Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Volvo Cars reported sales of 43,666 cars in August, down 4.6% of the sales last month, with fully electric vehicles accounting for 5.7% In addition, lack of availability of components, notably semiconductors, continues to influence manufacturing output, which impacted Volvo Cars’ retail deliveries during the month.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2021

In Europe, more than 43% of all cars sold in July was from the Recharge line-up. Overall, Volvo Cars reported global sales of 56,883 cars in July, down 8.7% US sales reached 11,575 cars in the month of July, up 19.4% For the first seven months, US sales rose by 42.3% of all cars sold in the month. to 75,329 cars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

The new technology center will focus on technical collaboration with customers in order to accelerate application innovation for Cabot’s battery materials product lines within Europe. The EMEA Technology Center is expected to commence operations by April 2023, with a planned expansion to be completed in 2024.

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Electric Cars Report

JUNE 21, 2023

Chinese leading electric vehicle manufacturer BYD announced the market launch of the new pure-electric BYD DOLPHIN in Europe. This all-new C-segment hatchback combines distinctive ‘playful’ design aesthetics with versatility, agility and an abundance of standard equipment, together with BYD’s EV technology.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Ford in Europe announced next steps in the transformation of its business. The actions are intended to align Ford’s product development organization and administrative functions in Europe with a smaller, more focused, and increasingly electric product portfolio.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2020

Volvo Cars formally inaugurated a new battery assembly line at its Belgian manufacturing plant in Ghent, where it will start building its first fully electric car, the XC40 Recharge P8, later this year. The Ghent plant will provide important learnings to other manufacturing sites in terms of process optimisation and efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2022

and Toyota Motor Europe N.V. Stellantis will supply TME with the new large-size commercial van for sale in Europe under the Toyota brand. Stellantis will supply TME with the new large-size commercial van for sale in Europe under the Toyota brand. Stellantis N.V. —Carlos Tavares, Stellantis CEO.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Ballard Power Systems announced its strategy ‘local for local’ whereby it plans to deepen its global manufacturing footprint in Europe, the United States and China to support global market demand growth through 2030. Current Ballard global manufacturing capacity.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Volvo Trucks will offer a complete heavy-duty range with electric drivelines starting in Europe in 2021. Volvo Trucks is now running tests of the electric heavy-duty Volvo FH, Volvo FM and Volvo FMX trucks, which will be used for regional transport and urban construction operations in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

IDTechEx expects electric motorcycle sales in Europe to have grown at least 50% year-on-year in 2020, building on the momentum of recent years. Growth is also being boosted by consumer awareness and acceptance in Europe of the benefits of electric motorcycles. 2020 is an IDTechEx estimate based on Q1 - Q3 2020 data.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

In Europe, Volkswagen has launched a new ID. 5 is manufactured at the Zwickau plant and both models are carbon-neutral on delivery to the customer. 5 GTX will launch in Europe in early 2022. In North America and China, the goal is that electric vehicles will account for at least 50% of unit sales. Like the ID.3

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2020

To maximize the opportunities for hydrogen in Europe, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) has established a Fuel Cell Business Group to oversee its hydrogen activities across the region. The benefits of hydrogen are clear. —Thiebault Paquet, Director of the Fuel Cell Business Group.

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Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 11, 2023

British electric vehicle manufacturer Tevva has hit another major milestone after securing European Community Whole Vehicle Type Approval (ECWVTA) for its 7.5 electric truck in the UK and Europe appeared first on Electric Cars Report. electric truck in the UK and Europe appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 This represents the largest year-on-year monthly decrease since 1980, when JATO Dynamics started to collect data—even surpassing the global financial crisis in November 2008, which saw a 25% decline in sales. China, Europe, and the US all posted double-digit declines in March.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2022

Toyota Motor Europe (TME) reported sales of 813,547 Toyota and Lexus vehicles, a decrease of -6% year-on-year but still outperforming the European automotive market which fell by -16% over the same period. Sales of the company’s multi-technology electrified line-up expanded to 540,777 vehicles, an increase of +5% year-on-year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2023

Taiwan-based ProLogium has chosen France as the location for its first large-scale solid-state battery manufacturing facility outside of Taiwan. This major investment project aims to facilitate supply chain localization, R&D activities, and the manufacturing of next-generation batteries in Europe for ProLogium.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The capacity increase comes as Volvo Cars also reports its full-year sales results for 2020, which showed a strong growth in demand for the company’s Recharge models.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 12, 2023

In Europe, the car appeared to be aimed at urban families with disposable incomes and/or the need for a secondary vehicle. Some of that could be blamed on the pandemic having limited both production and sales. Things weren’t going much better in Japan and Honda opted to end sales for the market in 2022. regulations.

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Electrek

OCTOBER 18, 2023

A report from Reuters says that Chinese EV manufacturer Nio is mulling a move to a dealership model in Europe as it fails to meet internal sales goals for its cars. more… The post Nio considers using car dealerships in Europe appeared first on Electrek.

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Electric Cars Report

JULY 20, 2023

to 1 million registered units, according to the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) data. Except for Hungary (-1.4%), all the EU markets grew, […] The post BEV overtake diesels sales for the first time in Europe appeared first on Electric Cars Report. In June 2023, the EU car market grew by 17.8%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2023

Volvo Trucks leads the market in Europe and in North America for heavy electric trucks after the first quarter of 2023. In total, the manufacturer has sold almost 5,000 electric trucks in about 40 countries. Most of these orders came from countries in the northern part of Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, Norway and Sweden.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 9, 2021

The milestone would not have been possible without the efforts of many automotive manufacturers that have committed to building electrified powertrains, Tesla being the most prevalent. For two years, data has shown that Europe has slowly but surely started to adopt EVs as their preferred mode of transportation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2023

Global sales of Nissan Motor electric vehicles have surpassed the 1-million unit milestone. The model is currently sold in approximately 50 markets centering on Japan, the US and Europe. In 2022, Nissan started sales of the Nissan Ariya all-electric crossover.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Ford committed today that by mid-2026, 100% of Ford’s passenger vehicle range in Europe will be zero-emissions capable, all-electric or plug-in hybrid, and will be completely all-electric by 2030. We successfully restructured Ford of Europe and returned to profitability in the fourth quarter of 2020. —Stuart Rowley.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Toyota Motor Europe reported strong performance continuing into the third quarter 2019 driven by new model introductions and increased demand for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). The company announced Jan-Sep total vehicle sales of 838,691 units across the region in a declining market, reporting 3.1% Lexus sales increased by 9.4%

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2021

In part two of this interview with Rodney Hooper of RK Equity, I started off by asking about his forecasts for EV market share in Europe. of vehicle sales in Europe this year (well above his US forecast of 15% by 2025). He expects that plugin vehicles will account for 18.5% At that percentage, we’re […].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ford announced that it intends to invest up to £230 million (US$316 million) at its Halewood vehicle transmission facility to transform it to build electric power units for future Ford all-electric passenger and commercial vehicles sold in Europe. —Stuart Rowley, president, Ford of Europe. billion (US$3.4 billion) annually.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2022

Last year, almost 40% of all new Porsche vehicles delivered in Europe were already at least partly electric—i.e. In 2025, half of all new Porsche sales are expected to come from the sale of electric vehicles—again, all-electric or plug-in hybrid, said Oliver Blume, Chairman of the Executive Board of Porsche AG.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2020

Limited (CATL), the global leading EV battery manufacturer, is expanding partnerships with VDL Bus & Coach B.V. and Quantron AG to optimize local product solutions and services for commercial vehicle electrification in Europe. VDL Bus & Coach has been the market leader in the electric bus sector in Europe with a share of 22%.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2022

MCHG has also begun to consider the production and sale of anode materials in European countries and the United States. Meanwhile, the movement to manufacture batteries locally for automobile applications in North America and Europe is becoming active with auto makers and battery cell makers implementing supply chain strategies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2020

In spring 2020, the Volkswagen Tiguan broke the production barrier of six million units, with 910,926 units manufactured in 2019 alone. This versatile vehicle is available for sale in 80% of countries in the world and is the most successful SUV on the market in Europe. Later that year, the first Tiguan came to market.

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Clean Fleet Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Most people are aware of key players like Hyundai and Nissan, but there are so many other EV manufacturers that are taking over Asia—and possibly set to conquer the international market, including the U.S. Below are just some of the EV manufacturers worth knowing about. The VinFast VF 8–now on sale in the U.S.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 31, 2024

February 2024 was a positive month for the new car market in Europe. JATO’s data revealed that these vehicles were responsible for 61% of total sales in February 2024, in comparison to the 62% registered in February 2019. However, Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) are not driving growth as they historically have done.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2017

Kia Motors posted its best six-month sales period in Europe, with half-year sales surpassing 250,000 for the first time in the company’s history. of European sales so far this year, up from just one per cent in the first six months of 2016, according to Michael Cole, Chief Operating Officer of Kia Motors Europe.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2022

These core business aims include: Accelerating electrification and achieving annual sales of 1.2 Starting with an annual global sales goal of 3.15 The company will make the sales of these vehicles the focus of future business growth. million BEV sales in 2030. Kia also announced its four key business targets for 2030.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2014

At the Geneva Motor Show, Toyota Motor Europe (TME) announced that European sales of hybrid vehicles reached an all-time high in 2013 totaling 156,863 units, up 43% year-on-year. total TME sales, including several countries outside of the EU. In Western Europe, 28% of all Toyota and Lexus vehicles sold are hybrid models.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 13, 2024

The small car seems like an obvious play for the automaker in an era where efficiency is becoming mandatory and heritage helps sales. But the latter assumes the manufacturer has found a way to comply with emissions and ran the relevant cost analysis. AutoGuide noted that a hypothetical RS200 could be based on the all-electric Mach-E.

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