Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

FREYR Battery announced that the Research Council of Norway, Innovation Norway, and Siva have granted $11 million (NOK 100 million) through the Norwegian Green Platform initiative to a consortium of companies, including FREYR. The project has been thoroughly evaluated, both by national and international experts.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Following on from the order for 17 fully electric MAN Lion’s City E buses placed by the Hamburg-Holstein public transportation company (VHH), this is another major order we have received for our electric buses. It is a clear indication of the extent of the interest in innovative and forward-looking drive technology at an international level.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2017

In the spirit of circular economics, Neste and Fazer Bakery in Finland are joining forces with the “Doughnut Trick” campaign. The value of the fuel will be donated to the Finnish chapter of the charity SOS Children’s Village International. This is around three doughnuts a year for each person in Finland. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2020

In a three-year Business Finland BioFlex project, VTT—the Finnish state-owned research agency—and partners are exploring how suitable fuel oils made from biomass and waste plastics are for power plants and ship diesel engines. Internal-combustion engine power plants use natural gas or heavy fuel oil in diesel engines.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Visedo, a Finnish manufacturer specializing in electric powertrains and components, has secured a financing package of €20 million (US$21 million) to support its international growth plans. Visedo’s head office is located in Lappeenranta, Finland, and the company has a subsidiary in the Netherlands.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Tesla’s decision to hire a test specialist in Tarragona appears to be the company’s move to make significant progress with ADAS development in Europe. The jobs were located throughout Europe, including Zurich, Switzerland, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Helsinki, Finland. Below are the Test Specilist’s responsibilities.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

The European Parliament is calling for an international ban on the use and carriage of heavy fuel oil on vessels operating in the Arctic, like that which is to apply to the Antarctic from August 2011. Denmark, Sweden and Finland are the three EU Member States represented in the AC.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

The eFuel Alliance is based in Berlin and Brussels and brings together companies and organizations that share the goal of establishing and promoting power- and bio-based synthetic fuels to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport. billion vehicles are currently powered by conventional internal combustion engines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

Full-scale engine tests have been recently carried out in Wärtsilä’s engine laboratory in Vaasa, Finland, to assess the optimum engine parameters for running on these fuels. For the marine market, the company expects to have an engine running on an ammonia blend already this year. —Håkan Agnevall, CEO of Wärtsilä.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2015

The first Etanolix plant delivered to the international market by Finland-based St1 Biofuels Oy was inaugurated in Gothenburg, Sweden last week. In Finland, there are already four Etanolix plants and one Bionolix plant that produces ethanol from biowaste from shops and households. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

JANUARY 24, 2023

Elon Musk has been open about the idea that Tesla’s valuation in the future would likely rely on whether the company could perfect its Full Sef-Driving and Autopilot technology or not. This was hinted at by “ADAS Test Operator” job openings in Switzerland, Finland, and Denmark.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2022

The project, called “IPCEI Hy2Tech” was jointly prepared and notified by fifteen Member States: Austria, Belgium, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia and Spain. Investing in such innovative technologies can however be risky for one Member State or one company alone.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Rolls-Royce and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd have formed a strategic partnership to design, to test and to validate the first generation of remote and autonomous ships. The new partnership will combine and integrate the two companies’ unique expertise to make such vessels a commercial reality. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2020

International logistics service provider DB Schenker will bring a total of 36 additional FUSO eCanter vehicles into operation in eleven European countries. Since 2019, the company has added further vehicles in Paris, Frankfurt and the Stuttgart area.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2021

Porsche is investing a high double-digit-million amount in its new joint venture company Cellforce Group GmbH. The new chemistry reduces the battery’s internal resistance, allowing it to absorb more energy during energy recuperation and at the same time offering improved performance for fast charging.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

A new solution by Nordic clean energy company Fortum makes more than 80% of an electric vehicle (EV) battery recyclable, returns the scarce metals back into circulation and resolves the sustainability gap by reducing the need to mine cobalt, nickel, and other scarce metals.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Founded in 2009, Visedo is a Finnish company specializing in electric powertrains and components for the marine industry, commercial vehicles and heavy-duty machinery. Visedo’s head office is located in Lappeenranta, Finland, and the company has a subsidiary in the Netherlands. kWh per kilometer.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Northern Lights Energy ( NLE ), the initiator of the 2012 charging infrastructure project and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EV) based in Iceland, has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company to jointly develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland. This is what the Project 2012 is all about.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Biomass technology group BTG plans to set up a new high-tech technology company that can convert crude pyrolysis oil into diesel fuel suitable for the shipping sector. The new facility will be operated by a new company named BTG-neXt. In 2019, Empyro was acquired by the waste processing company Twence.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

So while researchers and companies large and small invest in the zero-carbon future of the field, others are beginning to study what supplies and infrastructure on the ground would also be needed to make hydrogen aviation a reality. Hydrogen may be a good thing, but you gotta look at it from the full system level, right?,” asks Professor R.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2013

BYD Company, Ltd. It features an all-aluminum frame with appropriate weight distribution with an internally developed energy recovery system (during braking). This allowed the company to start selling buses in the European markets. This allowed the company to start selling buses in the European markets.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2010

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Kemira Oyj are opening a new joint R&D center in São Paulo, Brazil. The new center is a continuum for the Center of Water Efficiency Excellence, which Kemira initially established together with VTT in Finland. The center will start operations in the end of 2010.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2011

The company already operates two renewable diesel plants that came on stream at Porvoo in Finland in 2007 and 2009 with a combined capacity of 380,000 metric tons per annum. At the end of January 2011, Neste Oil’s Singapore refinery was ISCC (International Sustainability & Carbon Certification) certified.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2017

In Norway, 90% of all Panamera customers order a hybrid model, while in Finland the figure is 85%. Sustainability is the foundation of our company management. Furthermore, Porsche and Audi are representing the Volkswagen Group in IONITY, a joint venture with the BMW Group, Daimler AG and Ford Motor Company. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Neste Oil has received an ISCC ( International Sustainability & Carbon Certification ) certificate for the NExBTL renewable diesel produced at the company’s Porvoo refinery in Finland. Beginning in 2011, all biofuels sold in Germany will be required to have sustainability certification.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. It will provide a platform for conducting research with international companies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2016

NSF, in partnership with leading wireless industry companies, announced the formation of a collaboration to design, deploy and operate four platforms for advanced wireless research over the next seven years. Joint solicitation with the Academy of Finland on Wireless Innovation between Finland and the US (WiFiUS).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2016

The ships will join the fleet of Royal Caribbean International. RCL has signed a memorandum of understanding with Finland shipbuilder Meyer Turku for the new class of vessel under the project name “Icon.” The company is also expanding its fleet with new Oasis- and Quantum-class ships for Royal Caribbean International.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Internationally, the EU should participate actively within the International Civil Aviation Organisation with the aim of creating by 2016, a global market-based-mechanism in the aviation sector that will operate from 2020. The Council agreed to a binding target of at least 27% for the share of renewable energy consumed in the EU in 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2016

It acknowledges the International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) aim to achieve carbon neutral growth by 2020 and a 50% reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. Working with experts from SkyNRG, Air BP sourced the initial batch of drop-in Biojet from Neste’s Porvoo refinery in Finland. —David Gilmour, CEO for Air BP.

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Cars That Think

MAY 26, 2023

The system combines advanced mobility and an open modular structure to serve the education, research, and entertainment markets, said the Hangzhou, China–based company. This work will be presented at the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation ( ICRA 2023 ) in London next week. CMU ] DEEP Robotics Co.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The new shore connection systems to be developed by ABB and Fincantieri will meet all current international standards, and can be installed on ships while under construction, docked for maintenance or even out at sea. a joint venture company tasked with designing and developing integrated automation systems for the marine sector.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2015

Diversified energy technology company Holtec is partnering with the US subsidiary of Mitsubishi Electric Corporation—Mitsubishi Electric Power Products Inc. The reactor system is designed to withstand the strongest Design Basis Earthquake postulated for any existing US or international nuclear plant location.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2011

K2 Energy also has experience in the pre-operational stage of battery manufacturing, in particular providing technology and licensing support to European Batteries Oy’s lithium battery manufacturing facility in Varkaus, Finland. Most of the company’s battery packs are sold in the United States of America and Europe.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

CNRS Montpellier, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd., Popov (2012) “A review of gas diffusion layer in PEM fuel cells: Materials and designs,” International Journal of Hydrogen Energy , Volume 37, Issue 7, Pages 5850-5865 doi: 10.1016/j.ijhydene.2011.12.148. Project management support is being provided by Pretexo.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Exhaust emissions from diesel engines were recently labelled as carcinogenic by the International Agency for Research on Cancer. At the other end of the scale, the same truck driving in Cyprus, Malta and Finland causes damage of around €0.005 (US$0.01) per kilometer. In some regions the cost is also much higher than others.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2011

At temperatures below 800°C the interconnect plates that are used to direct fuel and oxygen flow, collect electrical current and hold the fuel cells in place in the stack, can be stamped from commercial stainless steel rather than made of exotic metal alloys or expensive conductive ceramic materials, the company says.

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