Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 17, 2010

These actions are part of the government’s ongoing commitment to putting 1 million vehicles on Germany’s roads by 2020. FOCUS: Germany Launches Electric-Car Initiative. FOCUS: Germany Launches Electric-Car Initiative. Tags: International Projects Germany. By Christoph Rauwald, of Dow Jones Newswires.

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MAY 9, 2010

Researchers in Austria and Germany are developing a process to store renewable electricity as synthetic natural through a combination of electrolysis to produce hydrogen combined with methanation using CO 2. Tags: Brief. And which storage systems can be integrated into the existing infrastructure the easiest? Michael Specht of ZSW.

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OCTOBER 29, 2022

In August 2022, Hyundai Motor announced its successful entry into Germany with seven local companies planning to deploy XCIENT Fuel Cell trucks into fleet service with the German government’s funding for an eco-friendly commercial vehicle initiative.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The European Nikola Tre BEV is produced by the Nikola IVECO Europe joint venture in its dedicated manufacturing plant in Ulm, Germany. The Nikola Tre FCEV Artic 6x2 in beta version features a steering tag axle and a new cab with improved aerodynamic performance. Nikola Tre FCEV beta.

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JULY 4, 2023

Tesla Model Y RWD in Germany is now available in Giga Berlin’s exclusive paint options: Midnight Cherry Red and Quicksilver. According to Tesla Germany’s configuration page, Midnight Cherry Red is now an option with the Model Y RWD for €3,200 ($3,491). As of t this writing, the Model Y RWD’s price tag in Germany is €44,890 ($48,970).

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APRIL 12, 2023

The Tesla Model Y is officially the best-selling electric vehicle in Germany yet again; however, overall car market dominance remains contested. In fact, the Model Y was so good it even ousted the ever-popular Tesla Model 3, despite its higher price tag. The American automaker sold 5,701 units, growing sales by 28% year over year.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

In Germany, Tesla reduced the price of its Model Y Long Range by €5,000 to €49,990 ($54,340), a discount of 9%. Electrek reported last week that BYD is dropping prices of its EVs in Germany by as much as 15%, with its Atto 3 compact SUV seeing the biggest cuts. In France, the Tesla Model Y, the best-selling EV, sold 37,124 units.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

Germany launched the BIOACID —Biological Impacts of Ocean ACIDification—research project. Tags: Brief. The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) is funding this focus in the marine sciences with €8.5 million (US$12.4 Max-Planck-Institut für Marine Mikrobiologie, Bremen. PreSens Precision Sensing GmbH, Regensburg.

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JULY 22, 2010

Süd-Chemie AG, a global specialty chemical companies for catalysts and adsorbents based in Munich, is to build a cellulosic ethanol demonstration plant—the largest to date in Germany—for its sunliquid process. Tags: Cellulosic ethanol. million) and accompanying research projects amounting to approximately €12 million (US$15.4

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NOVEMBER 3, 2009

This alliance is the first research and teaching network of its kind in Germany. Tags: Power Electronics. Power electronics includes modules, components, and systems that are used in areas such as hybrid vehicles, but also in the renewable energy field, where they are part of photovoltaic systems. million) over a ten-year period.

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MARCH 6, 2010

Toyota has become a new international auto partner for the Germany-based Clean Energy Partnership (CEP). Toyota will contribute five of its zero-emissions FCHV-adv hydrogen fuel cell vehicles ( earlier post ) to the program in Germany by 2011. Tags: Europe Fuel Cells Hydrogen Infrastructure. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 27, 2009

The US introduction coincides with the expansion of the pilot in Ulm, Germany, where the company opens the service to the public on 26 March after the internal test which started last October. Tags: Car Sharing City car. It is then planned to make car2go accessible to the public in Austin in a second step.

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APRIL 8, 2010

Tags: Catalysts Methanol Solar. In the “Forum Organic Electronics” excellence cluster sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, university and non-university research institutes are cooperating with industry in pursuing future-oriented developments in the field of organic electronics.

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JULY 20, 2021

A run of 1,973 Limited Edition models are expected to be produced to recognize the year the first Passat was launched in Germany. Inside, Limited Edition models will bear unique seat tags featuring “1 of 1973” on one side and “Chattanooga 2011” on the other.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 26, 2010

Volkswagen is entering a gas-powered Scirocco R-Cup race car into the Race of Champions in Germany this weekend (November 27-28). Tags: Volkswagen bio-CNG gas germany Race of Champions Scirocco.

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JUNE 3, 2014

Both are from Germany, for a start. Each has a very similar price tag. This summer, buyers will have the option of two electric cars that on the surface, offer very similar attributes. Each offers four doors and a liftback-style luggage area. Those cars are the 2014 BMW i3 and the 2014 Mercedes-Benz B-Class Electric Drive.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Germany comes in second with £7,750 ($10,811.18). With a price tag of £40,990 ($57,180.68), the Model 3 SR+ is not eligible for the UK’s plug-in grant. Research by Select Car Leasing shows that the UK has one of the lowest EV purchase grants in Europe, ranking number 14 in the study. Credit: Select Car Leasing ).

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MAY 22, 2020

The technology, leveraging the ISO15118 standard, enables an electric vehicle and charger to communicate seamlessly and authorize payments directly from the driver’s account, without the need for a card or RFID tag. Kennedy says the Tritium Plug and Charge solution is more secure than the former card-swipe or RFID tag payment method.

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Green Cars News

MAY 7, 2010

Car rental giant, Sixt is expanding its partnership with energy firm, RWE to offer customers in Germany the opportunity to rent electric cars. Tags: Electric cars 500 e Essen Fiat Fiorino germany Karabag micro-vett RWE Sixt.

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MAY 27, 2010

Sweden now consumes the most ethanol per capita in the EU, the audit office said, and is behind only Germany and France in total consumption. Germany scrapped its tax break on biofuels in Germany in 2006, and at the end of 2009 Norway announced plans to scrap a tax exemption for biodiesel. Tags: Brief.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 11, 2024

The price tag on that car was $44,298, or about $157,037 in 2024 dollars. Meanwhile, the version of this engine sold in West Germany made 215 horsepower and 169 pound-feet. -market 380 SEL came with a 3.8-liter liter SOHC V8 rated at 155 horsepower and 196 pound-feet, which was pretty good on this side of the Atlantic at that time.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Hydrogenics GmbH, the German operating unit of Hydrogenics, has been awarded a contract by Germany’s national research center for aeronautics and space (DLR) to supply a series of next-generation fuel cell modules for aircraft power applications. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.) —Daryl Wilson, Hydrogenics President and CEO.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 29, 2024

Germany even found itself at odds with the European Commission after the latter decided against categorizing vehicles using synthetic fuel to fall outside prospective combustion bans. However, the company is also trying to pioneer synthetic fuels (often called “e-fuels”) it has framed to the public as environmentally sound.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

The Ko-FAS project, which was subsidized by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology, comprised the three sub-projects: Ko-TAG - Cooperative Transponders. Ko-TAG explored cooperative sensor technology on the basis of transponder systems (transponder = miniature transmitter/receiver). Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In Germany, with 19% VAT, the Ampera net price is €36,050 (US$49,397). Tags: Brief. Opel has priced the 2011 Ampera, the Chevy Volt’s European cousin ( earlier post ), starting at €42,900 (US$58,786), including national VAT. Opel has begun taking reservations for the extended-range electric vehicle.

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Teslarati

APRIL 13, 2023

Besides the aforementioned sales slump, domestic brands like BYD have come to dominate the PHEV segment in China , many of whom can offer customers a premium vehicle for a lower price tag. In Audi’s home market of Germany, PHEV sales plummeted in the first quarter of the year.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

in Germany, -22.2% From January to October, the UK (+4.8%) and Spain (+9.4%) saw their markets expand, while France (-1.4%), Italy (-7.0%) and Germany (-26.8%) performed less well than over the same period last year. Tags: Brief. In October, all major markets faced a double-digit downturn, ranging from -18.5% in the UK, -28.8%

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NOVEMBER 8, 2010

In addition to Brazil, research is being conducted in India, the United Kingdom, Germany and the United States. Tags: Brief. Butamax is conducting biobutanol research across the globe as it prepares for commercial launch. Butamax is poised for commercial launch from 2012/2013.

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OCTOBER 11, 2010

The Atego range of trucks was named 2011 Truck of the Year by a jury of commercial vehicle journalists and editors at the recent IAA Show in Hanover, Germany, based on its standard of excellence as an urban distribution truck and its innovative hybrid drive system. Tags: Brief.

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OCTOBER 4, 2010

Avis will offer its customers the chance to experience driving an electric vehicle for hire in the following countries: France, Spain, United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Portugal. Tags: Brief. Avis customers will be able to hire Renault Fluence ZE and Renault Kangoo Express ZE in 7 countries from the end of 2011.

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APRIL 29, 2010

Companies and research institutions encompassing the value chain for lithium-ion batteries have founded a network of competence for Li-ion batteries in Germany: Kompetenznetzwerk Lithium-Ionen-Batterien (KLiB). SB LiMotive Germany GmbH. Tags: Brief. Freudenberg Nonwovens KG. GAIA Akkumulatorenwerke GmbH. Leclanché Lithium GmbH.

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AUGUST 19, 2009

As one of the leaders in European motoring, Germany will play a key role in the emergence of electric cars as an alternative technology and now it has set its own target for bringing the vehicles to the nation’s roads. Tags: Electric cars Green cars Latest news electric car target germany.

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FEBRUARY 13, 2010

Styled at the company’s European design headquarters in Rüsselsheim, Germany, i-flow is the latest product of the company’s new form language, ‘fluidic sculpture’. Tags: Brief.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Under the release, Quantum, with affiliate Asola of Germany, will initiate volume production of the solar roofs for the Fisker Karma in early 2011. Tags: Brief. Quantum Fuel Systems Technologies Worldwide, Inc. has received a $9.4-million million production release for the first production series of solar roofs for the Fisker Karma.

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JULY 8, 2010

In February of this year, BMW Group announced that this new vehicle for urban mobility—set to be launched in 2013 under a BMW sub-brand—will be assembled in Leipzig, Germany. The joint venture operates two sites, one in Moses Lake, Washington for carbon fiber production and one in Wackersdorf, Germany for carbon fiber fabric production.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2023

Enthusiasts were displeased that the brand had elected to run with smaller, emissions-friendly powertrains and the resulting sales (at least in Germany) don’t appear to be all that robust. While AMG sales were already declining, retailers have suggested that the new model isn’t performing well due to changes in its setup and higher price tag.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 5, 2010

Ford is starting EV trials in Germany. For more details, follow the link … Ford Plans to Start Electric-Car Tests in Germany Next Month. will start a two-year test program of electric Focus compact cars and Transit vans in Germany on Jan. Ford Plans to Start Electric-Car Tests in Germany Next Month. 4 as the U.S.

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