Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2016

Audi will transfer production of the Audi A1 from Brussels to Martorell in Spain; in 2014, Audi Brussels produced 115,378 Audi A1 models. The Audi Q3, currently produced in Spain, will be built in Győr (Hungary) in the future. The sporty SUV will fit between the Audi Q7 and the Audi Q5 in the product portfolio.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Audi is developing a new modular assembly principle intended as the enabler of the post-production line assembly era. Modular assembly—intended to address the need for growing complexity and flexibility in production—breaks up the traditional fixed-rhythm production line into individual process steps.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Rimac’s tech division will supply batteries for BMW’s future electric cars. Rimac said the partnership will require them to establish sophisticated battery production lines at its campus near Zagreb, Croatia. For its next-gen models, BMW is turning to Croatian electric hypercar specialist Rimac for EV batteries.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Mercedes is coming to IAA Mobility with five new EVs: the Concept Mercedes-Maybach EQS , the new EQB , the new EQE , the new Mercedes-AMG EQS 53 4MATIC+ , and the Concept EQG. Concept Mercedes-Maybach EQS. It will be the first purely electrically powered production vehicle from the Kecskemét plant in Hungary.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

Husinec, Czech Republic; MTA EK, Budapest, Hungary; NCBJ, ?wierk, The V4 is an alliance of four Central European states—Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. To prepare for the future, their main objective is the development of the 4th generation of nuclear reactors based on fast neutrons.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

What does BMW’s new concept tell us about its coming EVs? So the very name of the Vision Neue Klasse concept is an indicator of its importance to BMW as the transition to EVs accelerates. At an earlier sneak preview of the Vision Neue Klasse concept, other senior BMW people provided some context.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

The global Mercedes-Benz production network is ready for the company’s electric product offensive and is integrating its Mercedes-EQ models into series production in its existing plants. High-efficiency battery systems will also be manufactured and assembled within the production network.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

Mercedes-Benz announced that its Rastatt plant—the company’s lead plant in global production of compact cars—will produce compact-class electric EQ models in the future. Future EQ models can be integrated in the series production of existing Mercedes-Benz plants on four continents. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

According to a press announcement , BMW’s Munich plant will be the first in the company’s existing production network to be transformed for all-electric cars. A new factory in Debrecen, Hungary, currently under construction, will also build only electric cars, with the upcoming Neue Klasse models planned to be built there in 2025.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 21, 2024

The Q6 e-tron is the “start of an extensive product initiative,” according to CEO Gernot Döllner. Despite the recent public debate, there is no doubt the future of the car is electric,” Audi’s boss explained. “At 2 , revealed as a concept last March. Once production begins, BYD looks to change that. It will follow the ID.2

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2022

BMW’s iFACTORY production strategy defines the future orientation of plants and production technologies at the BMW Group and meets the challenges of the transformation to e-mobility. Automotive manufacturing of the future requires a new, holistic way of thinking. LEAN: Based on highly flexible, efficient production.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2014

The researchers will explore the properties of graphene to determine how it behaves when used to enhance advanced composite materials used in the production of cars. The automotive industry is widely viewed as being the industry in which the greatest volume of advanced composite materials will be used in the future to produce light vehicles.

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