Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2014

At the Geneva Motor Show and now at the IT trade fair CeBIT in Hanover, Germany, Volkswagen Group executive management has begun to outline its “Future Tracks” program which will address, among other things, what Chairman of the Board of Management Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn calls an approaching new era of digitalization.

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MARCH 27, 2024

The heavy-duty truck was charged at a level of over 700 kW and 1,000 A using a charging station from ABB E-mobility, one of the first megawatt charging points in Germany. MCS chargers are intended to provide a fast charge for an electric truck or coach during the driver’s legally prescribed driving break.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2013

Germany has embarked on a large-scale Energiewende (energy transition)—a policy-driven shift away from nuclear and fossil energy to a renewable energy economy. Siemens proposes giving up a fixed target for renewables and focus on reducing CO 2 emissions in the future instead. Source: Siemens. Click to enlarge. Euro cents/kWh.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

In order to be able to meet increasing demand for German Mercedes-Benz plants in the future, Farasis is building a plant for battery cells in Bitterfeld-Wolfen; creating up to 2,000 new jobs. The production site in Bitterfeld-Wolfen in eastern Germany is currently being planned; an additional plant in the US will follow.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

H2 MOBILITY, a leading operator of hydrogen refueling stations which already operates more than 90 stations across Germany, intends to use the funding to further expand its network to 300 stations by 2030, becoming the backbone of zero-carbon private and commercial traffic in Europe. Hy24’s legal advisors for the deal were EY and Bird & Bird.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In the coming months the current System Engineering business unit will be split commercially, operationally and legally into two independent business units. Around 500 of these jobs are at sites in Germany. The System Engineering business unit currently operates nine development and production sites in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2020

KG, the organizational and legal framework for bringing together all of the group’s fuel cell activities. We and our future joint venture partner, Volvo Group, are convinced of this. Daimler Truck AG has established the new company Daimler Truck Fuel Cell GmbH & Co. Earlier post.). Dr. Andreas Gorbach and Prof.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

Bosch says that its engineers have refined existing diesel technolgoies to reduce emissions of nitrogen oxides (NO x ) so significantly that they already comply with future limits. There’s a future for diesel. We firmly believe that the diesel engine will continue to play an important role in the options for future mobility.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Anticipating a future where all vehicles communicate with each other via mobile phone networks and embedded modems, Ford and Vodafone are now exploring how “eCall Plus” might also inform other drivers that there is an accident ahead, across a range of up to 500 meters. —Hannes Ametsreiter, CEO, Vodafone Germany.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2016

and Kia Motors Corp, ending its legal action against those companies. When the companies were unable to reach a licensing agreement on subsequent patents, Paice was forced to pursue legal action in 2014. In December 2015, Paice reached an agreement to license all of its hybrid vehicle technology to Hyundai Motor Co.

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Teslarati

MARCH 6, 2022

A few days after Tesla secured the final environmental approval for Giga Berlin, the EV manufacturer ramps hiring for its factory in Germany. The hiring ramp reveals the job opportunities Giga Berlin has brought and will bring to Grunheide in the future. . The Tesla settlement is a showcase project.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The aim is to establish an SDS as a standard module for all Group brands in future. In 2020 and 2021 two further companies will be founded in Silicon Valley and in China respectively in addition to the company in Germany. An SDS development site in China is needed to comply with local legal requirements.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2019

They reckon that a significant proportion of the fossil fuels used for mobility in Germany could be replaced by “crowd oil”. At the same time, however, the scientists have found that the proposed concept—even if it were introduced all over Germany—would not be able to fully meet today’s demand for crude oil products.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

We observe the legal requirements in each country and fulfill all local testing requirements. BMW noted that in two studies carried out by the ICCT, results confirmed that the BMW X5 and 13 other BMW vehicles tested comply with the legal requirements concerning NO x emissions. This represents approx. 20,000 vehicles in the US in 2014.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 26, 2023

Then they began shipping vehicles with the capability to customers in Germany in mid-2022, becoming the first automaker in the country to pass through the government’s stringent autonomous driving certification process. These activities are legally permissible depending on laws that apply where DRIVE PILOT is being used.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2020

In Germany, traffic density is the most important factor. Until now, however, it has been difficult to estimate, what share legal measures such as low emission zones or diesel driving bans have and what share the weather influences have in the actual air quality? With the method used, this will be easier in the future.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

The Japanese ministry of economy, trade and industry (METI) and the ministry of land, infrastructure, transport and tourism (MLIT) initiated the platooning test, which is part of the Japanese government’s Future Strategy 2017. In 2014, Daimler Trucks launched the truck-concept Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 with autonomous driving function.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

For the first time, preliminary data recently reported to the EEA by Member States allow a comparison with the legally binding emission limits for 2010 set in the EU NEC Directive. Spain was the only Member State to have exceeded three of its four emission ceilings under the NECD; followed by Germany with two exceedances.

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2022

After a long process that saw delays, controversies, and other drama, Tesla Gigafactory Berlin has won its final environmental approval from Germany. The approval also includes battery cell production activities within the Giga Berlin complex, which should allow Tesla to manufacture its in-house cells from within Germany. .

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Düsseldorf, Germany-base E.ON, one of the world’s largest investor-owned power and gas companies, is adopting a new strategic direction under which is will split itself in two. These two missions are so fundamentally different that two separate, distinctly focused companies offer the best prospects for the future. SE shareholders.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2017

Furthermore, the Volkswagen brand will in future supply 2.0 GAZ personnel were trained at Volkswagen and ŠKODA plants in Germany and the Czech Republic, and a new training center was opened at GAZ. engines from the Salzgitter plant in Germany. GAZ Group plans to equip GAZ vehicles with Volkswagen TDI 2.0

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Teslarati

MARCH 4, 2022

It took a long time to get to this point, but after two years, it appears that Tesla’s Model Y factory in Germany is finally about to wake up. Legal action has been taken about the issue. Future plans. Tesla is set to receive a supply of 1.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2018

The European Commission is taking the UK to court—along with Germany, France, Italy, Romania, and Hungary—over its long-standing failure to meet EU limits for nitrogen dioxide (NO?). in their emissions control system, and make tampering with an emissions control system a legal offense. billion (US$4.7-billion)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

As emissions can rebound during periods of economic recovery, countries need to make positive efforts to limit any increase of emissions in the future. Today’s publication of official 2010 data from Member States is the first time that those efforts can be measured against the legally binding targets.

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MARCH 13, 2024

Such policies may appeal to voters, but ASML and other tech firms that depend on foreign staff argue that they undermine the country’s future prosperity. “The only thing that I’ve seen is that the scales are tending to weigh against the Netherlands,” Berdowski said, citing a worsening legal and fiscal backdrop.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

While the partnership will focus on common powertrain systems, it will also enable collaboration in many aspects of future commercial vehicle development. Volkswagen Truck & Bus was advised by Rothschild as financial advisor, and Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP, CMS Germany and Bär & Karrer as legal advisors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

The issue features prominently on the agenda of The 2 nd annual Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Conference on the future of the Arctic Council, 17-18 January in Toronto. Another six non-Arctic nations sit in as observers today: the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Poland and the Netherlands.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2016

Scania will leave from Södertalje, south of Stockholm, driving through Sweden, Denmark and Germany to Maasvlakte II in the Port of Rotterdam, making a stop in Zolder, Belgium and in Zwolle, Netherlands. Daimler will start from Stuttgart and MAN from Munich (both in Southern Germany). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

At a press conference in Germany today, Volkswagen Group executives provided details on the status of its investigation—which is being coordinated by a special committee of the Supervisory Board—into the diesel emissions debacle. Earlier post.). Earlier post.) The software of the 2.0 liter TDI will be updated.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2012

The conclusions drawn from the data by DOE will help identify and focus future research and development efforts and gauge progress toward fuel cell performance and cost targets. The vehicles must be road-worthy, safe, legally permitted for driving on public roads, and ready for validation.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2015

BMW says that since fuel cell electric vehicles are particularly suited to longer-distance trips, they are an ideal complement to the BMW i models, and to the future plug-in hybrid production models from the BMW brand, which will be based on the already proven eDrive technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2011

The EU-27 and its Member States must meet legally binding limits for four air pollutants set by the National Emission Ceilings Directive (NEC Directive). In contrast, Germany and France expect to exceed their ceilings by 328 kilotonnes and 275 kilotonnes respectively—equivalent to exceedances of 31% and 34%. Source: EEA.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2014

Partners in Germany’s UR:BAN research consortium recently gave a mid-term status report on the three major component projects in an event at the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) in Braunschweig, Germany. All these challenges are supported by studies of legal issues and effectiveness evaluation. Human Factors in Traffic.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2011

Estimating the magnitude of costs associated with future climate change impacts is very uncertain. This uncertainty is unavoidable, as the extent of damage will be dependent on the future development of society, particularly with respect to population and economic growth, but also how much value is attached to future events.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2014

Mercedes-Benz unveiled the Future Truck 2025 in Magdeburg, Germany. Daimler Trucks demonstrated the vehicle on a trip along a section of the A14 autobahn near the city of Magdeburg, in which the Future Truck drove itself under realistic driving conditions. Sensor system in the Future Truck 2025. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2012

BASF and Russia’s Gazprom signed a legally binding basic agreement to swap assets of equivalent value. An additional payment of up to US$100 million will be paid contingent on the successful future development of the Vega field. Gazprom will also receive a 50% share in the activities of Wintershall Noordzee B.V.,

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JANUARY 8, 2014

Navigant suggests that, since the automakers have already designed the vehicles that they will be selling in 2018, they will become more vocal in 2014 to push for changes; the firm expects the dispute to escalate, perhaps resulting in legal action. In October, California passed legislation committing to build 100 hydrogen stations by 2024.

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