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MARCH 2, 2024

But it’s what’s beneath the skin of this stylish French five-door that helps it stand out. While its price tag has it competing with the Tesla Model Y and BYD Atto 3 – the two top selling electric SUVs – it’s more likely to appeal to those shopping for the Fiat 500e, Mini Electric and Cupra Born. 2024 Renault Megane E-Tech. Score: 3.5/5

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NOVEMBER 21, 2010

CALSTART will be supporting the 1 st French American EV Technology Forum and One-on-One Meetings to be held in Long Beach, California on 8 December. The morning forum includes speakers from PSA Peugeot-Citroën; Nissan North America; Michelin; Johnson Controls-Saft; Dow Kokam; CEA; INRETS; IFP Nouvelles; and French automotive clusters.

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JULY 1, 2010

France Industry Minister Christian Estrosi confirmed that, following he decision of the French Commercial Court to resume supplies and components from BGI, ConEnergy and Kohl, the French government will invest €10 million (US$12.4 Tags: Brief. million) to keep coach builder and contract manufacturer Heuliez from going under.

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AUGUST 16, 2010

EV maker THINK is entering the French market through a partnership with MOBIVIA Groupe (which incorporates the Norauto, Midas, Carter Cash, Maxauto and Synchro Diffusion brands in France), and its newly established sustainable mobility division, O2City. Tags: Brief.

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JANUARY 23, 2010

French Environment Minister Jean-Louis Borloo on Wednesday outlined a revised proposal for a carbon tax on large stationary emitters, following the Constitutional Court’s rejection of the original plan last December. A new bill is expected to be presented to the French parliament soon. Tags: Brief.

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JUNE 20, 2010

This agreement will benefit from French government financial support. They will also include components from the French-Russian consortium and from Alstom’s Belfort factory (France). Tags: Brief. It follows the signature on 3 June in Almaty (Kazakhstan) of a Memorandum on mutual cooperation. billion (US$2.1

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NOVEMBER 5, 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance, the French Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and the French Strategic Investment Fund (FSI) signed a letter of intent to set up a joint venture company that would develop and manufacture batteries for electric vehicles, under the patronage of Christian Estrosi, the French Minister for Industry.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2010

is in talks with PSA Peugeot Citroen Group about supplying the French automaker with small internal combustion engined (ICE) cars—from 1.0-1.3-liter Mitsubishi hopes to have an agreement with the French firm by the end of this year. Tags: Brief. The Nikkei reports that Mitsubishi Motors Corp. Renault SA team and Daimler AG.

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JUNE 25, 2010

Renault and the CEA (French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission, le Commissariat à l’énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives) have signed a cooperative research and development agreement that encompasses work on electric vehicles, new energies, and cleaner combustion engines. Bernard Bigot, Chairman of the CEA.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

The letter of intent signed in Reunion under the patronage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy marks the commitment of the six partners to the VERT project (Electric Vehicle for a Technological Reunion), a principal component of the GERRI program (Grenelle Environment Forum in Reunion – Succeeding in Innovation). Tags: Brief.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2009

PSA Peugeot Citroen, a French player that aims to be the world’s first to bring a diesel-electric hybrid to market, is the fifth automaker that Sanyo is expected to supply batteries to. Tags: Brief. The Nikkei reports that Sanyo Electric Co. Sanyo will ship batteries for several tens of thousands of cars per year.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2010

On the race track the car became very successful, famously winning the French Grand Prix in 1913 and regularly lapping the banked Brooklands track at an average speed of over 100 mph. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

A joint Australian–French study has discovered the calving of a massive iceberg from the Mertz Glacier in the Australian Antarctic Territory. This calving event was detected by a joint French-Australian team working on a project called “CRACICE” (Cooperative Research into Antarctic Calving and Iceberg Evolution). Tags: Brief.

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APRIL 27, 2010

a developer of thermochemical platform technology for the production of biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, has closed a Series C-Prime funding round led by French oil major Total, which will have a seat on the Board of Directors. Tags: Brief. Coskata Inc., Bill Roe, President and CEO of Coskata.

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EV Central

JANUARY 19, 2024

French cars have frustrated the living hell out of me this past decade, and the Peugeot e-2008 GT is another one to add to my list. But, this being a French brand, Peugeot’s ensured enough reasons are dialled in to have you question buying one. Then they sling a price tag on to practically ensure you don’t.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

In France, where the Casper has been announced by France’s head of Hyundai Lionel French Keogh, the car may additionally benefit from EV subsidies, further pushing that price tag down to well below €18,000, reports Auto Moto. The car is expected to go into production in July.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2010

The lithium ion batteries will likely be used for a new electric vehicle that French firm PSA Peugeot Citroen Group plans to produce in Spain. Tags: Brief. Output capacity is to be hiked gradually to roughly 50,000 vehicles. The trio could also build a similar plant in North America. and German firm BMW AG.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Concept was to start in Flins starting in 2012 and that the Group planned to take part in a French joint venture for research into the production and recycling of batteries for electric vehicles. Tags: Brief. On 5 November, Renault announced that production of its future vehicle derived from Zoé Z.E.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2010

Following plans announced by the French government on 1 October 2009 and 13 April 2010 to develop electric vehicles, Vinci Park and Renault are jointly studying the best way to deploy charging infrastructure in the car parks of the Vinci Park network. Tags: Brief.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In order to reach a broader web audience, www.sustainable-mobility.org is also available in French on www.mobilite-durable.org as well as via Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Tags: Brief. A “Zero Emission Magazine” page gives visitors the latest news on electric vehicles at Renault.

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JULY 11, 2010

McPhy Energy , a French company founded in January 2008 with the mission to industrialize and commercialize a new magnesium hydride solid state storage system for hydrogen, recently closed its second round of funding worth €13.7 Tags: Brief. million (US$17.3

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Specialty chemical producer Rhodia, the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS), the Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon (ENSL) and the East China Normal University (ECNU) of Shanghai recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding to strengthen their scientific collaboration focused on green chemistry. Tags: Brief.

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JUNE 25, 2009

million) order from a new French distributor, ElecTruckCity, for 100 units. Tags: Brief. Birmingham Post. UK electric van manufacturer Modec has received a £3 million (US$4.9 Forty have already been sold. Modec is beginning to ramp up production to an initial level of 2,500 vans a year.

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OCTOBER 14, 2009

Global Bioenergies , a French startup located on the Genopole campus close to Paris, announced the proof-of-concept of a synthetic metabolic pathway for producing isobutene, a key chemical building block that can be converted into transportation fuels, polymers and various commodity chemicals. Tags: Bio-hydrocarbons Biomass.

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 7, 2009

Mitsubishi will be supplying electric cars to French automaker Peugeot, as reported in Forbes. Tags: mitsubishi peugeot battery electric car. More Japan/France cooperation on the EV front. Mitsubishi's stock rose 6.5% on the news on a down day in Tokyo.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 16, 2023

Lots of the once-global presentations are actually regional, or simply nationwide: Paris is most commonly French manufacturers; Munich (previously in Frankfurt) is most commonly German. It’s speedy changing into like a three-company picnic with a couple of business neighbors tagging alongside. Auto presentations were suffering.

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The Truth About Cars

MAY 15, 2023

However, subsequent talk from the automaker has confirmed that the French performance marquee might take a while to get here and had opted to focus entirely on all-electric vehicles. But that’s going to leave it with an unacceptably small operating area for American tastes.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Nissan and Renault plan to use a low-interest loan facility offered by the French government for green cars. Tags: Brief. This joint venture plant is expected to start operating by 2012, with an annual capacity of enough batteries for around 60,000 cars. The total investment is expected to come to about 30 billion yen [US$333 million].

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2009

Dieter Zetsche and French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the Hambach plant for the announcement. Dr. Dieter Zetsche, Chairman of the Board of Management of Daimler AG and Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars made the announcement on the occasion of an official visit of French President Nicolas Sarkozy at the plant. Click to enlarge.

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EV Central

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The 2024 Renault 5 hatch has been previewed for the first time following the French car-maker releasing multiple images that give us a glimpse of how it will evolve the 2021 concept-car fantasy into production-car reality.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Since its beginnings, MCE-5 has been backed by French institutions whose main mission is to foster innovation, as well as by private and industrial investors. Tags: Brief. The MCE-5 supports a compression ratio control range from 7:1 to 20:1, permitting serving all VCR strategies with no limitation, the company says.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2010

The LANXESS investment comes after the French oil and gas giant Total invested in the Company. Tags: Brief. In connection with this financing, Gevo also announced that Dr. Ron Commander, head of the LANXESS Group’s Butyl Rubber Business Unit, will join the Gevo Board of Directors. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 13, 2010

million) in funding from ADEME (the French Environmental and Energy Management Agency). Tags: Batteries Electric (Battery) Europe Infrastructure Smart charging. The Renault-Nissan Alliance and EDF will conduct a experimental electric vehicle project in department of Yvelines (France) with €6.5 million (US$8.8

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APRIL 28, 2010

Toyota, French energy provider EDF, and the City and the Urban Community of Strasbourg launched a large-scale, 3-year Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle demonstration in Strasbourg. It has received support via the Research Fund managed by the French Environment and Energy Management Agency ADEME. Powertrain components of the Prius PHV.

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AUGUST 21, 2009

The car, targeted particularly at the German, Italian, French and Spanish markets, comes with optimized aerodynamics, an extra-long final drive ratio, and an innovative two-mass flywheel incorporating a centrifugal-force pendulum. Tags: Diesel Fuel Efficiency.

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DECEMBER 8, 2009

FiSyPAC is a collaborative fuel cell reliability project, initiated in 2006, led by PSA Peugeot Citroën, and financed by the French National Research Agency (ANR). Tags: Fuel Cells Hybrids Hydrogen. kg of hydrogen at 700 bar. FiSyPAC poster.

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OCTOBER 2, 2009

The 14 elements of the plan are: ADEME (the French Environment and Energy Management Agency) will launch in early 2010 a new call for projects on infrastructure costs, to support plug-in demonstrators and trials combining infrastructure, applications and target territories, and to validate the functioning of the ecosystem of rechargeable vehicles.

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