Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

BASF has officially broken ground for its new cathode active materials (CAM) production plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. The new plant is part of BASF’s multi-step investment plan in the European battery materials market and will use precursors (PCAM) from the company’s previously announced plant in Harjavalta, Finland.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2022

BASF will build a commercial-scale battery recycling black mass plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. The closed loop from end-of-life batteries to CAM for new batteries, supports our customers along the entire battery value chain, reduces the dependency from mined raw materials and enables a circular economy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2023

As such, our electrolyzer is part of the development of skills that HYVIA brings to the Renault Group Refactory in Flins, dedicated to the circular economy. This is a major industrial and human challenge, made possible by the strength of our collaboration with Plug and Renault Group.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

We look forward to demonstrating what has already been proven in Germany—that hydrogen represents a highly suitable way forward in both cases. The world’s first two hydrogen trains have already been in regular passenger service in Lower Saxony in Germany since September 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2021

BASF will build a battery recycling prototype plant in Schwarzheide, Germany, at the site of its cathode active materials (CAM) plant. The extracted metals will be used to produce new cathode active materials and will enable a circular economy for the battery value chain.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2023

Mercedes has broken ground on a new battery recycling facility in Germany, focusing on “closing the loop” and allowing the automaker to source more battery materials sustainably. Increased recycling can help to reduce this dependence on critical raw materials and thus strengthen the resilience of the economy.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2020

BASF SE is investing €16 million into Pyrum Innovations AG, a technology company specialized in the pyrolysis of waste tires, headquartered in Dillingen/Saar, Germany. BASF will uptake most of the pyrolysis oil and process it into new chemical products by using a mass balance approach as part of its ChemCycling project.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

This project is part of CEMEX’s Future in Action program to reduce its carbon footprint and contribute to a circular economy and an integral component of CEMEX’s master plan to develop a carbon neutral operation at its Rüdersdorf cement plant by 2030. ENERTRAG is a renewable-energy company based in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2022

Tesla battery supplier Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL) is poised to complete its first European plant, with the facility receiving its second partial approval from the state of Thuringia, Germany. In a press release , CATL noted that it had received the green light to produce battery cells in Thuringia as part of its 1.8

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

This will create several thousand new fast charging points: the Germany network (Deutschlandnetz). These fast charging stations will complement the already existing large fast-charging locations and thus provide a nationwide and needs-based fast charging infrastructure throughout Germany. Sites must support up to 200 kW charging.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Rolls-Royce experts based in Germany, Norway and Hungary are developing the turbogenerator design and working on its system integration and are focused on ensuring smart power distribution during flight. The research and development of this technology is being part funded by the German Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2017

Bus operators from Germany and South Tyrol, Italy are partnering to procure 63 fuel cell buses for their public transport systems as part of the EU-funded JIVE project (€106 million total cost, with €32 million coming from the EU). Earlier post.)

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Teslarati

JUNE 13, 2022

As per recent comments by the regional economy minister of Brandenburg on Monday, Tesla is currently hiring about 500-600 people a month for Gigafactory Berlin. So far, Tesla Germany has hired a total of 4,100 to 4,500 workers for Gigafactory Berlin. But Giga Berlin is only getting started. .

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2021

Both projects are part of the overarching plan of Volkswagen Group to reduce battery complexity and costs significantly while boosting range and charging performance in order to make the electric car still more attractive. The unified cell is compatible to all major upcoming innovations in both product and production technology.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2023

As part the trials, Teijin and Fujitsu will leverage a blockchain-based commercial platform launched in July 2022 to promote the sustainable use of recycled materials, tracing and management of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions within the environmentally-conscious bicycle industry. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The project aims at jointly developing holistic hydrogen solutions for rail transport and offering them to customers to promote the hydrogen economy in Germany and Europe and support decarbonization in the mobility sector. Since its spin-off and public listing on 28 September, Siemens Energy is no longer part of the Siemens Group.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

BASF has opened Europe’s first co-located center of battery material production and battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. The new plant is not only the first production facility for high-performance cathode active materials in Germany, but also the first fully automated large-scale cathode active materials production facility in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Researchers in Germany have developed a method to store and release highly pure hydrogen by the interconversion of readily available (bi)carbonate and formate salts in the presence of naturally occurring ?-amino amino acids. An open-access paper on their work is published in ACS Central Science. 2c00723.

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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. Plug will build in the port’s NextGen District, an area dedicated to companies supporting the circular economy. million tons of barge freight.

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Push EVs

JULY 15, 2023

share in Germany, down from 26.0% Recall that Germany entirely cut the ecobonus for PHEVs from January 1st this year, and their fall in share since then was fully expected. Whereas PHEVs previously had almost as much market share as BEVs (see graph below) in Germany, they have now slipped to around one third that of BEVs.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

The project, called “European Battery Innovation” (EuBatIn) was jointly prepared and notified by Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Poland, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden. In 2018, the Commission adopted the Strategic Action Plan for Batteries and has promoted a wide range of initiatives as part of the plan.

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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

JANUARY 8, 2021

The Continental Mobility Study 2020 shows that enthusiasm for electric cars is strong in China, while reservations still need to be overcome in Germany, France, the US and Japan. The majority of people in Germany (59%) cannot imagine buying an electric vehicle in the future. Source: Continental.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2023

Germany-based RENK Group, a manufacturer of mission-critical drive technologies, is supplying three high-speed special gear units via RENK-Maag GmbH , a group company, for compressors for the production of green steel to Siemens Energy Compressors GmbH as part of the “SALCOS” (Salzgitter Low CO2 Steelmaking) project of the Salzgitter AG steel group.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2020

In Germany, the DeMoBat collaborative project is developing a robot-assisted dismantling factory for traction batteries and electric motors for EVs. These processes would constitute and important element of a resource-efficient and sustainable circular economy for electromobility.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 16, 2024

In recent statements to Teslarati , an official from the Brandenburg Ministry of Economy, Labor and Energy has noted how social partnership between workers and unions contributes to the German economy and to companies overall, while the autonomy of employees to choose remains an important part of the equation.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2021

Global companies from Japan, Germany, the UK and other countries have also been working with the Chinese partners to develop technology related to fuel cell vehicles and to advance the local hydrogen industry. As part of this plan, the Group aims to produce 700,000 fuel cells annually to meet demand from various industry sectors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2021

They endorse the development of a hydrogen economy and infrastructure in Germany and in Europe. In a first step, this hydrogen is to substitute part of the carbon in the existing blast furnaces, later on it is to be used in new direct reduction plants. Arnd Köfler, Chief Technology Officer at thyssenkrupp Steel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia. As part of the European Clean Hydrogen Alliance, Solaris has been invited to participate in a mobility roundtable. Solaris unveiled its first buses to use hydrogen in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Tenneco and Gentherm (formerly BSST/Amerigon) are part of a US Department of Energy (DOE) consortium actively developing a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for capturing waste exhaust heat in vehicles and converting it to electrical energy to be used to power electrical systems within the vehicle. Source: Crane (2013).Click Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

These runs were part of OPTISOCHEM (OPTimized conversion of residual wheat straw to bio-ISObutene for bio based CHEMicals), a project which started in June 2017 and was granted €9.8 million by the Bio Based Industry- Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU) as part of the H2020 program.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Sales in Germany and other European countries begin in fall 2020 at a base price of €30,705.88. The Audi A3 Sportback 30 g-tron is also a leader when it comes to economy, in part because of the favorable tax rate on natural gas and biomethane in Germany until 2026. There are currently some 850 CNG gas stations in Germany.

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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. This scenario would ensure that Germany meets its climate targets, Siemens said. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. Electricity prices in comparison.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Its first plants will be built in Norway, Germany, and Belgium with investment also planned in the UK and France. In Germany INEOS plans to build a larger scale 100MW electrolyzer to produce green hydrogen at its Koln site. The development will further support decarbonization of INEOS operations at the site.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

For their statistical analyses, the researchers made use of anonymized data that vehicle drivers had voluntarily reported to online portals such as Spritmonitor in Germany and MyMPG in the United States. Patrick Plötz, Coordinator of the Business Unit Energy Economy at Fraunhofer ISI and lead author of the study.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

The BMW Group has created a closed-loop material cycle for tungsten used in drill and milling bits for industrial machinery used in producing cars; the company is collecting old drill and milling bits at its plants in Germany and Austria for recycling. This reduces the amount of tungsten required by seven tonnes per year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2020

As part of the agreement, Alstom will manufacture and maintain newly built or converted hydrogen trains, while Snam will develop the infrastructures for production, transport and refueling. This move is a further contribution to the decarbonisation of transport and to the development of hydrogen economy in Italy.

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