Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand. The joint venture will not be creating an additional sales organization in China for future electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2019

Volkswagen Brand China and its Chinese joint venture FAW-Volkswagen are scaling up their cooperation in the area of digitalization and connectivity. a joint venture between Volkswagen Group China and FAW-Volkswagen, will be established in the Chinese city of Chengdu. In Chinese, the two characters “Mó S?” Zhì Lián (????).).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

This marks the first investment by a non-Chinese automotive company in a Chinese OEM. The official closing of the transaction followed a short time after the signing of the investment agreement between the two companies in Stuttgart earlier this year and a smooth approval by the relevant Chinese authorities.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2023

Rendering of the future high-voltage battery assembly in Shenyang. —Milan Nedeljković The BMW Group has had a presence in the Chinese market since 1994 and founded the BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture in May 2003. The high-voltage batteries required for this will likewise be manufactured locally.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2021

Over the coming years, the former “Center of Future Mobility” in Dresden will steadily transform into the “Home of the ID.” The central goal is to act as a beacon for Volkswagen in Germany, offering customers, visitors and guests a holistic experience of the ID. This makes it the second production site for the ID.3 family and the MEB.

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EV Sales

JANUARY 18, 2021

The German automotive market has opened the flood gates to plugin vehicles, with December setting yet another record month, with a little less than 83,000 units, PEVs scored an amazing 27% share (14% BEV) in December, making Germany the largest PEV market outside China, beating even the USA by a wide margin (394k vs 330k). in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2017

The consultancy says that China will dominate both the market and the industry in the foreseeable future. France, however, has moved past Germany to take the lead in technology, according to the index. The large production volumes of Chinese domestic manufacturers benefit the nation in the industry rankings. Technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2022

Rheinmetall, together with its Chinese joint venture KPSNC, has won a major order for transmission housings from a world-leading maker of electric vehicles. Consisting of an aluminum alloy and produced using the pressure casting method, the transmission housings will be installed in the future in two of the automaker’s vehicle models.

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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. Future EQ models can be integrated in the series production of existing Mercedes-Benz plants on four continents.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 19, 2024

The Chinese automaker aims to engage with a broader audience by partnering with UEFA. UEFA EURP 2024 will take place in 10 stadiums in Germany from June 14 to July 14, 2024. The Chinese automaker also plans to invite fans to live match broadcasts, where they can enjoy the tournament and other activities BYD has planned for them.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

With a significant increase of battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) in the future, we need to focus on keeping key components like battery systems in our own value chain, allowing us to leverage Group-wide synergies and innovations. Experts from Germany provide support at the international facilities currently being set up, including in Anhui.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

Emden is now the second site for electric vehicles in Germany following Zwickau and also joins the Chinese plants in Anting and Foshan. million all-electric vehicles a year based on the MEB in the future at its sites in Europe, the US and China. Chattanooga (ID.4) 4) and Hanover will also commence production this year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although Germany takes the lead from France in terms of technology for this latest report, China is catching up quickly and ranks second in terms of technology for the first time. Chinese vehicles are improving significantly and becoming safer and more efficient.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Volkswagen faces mounting pressure to keep up with Tesla and Chinese automakers in the transition to battery-electric vehicles (BEVs), and its success in doing so could have major implications. The auto industry is faced with the question of whether and how we will be a global leader in the future,” Baerbock said at the event.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The EQS, the first electric luxury sedan from Mercedes-Benz, will start in the first half of 2021 in Factory 56 at the Sindelfingen site (Germany). kWh/100 km) at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Bremen (Germany) was integrated into ongoing series production. In May 2019 production of the EQC (combined power consumption: 21.5 solutions.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The company has attempted to test demand by importing vehicles from China or Germany into the market. But India, a country with a strong emphasis on domestic manufacturing, does not want Chinese-built vehicles, or even vehicles from Germany , which Tesla could also import from, in their market. I’d love to hear from you!

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Baua Electric

MAY 6, 2024

Germany may be facing a shortage of workers, but not all sectors are equally impacted. Emrullah Karaca has made brakes for the past 20 years, but he is now learning to assemble heat pumps instead, as the Continental factory where he works in northern Germany is slated to close. “That’s not the case in production.”

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Now, they plan to sell to markets abroad, already launching dealerships in the US and Germany. Zhidou Zhidou is a Chinese manufacturer of electric microcars. The MG4 EV–on sale in the UK SAIC Motor SAIC Motor is a Chinese state-owned car manufacturer that has been in operation since 1955.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

A key element of the brand’s continued strategic development will be local production of future battery-electric MINI vehicles in the world’s largest market for electromobility. To this end, the BMW Group has signed a letter of intent (LoI) with the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motor. Click to enlarge. million vehicles per year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

The BMW Group and the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motor signed an agreement to produce MINI electric vehicles through a new 50:50 joint venture based in China. The establishment of the new company is subject to approval from the relevant Chinese authorities and the completion of business registration procedures. Earlier post.)

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 2, 2023

Mercedes-Benz CEO Ola Kallenius has told the German media that the brand has no intention of cutting ties with China, saying such a move would be unwise for the whole of Germany industry.& Like many Western nations, Germany cut ties with Russia when war broke out in Ukraine. This purchasing power should benefit us."

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

Though 58% of Chinese said they were confident in higher-level AVs’ ability to navigate safely from one place to another, responses in the other five countries ranged from 36% down to just 18%. Seventy-nine percent of Americans said they’d wait five years or more. Twenty-seven percent of Americans surveyed said they’re confident. male and 49.5%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2020

The week of Chinese New Year holiday is indicated by the red lantern shown inset panels (b) and (h). The improvements in air quality will likely be temporary, but the findings give scientists a glimpse into what air quality could be like in the future as emissions regulations become more stringent, according to the researchers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2018

The BMW Group and the Chinese manufacturer Great Wall Motor signed an agreement to produce MINI electric vehicles through a new 50:50 joint venture based in China. The establishment of the new company is subject to approval from the relevant Chinese authorities and the completion of business registration procedures. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2020

Starting from its technical center in Korea, Hyundai Mobis has been building a global R&D network in the US, Germany, China and India, with a total of more than 5,000 R&D employees. Based on close cooperation, these centers are performing R&D activities to take the initiative in future automotive technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2019

From July, Audi will network new models with the traffic lights in Ingolstadt/Germany; further European cities will follow from 2020 onwards. In the future, anonymized data from our cars can help to switch traffic lights in cities to better phases and to optimize the traffic flow.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

In an event to be held this Wednesday at its “Van Innovation Campus” in Stuttgart, Mercedes-Benz Vans will unveil its vision of the van of the future: connected and electrically powered. (In Mercedes-Benz Vans expanded its plant in Fuzhou in the south-east of China with its first research and development center outside Germany in 2013.

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Baua Electric

MAY 12, 2024

Chinese EV brand Leapmotor, which has a joint venture (JV) with the Amsterdam-based Stellantis, may announce its India entry plan soon. The company is likely to introduce models from the A to C segments, and add more MPVs, SUVs and hatchbacks in future. Leapmotor, which sold a 20% stake for €1.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2018

This achievement underlines BMW Group’s leading role in the development of autonomous driving in the Chinese automotive industry. To carry out road tests for the preparation of Level 4 (L4) Autonomous Driving R&D in China, Shanghai is an attractive, innovative city, matching perfectly with BMW Group’s vision of future mobility.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Photo by Wallace Chuck on Pexels.com Ford is laying off some 3,500 workers in Germany as the automaker ends the production of the Focus – the once crazily popular car that never managed to get off the ground with its electric version – in 2025. Ford and IG Metall have been in negotiations to determine the fate of the workers.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Planned investments and development costs for future areas such as hybridization, electric mobility and digitalization will total roughly EUR 60 billion between 2020 and 2024 Share of planned spend for future topics increased in Planning Round 68 to approximately 40 percent from approximately 30 percent in the previous Planning Round.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2017

After the start in Germany, the test vehicle based on the new production S‑Class is now under test in the heavy traffic and exposed to the special national features in the Chinese megalopolis of Shanghai. The first leg took place in Germany in September.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2015

Part of Fraunhofer IAO’s China TechWatch research project involves analyzing developments in Chinese technology. Purely in terms of the number of patents filed, China has now far outstripped the United States and Germany. In terms of granted patents, the US is in the lead with 1,467, followed by China (515) and Germany (477).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2018

Together with the FAW-Volkswagen factory in Foshan, which opened this summer, SAIC Volkswagen’s plant will begin to produce e-cars on the MEB platform directly after the first worldwide MEB-production starts in Zwickau, Germany. < In this way, we emphasize the importance of the Chinese market for the Volkswagen Group.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Combined with a Chinese manufacturing boom, that lowered the overall cost of panels by 40 percent this year, Solyndra was unable to compete. As with the dotcom crash, the death of Solyndra, Evergreen and others will usher in a more robust solar industry not signal the disappearance of PV as a viable alternative for future energy needs.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2011

The reprocessed engines will allow Chinese drivers to benefit for the first time from genuine Volkswagen parts that are up to 50% less expensive. In Germany, the Volkswagen Group already has more than 60 years of experience in the reprocessing of components. 15,000 engines per year are to be reprocessed at the plant in Dalian.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2018

With this approval, Mercedes-Benz test vehicles will now begin real road tests to further perfect the technology in the Chinese capital of Beijing, a metropolis with unique and complex urban traffic situations. topics and tailor them to the Chinese market.

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