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DECEMBER 30, 2020

Currently, there are already more than 1,200 charging points at Volkswagen’s ten sites in Germany. In the future, every Volkswagen dealer in Germany will provide at least one AC charger with 11 kW power and one DC charger with 22 kW power. Volkswagen supplies two models eligible for the bonus: the ID. 3 at a charging station.

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With headquarters in Baden-Württemberg, Germany, ZF Friedrichshafen AG is known for a rich R&D heritage and many commercially successful innovations dating back to 1915, when it began supplying gears and other parts for Zeppelins. Today, the company has some 168,000 employees in 31 countries. This is a great safety advantage.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

They endorse the development of a hydrogen economy and infrastructure in Germany and in Europe. It would thus make an important contribution to the short- and long-term supply of the steel mill. We must set the course for supply today so that we can produce climate-neutral steel tomorrow. ©euroluftbild.de/Hans Hans Blossey.

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AUGUST 4, 2011

ABB has won an order worth around $1 billion from the Dutch-German transmission grid operator TenneT to supply a power link connecting offshore North Sea wind farms to the German mainland grid. The completed link will be capable of supplying more than 1.5 This is the largest power transmission order in ABB’s history.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2021

Under the name “Green Wilhelmshaven,” Germany-based international energy company Uniper plans to establish a German national hub for hydrogen in Wilhelmshaven and is working on a corresponding feasibility study. This approach will help to solve one of the key problems of energy transition: security of supply.

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JUNE 1, 2012

for a “Power-to-Gas” project in Germany. The 2 MW energy storage facility, to be located in Falkenhagen in northeast Germany, will use surplus renewable energy sources to produce hydrogen for storage in the country’s existing natural gas pipeline network. Electrolysis company Hydrogenics Corporation has received an order from E.ON

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2022

The renewable hydrogen produced will supply the Shell Energy and Chemicals Park Rotterdam, by way of the HyTransPort pipeline —a new hydrogen pipeline through the Port of Rotterdam which will form a part of the Netherlands hydrogen infrastructure—where it will replace some of the grey hydrogen usage in the refinery.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

Vattenfall Network Solutions can provide connections to the electricity grid along with the electrical and hydrogen infrastructure for a vehicle fleet or depot. Vattenfall currently operates more than 22,000 electric vehicle charging points in Sweden, the Netherlands, Germany and Norway.

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JULY 7, 2021

Under the MoU they intend to find joint opportunities to couple industrial and mobility demand with hydrogen supply, production and storage. The companies will begin by assessing the opportunity to develop potential synergies to accelerate existing projects in Germany, the Netherlands and potentially other European countries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2022

At the center of the largest chemical industry cluster in Europe and close to the North Sea, it provides transportation connections to Germany, Belgium, Netherlands, UK, and France. Port of Antwerp-Bruges sits in a strategic location in Europe. It is less than an hour’s drive to Brussels, the capital of Europe.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

The Volkswagen Group will support Hamburg and ITS Germany in 2021 for hosting the World Congress for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) as a main partner and chair of the Host Organizing Committee. Decisions have been taken on specific projects to develop Hamburg into a model city for future urban mobility. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2020

This is enough to supply around 400,000 people with electricity in their homes. One intended application of SOFC technology is in small, distributed, connectivity-enabled power stations, which can then be used in cities, factories, trade and commerce, data centers, and electric vehicle charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2012

The German Ministry of Transport, Building and Urban Development (BMVBS) and several industrial companies signed a joint Letter of Intent to expand the network of hydrogen filling stations in Germany from 15 to 50. The standards developed by the partnership will now be used to successfully introduce hydrogen as a fuel in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Customers can choose here between the basic version and two fully networked variants, which they can control using the We Connect ID. In Germany, the Volkswagen brand also offers a suitable electricity supply contract with “Volkswagen Naturstrom”, to guarantee fully certified green electricity from renewable energies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 1, 2022

Cummins has invested $24 million in Germany-based VoltStorage, a developer of stationary flow batteries. Each half cell contains a frame with specially designed channels to ensure evenly distributed electrolyte supply to the entire electroactive area. The cells of a vanadium redox flow battery each consist of two half cells.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

The A35 Brebemi autostrada in northern Italy will become the latest location for road electrification technology, and Scania trucks fitted with Siemens pantographs and power connections are in line to carry out the initial trials. The plan for Italy follows similar projects in Sweden and Germany.

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APRIL 10, 2022

Five series-production Taycan were connected to the power grid via the Porsche Home Energy Manager (HEM) both in a domestic environment and under laboratory conditions. It protects the house connection from overload ("blackout protection") and enables the use of smart charging functions. —Dr Rainer Pflaum, CFO TransnetBW.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The project combined RTK Positioning Software from Waysure (Sweden) with satellite measurements, in particular advanced Galileo signals for improved accuracy and authentication from Fraunhofer IIS (Germany). The self-driving truck was supplied by Scania, with Hungary-based V2X company Commsignia providing in the C-ITS technology.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Plug Power has installed several PEM technology solutions in Germany, France, The Netherlands, Italy and Portugal, and recently announced the launch of its European headquarters in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. The new initiative will primarily serve on-road and off-road mobility applications.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The Group ensures that production and consumption are balanced, supplying 30 million end users with electricity. Through its subsidiaries in Belgium (Elia) and the north and east of Germany (50Hertz), the company operates 19,192 km of high-voltage connections. The Elia Group is a key player in electricity transmission in Europe.

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JULY 26, 2022

Storing electricity converted to hydrogen is important for balancing supply and demand fluctuations in the future. We are happy to support this path. It’s in all our interests that we go forward quickly. —Olaf Lies. But existing storage facilities are designed for natural gas and would need to be converted to use hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2012

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) today launched the largest-yet road test of connected vehicle crash avoidance technology in Ann Arbor, Michigan. NHTSA will use the valuable data from the ‘model deployment' as it decides if and when these connected vehicle safety technologies should be incorporated into the fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. Our aim is to achieve a sustainable energy system with secure supplies and affordable electricity. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. Electricity prices in comparison.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Daimler AG and leading energy companies signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Berlin, with the participation of the German Minister of Transport, Wolfgang Tiefensee, to evaluate and expand the setup of a hydrogen infrastructure in Germany to support the series production of fuel cell electric vehicles. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 29, 2022

Hoeller Electrolyzer, based in Wismar, Germany, is an early-stage technology company that is developing highly efficient polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) stacks, under the brand name Prometheus, for the cost-effective production of hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2020

In 2019, 409,801 commercial vehicles were registered in Germany, of these, 38,620 semitrailer trucks. Apart from the use of synthetic fuels, we consider hydrogen to have a great potential for energy supply of commercial vehicles. The EU plans to extend its climate goal of reducing CO 2 emission of new vehicles by 37.5%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

In October 2021, Rock Tech announced its intention to build Europe’s first lithium converter in Guben, Brandenburg, Germany. Rock Tech believes that a key factor in the site selection process of its second proposed converter will be access to regional infrastructure, such as transportation links and a rail connection. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Tenneco has established new test facilities for hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines at its Powertrain test centers in Burscheid, Germany, and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

By 2022, the new engineering plastics compounding plant will supply an additional capacity of 60,000 metric tons per year in China, bringing BASF’s total capacity of these products in Asia Pacific to 290,000 metric tons per year. Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors, BASF SE.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2022

On 13 July 2021, the Council of Ministers approved, as the first PERTE, the development of an ecosystem for the manufacture of the Electric and Connected Vehicle, within the scope of the Recovery Plan. Gigafactory Valencia would be Volkswagen’s second location after Salzgitter and the first one outside of Germany.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2019

In addition to the 48V electrical system, the vehicle is equipped with the conventional 12V electrical system, which is connected via the DC/DC converter to the 48V system. Thus, parts of the energy stored in the 48V battery system can also be used to stabilize the 12V on-board power supply.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Environmental activists who are occupying a forest near Tesla Giga Berlin in Grünheide, Germany, are making preparations for a potential eviction. Despite Giga Berlin grinding to a halt due to the suspected arson attack, the Grünheide-based Tesla Model Y factory gained back its power supply sooner than expected.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2018

In Germany, the FastCharge research consortium ( earlier post ) has presented a prototype for a charging station with an output of up to 450 kW in Jettingen-Scheppach, located near the A8 motorway between Ulm and Augsburg. It can already work with higher voltages of up to 920 volts, as expected in future electric vehicles.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2015

At CES 2015 in January, Ford CEO Mark Fields announced “Ford Smart Mobility”—a plan to use innovation to take Ford to the next level in connectivity, mobility, autonomous vehicles, the customer experience and big data. Christopher McCahill , Norman Garrick (2014) “ Parking Supply and Urban Impacts ,” in Stephen Ison, Corinne Mulley (ed.)

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

One will be an engineering company specializing in body assembly lines which will continue to be managed as part of thyssenkrupp’s automotive supply and service segment (Automotive Technology). In this connection around 800 jobs will be reduced across both units in the current fiscal year.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

Ford will begin commercial trials of the plug-in hybrid Transit Van in Cologne, Germany. —Gunnar Herrmann, chairman of the management board, Ford of Germany. The front bumper offers a connection facility to fully charge the battery within three hours via a 240-volt power supply with 16 or 32 amperes.

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MAY 25, 2018

The electricity supply for the heavy goods vehicles is provided by means of a pantograph from an overhead power line—the eHighway concept ( earlier post ). In Germany alone, heavy goods traffic results in CO 2 emissions of 56 million tonnes per year.

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