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Alstom and MOL to explore use of hydrogen technologies for rail transport in Hungary

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Alstom and MOL, Hungary’s leading oil and gas company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to structure cooperation in examining the use of hydrogen technology in rail transportation. As part of its National Hydrogen Strategy, Hungary has been investigating the feasibility of introducing hydrogen technology to rail transportation.

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Benchmark Minerals: Europe’s EV gigafactory capacity pipeline to grow 6-fold to 789.2 GWh to 2030

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Samsung SDI (Hungary): 20 GWh. SK Innovation (Hungary): 7.5 Meanwhile, ACC (Total/Stellantis) is expected to be operating three plants in France, Germany and Italy with a combined capacity of 64 GWh by 2030 with Verkor’s new Dunkirk-based Gigafactory to be at 50 GWh as the sixth largest producer. Northvolt (Sweden): 16 GWh.

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ACEA: EU commercial vehicle registrations: down 23.2% in Q1 2020; -47.3% in March

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The strongest drops were posted by Italy (-66.1%), Spain (-64.4%) and France (-63.1%). The four major markets, Spain (-31.7%), France (-26.9%), Italy (-26.6%) and Germany (-14.4%), all faced double-digit losses so far this year. In Italy registrations tumbled by 71.2% New commercial vehicle registrations by type in the EU.

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Tesla announces Fall 2023 Supercharger location winners as Winter 2024 voting round begins

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Bacău, Romania Deva, Romania Paks, Hungary Iași, Romania Békéscsaba, Hungary Uljin County, South Korea Fukuchiyama City, Japan Hokkaido, Japan Asahikawa, Japan Mildura, Australia Tesla includes four bonus sites “just for fun.”

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Non-Tesla EVs to get free first Supercharging session in 18 countries

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Tesla first launched a pilot program for other EV brands to use its Superchargers in 2021, starting with select locations in the Netherlands.

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T&E: two-thirds of European battery production at risk as companies weigh investing in US instead

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—Julia Poliscanova, senior director for vehicles and emobility at T&E Germany, Hungary, Spain, Italy and the UK stand to lose the most if battery-makers change their plans.

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4Q 2019: EU diesel demand continues to drop while gasoline gains; plug-ins up 80.5% y-o-y

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digit gains were also seen in Belgium (+17.7%), Slovenia (+18.2%), Hungary (+18.4%), Sweden (+30.5%) and Romania (+31.1%). Gasoline car sales grew in all 28 EU countries, with Italy recording the highest percentage increase (+20.9%) of the five major markets. Registrations increased by 28.0% to 58,768 units in the last quarter of 2019.

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