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JANUARY 19, 2023

Beginning in 2025, Finland-based Terrafame will supply Stellantis with nickel sulfate over the five-year term of the agreement. Stellantis plans reaching 100% of passenger car battery electric vehicle (BEV) sales mix in Europe and 50% passenger car and light-duty truck BEV sales mix in the United States by 2030. Stellantis N.V.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

3 with 56,500 units sold—even though this only came on the market in September—followed by the e-Golf with around 41,300 units and the Passat GTE with approximately 24,000 units. Even though it was only introduced in the second half of the year, it ranked in the top of the sales charts in many countries almost right away.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2021

Finnish Minerals Group and Beijing Easpring Material Technology have been investigating and negotiating the possibility to establish a cathode active materials (CAM) plant in Kotka, Finland with an initial capacity of 50,000 t/a and potential for future expansion for the production of cathode active material for lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2023

The plant is to be built by Koppö Energia Oy, a joint venture company between Germany’s Prime Green Energy Infrastructure Fund and CPC Finland Oy, in Kristinestad, Finland. Technology group Wärtsilä will provide the front-end engineering design (FEED) for the liquefaction and storage of liquefied synthetic methane (LSM).

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 15, 2021

April sales figures are in for electric vehicle models in 10 European countries — Norway, the Netherlands, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark. The site EU-EVs.com have pulled the figures together, and I’ve created some charts of the April and January–April figures for this article.

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Teslarati

APRIL 1, 2024

Battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) have surpassed a tipping point of making up 5 percent of overall automotive sales in 31 countries, up from just 19 in 2022, according to data shared by Bloomberg last week. Norway, Iceland and Denmark led the BEV market share charts in Q4, with Sweden and Finland following behind.

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MARCH 27, 2020

The decline of the European new car market has continued throughout February. As of 29 February, JATO data has shown that the impact of COVID-19 had yet to hit the European automotive market. The volume of electrified vehicles more than doubled in Germany and France—their biggest markets. Their global sales totaled 18.85

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MAY 21, 2022

Production for the US market will start in Chattanooga in the fall. Following its market launch in early 2021, the ID.4 Following its market launch in early 2021, the ID.4 4 is now produced at the Emden and Zwickau sites and at the Anting and Foshan plants in China. The global production network will then grow to five locations.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

THINK, the Scandinavian electric vehicle (EV) maker, has re-started production of the THINK City—one of the first urban EVs—at a new facility with manufacturing partner Valmet Automotive in Uusikaupunki, Finland. The THINK City in production at Valmet. Click to enlarge.

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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. Data from EU-EVs shows that Tesla dominated all manufacturers in terms of EV sales, beating out second-place Volkswagen by nearly 11,000 units.

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AUGUST 1, 2018

The European car market recorded its best H1 performance of the century, with 8.6 Despite uncertainty in the UK, where the market was down 6.3% on H1 2017, the growth recorded in Germany, France and Spain allowed the overall market to keep growing. of the German market. of total registrations. of total registrations.

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MAY 25, 2018

A new study by a team from Aarhus University in Denmark has found that car dealerships pose a significant barrier to electric vehicle adoption at the point of sale due to a perceived lack of business case viability in relation to gasoline and diesel vehicles. Early adopters, however, are a minority of the total market.

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APRIL 28, 2012

Neste Oil recently supplied its first batch of NExBTL renewable diesel to the US market. The fuel, which qualifies as an advanced biofuel in the US, was produced at the company’s Porvoo refinery in Finland from waste fats. We are also proud of our contribution to the US Renewable Fuel Standard.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

A second eLNO plant is also planned in Finland. Consequently this is rapidly turning into a high-volume, commoditized market, the company explained. JM’s Board has therefore decided to pursue the sale of all or parts of this business with the ultimate intention of exiting.

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OCTOBER 8, 2014

Up until now, Neste Pro Diesel was only available in Finland. Neste Pro Diesel is used as the first fill fuel in Mercedes-Benz A-Class cars manufactured in Finland. The Baltic region, and the Baltic countries in particular, is a key market area for Neste Oil. —Panu Kopra, Neste Oil’s Vice President, Baltic Rim.

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MARCH 10, 2020

After a large increase of new vehicle registrations in Europe in December 2019, volumes for January decreased, marking another month of transition for the complex new car market. The European market is still showing signs of strength despite a tough environment. This is a market share of 13.3% EVs were the lifeline.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

In 2023, Europe’s auto market achieved its best sales since the pandemic, spurred partly by strong demand for EVs. of total market share. Europe’s automotive market appears to be normalizing,” said Felipe Munoz, Global Analyst at JATO Dynamics. Chinese brands saw sales grow by 79% year-on-year.

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JUNE 25, 2019

Moreover, the market penetration of zero- and low-emission vehicles, including electric cars, remained slow in 2018. The market share of gasoline vehicles also increased, constituting 3.6% Sales of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) and battery-electric vehicles (BEV) continued to increase. of sales in 2018.

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JANUARY 31, 2017

China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Limited (CATL), a leading global provider of battery and energy storage solutions, has taken a 22% stake in Finland-based Valmet Automotive as part of a new strategic partnership in electric automotive solutions. At the end of 2016, CATL employed more than 10,000 employees worldwide.

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JANUARY 26, 2016

We are happy to be able to help our customer Tamoil to be the first in Northern Italy to launch a renewable fuel with excellent cold properties into the market. Neste’s renewable diesel developed and tested in Finland offers uncompromised reliability and performance even in the harshest conditions, such as the Alpine mountain area.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The Model 3 is Tesla’s first mass-market vehicle, and it was eventually followed by the company’s Model Y crossover. The all-electric Model 3 sedan has been Tesla’s key product to launch the company into mass-market status, being the first vehicle the electric automaker offered under the U.S. The Volkswagen ID.3

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2022

There are now 15 European countries that have 15% or more of new-car buyers buying plugin electric cars (full electric cars or plugin hybrids). There are 12 European countries that have 10% or more of new-car buyers buying full electric vehicles (BEVs). China also passed those milestones in 2021 (15% plugin vehicle share and 12% […].

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DECEMBER 20, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released three new reports showcasing strong growth across the US fuel cell and hydrogen technologies market. According to these reports, the US continues to be one of the world’s largest and fastest growing markets for fuel cell and hydrogen technologies. 2012 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report.

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APRIL 25, 2018

Sales of new passenger cars in the EU increased by 3% in 2017 compared to the previous year. Registrations increased in all EU Member States except Finland, Ireland and the United Kingdom. For the first year since monitoring started, gasoline cars became the most sold vehicles in the EU, constituting almost 53% of sales.

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Teslarati

JUNE 16, 2022

“Non-Tesla vehicles can now charge at select Superchargers in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, and Switzerland via the Tesla app,” the automaker said today. Non-Tesla vehicles can now charge at select Superchargers in Denmark, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg and Switzerland via the Tesla app. Learn more at [link].

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FEBRUARY 12, 2014

The LEAF now holds 33% of the EV passenger car market in Europe. The success of the Nissan LEAF in Europe has been propelled by consistently strong sales in Norway where the Nissan LEAF, the third-most sold passenger car last year, became the country’s best-selling car at the end of January 2014 with 650 units.

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DECEMBER 7, 2022

The formation of this joint venture catalyzes a firm sales contract under which FREYR will supply Nidec with 38 GWh of next-generation, clean battery cells from 2025 - 2030. FREYR first announced a broad partnership with Nidec in August 2022. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2017

From this waste ham fat, Neste produced 10,000 liters of Neste MY Renewable Diesel at its Porvoo refinery for sale at Neste stations. —Osmo Kammonen, Senior Vice President, Communications and Brand Marketing at Neste. Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 31, 2020

Laboratory studies and pilot trials at the Outotec Research Center in Pori and Neste’s Technology Center in Porvoo, Finland, confirmed the high-level performance of the product for solvent extraction of copper, and it can be also used for other base metals.

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JUNE 8, 2015

The first Etanolix plant delivered to the international market by Finland-based St1 Biofuels Oy was inaugurated in Gothenburg, Sweden last week. In Finland, there are already four Etanolix plants and one Bionolix plant that produces ethanol from biowaste from shops and households. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 21, 2021

At BASF’s manufacturing facilities for primary products of cathode materials in Harjavalta, Finland, and for cathode materials in Schwarzheide, Brandenburg, Germany, BASF will be able to produce battery materials with an industry-leading low carbon footprint from 2022. The battery cell is the combustion chamber of the future.

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Baua Electric

MAY 10, 2023

LONDON — Basic Motors will start gross sales of full-electric vehicles in Europe within the autumn, with the primary markets anticipated to be Nordic nations. McQuade stated GM’s EV gross sales will starting within the autumn however didn’t expose GM goal markets in Europe.

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MARCH 18, 2018

In proportion to its population, the Nordic region—Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden—is strikingly ahead of the rest of the world in adopting electric cars. The Nordic countries represent the third-largest electric-car market by sales, after China and the United States.

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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.

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MAY 29, 2012

of the Ford Focus models in Europe’s major 19 markets. The Euro 19 markets are: Austria, Belgium, Britain, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland. Across Europe, more than 4,700 customers ordered a Focus 1.0-liter

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JUNE 29, 2017

Through the prospective agreement, BASF would receive the raw materials from the Nornickel metal refinery in Harjavalta, Finland. Nornickel would also provide a secure supply of nickel and cobalt feedstock from its Russian mines at market prices. We are interested in supporting this target market with our nickel and cobalt products.

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MARCH 4, 2020

In addition to the European car market recording tepid growth in 2019, CO 2 emissions have continued to increase, despite new regulation designed to curtail this, according to JATO Dynamics. Last year, the volume-weighted average CO 2 emissions for European markets were at their highest recorded levels since 2014. —Felipe Munoz.

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