Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2023

Rio Tinto and H2 Green Steel , an industrial startup establishing large scale production of green steel, have signed a multi-year supply agreement for high-grade direct reduction iron ore (DRI) pellets from Rio Tinto’s Iron Ore Company of Canada (IOC) operations. This is a significant milestone for our project in Boden.

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APRIL 10, 2018

Germany-based Akasol is manufacturing lithium-ion battery systems for Daimler subsidiary EvoBus. The leading European bus manufacturer plans to launch its new electric Citaro bus ( earlier post ) at the IAA Commercial Vehicles event in September. Series manufacturing of the Citaro electric bus starts this year.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Battery anode company Talga Group Ltd completed an A$25-million (US$19-million) placement to fund the Electric Vehicle Anode (EVA) pilot plant as part of the development of the Vittangi Anode Project located in northern Sweden. This work is important for steel, car and battery manufacturing industries.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

As a first step for the 50/50 joint venture, Volvo Car Group and Northvolt aim to set up a research and development center in Sweden that will begin operations in 2022. Today, the production of batteries for Volvo Car Group’s fully electric cars represents a large part of the car’s total lifecycle carbon emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol.

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JUNE 16, 2022

and Senior Material (Europe) AB to supply battery materials for its Customer Qualification Plant (“CQP”), currently under construction in Mo i Rana, Norway, as well as for the company’s planned combined Gigafactory 1 & 2. Tilo Hauke, EVP of Supply Chain Management in FREYR. Changzhou Senior New Energy Materials Co.,

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2023

With global demand rising, many companies are seeking closer control over opaque supply chains and to boost recycling efforts to secure supplies and deliver on sustainability goals. Circulor is an alliance partner of KPMG in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

As part of the collaboration, Volvo Cars will be the first car maker to secure SSAB steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron from HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå, Sweden. In 2026, SSAB aims to supply the market with fossil-free steel at a commercial scale. Source: HYBRIT.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The lab comes in addition to ongoing e-motor development in Gothenburg, Sweden, and battery labs in China and Sweden. Electrification is part of the company’s comprehensive climate plan, which addresses carbon emissions across all its operations and products, towards its ambition to become climate-neutral by 2040.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

As part of solidifying a binding agreement, BMW Group and H2 Green Steel have also agreed on technical cooperation which will include several measures that address BMW Group’s Science Based Targets and contribute to meeting its CO 2 reduction timeline. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2021

The company aims for 50% of its global sales volume to consist of fully electric cars by 2025 while 50% will be hybrids, with powertrains supplied by Aurobay. The new company will be a global supplier of complete powertrain solutions including next-generation combustion engines, transmissions and hybrid solutions.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2019

Neste and Air BP are supporting the business aviation sector’s Sustainable Alternative Jet Fuel (SAJF) initiative and helping drive its adoption with operators and aircraft manufacturers. The fuel has been produced by Neste and supplied by Air BP to Caen Carpiquet (CFR/LFRK) airport in France.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2012

National Electric Vehicle Sweden AB (NEVS)—an international consortium formed by Chinese, Japanese and Swedish stakeholders—and the Receivers of the Saab Automobile bankruptcy estate ( earlier post) signed a purchase agreement covering the main assets of Saab Automobile AB, Saab Automobile Powertrain AB and Saab Automobile Tools AB.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2022

Emden’s maximum production capacity at the end of 2022 will be 800 units per working day, depending on the supply situation. Six new production halls and five new conveyor bridges and logistics buildings over a total area of some 125,000 square meters have been created as part of the plant’s conversion.

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APRIL 27, 2018

The facility will enable fully process representative manufacturing and allow a faster and more efficient time to market for unique formulations, cell formats and technology. The facility will be built in Västerås, outside of Stockholm, Sweden. Capacity is planned to be 125 MWh/year. Nemaska Lithium Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

The two companies will establish an expert team and work together at Northvolt’s research facility, Northvolt Labs, in Västerås, Sweden, to develop and commercialise production of battery cells optimized to power commercial vehicles. Electrification will play a key part in the shift to a fossil free transport system.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Italian casting machine manufacturer IDRA announced a partnership with Volvo in a press release this week, with the company set to install two 9,000-ton Giga Presses at the automaker’s Košice, Slovakia factory. The casting machines, originally developed for Tesla, have also been adopted recently by Ford , Toyota and Volvo owner Geely.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Hyundai has begun assembly-line production of the ix35 Fuel Cell vehicle for fleet use; the first ix35 FCV rolled off the line at its Ulsan manufacturing facility today. That ix35 Fuel Cell will be one of 17 destined for fleet customers in the City of Copenhagen, Denmark and Skåne, Sweden. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Portugal-based energy company Galp and Sweden-based battery manufacturer Northvolt have agreed to set up a joint company, Aurora, that aims to become a steppingstone for the development of an integrated lithium-battery value-chain aligned with Portuguese and European ambitions. —Paolo Cerruti, Co-Founder and COO of Northvolt.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Sweden-based international mining and minerals group LKAB has identified significant deposits of rare earth elements in the Kiruna area in the far north of Swedish Lapland (some 200 km north of the Arctic Circle). We face a supply problem. Without mines, there can be no electric vehicles.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

The solar cells are supplied by a manufacturer that is partly owned by Vattenfall. In order to ensure a supply of fresh air to the well-encapsulated house, there is a ventilation unit that sucks out spent poor-quality air and replaces it with fresh, tempered air delivered to the bedrooms, living room and other public areas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

Part of the sum is intended for a joint venture with the Swedish battery cell producer, a further share will go directly to Northvolt AB. The company is currently setting up pilot production of battery cells and a battery cell production facility (Northvolt Ett) with an initial capacity of 16 GWh in Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2021

As part of its NEW AUTO strategy, the Volkswagen Group is aiming to become the world’s leading manufacturer of electric vehicles. Battery cell manufacture in Salzgitter is expected to provide jobs for more than 2,500 people in the future. This will produce battery cells for the premium automotive segment starting in 2023.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Finnish manufacturer Visedo is unveiling a new electric motor design at BusWorld 2017 that is optimized for the bus market and ready for mass manufacture. The new S-model is part of a design upgrade across the entire PowerDRUM line. The whole range will benefit from better cooling and a 10% increase in power output.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2017

The “AutoStack Industry” project is a joint initiative of the German automotive and supply industries and aims to provide the technical, economic and technological basis for the commercial introduction of fuel cell vehicles in Germany and Europe by 2020. KG; Greenerity GmbH; NuCellSys GmbH; Powercell Sweden AB; Umicore AG & Co.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 28, 2024

Under the UniEVersal mission, the ‘One Tata’ approach bore fruit rapidly, as other companies under the group played their critical part in this journey. The latter two have witnessed a much stronger traction in the industry due to the government’s FAME (Faster Adoption of Manufacturing of Hybrid and Electric Vehicles) policy.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 6, 2023

Coming in second is Norway, followed by Sweden, Germany and the United Kingdom rounding out the top five countries for EV adoption, according to the most recent version of the Electric Vehicle Country Readiness Index from ​​ Ernst & Young Global Ltd. Again, we can break this down into the consumer side and the manufacturer side.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2015

Fergal McGrath and Julian Warren, based at Honda’s European manufacturing facility in Swindon, UK, volunteered to take up the challenge and will be charged with driving an average 370 miles (595 km) each day. Under the rules of the title attempt, the same two drivers must be in the car for every kilometer of the journey.

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Push EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Murky Incentive Changes January’s low ebb for plugins was said, by industry association Mobility Sweden , to be “a consequence of the high number of new registrations in December ahead of the reduction of the climate bonus from 1st January.” Thus this was a supply side pull forward (should that be a “push forward”?),

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

ReVolt, based in Stäfa, Switzerland, has selected Portland, Oregon as the location for its US headquarters and manufacturing center. BASF will supply key component materials and jointly developed subsystem elements necessary for the continued development and commercialization of ReVolt’s rechargeable zinc-air batteries.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

As usual, much of the movement is temporary, due to shifting allocation priorities of popular models across many European (and global) markets, where overall demand for BEVs outstrips supply. Manufacturing group rankings. That means there’s everything to play for in 2023 if other manufacturing groups can step up.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Carbon pricing alone is insufficient to bring low-carbon vehicles to the mass market, though it may have a supporting role in ensuring a decarbonized energy supply. Encouraging the use of low-carbon alternatives is an essential part of meeting climate change targets as well as improving local air quality and health.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2021

Mercedes-Benz AG is the first car manufacturer to take an equity stake in Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel (H2GS) as a way to introduce CO 2 free steel into series production. Together with its steel suppliers, the company is retooling its supply chain to focus on the prevention and reduction of CO 2 emissions rather than compensation.

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JULY 20, 2010

As of 20 July, participating governments include China, France, Germany, Japan, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Other initial partners include the International Energy Agency.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Musk said that Model S gross margin may continue to make slight improvements over the next several quarters as Tesla continues to drive down manufacturing costs. Tesla also continues to supply full electric powertrains to Toyota for the RAV4 EV. Excluding ZEV revenue, non-GAAP revenues grew 18% from Q2. per share. Superchargers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2009

BASF will supply key component materials and jointly developed subsystem elements necessary for the continued development and commercialization of ReVolt’s rechargeable zinc-air batteries. In January 2009, RWE Innogy, the renewable power generation arm of Germany-based RWE Group, invested €5.5 million in ReVolt. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 6, 2023

Governments have been implementing stricter emissions regulations for about a decade now and, more recently, they’re upending supply chain plans and forcing automakers to source and build locally. We typically associate that with manufacturing. To do things like scale the costs down, measurement is a big part of that.

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