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Jaguar Land Rover will build electric vehicles in Nitra, Slovakia

Electric Cars Report

Jaguar Land Rover has confirmed that its state-of-the-art plant in Nitra, Slovakia, will produce electric vehicles as part of the company’s Reimagine Strategy that will see nine new electric vehicles launched by 2030.

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Volvo Cars Building Climate-Neutral Electric Car Factory in Slovakia

CleanTechnica EVs

Volvo Cars was the first legacy automaker to come out and set a target for when it would produce only 100% electric cars, and it has long had a focus on safety, including safety of the planet/environment.

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InoBat claims 20% range boost by 2023, Gigafactory by 2025

Green Car Reports

Slovakia-based battery startup InoBat Auto announced Friday that it will introduce an electric-car battery with greater energy density than anything else currently on the market. The battery will allow for a 20% boost in range for "current best-in-class" electric vehicles by 2023, the startup said in a press release.

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USA’s Group 14 Rockets Into EV Batteries With Slovakia Mashup

CleanTechnica EVs

With a little assist from the US Department of Energy, new EV batteries featuring silicon are about to hit the road.

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Half of EU Electric Car Chargers in Just Two Countries!

CleanTechnica EVs

I’ve followed the European electric car and EV charger market for a decade. Nonetheless, I was shocked to see the figure that just came out from an EU EV charging analysis conducted by the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) — “half of all charging points for electric […].

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IBM and ZSE team on Central European e-mobility project; “green highway”

Green Car Congress

(ZSE), the largest distributor and supplier of electricity in Slovakia, on a smart energy “feasibility” study that will help prepare the capital city Bratislava for electric vehicles (EVs). This highway will interconnect the two cities with a network of public charging stations for electric vehicles.

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EEA: average CO2 emissions from new cars and new vans in Europe increased again in 2019

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EEA said that one reason for the increase in car emissions is the growing share of the sport utility vehicle (SUV) segment. The market penetration of electric cars remained slow in 2019. million new cars were registered in 2019 in the EU, Iceland, Norway and the UK. Testing vehicle emissions. g CO 2 /km).

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