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JULY 30, 2022

Volkswagen Group China unveiled its first electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) passenger drone prototype, as part of its strategy to explore and break new ground in fully electric and sustainable individual mobility concepts. Stephan Wöllenstein, CEO of Volkswagen Group China. With a luxury X-wing configuration of 11.2m

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MARCH 22, 2023

Hyundai Motor Group has developed an automatic charging robot (ACR) for electric vehicles (EV). —Dong Jin Hyun, Head of Robotics Lab, Hyundai Motor Group The ACR, which may appear deceptively simple at first glance, is an example of the Group’s advanced robot technology.

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MAY 21, 2023

In Germany, RWE and the Westfalen Group will work together to supply green hydrogen for hydrogen-powered vehicles. The collaborative arrangement with the Westfalen Group is therefore ground-breaking. Up to 70 hydrogen fuel stations will be in place by 2030, depending on how the market develops.

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MAY 20, 2023

Germany-based Liacon, one of Europe’s largest battery manufacturers, has released a new, more versatile lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) battery that can replace all Group 31 lead-acid units. Group 31 batteries are one of the highest selling in the market. Meek, CEO of Liacon The new Group 31 LFP 12.8V —Philip M.

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JULY 1, 2023

Iveco Group N.V. Iveco Group N.V. Iveco Group is licensed to access freely and continue developing vehicle control software for the jointly developed battery-electric (BEV) and fuel-cell-electric (FCEV) trucks.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group will collaborate with the Saudi Arabian Oil Company (Aramco) and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) jointly to research and develop an advanced fuel for an ultra lean-burn, spark-ignition engine that aims to lower the overall carbon dioxide emissions of a vehicle.

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JANUARY 21, 2023

Under an expanded Joint Development Agreement, BMW Group and Solid Power have added a research and development license as a basis for their common next steps. As next step in the long-term industrialisation time line, Solid Power plans to deliver full scale automotive cells to BMW Group for testing purposes in 2023. Earlier post.)

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MAY 19, 2023

—Milan Nedeljković The BMW Group has had a presence in the Chinese market since 1994 and founded the BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture in May 2003. Over the past 20 years, the BMW Group has continuously expanded its activities in China, and production capacity in Shenyang has increased from 30,000 to 830,000 units.

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MAY 13, 2022

Volvo Trucks and Deutsche Post DHL Group have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the shift to zero-exhaust-emission vehicles. This will result in annually savings of nearly 600 tons of CO 2 and nearly 225,000 liters of diesel fuel for Deutsche Post DHL Group.

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MAY 17, 2023

Volvo Group is the first truck manufacturer to launch an Augmented Reality (AR) safety app for electric trucks, designed specifically to support first responders in an emergency. For Mack electric trucks, the AR features will be added during June 2023.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Share In Germany — VW Group Strong appeared first on CleanTechnica. Overall auto volume was 254,497 units, down 3.5% Marchs best-selling BEV was the Volkswagen ID.7. Marchs sales saw combined EVs at. continued] The post EVs At 27.1%

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The BMW Group sources the individual fuel cells required for manufacturing the BMW iX5 Hydrogen from the Toyota Motor Corporation. The BMW Group has experience with the use of hydrogen as a drive technology. The stack housing is manufactured in the light metal foundry at BMW Group Plant Landshut using a sand casting technique.

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JULY 7, 2022

Announced as part of Volkswagen Group’s NEW AUTO strategy, CARIAD is developing a unified software platform that consists of VW.OS, the Volkswagen Cloud VW.AC The platform will be available for Volkswagen Group brands from the middle of the decade. and a scalable, unified end-to-end electronic architecture.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2022

The BMW Group is building a high-voltage battery assembly for the vehicles of the NEUE KLASSE at its site in Hungary. —Markus Fallböhmer, Senior Vice President of Battery Production at the BMW Group. The battery assembly will be located on the site of the Debrecen vehicle plant, which started construction about six months ago.

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JULY 14, 2022

Iveco Group , through its brand IVECO BUS, will partner with HTWO to equip its future European hydrogen-powered buses with world-leading fuel cell systems. HTWO, as a fuel cell system-based hydrogen business brand of Hyundai Motor Group, was first released in December 2020 with Hyundai’s strong commitment to hydrogen economy.

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MAY 18, 2023

The BMW Group Technology Office USA in Mountain View and Meta’s Reality Labs Research have demonstrated for the first time the ability to display stable virtual reality (VR) and mixed reality (MR) content accurately to passengers in a fast-moving car, even when making turns, going over speed bumps, and accelerating.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2023

The BMW Group is investing €800 million in Plant San Luis Potosí in Mexico for integration of fully-electric models of NEUE KLASSE and construction of local high-voltage battery assembly. BMW Group Plant SLP We are systematically gearing our production network towards electromobility.

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MAY 8, 2025

Anti-Elon Musk protesters and critics tend to show their disdain for the CEO in various ways, but a recent video from political action group Led By Donkeys definitely takes the cake when it comes to creativity. Ironially enough, the group’s video also ended up highlighting something very positive for Tesla.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2024

Now, let’s look at which auto brands and auto groups sold the most plugin vehicles and the most BEVs in September. continued] The post World EV Sales Report — Top Selling Auto Brands & Groups appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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APRIL 8, 2025

continued] The post Geely Group Has Launched 48 New Models Since Tesla Revealed the Cybertruck appeared first on CleanTechnica. One of the things people have been warning about for years, long before Elon Musk brought a blowtorch to the Tesla brand, is the fact that Tesla has quite a limited, simple product line.

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OCTOBER 26, 2024

continued] The post Volkswagen Group Africa Launches Multifunctional Facility In Africa With Electric Tractors appeared first on CleanTechnica. In a lot of remote or rural areas across many regions on the African continent, the lack of access to mechanised resources such has tractors has been hindering agricultural productivity.

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DECEMBER 28, 2024

continued] The post Why Isn’t Hyundai Motor Group Circling the Drain? Paul Wildman and I have collaborated on articles charting the difficulties of the top three car makers: Toyota, Volkswagen, and Stellantis; and the effect of these difficulties on their respective national economies: Japan, Germany, France, and Italy.

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DECEMBER 8, 2024

share in Germany – Volkswagen Group Dominating Home Ground appeared first on CleanTechnica. Novembers overall auto volume was 244,544 units, roughly flat YoY. The best selling BEV in November was again the. continued] The post EVs at 22.8%

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2025

With the group feeling encouraged by its results with the EV maker, Tesla Takedown is now setting its sights at Elon Musks other ventures, such as Starlink and SpaceX. Tesla Takedowns Victory Lap Following Tesla’s Q1 2025 results, which were below expectations, the Tesla Takedown group celebrated.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2024

It’s built in the Hyundai Motor Group Metaplant in Bryan County, Georgia, that now assembles the refreshed 2025 Ioniq 5 five-seat hatchback—and it’s expected to qualify for the full $7,500 federal purchase incentives, if it still exists when the vehicle goes on sale. The 2026 Hyundai Ioniq 9 will go on sale in Spring 2025.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A Japanese group has written a plan that involves Tesla, hoping that the American EV maker will take a financial stake in Nissan. The group includes a former prime minister, his aide, and a former Tesla board member.

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APRIL 15, 2023

HYVIA, the joint venture between Renault Group and Plug dedicated to hydrogen mobility ( earlier post ), has just installed its first electrolyzer in its Flins plant, in the Île-de-France region. This is a major industrial and human challenge, made possible by the strength of our collaboration with Plug and Renault Group.

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DECEMBER 15, 2020

A multi-institutional research team led by materials scientists from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has designed a highly active and durable catalyst that doesn’t rely on costly platinum group metals (PGM) to spur the necessary chemical reaction. The new catalyst contains cobalt interspersed with nitrogen and carbon.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2021

The Michelin Group recently signed a transport commitment with the French shipping line NEOLINE. With the arrival of a second vessel, scheduled a year later, the Michelin group will gradually entrust NEOLINE with at least 50% of the group’s containers transported on this line.

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JULY 1, 2022

For the BMW Group Plant Leipzig, the farewell to the BMW i3 is linked to the start of a new chapter in electric mobility. At the same time, the BMW Group Plant Leipzig becomes the first location in the company’s global production network where BMW and MINI models are manufactured together. kWh/100 km according to WLTP, 13.1 - 14.0

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JULY 3, 2022

The BMW Group will be investing around €1 billion in competence development in this area between now and 2030. The BMW Group’s largest engine plant: Steyr plant in Upper Austria. One out of every two BMW Group vehicles around the world today already has a ‘heart’ built in Steyr.

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MAY 25, 2022

The exhaust system for the Purem by Eberspaecher hydrogen engine is just one of the Eberspaecher Group’s group-wide hydrogen activities. Purem by Eberspaecher is a subsidiary of the Esslingen-based Eberspaecher Group. In 2020, the area within the group of companies generated revenue of around €4.4 billion.

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JANUARY 31, 2025

Hyundai Motor Group reached 7.23 Toyota Motor Corp. ended the year with 10.82 million sales (though, that was down 3.7% from 2023). Top rival Volkswagen AG was well behind with 9.03 million sales (down 2% from 2023). continued] The post BYD Becomes 4th Best Selling Automaker in the World! appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Last week, I reported on BYD’s climb up the ranks of the top selling automakers or auto groups in the world. That is a bit of a tricky business because of the non-100% partnerships between different companies to create “groups” and “alliances” and joint ventures. However, one clear ranking that.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

SSAB delivered its first fossil-free steel to the Volvo Group in 2021. Later that year, Volvo Group revealed what it said was the world’s first vehicle made of fossil-free steel from SSAB, made in Volvo Construction Equipment’s facility in Braås, Sweden. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group, China’s leading privately-owned automotive technology group, has signed an agreement to license its pure electric Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA) to ElectroMobility Poland (EMP), an electric vehicle manufacturer backed by the Polish government.

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OCTOBER 14, 2022

Alpine, the exclusive sports car brand of the Renault Group, has unveiled the Alpenglow concept as a showcase for a clean emissions future that is within reach for tomorrow’s racing cars and future Alpine vehicle generations. The car is equipped with a hydrogen-fueled internal-combustion engine.

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