Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2010

Finland-based European Batteries Oy held the grand opening of its new lithium-ion battery plant which manufactures large format prismatic 42 Ah, 3.2V The annual production capacity is 100 MWh—enough for 3.000 full-electric cars, the company says. LiFePO 4 (LFP) cells, modules, packs and systems earlier this month.

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JULY 26, 2021

Applications include electric vehicles and consumer electronics as well as large-scale energy storage systems. Since sustainability is becoming a top priority for the automotive industry, car manufacturers and battery producers are focusing heavily on reducing carbon emissions in electric cars. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

In 2021, the Volkswagen brand delivered more electrified vehicles worldwide than ever before, handing over to customers more than 369,000 electric cars (+73% versus 2020), comprising approximately 106,000 PHEVs (+33%) and 263,000 all-electric vehicles (+97%). 4 topped the BEV charts in Sweden, Denmark, Finland and Ireland.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Northern Lights Energy ( NLE ), the initiator of the 2012 charging infrastructure project and provider of infrastructure and services for electric vehicles (EV) based in Iceland, has signed an agreement with Reva Electric Car Company to jointly develop the electric vehicle market in Iceland. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2011

Back in January, we toured the Think electric-car assembly facility in Elkhart, Indiana, "the RV capital of the world." We got some striking photos of hundreds of the City electric two-seater cars that Think was gearing up to sell, assembled in the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Renault Group and Finland-based metals producer Terrafame have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the future supply of nickel sulfate. Renault Group is building an electric ecosystem in Northern France known as Renault ElectriCity.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2021

The final phase will complete commercial tests of the fuel, thereby enabling significant reductions of greenhouse gas emissions from gasoline and hybrid cars. There are also ambitious national targets in Sweden and Finland, for example, including separate emissions reduction mandates for the gasoline pool.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2010

THINK has started production of the THINK City electric vehicle at its plant in Elkhart, Indiana. The company, with global headquarters in Oslo, Norway, plans to build 300 THINK City electric cars at the facility by the end of the year. This is another major milestone for us. in Indianapolis.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Umicore has signed a long-term agreement with Finland-based Terrafame Ltd. The company says that its nickel sulfate production capacity can fill the needs of around one million electric cars per year. High-quality nickel is a critical raw material for the production of cathode materials used in batteries for electric vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 19, 2011

Back in January, we toured the Think electric-car assembly facility in Elkhart, Indiana, "the RV capital of the world." We got some striking photos of hundreds of the City electric two-seater cars that Think was gearing up to sell, assembled in the U.S.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 9, 2021

For the first time in the history of the European automotive market, electric vehicles outsold conventional diesel engine vehicles, according to new data from the European Electric Car Report. Norway plans to completely phase out gas cars at some point in 2022, according to some projections.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 18, 2015

While all 2012 Fisker Karma extended-range electric luxury sedans were built in Finland, the company always intended to assemble cars in the U.S. Before its collapse and bankruptcy, Fisker had bought a former General Motors plant in Delaware.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2020

Pure electric cars have a 2% market share in France, this being the highest share among all five major markets. France is therefore leading the way in showing how electric cars can have a measurable impact on emissions levels, despite their adoption still lagging behind diesel and gasoline counterparts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

According to provisional data published by the European Environment Agency (EEA), the average CO 2 emissions from new passenger cars registered in the European Union (EU) in 2018 increased for the second consecutive year, reaching 120.4 Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) continued to increase.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

Physicists at Aalto University in Finland, with colleagues in Texas and Poland, have shown that beryllium doping can prove beneficial in gallium nitride (GaN) power electronics. Our results provide valuable knowledge for experimental scientists about the fundamentals of how beryllium changes its behaviour during the manufacturing process.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2011

Think North America Vice Chairman Richard Canny is resigning his position with the electric car maker effective at the end of the month. “It’s It's certainly been a rewarding period to be in the electric vehicle business and I’m glad that I’m leaving the company closer to its vision.”

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

Electric car maker THINK has completed a US$40 million equity increase to support further product development and planned expansion into North American markets. the parent company of advanced battery manufacturer EnerDel. the parent company of advanced battery manufacturer EnerDel. This is a seminal event for THINK.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 27, 2009

Norwegian electric vehicle (EV) manufacturer, Think announces today that the Norwegian courts have approved its debt settlement plan, enabling the company to exit court protection. NK City is the company’s latest generation EV, and is one of the few ready-to-market fully electric vehicles available in the world today.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2010

The contract is the first result of Eltek Valere’s growth initiative for electric vehicle technologies, and shows new areas of application for the company’s core competencies. Chargers for electric vehicles represent a new and exciting business area and we have high expectations. Eltek Valere’s Chief Marketing Officer Morten Schøyen.

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Think City Batteries Battery Finland 199

Electric Vehicles India

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Most importantly at present, it is playing an important role in electrifying vehicles including cars, buses, trucks and ferries and in electric bikes , scooters and autonomous robots. They still cause an impact on climate by the manufacturing of the car and not least the battery. Climate impact of lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Scandinavian electric vehicle maker THINK is a celebrating a landmark day as production of its THINK City vehicle finally restarted. One of the first urban electric vehicles has been given a new lease of life with the company’s manufacturing partner Valmet Automotive in Uusikaupunki in Finland.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

It’s the Electric Motor Show this weekend in Helsinki, and a whole host of innovative electric cars will be on display at the Exhibition & Convention Centre in the Finnish capital. Among the exhibitors will be Think, the Norwegian electric vehicle will be making its Finnish motor show debut with its Think City electric car.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2009

Lithium-ion battery manufacturer Ener1, Inc. is taking the lead among a group of investors that plans to inject $47 million of equity funding into Think Global AS, the Norwegian electric vehicle producer. Think City is an electric urban car that is suitable also for highway driving and can travel 140 km on a single charge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The software upgrade represents the first time Polestar has applied its tuning heritage to its own electric cars. The upgrade is rolling out for customers with eligible cars in the Polestar Extras web shop as a software download that is delivered remotely to their Polestar 2 via an Over-the-Air update.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2010

THINK’s investments in Elkhart County will support manufacturing capacity for more than 20,000 vehicles a year. The THINK City is a purpose-built, all-electric car designed for urban environments. Click to enlarge. The company started delivering the latest generation of its THINK City model to customers in Europe last month.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2010

THINK, the Scandinavian electric vehicle maker, has begun production of THINK City EVs equipped with 22 kWh Li-ion battery packs from Ener1 subsidiary EnerDel. The latest generation THINK City is a purpose-built, all-electric car designed for urban environments. The EnerDel THINK City pack. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2010

THINK, the Scandinavian electric vehicle maker, is delivering its first EVs into South America as part of a new collaboration with Brazilian electricity supplier, CPFL Energia S.A. As of 31 December 2009, the company had installed generation capacity of 1,737 megawatts; and distributed electricity to approximately 6.6

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

PlymouthHorizon : RLewits Home Page, car was for sale but he sold it. Brockmans electric Porsche Porsche914 : Bill and Sharon Hoopes EVs Porsche 944 :JBs cool project and pusher trailer Renault12 : Darryl McMahons Electric Vehicles, nice EV history page. Chevrolet S-10 :Brian has a new and very nice conversion. Porsche911T : D.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2020

Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

billion in loans to auto manufacturers large and small—part of a much larger portfolio of clean energy loans and loan guarantees—Davidson added that not every investment and every company can succeed in such a competitive environment. Noting that DOE has issued $8.4 Noting that DOE has issued $8.4 Earlier post.) John Thune, R-S.D.,

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