Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Kia has provided a first look at a redesigned, second-generation Niro, plus a nod that this sustainability-focused crossover will again be offered in hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and fully electric versions starting next year. The company hasn’t provided any update on which of these models are U.S.-bound—or

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 6, 2023

The overall sales increase was driven by the company´s fully electric cars which quadrupled compared to the same period last year. Volvo Cars reported global sales of 66,379 cars in June, up 33 per cent compared with the same month last year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2021

In China, where sales returned to growth around this time last year, the company reported a steady increase of 11.7%. Sales of the Recharge line-up of chargeable models, with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain, remained strong in Europe during the month of May, and represented 40% of the company’s overall sales in the region.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Ghent is currently preparing to take a second fully electric Volvo model, based on the CMA modular vehicle architecture, into production later this year. The plant already builds the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electric car, as well as a plug-in hybrid version of the XC40.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. The XC40 Recharge P8 is the first of a family of fully electric Volvos. Volvo XC40 Recharge powertrain.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Volvo Cars starts the year on a solid note as the company reports its 17th month of consecutive growth. Sales of Volvo Cars’ Recharge models with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain reached 19,171 […] The post Volvo Cars Reports January Sales, 36% Market Share Of Plug-in Vehicles appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2022

In May the share of fully electric cars grew to 7.9% (3,652 units), up from 3.7% (2,399 units out of 64,111). Sales of Recharge models (plug-in hybrid and fully electric) represented 33.6% Plug-in hybrid. Fully electric. Plug-in hybrid. Fully electric. Plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The share of Volvo Cars with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain—the Recharge models—amounted to 25.5% Sales of Volvo Cars’ fully electric models reached 3.1% During the month of October, Volvo Cars also started production of the fully electric C40 Recharge in Ghent.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Volvo Cars has acquired a stake in mobile EV rapid charging company FreeWire Technologies ( earlier post ) via the Volvo Cars Tech Fund. FreeWire is a San Francisco-based company that has been a pioneer in flexible fast-charging technology for electric cars. Freewire products currently offer Level 2 charging at 7.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

The Nissan LEAF is currently the only fully electric passenger vehicle in the US market able to supply energy to the grid, allowing LEAF owners with the Fermata Energy FE-15 bi-directional charger to park their vehicle, plug it in, and save money with their local electric utility as well as reduce the total cost of ownership of the vehicle.

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Baua Electric

MAY 22, 2024

Is Toyota catching up in the US electric vehicle market? Although Toyota’s US boss, Ted Ogawa, admits it’s behind Tesla, he believes the company is “catching up” on electric vehicles and new tech. Toyota has been among the biggest laggards in shifting to fully electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2023

Integration of the NEUE KLASSE into our production in China goes hand in hand with construction of a high-voltage battery assembly for the next, sixth generation of batteries and will make a significant contribution to further electrification of our lineup and, therefore, to our success as a company.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

The delivery of the three e-trucks is part of a larger partnership between Volvo Trucks and Danfoss, focusing on pioneering sustainable electric transport operations. Nine fully electric Volvo trucks are set to be in operation before 2024. One of the new electric trucks at the Danfoss headquarters in Nordborg.

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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. At that point, the BMW Group will offer five fully-electric production vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2020

Local battery production is an important success factor for Mercedes-Benz AG’s electric offensive and the key element to meet the global demand for electrified vehicles flexibly and efficiently. The company is therefore investing more than €1 billion to establish a global battery production network. kWh/100 km), among other things.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2021

We expect at least 50 percent of the vehicles we deliver to our customers worldwide to be fully electric by 2030. And we are systematically expanding our production network for electric drive trains in response to this. Now, the location will also produce electric drivetrain components.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2022

Last year, almost 40% of all new Porsche vehicles delivered in Europe were already at least partly electric—i.e. plug-in hybrids or fully electric models. But by 2030, the share of all new vehicles with an all-electric drive should be more than 80%, Blume said.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2017

ZF is using its plug-in Vision Zero concept vehicle to showcase a number of new safety and zero local emissions technologies. The vehicle features a 150 kW electric axle drive system for dynamic acceleration.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Valmet Automotive has started the series production of battery systems in Kirchardt, the Finnish company’s first battery plant in Germany. The plant near Heilbronn manufactures high-voltage systems for electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids. Currently the plant has a workforce of around 60 employees.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

As policy, Daimler managers will be driving electrified company cars—mainly its plug-in hybrid (PHEV) models. Furthermore, Daimler this year will invest a further €30 million (US$34 million) into extending the company’s own charging infrastructure across many of its sites. Ola Källenius.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2019

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, presented its electric strategy which, until the beginning of 2021, includes six electric and plug-in hybrid models. The CUPRA Leon and the CUPRA Formentor will also have a plug-in hybrid variant. In 2018 SEAT obtained the best results in its history. more than the previous year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Global sales of BMW Group electrified models (fully-electric and plug-in hybrid) increased by 10.1% Sales of the MINI Cooper S E Countryman ALL4 plug-in hybrid climbed 35.9% The BMW Group also plans to offer 25 electrified models by 2023—more than half will be fully electric.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2016

a provider of hybrid and electric vehicle drivetrain solutions, is increasing the size and capacity of its Dixon, California vehicle engineering and support facility. The company will be moving its current Dixon operations into a new 10,000 square foot space in February of 2017. Efficient Drivetrains, Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2022

The new BMW 7 Series also comes with next-level internal combustion and plug-in hybrid drive technology. With the addition of the BMW i7, the BMW 7 Series will become the first fully-electric luxury sedan in the BMW line-up available with either an internal combustion engine or a plug-in hybrid drivetrain.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

The supply situation continues to ease, but component shortages will remain a constraining factor, the company said. Of the Recharge models sold in January 2022, 11,944 were plug-in hybrids (79% of the Recharge total, 25% of overall total), while 3,127 were fully electric (21% of Recharge total, 6.6% of total sales).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2020

Recharge is the overarching brandname for all chargeable Volvo models with a fully electric or plug-in hybrid powertrain. In April, the XC60 mid-size SUV was the top selling model for the company, followed by the compact XC40 SUV and the large XC90 SUV. of the company’s total sales, up from 62.4%

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Sales of the MINI Cooper S E Countryman ALL4 Plug-in Hybrid climbed 30.1% With the launch of the BMW X3 as a plug-in hybrid and the pure electric MINI Electric, the BMW Group will be expanding its range of electrified vehicles to 12 models by the end of this year. to 34,479 units.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Atlis Motor Vehicles (Atlis), a vertically integrated start-up EV company developing an electric work truck and the batteries and motors to drive it, signed a collaborative agreement with ArcelorMittal, the leading producer of automotive steels, to help speed its product development.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2019

In May, cumulated BMW Group electrified sales topped the 400,000 mark with a total of 406,756 fully-electric and plug-in hybrid models delivered to customers since the BMW i3 first went on sale in November 2013. Overall sales of BMW Group electrified vehicles grew by 9.8%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2010

Dow Kokam and PVI are partnering on a small fleet of fully electric refuse trucks. The electric truck and its battery system, which will be produced and assembled in France, were unveiled at Pollutec 2010 by PVI and its partner SITA, a subsidiary of Suez Environnement, alongside examples of Dow Kokam’s battery system technology.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2020

ComEd will replace end-of-life internal combustion vehicles with plug-in hybrid and fully electric vehicles, reducing fuel and maintenance costs and creating savings that will be passed on to customers. More than 200 of its vehicles have electric hybrid or plug-in hybrid electric systems and another 10 are all-electric vehicles.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

The company aims to have one million electrified vehicles on the road within two years, said Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG. Next year, the BMW X3 will become the first BMW Group vehicle available with four different drive train variants: diesel, gasoline, plug-in hybrid and pure electric.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

With the production launch of the electric compact SUV EQA at the Rastatt plant (Germany) and the current decision to locate EQB production in the Hungarian plant in Kecskemét, the company is taking further important steps toward making its product portfolio CO? neutral vehicle fleet and to the Mercedes-Benz AG electric offensive.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

This gives the company full transparency over where both raw materials come from. The BMW Group’s fifth-generation electric drive trains from 2021 on will also be produced entirely without using rare earths. On 14 November, the company opened its Battery Cell Competence Center in Munich.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The building materials company has taken delivery of two all-electric iONTRON mixer trucks from Putzmeister , which will become part of the Berlin truck mixer fleet. The iONTRON eMixer is fully electrically powered, reducing carbon emissions by up to 100% depending on the local electricity mix.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion in its US operations, including $1 billion to prepare for the production of electric vehicles at the company’s Plant Spartanburg in South Carolina, and $700 million to build a new high-voltage battery assembly facility in nearby Woodruff, SC. By 2030 BMW Group will build at least six fully electric models in the US.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 13, 2024

The company has been seen testing electrified versions of the car, so we could see a plug-in hybrid or fully electric variant at some point, but for now, we should take a moment to celebrate the V8—assuming it arrives. It’s worth noting that these are unconfirmed reports.

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