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Mercedes-Benz Cars invests €1B in new “Full-Flex” car plant in Hungary; Factory 56 applied to full plant

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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.

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EcoProBM, SK On and Ford to invest C$1.2B to build NCM cathode manufacturing facility in Bécancour, Québec

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billion (US$886 million) to build a cathode manufacturing facility that will provide materials that ultimately supply batteries for Ford’s future electric vehicles. —SK On Chief Commercial Officer Min-suk Sung For EcoProBM, Canada is the second global market expansion after Hungary and marks the company’s entry into North America.

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BMW investing €400M in new vehicle assembly at Munich plant as part of shift to electromobility; engine production being concentrated at Steyr and Hams Hall

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The future assembly and its production processes will be designed for a new cluster architecture geared towards electric drive trains. It will ramp up for the first time at our future plant in Debrecen, Hungary, before being rolled out across our global production network in stages.

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Schaeffler introducing 4in1 electric axles for EVs

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In the future, Schaeffler will supply beam axles to automobile manufacturers, particularly in North America. Heat is a scarce and valuable resource in electric cars, which do not have the waste heat from internal combustion engines for heating the interior, for example.

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V4 countries form G4 Centre of Excellence for joint R&D in Generation-4 nuclear reactors

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Husinec, Czech Republic; MTA EK, Budapest, Hungary; NCBJ, ?wierk, The V4 is an alliance of four Central European states—Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia. To prepare for the future, their main objective is the development of the 4th generation of nuclear reactors based on fast neutrons.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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In the future, 100% of additional purchased electricity will come from verifiable renewable sources, such as wind- and hydropower. In Kecskemét (Hungary), a second plant under construction will be CO 2 -neutral. The production hall uses renewable energy and reduces water consumption and waste significantly.

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BMW outlines iFACTORY production strategy; transformation to e-mobility; Plant Debrecen first CO2-free plant

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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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