Tue.Sep 08, 2020

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Audi partnering with Climeworks on CO2 direct air capture and storage

Green Car Congress

The Swiss company Climeworks is building the world’s largest direct air capture (DAC) and storage facility for converting atmospheric CO 2 to rock in Iceland. Audi is partnering with the Zurich-based environmental start-up and promoting a future technology with the project. The facility will filter 4,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the air and mineralize it underground.

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Aiways U5: First electric car from a Chinese EV startup to deliver in Europe?

Green Car Reports

China has grown into the world's largest market for electric cars, leading to the creation of many homegrown startups. Among them, Always claims to be the first to look beyond its home market, shipping cars to Europe. The automaker said in August that its U5 electric crossover is due to be delivered in October in Germany, via its partner Euronics.

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BASF launches new automotive refinish coating line; lowest value of VOCs

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BASF’s Coatings division is presenting a new advanced refinish product line. By increasing the efficiency and significantly lowering the environmental impact, the products are designed to meet the highest expectations of modern body shops. During the development of the waterborne basecoat line, the focus was put on sustainable aspects: The innovative formulation optimizes the processing properties for fast and efficient application and enables spray painters to produce highly efficient and at th

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GM will build Nikola Badger electric truck, supply hydrogen fuel-cell tech

Green Car Reports

General Motors and Nikola Corporation announced a strategic partnership on Tuesday in which GM will supply hydrogen fuel-cell systems and battery systems to Nikola. Furthermore, GM will build the upcoming Nikola Badger pickup truck starting in 2022. The Badger will be built with GM’s Ultium battery systems, which include cells jointly.

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How serious is Norway about climate change? So much that its streetlights self-dim

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PSA and Total create JV for manufacture of EV batteries in Europe; €5B investment

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Groupe PSA/Opel and Total/Saft have signed an agreement for the creation of the joint venture Automotive Cells Company (ACC). Yann Vincent has been appointed Chief Executive in order to implement and develop it. Ghislain Lescuyer has been appointed Chairman of the Board. With this partnership, the parties are setting up a world-class player in the development and manufacture of high-performance batteries for the automotive industry from 2023.

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VW ID.4 electric crossover: "Feel-good lounge" interior maximizes space, simplifies interface

Green Car Reports

The 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 electric crossover will have an interior layout fairly similar to its ID.3 hatchback sibling. That's based on interior images VW released Friday. The ID.4 won't be fully revealed until September 23, but it's due for a production start later this fall and a U.S. arrival by the end of this year. As in the ID.3, the dashboard.

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Some 2020-2021 BMW and Mini plug-in hybrids under recall, sales stop for battery issue

Green Car Reports

A serious battery issue potentially affecting a subset of BMW and Mini plug-in hybrid vehicles has led BMW to issue a stop-sale to its dealers and an accompanying recall. In the recall documentation filed to the federal government Sept. 3 and posted by NHTSA on Monday, BMW pointed to 713 vehicles sold in the U.S. potentially affected by the.

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KIT coordinating EPIC project; accelerated drying of electrodes for Li-ion batteries

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The new EPIC project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is aimed at accelerating the drying of high-quality electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, increasing the energy efficiency of this process and, hence, reducing the cost of production. Innovative drying management of electrodes reduces costs of battery production, improves the environmental performance, and strengthens the position of Germany as a location of production.

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Volta Zero pushes the boundaries for battery electric trucks

Discover EV

Electric vans and trucks are still in their comparative developmental infancy, but Volta is hoping to push things forward with the first purpose-built fully-electric truck designed for urban goods distribution.

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Skeleton and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology developing a new graphene battery with 15-second charging time; SuperBattery

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Skeleton Technologies, a global leader in graphene-based ultracapacitor energy storage, has partnered with the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology to complete the development of the SuperBattery, a groundbreaking graphene battery with a 15-second charging time. This extra-fast charging time coupled with charging cycles counted in hundreds of thousands make the SuperBattery an attractive solution for the three main issues affecting electric vehicles: slow charging times, battery degradation, and ra

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Faurecia and Accenture partner on products and services for connected and autonomous vehicles

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Jeep chargers, Aiways’ European plan, inside ID.4, VW and Tesla: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

China’s Aiways has its sites set on Germany next. Volkswagen showed more of its ID.4, just after it let Tesla CEO Elon Musk see it up close. Jeep plans off-road-oriented charging. And a battery issue has stalled sales for some BMW and Mini plug-in hybrids. This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Although the Volkswagen ID.4 electric.

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Ricardo commits to achieving net zero carbon by 2030

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Ricardo plc has made a public commitment to its shareholders, customers and workforce to achieve net zero carbon emissions from its operations by the end of calendar year 2030. Ricardo has been working actively towards this goal of achieving Net Zero carbon emissions for some time and has been helping its broad client base in realizing their own climate change mitigation targets.

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Volkswagen ID.4 edges closer to production

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Volkswagen hasn't actually revealed its second ID-designated EV, the ID.4, but we already know an awful lot about it – not least because its already been driven by some titles. With the covers officially coming off the ID.4 in the next couple of weeks, here's what we know so far.

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Hyundai Motor Group, SK Innovation to collaborate on development of EV battery industry ecosystem

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Hyundai Motor Group and SK Innovation Co. will cooperate in the development of a sustainable ecosystem for electric vehicle (EV) batteries. The two parties announced their plan to cooperate in diverse business areas related to the EV battery industry, including battery sales solutions, battery management service and battery reuse and recycling. The collaboration stems from the companies’ shared need to create a battery value chain and strengthen eco-friendliness in business operations covering t

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ExxonMobil announces 6th oil discovery offshore Guyana with Ranger-1; Guyana may move from non-producer to regional powerhouse

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Driving the sales of electric vehicles

Clean Car

There are a lot of areas of UK government policy that are currently in flux as a result of both Brexit and Covid. However, one area that is entirely predictable (even if the details may change) is the push towards decarbonising our road transport system. . We know for sure that internal combustion engine-powered vehicles (ICE) and hybrids will be banned from sale no later than 2035 and we know that there is a big push towards encouraging the take up of electric vehicles (EV).

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Honda Civic Type R gets a refresh and gains new trims

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The Honda Civic Type R has been refreshed for 2020, with the hot hatch benefiting from a host of subtle tweaks and new trim levels, as well as a revised suspension set up.

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Exclusive: GM Can Manage an EV's Batteries Wirelessly—and Remotely

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The new system eliminates the rat's nest of wiring and collects information that can be used to design better batteries.

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BMT discloses its 2-speed-AMT e-Drive targeting electric pickup trucks & LCVs

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A Tier-2 supplier headquartered in Belgium, BMT Drive Solutions—acting under the brand name of VCST—is involved in the mass-production of gears & shafts (from 20,000 up to 2 million parts/year.pgm) for major OEMs (such as VW, Ford, Porsche, DAF or Cummins) & Tier 1s. Although the main applications covered by BMT have been focused on Internal Combustion Engines (timing gear sets or balancing shafts systems) over the last 3 decades, BMT, following the trend of the automotive market, is

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Chile’s Copec Voltex Chooses Driivz to Power Nationwide Public EV Charging Infrastructure

Electric Vehicless

Driivz Tech Speeds Companies’ Transition to the eMobility era ( Press Release). Driivz_Energy_management. Tel Aviv – September 8, 2020 – Copec Voltex, a subsidiary of Copec S.A., a leading energy and mobility company and one of the most trusted brands throughout Latin America and the Southeastern United States, migrated its electric vehicle charging infrastructure to Driivz , the leading end-to-end EV charging and smart energy management software platform.