Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The proceeds of the bond will be used to fund the design, development and manufacturing of fully electric cars in line with the company’s recently established Green Finance Framework. The €500-million bond was issued under Volvo Cars’ Euro Medium Term Note program.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Volvo Cars says that it is making significant investments that allow for the in-house design and development of electric motors for the next generation of Volvo models, as the company continues to move towards becoming a fully electric car maker.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2020

The Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Chengdu, the company’s largest in China, is now powered by 100% renewable electricity, taking the company’s global renewable electricity mix in its manufacturing network to 80%. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

The EST will research the experience, driving patterns and economics of private hire drivers using electric cars and the capacity of London’s current network of charging points to support these vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Volvo Cars and Northvolt have selected Gothenburg, Sweden to establish a new battery manufacturing plant which will commence operations in 2025, and complement the planned R&D center that both companies announced in December as part of an investment of approximately SEK 30 billion (US$3.3 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2014

Thriev , a company offering zero-emission, chauffeured cars to corporate and private users in London, is adding 20. BYD e6 electric cars to the fleet. Last month, the Mayor of London announced that from 1 January 2018, all new taxis would have to be zero-emission capable in order to gain an operating licence.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

While production has continued to gradually improve, retail deliveries were held back due to an increase of cars in transit. The supply situation continues to ease, but component shortages will remain a constraining factor, the company said. Sales of Volvo Cars’ Recharge (electrified) models increased by 11.5%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2022

Volvo Cars will build a third manufacturing plant in Europe, positioning the company well to meet the continued demand from its customers for electric cars and capture future growth potential. Volvo Cars has an ambition to move towards annual sales of 1.2 The new facility represents an investment of around €1.2

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Volvo Cars has published a lifecycle analysis report on its second fully electric car, the C40 Recharge, which shows the potential CO 2 reductions if a car is built and charged using clean energy sources. When charging with electricity generated through fossil fuels, that difference becomes much smaller.

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Drive Electric

MARCH 25, 2021

If you’re looking at electric cars , environmental impact is probably high on your list of priorities. There are plenty of benefits of making the switch to driving an electric vehicle (EV). Here we look at how and why EVs can play a major role in your company fleet. Are electric cars better for the environment?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2021

Volvo Cars and its parent company Geely Holding will create a joint venture under the name Aurobay for its powertrain operations, as the companies proceed with their earlier announced plans to merge these into a new, stand-alone business. By 2030, it plans for every car it sells to be pure electric.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

Rapidly moving towards becoming a fully electric car company, Volvo Cars is bringing battery cell technology development and production closer to home and aims to tailor its future batteries to the needs of its customers: a longer range and faster charging times. —Henrik Green, chief technology officer.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2014

Green Automotive Company has (GAC) acquired 21.63% of Viridian Motor Corporation (VMC), a US-based electric truck manufacturer. Viridian Motor Corporation (VMC) is building fully electric, light-duty trucks using its own electric drive train and battery packs.

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EV Obssesion

MAY 23, 2021

Two Kia e-Niro adapted for use as electric emergency response vehicles The cars will be used as part of an initial pilot study Each car is equipped with life-saving equipment, medication and supplies for first responder paramedics Estimated 25 per cent reduction in maintenance costs over a petrol or diesel equivalent Two Kia e-Niro […].

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The R&D center, which will become operational in 2022, will create a few hundred jobs in Gothenburg and positions Volvo Cars as one of the automotive brands making battery cell development and production part of their end-to-end engineering capabilities.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Charging and energy are becoming a core business for Volkswagen; the company is building a universal and seamless eco-system for charging its electric models. Customers can choose here between the basic version and two fully networked variants, which they can control using the We Connect ID. million electric cars for a year.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

In fact, Volvo’s last diesel-powered car rolled off the production line last month as the automaker looks toward a cleaner future. Volvo sold over 113,000 fully electric vehicles in 2023, up 70% compared to 2022. Electric cars accounted for 16% of Volvo’s total vehicle sales in 2023, but this year is expected to be even bigger.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

The KBB report says nearly 500,000 fully-electric vehicles were purchased last year. Whether it would be a fully-electric car, hybrid, or plug-in hybrid, consumer data seems to show more emphasis on buying sustainable vehicle options. million, it says. “Electrified vehicle sales accounted for 9.7%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is expanding its production capacities for electric cars in Europe. The Hambach plant in France, which currently produces smart brand electric vehicles, will produce a compact electric car of the new product and technology brand EQ.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

trillion yen, on battery supply systems and research and development of electric vehicle battery technology by 2030. The investment will help the Japanese automaker establish a system for the development and supply of batteries for electrified models. billion, or 1.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2019

Since the beginning of development of its first fully electric cars, Audi has worked on the recycling of the vehicle. The company aims to apply resources efficiently and purposely pursues this idea in all directions. From this, new battery cells containing recycled cobalt and nickel can be produced.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 5, 2021

GM and LG Energy Solutions, who supplies the batteries for the Bolt EV, said that “the simultaneous presence of two rare manufacturing defects in the same battery cell” could cause a fire if the battery pack is charged fully. The company also advised owners not to charge their vehicles above 90%.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2017

Jedlix , a subsidiary of Dutch renewable energy company Eneco, has made its smart charging app available to all home-charging Tesla drivers. Jedlix’ mission is that, in time, all cars will run on renewable energy. Our software creates a direct link between electric cars and the supply of renewable energy.

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Teslarati

JUNE 27, 2022

Chinese electric vehicle sales have hit 31 percent of the overall market, with 25 percent being pure EVs, a substantial growth year-over-year. According to a report by CleanTechnica , sales of electrified vehicles in May hit 31 percent of the overall market with 25 percent being fully electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2018

Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain said that Mercedes-Benz will build its electric vehicles in six plants on three continents. The company is planning to offer more than 50 electrified vehicle variants. The company plans to invest €10 billion (US$12.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2019

In addition, four new plug hybrid versions ( earlier post ) and the fully electric Formula E race car Audi e-tron FE05 will be displayed on the Audi stand—which consists exclusively of electrically driven cars this year. Audi e-tron GT concept.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Volvo is one of the first carmakers to commit to going fully electric by 2030. According to the report, Volvo expects EVs to account for more than 40-45% of its total sales in 2023 when it launches its new electric C40 crossover in September. Volvo Cars is on track to make 50% of its total sales of electric cars by 2025.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 18, 2022

The company has been talking with the state government of Nuevo Leon and Mexico’s foresight relations ministry over the past few weeks. ” Canada has the minerals and supplies automakers need to manufacture electric vehicles and EV batteries. “What we want is the electric car , not the battery.

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Teslarati

JUNE 22, 2021

Duesmann, who once said that Audi’s combustion engine efforts were “ far from dead ,” has now taken an approach that will join the company with many other automakers who have set goals to stop producing combustion engine vehicles by a set date. Audi still has several steps before the plan is ultimately set into motion.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Former Tesla CTO and co-founder JB Straubel recently shared some insights about the electric vehicle revolution and the focus of OEMs on pure electric cars. As noted by Straubel, Tesla was actually quite surprised that the Model S did not cause a substantial shift among OEMs to commit fully to battery-electric cars.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 6, 2021

General Motors has long talked about its plans to expand its lineup of electric vehicles, with plans to be fully electric by 2035. The company plans to do this through revenue in its new services, while operating and maintaining off of its current offerings, Barra said, according to an interview with CNBC.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Volvo Cars will invest SEK 10 billion (US$1.09 billion) in its Torslanda manufacturing plant in Sweden in coming years, in preparation for the production of the next generation of fully electric cars. Earlier post.). Other benefits from mega-casting include reduced complexity in the manufacturing process.

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Teslarati

MARCH 28, 2022

LGES and Stellantis hope to establish a strong battery supply chain in Windsor. Creating a joint venture battery manufacturing company in Canada, recognized as one of the leading nations in renewable energy resources, is key for LG Energy Solution as we aim to power more electric vehicles around the world.”.

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EV Adoption

MARCH 3, 2021

Volvo to go all electric by 2030 – Volvo announced that its entire car line-up will be fully electric by 2030 and joins GM, JLR, Ford Europe, and other automakers in stating their goals or “aspirations” (in the case of GM) – to end production of gas-powered vehicles by 2030 or 2035 depending on the OEM.

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Electric Vehicles India

JANUARY 25, 2023

Here is the end of your wait for bookings for the all-electric SUV, XUV400 Mahindra & Mahindra has finally announced that bookings for its fully electric XUV400 SUV will begin on January 26, 2023. Mahindra’s XUV400 all-electric SUV is covered by a 3-year/unlimited mileage warranty.

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Plug N Drive

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Throughout the process, it is important that your messaging remains consistent and that your organization has a clear position on electric transportation. Like any company asset, there needs to be clear rules in place regarding workplace charging stations. Developing a Charging Policy.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JUNE 4, 2022

.” On May 18th, the companies inked a collaboration deal that the two companies will now assess the scope of their partnership. The companies’ shared goal for the collaboration is to grow the electric car market and accelerate the electrification of the Indian automotive sector. Assessing The Scope.

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