Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Sweden-based e-scooter operator VOI Technology has raised $85 million from new investors and existing to continue its mission of building a profitable micro-mobility business that transforms the future of urban transport. Hansen Law acted as VOI’s legal advisor. VOI launched in September 2018.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The reorganization is a self-managed, Swedish legal process headed by an independent administrator appointed by the court who will work closely with the Saab management team. As part of the process, Saab will formulate its proposal for reorganization, which will include the concentration of design, engineering and manufacturing in Sweden.

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Teslarati

MAY 1, 2023

NIO takes hardline approach on vlogger with legal action The ET5 is available in Europe , particularly in Norway, The Netherlands, and Germany. The EL7 will be sold in Germany, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway. NIO sells the ET5 for €60,000 ($65,924) if customers buy the battery and charge it themselves.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2015

In a speech to be delivered Thursday at a seminar on self-driving cars organized by Volvo Cars and the Embassy of Sweden in Washington DC, Håkan Samuelsson, president and chief executive of Volvo Cars, will urge the US to adopt a national framework for regulation and testing of autonomous driving (AD).

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Volvo Cars Sweden Legal 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

The mission of the Foundation is to promote decentralizing power models and empower an energy community through the blockchain software technology through the implementation of peer-to-peer energy exchange policies targeting possible solutions for all the existing physical and legal energy framework barriers. The PROSUME token launch.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2012

Separately, Volvo Car Corporation and the Embassy of Sweden hosted a seminar—“Policy Implications of Autonomous Vehicles”— in Washington DC at which Mertens called for a seamless, federal framework for regulating autonomous vehicles. But the legal situation for this technology still remains unclear.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2014

Thus, in 2013 the European Union fleet already collectively met its legal target for 2015. The biggest cars, measured by mass, were bought in Latvia, Sweden and Luxembourg. The average CO 2 emissions level of a new car sold in 2013 was 127 g CO 2 /km; the target for 2015 was 130 g/km.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

For the first time, preliminary data recently reported to the EEA by Member States allow a comparison with the legally binding emission limits for 2010 set in the EU NEC Directive. In some instances the limits were exceeded by significant amounts.

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Pollution 2010 Liechtenstein Emissions 309

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2012

Full members of the Arctic Council are Canada, Russia, the United States, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland and Denmark (Greenland): the eight countries with Arctic territory. The issue features prominently on the agenda of The 2 nd annual Munk-Gordon Arctic Security Conference on the future of the Arctic Council, 17-18 January in Toronto.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2016

Scania will leave from Södertalje, south of Stockholm, driving through Sweden, Denmark and Germany to Maasvlakte II in the Port of Rotterdam, making a stop in Zolder, Belgium and in Zwolle, Netherlands. The truck platoons will all depart from their home base or production location. Scania will send off three extra-long trucks on 29 March.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2012

Today’s publication of official 2010 data from Member States is the first time that those efforts can be measured against the legally binding targets. These were Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Spain and Sweden.

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2010 Emissions Pollution Finland 240

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Deferring to the guy behind the wheel checks a lot of boxes—human pride, legal niggling, and the engineer’s fear of false positives. Every year we do a report on mortality rates; the safest are still Sweden, the Netherlands—and I was going to say the United Kingdom, but my country has left the EU.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

(Swan) announced that Saab Automobile AB and its subsidiaries Saab Automobile Powertrain AB and Saab Automobile Tools AB (collectively Saab Automobile) filed for voluntary reorganization today with the District Court in Vänersborg, Sweden.

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Automobile Parts Dealers North America 210

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

A small group of Member States anticipates missing two or more of their legally-binding emission ceilings. Similar to last year’s situation, some Member States including the Netherlands, Sweden and Germany expect to emit only slightly more NOx than their ceilings.

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Pollution 2010 Ireland Spain 186

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 3, 2021

In 2019, one hundred Volvo’s in Gothenburg, Sweden, will be on the road and will self-drive with the touch of a button. Although Google’s ultimate vision is autonomous vehicles that do not need a steering wheel or brakes, for legal compliance, these 25-mph prototypes will have both should a driver need to take over.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Quizzed by The Observer as to which country had objected to the 2050 target, director-general of Sweden’s Naturvårdsverket (Environmental Protection Agency) Lars-Erik Liljelund quipped , “China. All agreements would be legally binding, and would be subject to independent verification. China doesn’t like numbers.”

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Climate Climate Change Tuvalu Obama 236

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2012

In January 2011, SARTRE carried out the first successful demonstration of its vehicle platooning technology at the Volvo Proving Ground close to Gothenburg, Sweden, with a single following car. All vehicles are detached and can leave the procession at any time. Earlier post.

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Vehicles Volvo Sweden Environment 255

Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2018

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a method for remotely monitoring emissions from marine vessels, which they’ve used to investigate the effects of the new regulations. Such inspections are a prerequisite for taking legal action against rule breakers. —Johan Mellqvist.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The declaration is not legally binding and is focused on a global level. Signatories by category: Governments: Austria; Azerbaijan; Cambodia; Canada; Cape Verde; Chile; Croatia; Cyprus; Denmark; El Salvador; Finland; Iceland; Ireland; Israel; Lithuania; Luxembourg; Netherlands; New Zealand; Norway; Poland; Slovenia; Sweden; United Kingdom.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The $12,500 electric vehicle tax credit proposed in President Joe Biden’s “Build Back Better” plan is being labeled as “discriminatory” by Mexican Economy Minister Tatiana Clouthier, who said the country is analyzing legal recourse and other actions, including potential tariffs against the United States.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2017

A test route for electric Scania trucks already exists in Sweden. However, for autonomous driving to become reality on public roads, changes need to be made to the legal framework and the requisite infrastructure needs to be built. Test routes have also been announced in Germany.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

The end of the Tesla Sweden strike might be in sight as IF Metall pulls out a trump card that could ultimately halt the automaker’s operations. Tesla Sweden might have been backed into a corner as IF Metall has successfully blocked the company from receiving new license plates for vehicle orders.

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EV Adoption

AUGUST 23, 2021

Or perhaps assembly is shifted from China to Volvo’s plants in Sweden and Belgium for the European market and then imported into the US. And Geely-owned Volvo and Polestar may decide to shift assembly of some vehicles from China to the Volvo factory in Ridgeville, South Carolina for example.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2012

This means that a future-assured EA211 version will now be available for markets in Sweden and Brazil. The modifications made for CNG operation essentially make the EA211 engine suitable for use with bio-ethanol (E85) and pure ethanol (E100) as well. EA288 series diesel engines. The new EA288 generation TDI engines will be available in 1.6

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Engine Exhaust Diesel Gasoline-Electric 294

Charged EVs

AUGUST 17, 2022

And the more they do that, the vehicles are actually not road-legal—they’re violating the axle weight limits. John Holland: You know about our Oslo taxi projects, and our Volvo taxi project in Gothenburg, Sweden. Bob Kacergis: If you look at the bus market, the strategy of these [OEMs] is what I call the big bus strategy.

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