of Mercedes Benz’ distinctive characteristics and features.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2015

Tesla directly leased 494 cars to customers in Q3, worth $45 million of aggregate transaction value. Tesla exceeded its production plan by producing 13,091 vehicles, including the first Model X vehicles, despite a one-week shut down to expand manufacturing capacity. R&D spending remained above Q3 2014. billion miles to date.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars, agreed. The plant is expected to produce more than 230,000 cars a year by 2020. The car made its public debut at the Frankfurt show. We look forward to its continued growth, with more joint projects in the future. —Carlos Ghosn.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

The pre-owned cars sales are projected to grow around 17.5% The event gives auto component manufacturers from across the world a platform to connect and demonstrate capabilities in the aftermarket. CAGR until FY 28, fuelled by organised businesses and online platforms.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

The sedan and the five-door Fiesta hatchback are both built at the Changan Ford Mazda Automobile Company manufacturing facility in Nanjing. Pre-sale demand for the car in China has exceeded Ford’s expectations, with several thousand Chinese consumers placing orders ahead of the official launch.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

According to Cornell University’s SC Johnson School of Business, EV sales are expected to grow to 70% of total car sales by 2040 from just 4% in 2020. Manufacturer challenges On the manufacturing side, global demand for EV batteries doubled in 2021, driven largely by China’s EV sales. Who are the top countries for EV adoption?

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 30, 2021

In 2019, we wrote an article raising the alarm that South Africa’s inertia in incentivising the adoption of electric vehicles could make it miss out on the incredible opportunities presented by the electric vehicle revolution.

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