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

JULY 22, 2022

The company detailed its global vehicle portfolio plans supporting these production goals as part of its Ford+ plan. Ford and CATL—the world’s largest battery producer—have signed a separate non-binding MOU to explore a cooperation for supplying batteries in Ford’s markets across China, Europe and North America.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

The market launch in China is scheduled for this year. 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. Following the EQA 250 (combined electrical consumption: 15.7 The EQB in the global production network.

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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. BBAC), launched EQC production for the local market in China. EQA production will also follow next year (2021) at BBAC in Beijing for the Chinese market. In May 2019 production of the EQC (combined power consumption: 21.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2018

In Germany the smart brand is the market leader among all-electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2018. The smart plant in Hambach will become a part of our global compact car production network with the lead plant Rastatt, Germany.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

BYD Atto 3 (Source: BYD) Europe and the US say that Chinese EV development is running wild and unchecked and on the verge of overwhelming the global market with, well, EVs the rest of the world can’t compete with. China last year overtook Japan as the world’s biggest car exporter ­– but most of those were ICE vehicles sold to Russia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2010

is supplying Daimler with HVH (High Voltage Hairpin) electric motors for the two-mode hybrid transmissions used in the 2010 Mercedes-Benz ML450 Hybrid ( earlier post ) recently released to the United States market. Remy is supplying two HVH electric motors per ML 450 hybrid vehicle. million grant as part of the $2.4

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

As part of PACCAR’s international hybrid program, the DAF LF Hybrid truck was developed in close collaboration with Eaton, Eindhoven University of Technology and Leyland Trucks Ltd, also a PACCAR company. DAF is the market leader in the Netherlands, Belgium, the UK, Poland, the Czech Republic, Romania and Hungary.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

Our assumption is that the global battery market will grow up to 25 percent each year. Bosch is doing its part to meet this demand. Bosch’s role is to supply automated assembly lines for welding and gluing the battery cells. Bosch intends to use this know-how to meet the growing demand. —Rolf Najork.

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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. Battery systems will be supplied by the global Mercedes-Benz battery production network.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

John Snow's 1854 Broad Street map of cholera contagion in London was not only instrumental in identifying lessons learned—the most important being that cholera was transmitted via the water supply—but also in improving policymaking during the crisis. China enters world markets as major exporter of industrial products.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2011

TFSI twin turbo V8 for the upcoming Audi top-of-the-line S8 ( earlier post ), due on market in early summer 2012, develops 382 kW (520 hp), while consuming 10.2 This is due in large part to the cylinder-on-demand system, which deactivates four of the eight cylinders in many driving situations. The newly developed 4.0

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 16, 2021

The point is to take a slice of business that’s now handled by regular air freight and by trucks—above all, the quick delivery of critical parts. Especially between north and south Europe—from Germany and Hungary, where there’s a lot of automotive business,” says Jan Kleine-Lasthues , Hellmann’s chief operating officer for air freight.

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Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

The company detailed its global vehicle portfolio plans supporting these production goals as part of its Ford+ plan. Ford and CATL – the world’s largest battery producer – have signed a separate non-binding MOU to explore a cooperation for supplying batteries in Ford’s markets across China, Europe and North America.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

We have guaranteed ourselves an uninterrupted power supply for weeks and months,” said Kudrytskyi yesterday. "We We are no longer alone,” is how President Volodimir Zelenskyy put it on Wednesday , declaring Ukraine part of the "energy Eurozone." The scale of the achievement is hard to overstate, according to Ukrenergo’s CEO. ”We

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2014

liters) featuring a modular architecture that broadens its adaptability to global markets and reduces manufacturing complexity while offering customers efficiency, refinement and durability. naturally aspirated direct-injection engines that will be offered in the 2015 next-generation Chevrolet Cruze for the Chinese market.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

Then… instead of grinding to a halt, EV sales in most leading markets roared out of the first lockdown with such ferocity, that it made up all the deficit and then some, stopping the dials on 3.1 Since the general auto market remained slumped, global EV market share increased nicely from 2.8% Domestic market not shabby either.

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