Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2022

The new US battery factory underscores the importance of the United States within the Mercedes-Benz global production network and the status of Alabama as an export hub for luxury SUVs in the electric era. The battery factory in Bibb County will provide batteries for the new EQS SUV and the EQE SUV.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2018

More than 10 models of the more than 50 electrified vehicles will be fully electric cars—in all segments, from smart to large SUVs. billion) in a global battery production network within its worldwide production network. The global battery network currently comprises five battery factories on three continents.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. million units.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2019

The Fisker Ocean all-electric luxury SUV ( earlier post ) will make its public debut at Consumer Electronics Show 2020 in Las Vegas. I have been eagerly waiting to show our revolutionary Fisker Ocean luxury SUV to the public, so we decided to debut the full prototype—reflecting the actual production vehicle—at CES 2020.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

Like the XC40 Recharge electric compact SUV, the C40 Recharge comes with an infotainment systems jointly developed with Google and based on the Android operating system. The company will roll out several additional electric models in coming years and aims for 50% of its global sales volume to consist of fully electric cars by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2017

China-based electric vehicle startup NIO unveiled the NIO ES8, an electric SUV planned for serial production for the China market later this year. The NIO ES8 is a full-size 7-seat electric SUV with a 2-3-2 seating arrangement. NIO plans to produce a second batch of ten EP9s, and each one will be made to order.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

This newest addition to the Volvo electric line-up has all the benefits of an SUV but with a lower and sleeker design. With the ambition to be a carbon neutral company by 2040, Volvo Cars is working towards 50% of its global sales to consist of fully electric cars by 2025. min, compared to the standard $0.43/min.

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EV Central

MARCH 25, 2023

The ZR-V is the first new SUV nameplate from Honda since 1999 and it will sit between the smaller HR-V and larger CR-V in the line-up. Perhaps a little confusingly, the ZR-V is sold as the HR-V in the USA and under both names by different Honda partners in China. Honda will launch yet another rival for the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid mid-2023.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

The new mid-size SUV is based on the CrossBlue concept. The Board of Directors of Volkswagen Group of America has decided to award the production of its new midsize SUV to the Chattanooga plant in Tennessee. The CrossBlue made its global debut at the 2013 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2015

Mercedes-Benz is reorganizing its SUV production and will expand production capacities in the USA. Within our growth strategy we are expanding our global production network and will additionally use the capacities of a contract manufacturer. 2015 will be the year of the SUV for Mercedes-Benz.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2016

Sales of new sedans were higher in these smaller cities than in the tier 1 and 2 cities in 2015 and SUV volumes were almost the same, at 2.59 Just as in Europe and the USA, SUVs are the biggest driver of new sales. SUVs accounted for almost one in three new passenger vehicles (32%) sold last year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2022

Mercedes-Benz is aligning its global production network to manufacture its reshaped product portfolio focused on luxury electric vehicles as the brand prepares to go all electric by the end of the decade—wherever market conditions allow. The global Mercedes Benz production network is sustainable, digital and flexible.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

In 2022, Mercedes-Benz’ global portfolio will include eight all-electric Mercedes-EQ models. The global Mercedes-Benz production network is ready for the company’s electric product offensive and is integrating its Mercedes-EQ models into series production in its existing plants.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Mercedes-Benz is realigning its global passenger cars manufacturing activities and is strengthening its German passenger cars locations with investments worth billions of euros. “ The new manufacturing organization Mercedes-Benz Operations (MO) is based on global production networks and centralized responsibility for logistics and quality.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2020

This represents the lowest monthly level since the 1970s, and the worst result among the big three markets: China, USA-Canada, and Europe. Registrations of SUV in April totalled 109,500 units, 78% less than April 2019. In contrast, the bigger and more expensive SUVs posted more moderate declines. Volume fell from 1.34

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EV Central

MAY 10, 2024

. “When we look at the luxury landscape, and this is where we’ve really been operating and playing, you have BMW, Mercedes, Audi, Volvo, Lexus, land Rover, and Porsche, who are the main competitors that we see globally,” Dias says. “Obviously the foundation of that is the Ultium platform.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2020

Volkswagen has begun series production of the brand’s first all-electric SUV, the ID.4, 4, Volkswagen is adding an all-electric vehicle to its offering in the compact SUV class, the world’s largest growth segment. Going forward, the car will be built and sold in Europe, in China, and later also in the USA. 4, in Zwickau.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

While the company has not explicitly disclosed the name of the US-based OEM likely due to an NDA (non-disclosure agreement), it can be surmised that the order, whose value is believed to be in the region of Rs 400 crore per annum for the next few years, is likely to have come from Tesla which is well known to be the USA’s No.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

“Securing funding from a syndicate of global banks reflects our partners’ support for Polestar’s growth course. Polestar will have full access to technologies and engineering expertise from Geely Holding to realize its global growth targets,” Li said. Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath welcomed the new funding.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2016

The concept fulls-size SUV previews the future Volkswagen SUV. By means of comparison: the SUV is 0.4 kWh energy capacity) this SUV—like all Volkswagen GTE cars—always starts in the practically silent electric E-Mode. The driver brings out the most agile character of the SUV in this mode. inches long.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

In this way, together with our partners, we ensure the supply of our global battery production network today and in the future using the latest technologies. The company is also investing €1 billion in the global battery production network within the worldwide production network.

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EV Central

AUGUST 13, 2023

The electric sibling of the internal combustion SUV that has become the preferred form of transport for celebrities and secret service agents, the Escalade IQ is the fourth EV model from General Motors’ luxury brand. Optiq roll-out plans have yet to be announced. Cadillac plans to be an all-EV luxury brand by 2030.

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2022

We’re proud to create new, future-proof jobs to build all-electric SUVs ‘Made in the USA’ at a plant that is such an established part of our production family since 25 years.” ” Mercedes-Benz’s roots in Alabama go back to 1997 when the company opened a plant in Tuscaloosa for large SUVs.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 4, 2024

The company has begun production of its third model, the Polestar 3 SUV, in Chengdu, China. We have also achieved launch readiness at the factory in Ridgeville, South Carolina, and are well on track with our plans to start manufacturing Polestar 3 in the USA.” Things are moving along briskly at electric automaker Polestar.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 27, 2024

Tesla has taken the crown for the world’s best-selling vehicle in 2023, with the Model Y securing the top spot across the majority of global markets. million units, the Tesla Model Y has wrested the title from longstanding leader Toyota’s two models, the RAV4 SUV (1.07 million units currently sold globally – up from 1.02

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Teslarati

JANUARY 10, 2023

The company now offers as many as eight electric models in certain markets, multiples of the number of offerings from BMW, Porsche, and Audi, and even outshines most non-premium brands globally. million vehicles globally ( slightly less than the premium market leader, BMW ), with 350,949 units sold in the United States alone.

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EV Central

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The Lightning’s Aussie prospects have been boosted by the establishment of a new assembly line in Melbourne that has started converting left-hand drive petrol F-150s imported from the USA to right-hand drive for sale through Ford dealers from November. Another potential local conversion is the Ranger-based Bronco SUV.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Volkswagen intends to sell 150,000 e-cars—of which 100,000 will be the ID and ID SUV—by 2020, according to Thomas Ulbrich, Member of the Volkswagen Brand Board of Management, E-Mobility division. Globally, more than six million new Volkswagen vehicles roll out of production plants and onto the road each year.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

It would certainly create plenty of interest as VinFast’s range of electric SUVs would undoubtedly be pitched at a price that would make it a direct competitor for China’s BYD, GWM and MG. VF 5 crossover, the older VF e34 compact SUV, the brand new VF 6 sub-compact crossover SUV and the VF 7 medium SUV.

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Current EV

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

The Honda CR-V has an incredible record of global sales. In the USA, a total of 384,168 CR-Vs were sold in 2019 alone (wheelsjoint.com). In the SUV market, it ranks second only to the Toyota RAV4. Launched in Japan in 1995, the CR-V became one of the pioneer models of what has become the highly popular Compact SUV segment.

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EV Central

JUNE 24, 2023

Toyota’s accelerated global roll-out of battery electric vehicles seems certain to benefit Australia where the Toyota electric ute could be on-sale as soon as 2024. Australia’s number one selling car brand will launch its first BEV in October or November when the bZ4X medium SUV – a rival for the dominant Tesla Model Y – goes on-sale.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

Novelis’ investment in China is its second automotive investment this year, having recently announced a $300-million greenfield manufacturing facility in Guthrie, Kentucky, USA. In 2017, for example, Novelis announced it provided aluminum solutions for NIO’s electric SUV ES8. Novelis Changzhou Automotive Facility.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 26, 2024

But that proposal was watered down by automaker lobbying (which we’ve seen a lot of recently ), primarily through exceptions added for huge SUVs. And giant SUVs have, in turn, eliminated the auto emissions gains we could have had if cars had remained normal sized. If that sounds familiar, it’s because it is.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 12, 2024

The Volkswagen Group increased its global sales in CY2023 by 12% to 9.24 We grew faster than the total market and slightly extended our global market share. We would like to thank our customers and retail partners as well as the entire global team for this success.” million vehicles. per cent to 3,774,500 vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The SUV concept vehicle is based on the modular architecture for luxury- and executive-class electric vehicles from Mercedes-Benz and takes the exclusivity of Maybach into a locally emission-free future. According to WLTP, ranges of around 600 kilometers (373 miles) are planned for the Mercedes EQS SUV architecture.

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EV Central

MARCH 6, 2023

For now, though, it’s waiting to see if there’s demand for a fast and furious version of the small SUV developed by the company’s capable N division. “The speed of electrification, globally, we believe will go fast,” he says. The Korean car maker has already given the matter some careful thought.

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Green Cars News

JULY 18, 2009

Global Green Cars, along with its strategic partner Green Star Products, has its sights set on mass producing high performance electric cars in the United States - and now it has added an additional two models for its electric vehicle market. As a result, Global Green Cars will now add a commuter vehicle and an SUV to its product line.

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