Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2016

Bosch has opened a new innovation center in Lund, Sweden. Sweden is on the global vanguard when it comes to fields of research including information and communications technology. This is exactly the kind of environment we want for our new engineering center. We’re pinning our hopes on Lund’s talented software and IT experts.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2023

All vehicles in the P7 program are built for urban environments with attributes including optimal maneuverability, increased cargo volume, low step-in height, aerodynamic design, low noise, greater visibility, and increased safety. All P7 configurations are currently available to order with initial deliveries slated to begin in Q4 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2023

Volvo Trucks has delivered an electric truck for heavy transport to a haulier in Gothenburg, Sweden. Mattsson Åkeri in Gothenburg, Sweden is one of them, and the company has now bought three heavy electric Volvo FH trucks from Volvo. Silent, electric operation also means a better working environment for the driver.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

The truck could execute the maneuver due to the precise positioning and an accurate representation of the whole surrounding environment. The project combined RTK Positioning Software from Waysure (Sweden) with satellite measurements, in particular advanced Galileo signals for improved accuracy and authentication from Fraunhofer IIS (Germany).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2020

BYD, Europe’s leading electric bus manufacturer, received an order for a further 13 eBuses from Nobina—the principal bus operator in Sweden and the Nordic region. Following delivery in summer 2021, Nobina’s BYD fleet in Sweden alone will total 125 vehicles, with a presence in nine major Swedish towns and cities.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2023

Volvo Trucks and mining company Boliden are joining forces to implement electric truck transport in underground environments. In mining environments, the electric trucks can deliver several big advantages—including no exhaust emissions, a safer workplace, and quieter working conditions. g/t Au, 9.9 g/t Ag and 156 g/t Te.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2017

ABB will provide two fast-chargers for Scania electric buses in Östersund, Sweden. The cold climate of Östersund makes it the optimal testing ground for ABB's fast-chargers, which are designed to be reliable in extreme environments. They will contribute to our aim of achieving fossil-free transport by 2030.".

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2016

PowerCell Sweden AB has received the first marine order for two PowerCell S3 prototype stacks, which Swiss Hydrogen will install on a ship powered by photovoltaics. However, this is the first time that the company’s PowerCell S3 stacks will be tested together with a partner in a marine environment.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

It is then unsurprising that Tesla Sweden appears to be thriving despite its ongoing conflict with trade union IF Metall. IF Metall launched a strike against Tesla Sweden back in late October 2023 due to the company’s lack of a collective agreement. For context, Tesla Sweden delivered 745 cars from January to February 2023.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2023

The development of this new electrode material is a significant step towards achieving these goals, as it not only enhances battery performance, but also helps to mitigate the impact of carbon emissions on the environment.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2022

New research from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, finds that the discharge water from ships’ exhaust gas treatment systems—i.e., For many years, we’ve flagged the fact that scrubbers account for disproportionately large emissions of hazardous and acidifying substances into the marine environment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

Scandinavian transport operator Nobina has ordered 60 Volvo high-capacity electric buses which will enter service in Malmö, Sweden next year. In a short space of time we have taken orders for 220 electric buses from two of Sweden’s largest cities. —Henrik Dagnäs, MD at Nobina Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2012

A new study by researchers from Stockholm University concludes that automobile tires may be a potential previously unknown source of carcinogenic dibenzopyrenes—a type of high molecular weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)—to the environment. Automobile tire rubber in general consists of approximately 40?60%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2022

China-based smart electric vehicle company NIO unveiled details of its products and services for Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark, and Sweden at a European launch event in Berlin. New for Europe is NIO’s subscription model, which is now open for users in Germany, the Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2021

Denmark leads the way when it comes to putting zero-emission urban buses on the streets in Europe, with 78% of new vehicles being electric, according to the latest data from green NGO Transport & Environment. In Luxembourg and the Netherlands about two-thirds of new buses were zero-emissions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Europe’s transport sector is making only mixed progress in meeting its environment, health and climate policy targets, according to the latest European Environment Agency (EEA) assessment which tracks the short and long-term environmental performance of this key economic sector across the European Union. in 2015 to 7.1%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2021

Volvo Cars announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden is its first car manufacturing plant to reach fully climate-neutral status. This makes Torslanda the second plant in its overall manufacturing network to reach this status, after the Skövde engine plant in Sweden became climate-neutral in 2018. Torslanda plant.

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MARCH 4, 2022

Volvo Cars is integrating and testing wireless charging technology in a live city environment together with selected partners, evaluating its potential for future electric cars.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. Another project in Sweden will create a first-of-a-kind methanol plant converting CO?, Another project in Sweden will produce a new fiber from pulp to substitute polyester in textile applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

With this agreement with Bucher Municipal, we are taking a very important strategic step towards electrifying one of the most complicated and demanding tasks in our urban environments. The largest markets for Volvo’s electric trucks in Europe currently are Norway, Sweden and Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2022

The health of residents living alongside a bus route in Gothenburg, Sweden, improved when hybrid buses were replaced by buses fully powered by electricity. Previous noise-level measurements had indicated that disturbance from low-frequency noise in indoor environments was present in the residential area. —Kerstin Persson Waye.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

A team from metals research institute SWERIM in Sweden reports on a smelting reduction process to recover cobalt, nickel, manganese and lithium simultaneously from spent Li-ion batteries. A paper on their work is published in the Journal of Power Sources. —Hu et al.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

Volvo Trucks announced the start of sales of its Volvo FL and Volvo FE electric trucks ( earlier post ) in selected markets within Europe, meeting the increasing demand for sustainable transport solutions in city environments. Sales will start in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Switzerland, France and the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Scania, a member of the Volkswagen Group, is developing a fuel cell refuse truck together with Renova, a waste handling company in western Sweden, fuel cell manufacturer Powercell Sweden AB, and JOAB, a manufacturer of truck bodies. FFI focuses on the areas of Climate, Environment and Safety.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In a windshield configuration, the technology could create a wide field of view ‘heads-up display’ that can instill a sense of distance as virtual objects are superimposed onto the real-world environment for a safe and immersive experience.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. The Volvo FL Electric trucks are part of a pre-series developed in collaboration with selected customers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2021

If a ban were introduced on the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars, and they were replaced by electric cars, the result would be a significant reduction in lifecycle carbon dioxide emissions primarily due to reduced tailpipe CO 2 emissions, according to a new lifecycle study by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2023

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method that can reduce the levels of mercury in sulfuric acid by more than 90%, even from low levels. According to a report from the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), emissions of mercury to the atmosphere increased by an estimated 20% from 2010 to 2015.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Enterprise Services business will help National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) accelerate the setup of its global electric vehicle production. As part of the project, HPE will create a global manufacturing IT platform for NEVS that will operate across plants in Sweden and China.

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MARCH 3, 2022

Swedish automaker, Volvo Cars, shared news that it is testing wireless EV charging technology in a live city environment to evaluate its potential. The stations in Gothenburg, Sweden will offer wireless charging to Volvo XC40 Recharge EVs operated by taxi company, Cabonline, over the next three years.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 10, 2023

VW and HagerEnergy GmbH launched a pilot project in Sweden to test the ID. Volkswagen bidirectional charging technology benefits a remodeled 350-year-old farm in Hudiksvall, Sweden, that was turned into a new settlement. When we decided to realize ‘the other 350-year project,’ energy and the environment were key.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

AstaZero is the first full-scale proving ground for future traffic safety solutions, opened in Sweden. AstaZero’s industry partners consist of Volvo Car Group, Volvo Group, Scania, Autoliv and Test Site Sweden. kilometer highway connected to a city environment with four blocks, 40 by 25 meters. The facility is encircled by a 5.7

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Teslarati

JANUARY 12, 2023

Sweden may be the world’s new gold mine as the state-owned mining company has identified the world’s largest supply of rare earth elements in Northern Sweden. Unless you are deeply interested in mining, you have likely never heard of the Arctic town of Kiruna, Sweden. What do you think of the article?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2019

This allows Volvo Cars designers and engineers to ‘drive’ future cars and evaluate all features in a simulation environment many years before they exist, enabling the company to develop the safest cars with the most refined user experience possible.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2021

This is one way Volvo Penta has optimized the design and adapted the complete electric driveline system for a specific vehicle, considering the exact application, usage, climate, and environment it will operate in. Now the first electric drivelines have entered the production stage at the Volvo Penta Vara plant in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2023

In HTL, wet feedstock is liquefied in a hot (250–374 °C) and pressurized (4–22 MPa) water environment into biocrude oil. Co-processing has so far been tested mostly with FPBO; the first short-term test to commercialize the technology has been carried out in Preem’s refinery in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With the rapid expansion of Scania’s electrified range of trucks, buses and engines, the company plans to, over several years, invest more than 1 billion SEK (US$116 million) in a battery assembly plant in Södertälje, Sweden. The company will also invest US18.4 million (€15.5 The laboratory will be fully operative by autumn 2021.The

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