Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2009

South Africa is reinvigorating its efforts to develop automotive lithium-ion batteries, with the government’s Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) now determining the commercial feasibility of battery manufacturing in the country. Engineering News.

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Electric Cars Report

AUGUST 16, 2023

at its signature Futurescape event in Cape Town, South Africa. is more than an electric evolution of the legendary off-roader; it’s a daring, distinct design transformation that continues to embody the spirit of Mahindra’s […] The post Mahindra Thar.e Mahindra says the Thar.e

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2023

—Fengqi You, senior author Currently, critical metals and minerals are centralized in politically unstable Chile, Congo, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina and South Africa, according to the World Bank. It’s mainly driven by the electric vehicle market penetration and battery technology development.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Constellium SE is supplying aluminum auto body sheet solutions for the Mercedes-Benz C-Class produced in Europe, China, and South Africa and sold around the world. Aluminum is a natural choice to make vehicles lighter and more efficient, and provides numerous additional benefits to enhance vehicle design, durability and safety.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The power units will be designed and built at WAE, in Grove, Oxfordshire, and integrated into an existing mining haul truck, with testing taking place later this year at the Mogalakwena platinum group metals mining operation in South Africa, Anglo American’s flagship PGMs mine.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2021

The project is designed to evaluate the combined technologies’ readiness for the freight rail sector. In addition to North America, we are currently looking at the freight train market in Europe, Australia, Brazil and South Africa—all of which are ideally suited for the transformation of their current diesel stock.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2022

South Africa is the major source, accounting for almost 60% of the world’s rhodium supply; Russia is the second-largest producer. The researchers concluded that in the long run, establishing a new design that prevents the formation of rhodium aluminate could help get the most out of these devices.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Materials like manganese mined in South Africa can have significant negative impacts on local communities and the people doing the mining. New battery chemistries and designs may help alleviate some of that pressure, but it will be some time before that happens, and the damage will have been done.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2022

Since then, Veolia has more than 450 installations worldwide for mills in Brazil, Indonesia, China, Japan, Australia, South Africa and several European countries. Veolia Group designs and provides solutions for water, waste and energy management. —Estelle Brachlianoff, COO of Veolia.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2021

Unlike traditional Haber-Bosch designs the RapidRamp process can accommodate being directly powered by intermittent energy sources such as wind, solar and hydro. We are also pleased to collaborate with Starfire on system deployments in South Africa, where there is a promising emerging market for innovative zero carbon technologies.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2011

South Africa state-owned power utility Eskom reports that a design study is currently under way for an underground coal gasification (UCG) demonstration plant, which will include a 250,000 Nm 3 /h gas production plant and a 100 MW to 140 MW gas turbine plant. Mining Weekly.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The wheelbase and track as well as all other system components, especially the batteries, are variable due to the modular design. The EQS will allow customers in the luxury segment to fully benefit from all the advantages of an all-electric architecture with respect to space and design.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. The plants will take advantage of the best options at each location—from solar energy in Oxford, Mexico and China, to biogas in South Africa, to wind power in Leipzig.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2022

The South African patent office made history in July when it issued a patent that listed an artificial intelligence system as the inventor. The patent is for a food container that uses fractal designs to create pits and bulges in its sides. The patent success in South Africa was thanks to Thaler’s attorney, Ryan Abbott.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 22, 2024

A leaked patent this past October revealed the electric pickup’s design. Designed by ex-Lamborghini and Audi designer Wolfgang Egger, the truck resembles the Ford F-150 Lightning or Toyota Hilux with four doors, rugged fenders, and a big “BYD ” logo on the front grille. Radar began exporting RD6 models overseas late last year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2017

South Africa has the potential to produce more than 400,000 tonnes of ethanol per year from existing ferroalloy and titania producers. This would prevent the release of more than 700,000 tonnes of CO 2 per annum—the equivalent to removing 250,000 cars from South Africa’s roads.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2021

Anglo American’s combination of powertrain technologies, designed to operate safely and effectively in real-world mine conditions, will displace the use of the majority of diesel at its mining operations. An advanced trial of the prototype truck is being run at Anglo-American’s Mogalakwena platinum group metals mine in South Africa.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

It will be engineered and designed by Daimler to meet the specific needs of its customers in Europe, Australia, South Africa and Latin America. Later this month, Mercedes-Benz will provide further insights into the new pickup truck’s design, strategy and markets.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Volkswagen is taking a further step to develop market potentials in Africa. Volkswagen South Africa is forging ahead with this initiative in Rwanda together with Volkswagen’s Kenyan partner DT Dobie based on current experience from the establishment of production in Kenya. initiative.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

South Africa-based Sibanye-Stillwater will establish. The Stage 2 pit design will facilitate a larger mining area to be maintained, aiding the efficiency of the operation for another 21 years. Stage 2 will involve expansion to the south and east. Quarry Stage 2.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2013

Silverton Assembly Plant (South Africa): Began using a $2.5 Outside of the company, The Ford Fund in 2012 supported 19 different water-related projects in China, Indonesia, Thailand, Philippines, India, Germany and South Africa.

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EV Central

AUGUST 20, 2023

it is intended to showcase both the electric opportunities presented by Mahindra’s latest ‘INGLO’ architecture and a new design direction for the brand. These EVs designed at Mahindra’s UK tech centre are the XUV:e8 and XUV:e9 SUVs and the BE:05, BE.07 Dubbed the Vision Thar.e and BE – starting in 2024 Mahindra’s upcoming EVs.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Mercedes-Benz Vans unveiled two design variants of the Concept X-CLASS, previewing the coming X-Class pickup, in Stockholm. The key markets will be Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia with New Zealand, and Europe. The key markets are Brazil, Argentina, Australia, and South Africa. Click to enlarge.

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EV Central

JANUARY 24, 2024

Paving the way for the Lancia to reinvent itself as a premium design-obsessed EV brand, the new Ypsilon is believed to be based on the same platform as the Fiat 500e, although full technical details have yet to be released. Both will feature a radical design and be equipped with the Stellantis group’s latest EV tech.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Joule, the EV from South African company Optimal Energy ( earlier post ), has completed the prototype phase recently and is nearing the start of volume production, according to the company. The Industrial Development Corporation of South Africa (IDC), as potential investor, is party to this Memorandum. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2023

The EU is heavily dependent on imports of these metals because extraction is concentrated in a few countries such as China, South Africa and Brazil. If recycling is to increase, cars need to be designed to enable these metals to be recovered, while incentives and flexible processes for more recycling need to be put in place.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2017

Ballard Power Systems’ subsidiary Protonex has received an initial order for its fuel cell propulsion system, together with design services, from FlyH2 Aerospace, a South African-based developer of hydrogen fuel cell powered unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for commercial applications. Commercial details of this order are confidential.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2019

A study by a team of researchers from Germany and South Africa forsees the gradual replacement of lead-acid SLI (starter, lighting and ignition) batteries with Li-ion batteries over the next couple of years.

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EV Central

MARCH 27, 2024

READ MORE: China’s Geely launches new electric brand Galaxy READ MORE: From China with love: New Zeekr 007 is the car designed and developed to beat the Tesla Model 3 READ MORE: Here comes another one! The Geely brand itself has also investigated coming to Australia with models such as the Radar ute. 2025 Galaxy E5 SUV. 2025 Galaxy E5 SUV.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 14, 2022

The Wakoma team operates out of four countries and supports Nimbles in Canada, the Czech Republic, South Africa and the United States, with upcoming deployments planned in India, Kenya, and Mexico. Many of these networks are planned, designed, built, and operated by the community and local partners. “We

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2012

African Cats launched the first GreenCat 605 catamaran designed by Simonis-Voogd in Durban South Africa. The GreenCat 605 uses a new 20 kW Green-Motion fossil-fuel-free retractable propulsion/regeneration system. With this retractable propulsion system drag is minimized so high cruising speeds are expected. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2010

South Africa-based Optimal Energy has taken delivery of four of its Joule EVs ( earlier post ) for use as a marketing fleet. The marketing fleet will undertake a nation-wide road show in 2011; the Joule fleet has been designed and built to closely resemble the production version of Joule.

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Baua Electric

JULY 3, 2023

marketplace and targets to accumulation rising in South The usa and alternative international locations, together with South Africa, Malaysia, Thailand and Morocco. On the similar date, the corporate plans to include a temporarily evolving all set of design choices to attraction to patrons’ tastes and desires.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2013

Datsun GO will be the first of several Datsun models that will be launched later in 2014 in Indonesia, Russia and South Africa. While Nissan Motor’s Global design center in Japan was responsible for the Datsun GO styling, R&D and engineering development for the project were local.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Riemvasmaak, South Africa In 1973 and 1974, during South African apartheid, the Black residents of Riemvasmaak, a settlement in northwest South Africa, were torn from their homes so that the government could build a military site.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2009

and the University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa (Wits) signed an exclusive representation agreement to commercialize the Fischer-Tropsch-based fuel and chemical production process developed by the Centre of Materials and Process Synthesis (COMPS) located at The University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

the system designs based on sodium borohydride were complex, fragile, and came with many challenges for end-users. The group has recently completed a major financing and is currently expanding into the US, Europe, in addition to its existing base in South Africa. It took HES several years to achieve this performance.

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