Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Cenntro Electric Group Limited and its subsidiary Cenntro Automotive Europe GmbH introduced two new all-electric commercial vehicles at IAA Transportation 2022 in Hannover, Germany. The two new vehicles, the Logistar 260 (LS260) and the Logistar 100 (LS100), join the LS product line now available globally in Class 1 to Class 4.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2022

The lagging supply of semiconductors caused limitations in production throughout the course of the year, which ultimately had a major impact on the unit sales figures, the company said. Volkswagen recorded a significant increase in deliveries of electric vehicles particularly in the United States, China and Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2021

The aim of the Alliance is to scale-up, by 2030, the production and deployment of hydrogen as a fuel produced by means of low-emission technologies and renewable energy sources. Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2013

BASF will start-up a new multi-million euro fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) catalysts testing and research laboratory at the hte Aktiengesellschaft (hte) facility in Heidelberg, Germany. FCC (source: EIA ). Fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) is primarily used in producing additional gasoline in the refining process.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 9, 2024

Still, the company remains far off from the world’s top EV seller, though the company has emphasized that its products are heading in the right direction. “We expect the market environment to remain challenging in 2024. But with our revised and attractive product portfolio, we are in the right position.”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Notably, BYD owns the vertical supply chain for seamless integration and manufacturing control, including the production of semiconductors. BYD was also the first automotive OEM in the world to announce it would be ceasing production of ICE vehicles this year to focus on BEV and PHEV products.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2017

From this base, the company will develop new ADAS products and AD technologies. The new company is expected to have its first driver assistance products available for sale by 2019 with autonomous driving technologies following shortly thereafter. Volvo Cars will source such products directly from the new joint venture.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2015

Transmission specialist Getrag has begun production of the new seven-speed 7DCT300 dual-clutch transmission. Getrag will supply European customers with the new transmission from its plant in Neuenstein, Germany. For the Asian market, the transmission will also be produced in China starting in 2017. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

and HCS Group have entered into a long-term, definitive, binding and bankable renewable isooctane purchase and sale agreement. We see strong interest for our advanced bio-based products in the outdoor power equipment and the cosmetics industries as well as in a wider range of fuel applications. Uwe Nickel, CEO of HCS Group.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2020

Through the partnership, Hyundai and Kia plan to introduce competitively priced small and medium-sized electric vans and other products for logistics, on-demand ride-hailing and shuttle service companies. Founded in 2015, Arrival has production plants and R&D centers in the US, Germany, Tel Aviv, Russia and the UK.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

7 Tourer electric estate car, or station wagon, for the European market. 7 Tourer is a perfect estate model, especially for families and long-distance drivers,” said Imelda Labbé, Volkswagen brand board of management for sales, marketing and after sales. 4 SUV at its EV plant in Emden, Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2012

The government of China—now the world’s largest automotive market—has made vehicle electrification central to its plan for growing the automotive market both domestically and internationally, and accordingly has created many national and local incentives for plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) purchases. BEV/PHEV cars that were.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2017

TDI engines for GAZ light commercial vehicles, opening up new business opportunities in international markets. The main focus will be on the delivery and joint assembly of components as well as joint product concepts. Maximum annual production capacity at the Gorky Automobile Plant is around 132,000 vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2014

Volkswagen Passenger Cars delivered 567,800 (545,300; +4.1%) vehicles on the overall European market in the first four months, of which 298,400 (279,300; +6.8%) were handed over in Western Europe (excluding Germany). Deliveries on the home market of Germany rose slightly to 184,100 (180,500; +2.0%) units.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2011

Separately, a new report by Pike Research forecasts that green chemistry represents a market opportunity that will grow from $2.8 BDO is used to make spandex, automotive plastics, running shoes, and many other products; it has an approximately 2.8 billion pound, $3-billion worldwide market. billion in 2011 to $98.5

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 18, 2017

Zenuity is a new entrant in the growing global market for autonomous driving software systems. Headquartered in Gothenburg, Sweden and with additional operations in Munich, Germany, and Detroit, USA, the initial workforce of close to 300 people is from Volvo Cars and Autoliv as well as some new hires.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 5, 2024

Tesla also originally promised to use a unique “exoskeleton”-style chassis , though as the truck got closer to production that looks like it didn’t quite pan out the way we imagined – but we’re sure BMW is interested in seeing what’s underneath that skin anyway. We hope they learned a lot for that kind of money.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 21, 2011

Announcement of the i sub-brand in Germany. BMW introduced its new sub-brand, BMW i, along with announcement of production of the first two i models: the i3 (the battery-electric Megacity Vehicle, earlier post ) and the i8 (the production version of the plug-in hybrid Vision Efficient Dynamics concept, earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2016

While the situation in Brazil in particular remained tense, there was significant growth on the Chinese market. Reinforcing our customers’ trust in our products remains our top priority. —Fred Kappler, Head of Group Sales. There was solid development in deliveries on the home market of Germany as well (+3.9%).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2011

The objective of the alliance is to adapt lithium-ion battery technology to the requirements of automobiles, and thus explore the market for hybrid and electric vehicles. Samsung SDI brings its extensive large-scale production experience into the partnership as well as manufacturing competence in the area of lithium-ion cell production.

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EV Central

AUGUST 24, 2022

It’s to be fully revealed in showcar form at next month’s IAA Transportation event in Germany, touted as “a mobile shelter for adventurers and sports enthusiasts who love the outdoors.” Based on the Zafira-e Life and due for sale in 2023, there’s a solid 322km WLTP driving range plus sleeping for four.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2009

Ford Motor Company officially launched the new Ford Fiesta into the China market on the southern resort island of Hainan. China is the world’s first market to introduce the four-door Fiesta sedan. The Fiesta was Ford’s second best-selling vehicle in Europe’s main 19 markets in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

TDI diesel engine for the European market. In the new Audi A5 and Q5 models, the V6 diesel outputs 210 kW (286 hp) as well as 620 N·m (457lb-ft) of torque (this engine version is not yet for sale. 14,000 of those 24,000 cars are registered in Germany. Audi engineers have intensively further developed the new 3.0

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We update this list regularly because the market is changing so quickly. We’ll try to keep this up-to-date as the EV market continues to evolve. Plug-ins are trending in key markets around the country, although much of the action remains focused in California and other West Coast states. Let us know what you think.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2023

Despite supply constraints and temporary production stops, the Volkswagen Group handed over 572,100 all-electric vehicles to customers around the globe in 2022—up 26% compared to 2021. The Volkswagen Group remains the BEV market leader in its home market of Europe and reached the fourth position in this segment in the United States.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

“Even in times of global economic uncertainty, our brand remains desirable and exclusive,” says Detlev von Platen, Member of the Executive Board for Sales and Marketing at Porsche AG. Last year we benefited in particular from Porsche’s very balanced position in its largest sales regions. This is 12% more than in 2022.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2015

ITM Power will launch an enhanced Power-to-Gas product range based on a higher current density that produces 50% more hydrogen for the same stack volume in April at the 2015 Hannover Hydrogen and Fuel Cells Group Exhibit. The company will launch its new 350 kW single stack with a three stack 1MW system on show and for sale.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2018

The WE customer platform is to begin rolling out various vehicle-on-demand services, in particular car sharing, in Germany in 2019. We are convinced that the car sharing market still has potential. —Jürgen Stackmann, Volkswagen Brand Board Member for Sales. MOIA’s products focus on ride hailing and pooling services.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2018

The WE customer platform is to begin rolling out various vehicle-on-demand services, in particular car sharing, in Germany in 2019. We are convinced that the car sharing market still has potential. —Jürgen Stackmann, Volkswagen Brand Board Member for Sales. MOIA’s products focus on ride hailing and pooling services.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

This is the first step towards the long term strategy of utilizing UQM electric drive products across Sinotruk’s portfolio of commercial vehicles. This turnkey approach allows customers in the medium- and heavy-duty EV commercial markets to achieve increased performance in areas of gradability, acceleration and efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2012

Global automotive market intelligence firm Polk forecasts worldwide new vehicle sales in 2012 will rise 6.7% The US market will experience single digit growth, primarily due to the relatively strong year for sales in 2011, and the effects of the weak economy that will continue to impact new vehicle demand through most of 2012.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

China, the Group’s largest single market, grew by 1.6% despite a challenging market environment. The Volkswagen Group expanded its market share in Europe as well as North and South America and thus also increased slightly worldwide. “We are pleased with the market success of our strong brands and models.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

Exclusive rights are granted to Harman Becker to manufacture the latest technology solutions for the worldwide vehicle OEM market. The result of the Lotus and Harman International technology collaboration will be to generate Active Noise Control system solutions available to vehicle manufacturers in all worldwide markets.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 23, 2023

That is one reason why legacy automakers and EV start-ups are attempting to follow Tesla’s success in the luxury vehicle segment, spending much of their effort producing vehicles that are “above the median average annual US household income, let alone buyer in new car market,” Strategic Vision’s Edwards says.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

The head of Chryslers ENVI division, Lou Rhodes, told AutoblogGreen this morning that Chrysler is marketing this battery-only version of the van to commercial fleet customers who typically have shorter range requirements. Based in Watertown, Massachusetts, A123Systems has announced plans for a Michigan-based production facility.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

I wish the thing was for sale as-is. Merc wants the electric smart to perform badly, to have a short range and little power, so that it dosent eat up other products in the lineup. This has nothing to do with real economics and more to do with marketing, which is the black art of herding people into paying more for less.

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