Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is starting construction of its first “Full-Flex Plant“ in Kecskemét, Hungary, about 90 km in the south of Budapest. Overall, the company is investing €1 billion in the new car plant and creating more than 2,500 jobs. The plant is highly efficient and has a CO 2 -neutral energy supply.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2022

The three agencies will finance SK On by providing credit guarantees and insurance as the company applies for loans in overseas commercial banks. 3 in Europe currently under construction in Iváncsa, Hungary. The three agencies that took part in the financing are all export credit agencies (ECAs). trillion (US$2.5

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

The company detailed its global vehicle portfolio plans supporting these production goals as part of its Ford+ plan. Ford plans to invest more than $50 billion in EVs through 2026, targeting total company adjusted EBIT margins of 10% and 8% EBIT margins for EVs by 2026. 150,000 F-150 Lightnings for North America.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

From 2025, production at all Audi plants will be carbon neutral as part of the company-wide environmental program Mission:Zero. The companies that supply the battery cells are obliged to use only renewable energy sources for production.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

As part of the test, the Scania self-driving truck executed a safe and efficient lane change in traffic. The self-driving truck was supplied by Scania, with Hungary-based V2X company Commsignia providing in the C-ITS technology.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Rimac’s tech division will supply batteries for BMW’s future electric cars. Rimac to supply BMW with EV batteries The collaboration is Rimac Tech’s “largest and most ambitious project” the company has undertaken. A significant part of the campus will be dedicated to BMW.

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Teslarati

MARCH 7, 2022

While Starlink plays the vital role of keeping key parts of the nation connected to the internet, electric vehicles from Musk’s EV company, Tesla, are also aiding people on the ground. It’s not just the company itself, either. The ongoing conflict in Ukraine has shown the world harrowing images and videos of the war.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

The company assumes that unit sales of electric models will represent a share of somewhere between 15 and 25 percent of total Mercedes-Benz sales by 2025. The smart plant in Hambach will become a part of our global compact car production network with the lead plant Rastatt, Germany.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

Back in September, the EU launched an investigation into the Chinese EV industry, as European companies are struggling to compete with the cheap, high-tech Chinese imports, made by low-cost labor, entering the EU. China last year overtook Japan as the world’s biggest car exporter ­– but most of those were ICE vehicles sold to Russia.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

In the last 10 years BMW has sold over 600,000 EVs worldwide said Bernhard Marx, the exec in charge of getting the company’s next-generation EV tech into production. Whatever it’s called, production will start late in 2025 at a plant in Debrecen, Hungary, that BMW says is powered 100 percent by renewable energy.

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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? In May 2019 production of the EQC (combined power consumption: 21.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

At the IAA 2010 in Hanover, DAF Trucks, a PACCAR company, presented the 12-tonne LF45 parallel hybrid truck, which will enter production at the end of this year. DAF is the market leader in the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary. for the first half of 2010.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

Bosch is pooling its mechanical engineering expertise and offering companies factory equipment for battery production from a single source—ranging from individual components and software solutions to complete assembly lines. The company is investing some €70 million (US$82 million) this year in expanding local manufacturing operations.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2022

—Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Production and Supply Chain. Core Luxury: The Mercedes-Benz plants in Bremen, Germany and Kecskemét, Hungary to manufacture vehicles in Europe based on the MB.EA Battery systems will be supplied by the global Mercedes-Benz battery production network.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

John Snow's 1854 Broad Street map of cholera contagion in London was not only instrumental in identifying lessons learned—the most important being that cholera was transmitted via the water supply—but also in improving policymaking during the crisis. Remote working has become the new status quo in many sectors.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2021

In 2022, Dronamics , a company based in London and Sofia, Bulgaria, will test-fly a drone in Europe that will carry far more than a mere burrito and over far longer distances. The point is to take a slice of business that’s now handled by regular air freight and by trucks—above all, the quick delivery of critical parts.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This war will have many long-term consequences, but possibly none more important than its effects on the future of the European energy supply. Rapid severing of Europe’s Russian supplies would create an unprecedented economic and existential emergency on the continent. European gas supplied three-fifths of the continent’s demand.

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Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

The company detailed its global vehicle portfolio plans supporting these production goals as part of its Ford+ plan. Ford plans to invest over $50 billion in EVs through 2026, targeting total company adjusted EBIT margins of 10% and 8% EBIT margins for EVs by 2026. DEARBORN, Mich.,

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Claim to fame: part and parcel of the regulations-driven surge, Portugal went from 4.9% Fortunately, unlike some CEOs and company boards…. This paid back in spades, with EV share flying from 700k EVs globally in 2020, supplying over one-third of global demand outside of China. EV share, with ~20k sold.

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