Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2019

Magna and the BAIC Group have signed a framework agreement governing their electric vehicle manufacturing joint venture ( earlier post ) in Zhenjiang, China, which marks another milestone of their continued cooperation. Magna has proven experience building complete vehicles for customers.

Manufacturer 218

Manufacturer China Vehicles 2019 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

Mercedes-Benz has entered a far-reaching strategic partnership with the Chinese battery cell manufacturer Farasis Energy (Ganzhou) Co., In order to be able to meet increasing demand for German Mercedes-Benz plants in the future, Farasis is building a plant for battery cells in Bitterfeld-Wolfen; creating up to 2,000 new jobs.

Mercedes 396

Mercedes Manufacturer Chinese Batteries 396

Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2020

billion in its US battery business to build two plants at its site in Commerce, Ga., SK Innovation broke ground on the first plant at the Georgia site in March 2019 and is expected to begin mass production in 2022. SK Innovation has increased investment plans for its Georgia EV battery site, shown here in a rendering.

Georgia 394

Georgia Building Batteries Battery 394

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company will establish a Hyundai Mobility Global Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICs) to accelerate its innovation efforts, with support from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). HMGICs will occupy a footprint of 44,000 m 2 with the building area of 28,000 m 2.

Singapore 268

Singapore Hyundai Global Motor 268

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2019

The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) has launched the Battery Cell Research Production Center, a new R&D and large-scale industrial manufacturing plant for lithium-ion cells; the center will receive an investment of €500 million. The BMZ Group is a global player in the production of lithium-ion system solutions.

Li-ion 312

Li-ion Germany Lithium Ion Manufacturer 312

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2021

billion in new renewable energy capacity in 2020, up 2% on the year, helped by the biggest-ever build-out of solar projects and a $50-billion surge for offshore wind. billion, level with 2019 despite falling unit prices. Global investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) tripled to $3 billion, and that in hydrogen was $1.5

2020 259

2020 Global Energy United Arab Emirates 259

Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2017

Volvo Cars announced at Auto Shanghai that it will build its first fully electric car in China. The all-new model will be based on Volvo’s Compact Modular Architecture (CMA) for smaller cars, and will be available for sale in 2019 and exported globally from China, Volvo said.

Volvo 150

Volvo 2019 All-Electric China 150

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

At the IAA Summit in Munich, HIF Global, together with Porsche AG, Volkswagen Group Innovation and MAN Energy Solutions, announced the development and installation of a Direct Air Capture (DAC) unit at the HIF Haru Oni Demonstration facility in southern Chile in 2024. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) This is then made into synthetic fuel.

Chile 195

Chile Porsche Global Installation 195

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2021

Volvo Cars is tripling electric car manufacturing capacity at its plant in Ghent, Belgium as it prepares to meet fast growing demand for its Recharge line-up of chargeable cars. The share of Recharge cars as a percentage of total sales more than doubled in 2020, compared to 2019. in the region for the whole year.

Volvo 397

Volvo Electric Cars Sale Belgium 397

Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2014

The BMW Group will invest $1 billion to build a new plant in Mexico in close proximity to the city of San Luis Potosí in the state of the same name. This move is in line with the company’s clear strategic policy of ensuring globally-balanced growth. Production is planned to start in 2019.

Mexico 210

Mexico BMW 2019 Building 210

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Thus, Anhui is an important pillar of our global battery strategy. The global strategy leads from vertical integration in the raw material market via building battery plants, as well as cell factories in collaboration with partners—amongst them the Chinese battery expert Gotion—to second life solutions and recycling.

China 186

China Building Czech Republic Batteries 186

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 14, 2019

will be the company’s North American base for manufacturing electric vehicles based on the modular electric toolkit MEB. In addition to Chattanooga, Volkswagen is building the first dedicated EV production facility in Zwickau, Germany, starting MEB production by the end of 2019. Volkswagen AG announced that Chattanooga, Tenn.

Building 286

Building 2020 SUV America 286

Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

Despite traditionally being a seasonally-slow month for the EV market, in January 2019, 3.27 GWh of passenger EV battery capacity was deployed in China, an increase of 439% over January 2018 levels, inferring from a model-by-model build-up using Adamas Intelligence’s ‘EV Battery Capacity and Battery Metals Tracker’.

2019 170

2019 China Batteries Battery 170

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Chief Technology Officers (CTOs) of seven of the world’s leading aerospace manufacturers have reaffirmed their commitment to achieving more sustainable aviation and to reaching industry-wide Air Transport Action Group targets in a joint statement. A globally consistent approach to regulation and certification standards.

Manufacturer 321

Manufacturer Hydrogen Emissions United Kingdom 321

Baua Electric

APRIL 24, 2024

American automaker Ford, whch is known to be working on an affordable EV platform, is set to build more electric vehicle (EV) software capabilities at its Ford Business Solutions India operation, based in Chennai. This information is as per a tweet by TN Investment today.

Ford 52

Ford Building India Affordable 52

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2016

The framework builds on advances in automobile, IT, and communications systems to enhance Toyota vehicles with connected technologies. To build the IT infrastructure needed to support this significant expansion of vehicle data processing, the company will create a Toyota Big Data Center (TBDC) in the Toyota Smart Center.

Connect 150

Connect Connected Toyota 2019 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

A123 Systems LLC, a developer and manufacturer of advanced lithium-ion batteries and systems, plans to spend $40 million to build a new headquarters complex in Novi, Michigan. The 32-acre company-owned site will house all corporate functions, an engineering center, new laboratory space and a manufacturing plant.

Michigan 150

Michigan Li-ion Czech Republic Manufacturer 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2020

USA Rare Earth, LLC, the funding and development partner of the Round Top Heavy Rare Earth and Critical Minerals Project in West Texas, has purchased the neodymium iron boron (NdFeB) permanent magnet manufacturing equipment formerly owned and operated in North Carolina by Hitachi Metals America, Ltd.

USA 207

USA Manufacturer Texas North Carolina 207

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

The new battery factory was built on a 50,000 m² site located at the vehicle manufacturing plant in the Bangkok region. The new plant is the third production facility in the company’s global battery production network. In this way, all battery types can be manufactured in the new line for all current and future plug-in hybrids.

Mercedes 221

Mercedes PHEV Thailand Production 221

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2021

to industrialize globally-standard 70 MPa hydrogen heavy-duty vehicle high-flow (H70HF) fueling hardware components. The Industry Group was formed in February 2019 with the goal of addressing hydrogen fueling hardware challenges of achieving the fueling speeds that are needed for heavy-duty applications today. Source: Nikola.

Industrial 397

Industrial Industry Hydrogen Vehicles 397

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2020

This commitment comes after successful pilots across different cities in 2019; learnings from these pilots have helped the company create scalable and long term EV variants to build this large fleet. The fleet of 10,000 EVs in India will include 3-wheeler and 4-wheeler vehicles which have been designed and manufactured in India.

India 427

India Fleet Electric Electrical 427

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Two UK-based companies—Williams Advanced Engineering and Unipart Manufacturing Group—have formed a new joint venture—Hyperbat Limited—to produce batteries for future hybrid and electric vehicles. What will be the UK’s largest independent vehicle battery manufacturer will open in early 2019 in Coventry.

Aston Martin 199

Aston Martin Manufacturer Engine Batteries 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

That represents a 5x growth rate over 2019’s 4% figure. Gelsinger reminded the audience in Munich that Intel has plans to build at least two new semiconductor factories in Europe with plans for future investments that could reach €80 billion over the next decade. This comes amid increasing demand for semiconductors generally.

Ireland 413

Ireland Vehicles Europe Personal 413

Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2022

This is a technological first for the BMW Group and is will be rolled out in other press shops around the company’s global network of manufacturing plant. The building has numerous environmental features including water harvesting from the roof to provide water to all non-drinking water supplies.

BMW 259

BMW Bright Works Water Light 259

CN EV Post

APRIL 9, 2023

The Megafactory is planned to initially produce up to 10,000 units of commercial energy storage batteries per year, with an energy storage scale of nearly 40 GWh, and the product will be available to the global markets. Notably, Tesla has been hiring for a Megapack project manager position in Shanghai since last month.

Energy Storage 125

Energy Storage Building Energy Tesla 125

Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2019

Global cumulative energy storage installations. BNEF’s Energy Storage Outlook 2019 predicts a further halving of lithium-ion battery costs per kilowatt-hour by 2030, as demand takes off in two different markets: stationary storage and electric vehicles. Source: BloombergNEF. —Logan Goldie-Scot, head of energy storage at BNEF.

Energy Storage 225

Energy Storage Grid Global Energy 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

The 50-space charging station is located at VWGoA’s global test facility in Maricopa, AZ—one of two worldwide, Group-wide hot-weather test facilities—and will allow the charging of EVs in weather conditions up to 120?F. Construction began in early 2019 and was completed in February 2020.

Arizona 243

Arizona America Global Charging 243

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The Government of Canada has launched its Hydrogen Strategy , a framework that seeks to position Canada as a global hydrogen leader, cementing this low-carbon and zero-emission fuel technology as a key part of a path to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Strategy will utilize Canadian expertise to build new hydrogen supply.

Canada 334

Canada Hydrogen Clean Cleaning 334

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

The initiative aims to improve the country’s reliance on hardware infrastructure and to become a global hub for electronics manufacturing and design. Renesas’s efforts for the “Made in India” ecosystem reflects the company’s expertise in manufacturing, telecommunications, automotive, and advanced semiconductor design, Sharma says.

India 142

India Engine Global San Diego 142

Green Car Congress

JUNE 20, 2017

Ford announced a series of global manufacturing actions centered on improving the company’s operational fitness, among them that it would source the next-generation Ford Focus for North America primarily from China, rather than Hermosillo, Mexico. —Joe Hinrichs, Ford executive vice president and president, Global Operations.

Ford 170

Ford America 2019 China 170

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2023

More than 1GWh of batteries are now sailing on waters globally, reflecting 72% industry growth in 2022, according to a new report from IDTechEx. First, electric ship markets have historically been underpinned by electric ferry orders, which made up 37% of the maritime battery capacity (GWh) deliveries between 2019 and 2022.

Industrial 195

Industrial Industry Future Hybrid 195

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2023

The BMW Group Plant Woodruff will produce sixth-generation batteries to supply fully electric vehicles at nearby BMW Manufacturing in Spartanburg. operations, including $1 billion to prepare Plant Spartanburg for the production of fully electric vehicles and $700 million to build a new high-voltage battery assembly plant.

South Carolina 195

South Carolina BMW Batteries Battery 195

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Almost half of global consumers (46%) are considering purchasing a car in the next 12 months, an increase from 35% in April 2020. Without a clear end to the pandemic in sight, 87% of global consumers stated their safety and physical well-being, alongside that of their families, is best served through a personal vehicle.

Personal 265

Personal 2020 Global Vehicles 265

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2020

INEOS Automotive has acquired the manufacturing facility at Hambach from Mercedes-Benz and will start to build its Grenadier 4x4 there in late 2021. Manufacturing at Hambach ensures that INEOS remains on track to meet its plans to deliver the Grenadier to customers in early 2022.

Mercedes 435

Mercedes Production Manufacturer Sale 435

Get Electric Vehicle

JULY 15, 2021

According to the Union Science Ministry, Indian imports of such batteries decreased to $450 million in 2019-2020 after gradually growing in recent years to $712 million. customs charge on inputs, components, and sub-parts used in the manufacture of lithium-ion batteries and battery packs in the most recent budget. Amara Raja Batteries.

Lithium Ion 98

Lithium Ion India Manufacturer Li-ion 98

Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2016

This future electric platform (e-CMP) will deliver a worldwide offering of all-electric, high-performance B and C segment vehicles for the Peugeot, Citroën, DS and Dongfeng brands from 2019. PSA Peugeot Citroën and Dongfeng Group (DFG) entered their strategic partnership in March 2014.

2019 150

2019 Design Global Motor 150

Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

In 2014 when Narendra Modi officially became Prime Minister of India, his first message to people around the world was that, under his leadership, Indian manufacturing operations would become one of the world’s most robust. Five years after the initiative began, India’s manufacturing GDP was the lowest it had been in twenty years.

India 123

India Manufacturer Tesla Tax 123