Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is starting construction of its first “Full-Flex Plant“ in Kecskemét, Hungary, about 90 km in the south of Budapest. With an investment of one billion euros, we are building in Hungary the first ‘Full-Flex Plant’ in the global production network of Mercedes-Benz Cars. Three of them are currently being established.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2023

billion (US$886 million) to build a cathode manufacturing facility that will provide materials that ultimately supply batteries for Ford’s future electric vehicles. For SK On, the new facility is part of its efforts to secure a stable supply of key battery materials in North America. million EVs a year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

After going into operation in just over a year, it will supply the company with at least 82,000 megawatt hours of geothermal energy per year and will cover about 60% of total heat requirements. signed a long-term contract on the supply of heat energy with the Hungarian company “DDEnergy.” The mobility of the future must be CO 2 ?neutral—and

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. With a CO2-neutral energy supply of the plants, we are consistently pursuing this approach and are actively driving sustainability in production.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2022

In the future, Schaeffler will supply beam axles to automobile manufacturers, particularly in North America. In the electric beam axle, the electric motor, transmission, power electronics, and the entire rear axle are connected to each other and supplied to the customer as a ready-to-fit unit.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Audi is focusing on transforming production from the inside out with the aim of heralding the future of production at Audi, the 360factory. Named “Factory of the Future” in 2020 by the employers’ association Agoria, Brussels achieved this distinction as early as 2018. —Audi board member for Production and Logistics Gerd Walker.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

Rimac’s tech division will supply batteries for BMW’s future electric cars. Rimac to supply BMW with EV batteries The collaboration is Rimac Tech’s “largest and most ambitious project” the company has undertaken. For its next-gen models, BMW is turning to Croatian electric hypercar specialist Rimac for EV batteries.

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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. The green dream has long been a priority for BYD and is the vision for the future. For over two decades, BYD has been at the forefront of sustainable innovation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

After Europe, the international version of the EQB, produced in Kecskemét, Hungary, will be launched at the end of the year, followed by the US market launch in 2022. The A-Class will also be produced with plug-in hybrid drive at Kecskemét in future as well as at the German Mercedes-Benz plant in Rastatt, where the EQA is built.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

—Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG, Production and Supply Chain. The compact SUV EQB will be the first purely electrically powered production vehicle from Hungary and will complement the plug-in hybrid portfolio consisting of the CLA and CLA Shooting Brake. Global battery production network.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

—Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain. Further locations for future EQ models of Mercedes-Benz are the Mercedes-Benz plants Rastatt (Germany), Sindelfingen (Germany), Tuscaloosa (US). Production of the EQC, a fully-electric SUV, will start in 2019.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

Mercedes-Benz announced that its Rastatt plant—the company’s lead plant in global production of compact cars—will produce compact-class electric EQ models in the future. Future EQ models can be integrated in the series production of existing Mercedes-Benz plants on four continents. Earlier post.)

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

BMW Vision Neue Klasse “It is about nothing less than the future of the BMW brand, the BMW Group,” CEO Oliver Zipse told reporters during a recent quarterly financial position statement conference call. What is known for sure is that the Neue Klasse family is a massive part of the BMW Group’s future worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2022

BMW’s iFACTORY production strategy defines the future orientation of plants and production technologies at the BMW Group and meets the challenges of the transformation to e-mobility. Automotive manufacturing of the future requires a new, holistic way of thinking. with an integrative, global approach. —Milan Nedeljkovi?.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2022

The future product portfolio will focus on three categories: Top End Luxury, Core Luxury and Entry Luxury as outlined in the company’s Economics of Desire event on May 19. Following the successful launches of Mercedes-EQ models in recent months, we are taking the next step: To outline the plan for our future production setup.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This war will have many long-term consequences, but possibly none more important than its effects on the future of the European energy supply. Rapid severing of Europe’s Russian supplies would create an unprecedented economic and existential emergency on the continent. Consumption of E.U.-produced

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

And it's already clear that the COVID-19 pandemic has sped up the arrival of the future along several dimensions. One explanation for the low levels of economic development in Russia and Austria-Hungary during the 19th century was the ruling class's resistance to new technology and to institutional reform.

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