Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The technology in the vehicle converts the information it receives from the infrastructure into driving maneuvers. The basis for the approval is a law that came into force in Germany in July 2021, which permits driverless driving in accordance with SAE Level 4 for motor vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2023

IVECO, the commercial vehicles brand of Iveco Group, will support EDEKA Minden-Hannover—one of the leading food retailers in Germany—in converting the entire 700-vehicle company fleet from diesel to BioLiquified Natural Gas (bio-LNG) propulsion by 2025. The switch to bio-LNG is a key lever in reducing our CO 2 footprint.

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InsideEVs

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Sadly, the Model Y is already much more efficient than it is once converted to a 'Hyber Hybrid.'

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Electric Cars Report

MARCH 29, 2023

German-Canadian startup Rock Tech Lithium officially broke ground for its first lithium hydroxide conversion plant in Guben, Germany (the “Guben Converter”).

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Green Car Congress

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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Baua Electric

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. “We’re looking to close the financing in the next probably four to five months,” Moreno added.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2023

The engine will benefit from a new internal architecture, combining three main components: the DC/DC converter that converts the battery’s 400V into 12V the battery charger the accessory box that manages power distribution

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2018

These differences can be compensated by a DC / DC converter to regulate the voltage level for feeding into the DC link. The Aradex DC / DC converter has achieved efficiencies of up to 99% in tests. The DC / DC converter controls the power flow from the fuel cell to the DC link.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

million from the federal government of Germany and the states of Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, and Saarland for its project for the initial industrialization of stationary solid-oxide fuel cell (SOFC) systems:“Bosch Power Units”. The Bosch project is one of the first projects in Germany to receive this funding.

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EV Obssesion

OCTOBER 11, 2021

” GUBEN, Germany, Oct. The post Drive for e-Batteries: Europe’s 1st Lithium Hydroxide Converter to be Built in Brandenburg, Germany appeared first on EV Obsession. 10, 2021 […].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Webasto, a global systems partner to the automotive industry, has started the production of batteries for electric vehicles in Germany. The competence center for convertible roofs has been expanded with a state-of-the-art testing and prototype construction facility for batteries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2022

Hamburger Hochbahn AG has set itself the goal of converting its entire bus fleet—currently around 1,000 vehicles—to alternative drives by 2030. Verkehrsbetriebe Hamburg-Holstein GmbH plans to convert its entire fleet—around 670 vehicles—to electric drives by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

As of July 2018, all BMW gasoline and plug-in hybrid models available in Germany will be fitted as standard with a gasoline particulate filter (GPF) and thus will comply with the exhaust standard Euro 6d-TEMP.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2023

Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies has sold pilot-scale LOHC systems to partners in several countries including Finland, Germany and the US and has implemented the first full LOHC supply chain for hydrogen mobility this summer. Hydrogenious supplies the Hydrogen Refueling Station Erlangen in Germany via LOHC—a worldwide novelty.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. From 2022, the production of our Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany will operate CO 2 -neutral. The “Factory 56” is currently built in the Sindelfingen plant (Germany). Already today all Mercedes-Benz plants in Germany are certified to ISO 50001.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

The MoU provides for cooperation and support in the company’s search for a location in Romania for one of the company’s next planned lithium hydroxide converters and, in the longer term, the construction and operation of such converter. That converter is scheduled to start operations in 2024. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Located in Jülich, Germany, the facility will demonstrate the entire process from concentrating sunlight to producing synthetic liquid fuel on an industrial scale. The precise mirror field control technology was developed and installed by Synhelion Germany. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2022

per kilogram are possible in northern Germany, hydrogen imported from Tunisia, for example, would cost at least €4.70 As such, green hydrogen can be produced in northern Germany at competitive prices and form the basis for a German hydrogen initiative—this is good news for German industry. While production costs of around €4.00

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

But while the idea to produce a climate-friendly car is admirable, the vehicle Germany used for the project was quite questionable. Simply put, Germany took a perfectly working battery-electric vehicle, modified it with a synthetic methanol engine, and dubbed it as a work of true innovation. . ” Wolf said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Researchers from France and Germany are proposing a new concept for the dynamic tuning of the structure of platinum nanoparticles on catalytic converters to enhance their performance—especially after cold starts and in urban traffic—and to reduce the consumption of expensive noble metal. Gänzler et al. Click to enlarge.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JULY 18, 2022

European factory workers at the Cologne Ford factory in Germany are enjoying a nice lengthy summer vacation (aka holiday), but work is actually […]. Europeans get a lot of time off. As some Europeans I knew were fond of saying, they work to live, they don’t live to work.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2014

A duo at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) is proposing an approach for the conversion of natural gas at gas-transport-constrained fields to easily transportable, high-octane liquid products. A paper describing their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2020

Water electrolysis produces green hydrogen that can be stored for hours, days or months, converted back into electricity or used as a clean, CO 2 -free starting material in the mobility sector or for the production of sustainable chemicals. Another central requirement is the need to stabilize the power grid against short-term fluctuations.

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Green Car Congress

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 8, 2021

The partnership will see the two companies convert the Dornier 328 aircraft for hydrogen flight, with the demonstrator aircraft expected to take to the skies in 2025. From 2035 onward hybrid-electric flying has to be the new standard in Germany. Martin Nüßeler, CTO at Deutsche Aircraft and Prof.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2023

In addition to the 1,000-plus-horsepower Fisker Ronin grand-touring four-door convertible ( earlier post ) and the Fisker PEAR sustainable city EV ( earlier post ), Chairman and CEO Henrik presided over reveals of the Fisker Ocean SUV with a Force-E offroad package and the Fisker Alaska all-electric pickup truck.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2016

India-based KPIT Technologies is being awarded the “Promising Innovation in Transport Award” 2016 during the 2016 Summit of the International Transport Forum in Leipzig, Germany for developing a system that can convert new as well as existing diesel buses into full battery-electric buses.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

The power electronics technologies leverage Eaton’s expertise in managing high-voltage power, resulting in advanced vehicle traction inverters and DC/DC converters with a focus on power density and efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Deutsche Bahn and Tognum subsidiary MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH (MTU) have converted a diesel-mechanical powered car from the VT 642 series into a hybrid vehicle as part of a joint research project. The partners unveiled the vehicle to the public at InnoTrans 2012. Hybrid rail car VT642 with MTU Hybrid Powerpack. Credit: MTU. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2018

Van Hool, the Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicles manufacturer, has landed a significant contract with RVK Köln and WSW Wuppertal (Germany), to supply 40 hydrogen buses of the latest generation. —Ulrich Jaeger, Business Manager at WSW mobil GmbH.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

Mercedes-Benz customers in Germany are now able to authenticate payments via an in-car fingerprint sensor. Visa Cloud Tokens provide an additional layer of security as they help to protect and encrypt sensitive payment information by converting data and storing it securely.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

billion) into its Zwickau, Germany plant to convert it into a pure-play e-mobility facility. As part of a projected €22.8 billion (US$26.9 billion) investment in its plants worldwide, the Volkswagen Group will invest about €1 billion (US$1.2 series).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2021

Jumpy, produced at Citroën’s SevelNord plant, will be converted at the Stellantis Group’s hydrogen fuel cell research and development cenere in Russelsheim, Germany. It can also be charged using a cable at electric-vehicle charging stations. Available in two sizes, M (4.95 m) and XL (5.30

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2015

It is with this second version of the technology in mind that we have recently created a new subsidiary in Germany named IBN-Two. Its purpose is to gather, from German industrial and financial actors, the funds required to build and operate Germany’s first fermentative isobutene production plant.

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Green Car Congress

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. —Martin Brudermüller, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2021

Infinium’s proprietary Electrofuels process converts renewable power into green hydrogen, then uses this green hydrogen and waste carbon dioxide to produce net-zero carbon fuels. Infinium Electrofuels have the potential to help investor Amazon and other companies to decarbonize their operations and meet their net-zero carbon goals.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2022

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

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