Electrek

MARCH 24, 2023

The Polestar 2 is taking the auto industry by storm, placing among the top ten-selling electric vehicle in some of the most popular vehicle markets. In 2022, the Polestar 2 became a top-selling electric company car and made the top ten overall company cars in Germany, home of luxury vehicles and auto innovation.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched the Battery Cell Research Production Center, a new R&D and large-scale industrial manufacturing plant for lithium-ion cells; the center will receive an investment of €500 million. In addition, the company maintains a research and development group in Itzehoe.

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Li-ion Germany Lithium Ion Manufacturer 312

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JUNE 14, 2021

German Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier and Federal Minister of Research Anja Karliczek, together with their Australian counterpart, Energy Minister Angus Taylor, have signed a letter of intent to establish a “Germany Australia Hydrogen Accord” to facilitate a green hydrogen supply chain between the countries.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Infinium, an electrofuels solution provider, announced the close of a funding round bringing together a consortium of investors including Amazon’s Climate Pledge Fund, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI), AP Ventures, Neuman & Esser, and the Grantham Environmental Trust.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Velodyne Lidar has acquired Bluecity, a Montreal-based artificial intelligence (AI) software company, in an all-stock transaction. The addition of Bluecity is expected to be immaterial to operating expenses and cash usage. Bluecity’s executive, software development and sales teams will join Velodyne.

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MARCH 29, 2021

From 2022 onwards, the company will purchase electricity in Germany which comes exclusively from renewable sources. The CO 2 -free electricity from solar, wind and hydro sources is generated in various power plants, most of which are located in Germany. A green power concept of this type and scale is so far unique in Germany.

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MAY 23, 2021

Around 80% of the approximately 7,500 GWh produced by the wind park will be supplied as green electricity for innovative technologies for CO 2 reduction and thus power the transformation of BASF sites in Germany, especially the Verbund site in Ludwigshafen. These plans could result in the avoidance of around 3.8

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC’s) first shipment of low-carbon ammonia recently left the United Arab Emirates (UAE) bound for Hamburg, Germany. This is the first cargo of low-carbon ammonia to be shipped to Germany. Earlier post.).

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Cemex Germany continues to invest in more sustainable transport for its products. 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.

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AUGUST 18, 2023

Vulcan Energy Resources, a renewable energy producer and carbon-neutral lithium developer, has commenced commissioning of its Lithium Extraction Optimization Plant (LEOP) for the purpose of extraction, purification, and concentration of lithium chloride from brine in the Upper Rhine Valley in Germany. Earlier post.)

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APRIL 1, 2021

Small and medium-sized companies can apply for funding from 12 April until the end of the year. In particular, companies in the retail trade and in the hotel and restaurant industry as well as small municipal utilities and local authorities are invited to submit applications. —Federal Minister Andreas Scheuer.

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OCTOBER 29, 2022

While these complex machines are rapidly evolving, they remain challenging to build, require deep levels of expertise and a path towards industrialization must be further developed. Founded in 2020, the company develops, produces, operates and markets computing time on ion trap-based quantum computers.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2020

project for industrial-scale production of green hydrogen via the electrolysis of water using ?renewable west Germany. The companies anticipate the project could be ?operational power, industry and transport sectors, especially those that are hard-to-electrify or ?expensive-to-electrify. operational by 2024.

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AUGUST 24, 2020

Porsche Digital has spun off its own company in the field of e-mobility, thereby expanding its digital business portfolio. The start-up, which is based in Frankfurt am Main in Germany, thus offers the first loyalty program for e-mobility in Europe. &Charge” has been a climate-neutral company since its foundation.

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JULY 14, 2021

The goals of both partners are to industrialize the planned battery cell production at the Salzgitter site of Volkswagen Group Components and to develop first use cases of the Volkswagen unified cell concept for the volume segment. In addition, Volkswagen (China) Investment Company Ltd. VCIC) and Hefei Gotion High-Tech Power Energy Co.,

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APRIL 18, 2021

RWE Supply & Trading and Australian hydrogen project developer The Hydrogen Utility Pty Ltd (H2U) have joined forces to develop hydrogen trading between Australia and Germany. Furthermore, the planned LNG Terminal in Brunsbüttel, where RWE intends to book capacity, can be a location for the future import of hydrogen into Germany.

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Electrek

JANUARY 23, 2024

Major car suppliers in Germany say they are struggling with the high upfront costs of shifting to EVs and “slow demand,” with companies looking to lay off thousands of workers, as much as 20% of total staff in some cases, in the coming years.

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APRIL 11, 2024

Vulcan’s lithium chloride output will be converted into battery-grade lithium hydroxide at the company’s new conversion plant in Frankfurt in the second half of the year, Moreno said. The German government has created a 1.1

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

The company will invest €60 million in the construction of its first production facility, called “Plant One”, of which €30 million comes from a European Investment Bank (EIB) loan facility. The company is working with partners to apply the technology in next-generation consumer electronics, electronic vehicles and e-flight applications.

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JANUARY 28, 2021

That is why we commissioned DLR to work with partners from research and industry to design a production system so that we can produce the fuel economically and put it into use more quickly. For profitable production, however, we have to integrate the individual elements into an industrial process chain and bring them to an industrial scale.

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AUGUST 26, 2022

Mexico has formed a state-run company called Litio para Mexico (LitioMx) to mine the country’s lithium. million tons of identified lithium resources, ranking the country 10 th in the world behind Bolivia, Argentina, Chile, the US, Australia, China, Congo, Canada and Germany. According to the USGS, Mexico has 1.7

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (CE&IG), a part of the Nikkiso Co., Ltd (Japan) group of companies, announced multiple contracts to provide more than a dozen Hydrogen Fueling Stations (HFS) to customers in California and South Korea. Korea, and Neuenbürg, Germany.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2024

“Fleets of companies and public authorities provide significant leverage for the market ramp-up of e-mobility. But we also want to be a pioneer in our industry and send a clear signal for sustainable fleet management in line with our DEGREE framework,” explained Stefan Kurz, Head of Global Fleet Management at Siemens.

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2022

Swedish battery company Northvolt announced today that it will build a new €4 Billion battery Gigafactory in Northern Germany in the city of Heide. The plant, known as “Northvolt Drei,” will be the company’s third production facility of at least 60 gigawatts of annual capacity and its first outside of Sweden.

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OCTOBER 12, 2019

Airbus and LM Industries, the the parent company of Local Motors and Launch Forth, have formed Neorizon to provide disruptive and innovative products with an initial focus on local mobility and autonomy. —Jay Rogers, CEO and founder of LM Industries. leadership.

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MAY 26, 2020

In 2017, Germany launched a consortium of leading industrial companies to investigate high-volume production of automotive fuel cell stacks. The OEMs in AutoStack Industrie have agreed on a specification and a fundamental system description with the relevant interfaces. Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Germany has set a new electric vehicle registration record, as one of every three new vehicles registered in the country in October was electric, according to new data from the German Association of the Automotive Industry (VDA). ” RELATED: Tesla sales in Germany grow 431% year-over-year for June. .

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OCTOBER 18, 2019

Limited (CATL) has begun construction of its first lithium-ion battery factory in Thuringia, a state in east-central Germany. CATL has developed partnerships with a number of European companies in the automobile industry including BMW, Volkswagen, Daimler, Volvo, and Bosch. —Matthias Zentgraf, Co-president Europe CATL.

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OCTOBER 2, 2019

Webasto, a global systems partner to the automotive industry, has started the production of batteries for electric vehicles in Germany. The manufacture of battery packs for a European bus maker has already commenced at the company’s Schierling site in the district of Regensburg.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

Germany is and will remain a strong industrial location, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said on Monday as he formally opened construction at Northvolt’s battery cell factory in Heide, in the northern state of Schleswig-Holstein. Battery cells “Made in Germany” would help to build cars beyond combustion engines, he added.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 12, 2022

These are just a few things that have stopped Tesla’s progress in Germany as it attempts to launch its first electric vehicle manufacturing facility in Europe. “But such hurricanes of resistance show how little sustainable Germany is,” he said in an interview with Handelsblatt. Water pumping approvals. Bats in trees.

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Industrial Industry Tesla Germany 145

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AUGUST 7, 2020

This trend was already underway before the pandemic, due to cost-competitive gas in key sectors including power, industry and transport, and major regions including Europe, North America and Asia. Potential magnitude of resource and landed cost of hydrogen in Germany, 2050. —Jon Moore, CEO of BNEF. Source: BloombergNEF.

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AUGUST 28, 2017

TerraE-Holding GmbH has organized 17 major companies and research institutions into a consortium to handle planning for building large-scale lithium ion battery cell manufacturing in Germany. TerraE plans to build 34GWh of production capacity across two locations in Germany. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

World’s biggest green hydrogen project developers and partners come together to launch Green Hydrogen Catapult initiative New initiative aims to drive down costs to below $2 per kilogram, to transform energy across most carbon intensive industries, accelerating race to zero emissions Founding partners include. ºC campaign. degrees Celsius.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

will invest up to €2 billion to establish its European production site in Germany. Battery cells and modules and high-voltage storage systems (packs) will be produced in Germany. Among other things, SVOLT is the first company to bring cobalt-free high nickel cell chemistry to mass production readiness.

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Germany Batteries Battery Production 221

Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2022

Tesla’s now-operational production facility in Germany, known as Gigafactory Berlin, is facing a potential shutdown in production as the German government is reportedly contemplating an embargo on Russian gas in response to the invasion of Ukraine. Tesla would not be the only company to be affected by the embargo.

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Germany Gas Production Tesla 112

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JANUARY 30, 2022

Round D3 investments will be used to scale-up the supercapacitor production in Saxony, Germany to meet customer demand and to continue the development of new battery technologies based on curved graphene. From its foundation in 2009, the company has grown from 4 to more than 260 people. As an example, the SCX5000 3.0V

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