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SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Before the COVID-19 pandemic lockdowns, engineering simulation software company Ansys commissioned a global survey of 16,037 adults resulting in some insights about consumer attitudes toward vehicle electrification. Among the findings: Less than half of Americans (39%) consider related emissions when they travel.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

A study by an international team of researchers, led by Drew Shindell of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York City, has identified 14 measures targeting methane and black carbon (BC) emissions that could reduce projected global mean warming ~0.5°C °F) by 2050, as well as improving human health and agriculture.

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APRIL 30, 2020

The outbreak of COVID-19 has already impacted the automotive industry significantly, according to JATO Dynamics, a leading provider of global automotive data and insight. Global vehicle sales totalled 5.55 —Felipe Munoz, JATO’s global analyst. million units in March 2020, down by 39% from March 2019. million units.

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MAY 7, 2024

After electric vehicle (EV) maker Fisker halted production at its contract manufacturer’s plant in Austria, the company has now filed for reorganization and court protection in the country. Fisker has also officially halted production of its Ocean EV at a plant in Graz, Austria , which is run by its contracted manufacturer Magna Steyr.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The BMW Group is speeding up the shift towards electromobility and strengthening its global network for production of electrified vehicles. The combustion engines with four, six, eight and 12 cylinders produced there will be manufactured at the company’s locations in Steyr in Austria and Hams Hall in the UK going forward.

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APRIL 8, 2013

Myriant Corporation, a global renewable chemicals company based in the United States, signed a distribution agreement with Hamburg, Germany-based BCD Chemie, one of the major European chemical distributors. BCD Chemie will market and distribute Myriant’s bio-succinic acid and Myrifilm solvent in Austria, Germany and Switzerland.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

This marks the first collaboration project in Hyundai’s larger R&D joint research and professional development program, called Hyundai R&D Global Frontier. Business partners include Spain-based Applus IDIADA, UK-based Ricardo and Austria-based AVL. This year Hyundai will collaborate with 22 industry leaders in business and academia.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2016

The new facility in Hungary will enable Samsung SDI to establish a global triangular production structure along with existing plants in Ulsan, Korea and Xian, China. The new battery plant will be built in Goed, north of Budapest in a 330,000 m 2 site, using existing facilities previously used for display production.

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DECEMBER 21, 2022

European Lithium signed a binding long term lithium offtake agreement via its wholly-owned Austrian subsidiary ECM Lithium AT GmbH with BMW to secure the company’s first offtake of battery grade lithium hydroxide (LiOH) from its Wolfsberg Lithium Project underground mine in Austria. In 2011, KMI was granted a mining license for the Project.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2017

Global Bioenergies is partnering with Clariant, INEOS, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a €16.4-million assessment of the sustainability and environmental benefits by the Energy Institute at the University of Linz (Austria). Global Bioenergies will receive funding amounting to €4.4 The 48-month project will receive €9.8

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MAY 12, 2015

Samsung SDI has officially commenced operations of Samsung SDI Battery Systems(SDIBS) in Graz, Austria. In February 2015, Samsung SDI entered into an agreement to acquire the battery pack business of Magna International, a leading global automotive supplier. million vehicles by 2020, compared with 2.1

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MAY 15, 2018

Global Bioenergies will lead a consortium including Sekab, Graanul Invest, Neste Engineering Solutions, Repsol, Peab Asfalt, SkyNRG, Ajinomoto Eurolysine, IPSB, TechnipFMC and Linz University in a 3-year project (called REWOFUEL) to demonstrate the production of isobutene-derived gasoline and jetfuel from wood residuals.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2010

WorldAutoSteel,the automotive group of the World Steel Association, has presented findings on the progress of FutureSteelVehicle (FSV) Phase 2, a global steel industry effort to develop advanced high-strength steel (AHSS) architectures for electrified vehicles that reduce life cycle greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Munich offers convenient access to key European EV markets and close proximity to Magna’s Graz facility in Austria. Earlier this month, Fisker revealed details surrounding its new global HQ, which is to be located within Continental Park at 1888 Rosecrans Avenue in the city of Manhattan Beach, California. Fisker Inc. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

With global leading hydrogen technology, Hyundai as a truck supplier intends to enter into the European market for eco-friendly heavy-duty vehicles. Currently, there is a strong focus in establishing solutions and partner networks for Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Norway.

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

The Coradia iLint trains have run more than 200,000 km with zero CO 2 emission in passenger service in Germany and Austria and has been successfully tested in the Netherlands. Alstom is a pioneer of hydrogen technology, having introduced the Coradia iLint to the German market in September 2018 ( earlier post ).

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AUGUST 20, 2009

Italy had previously reached a similar agreement with Austria, and is in talks with France about proposed changes in their shared border. WGMS/UNEP: Global Glacier Changes : Fact and Figures, 2008. Maximum border shift is expected to be in the range of 100 to 150 meters at some locations. Jack Rosebro.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

DENSO plans to introduce the new larger-display HUD to the global market in the 2015 timeframe. DENSO will exhibit the new HUD in its booth at the 19 th Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress 2012 in Vienna, Austria. The HUD is embedded in the dashboard behind the steering wheel.

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MARCH 5, 2019

The national companies have joined the global electric vehicles initiative EV100 which aims to make electric transport the new normal by 2030. Austrian Post is the largest logistics business in Austria. National postal companies Swiss Post and Austrian Post have committed to electrify their delivery fleets by 2030.

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APRIL 30, 2023

One of the challenges of constructing a global hydrogen economy is hydrogen transportation by sea. This would increase the viability of a global hydrogen economy in the future and increase the number of hydrogen suppliers for energy-demanding regions, such as China, Europe, and Japan.

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MAY 7, 2014

The move has two aims: expansion of the product line in the steel and metal production machinery business and acceleration of globalization. and IHI Corporation—and Siemens MT Business, Siemens group companies undertaking metals production in countries including Germany, Austria and the US.

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JULY 7, 2013

Siemens and its partners are launching a large smart city project in Vienna, Austria. Corporate Technology, Siemens global research department, will be in charge of the project. A living laboratory will be created in the next five years in the waterside district of Aspern, one of the largest urban development projects in Europe.

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JUNE 18, 2013

Together with their partner, Austria-based Diamond Aircraft, the companies are showcasing a second-generation series hybrid electric airplane at Le Bourget. Air transport as a whole currently emits 2% of global carbon emissions and is set to increase to 3% by 2050, according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

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APRIL 13, 2011

A trio of European countries and one from South America made major strides in reducing their levels of sulfur content in gasoline, allowing them to advance in the annual global ranking published by Hart Energy’s International Fuel Quality Center (IFQC). Click to enlarge. —Kiuru-Griffith, Executive Director of IFQC.

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APRIL 12, 2013

A prototype, twin-turbo, Aston Martin Rapide S at the 41 st ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring (19-20 May 2013) will debut Alset Global’s dual fuel Hybrid Hydrogen system, which enables the turbocharged 6.0-liter Alset Global and its partner organizations hold a number of key patents relating to the entire system.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 8, 2019

Findings of a study led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) and published in the European Respiratory Journal suggest that a significant proportion of childhood asthma cases may be attributable to outdoor air pollution, and that these cases could be prevented. Asthma is the most common chronic disease in children.

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DECEMBER 22, 2021

Russia-based RUSAL, a global aluminum producer, opened the first phase of its low-carbon aluminum production plant, Taishet Aluminum Smelter (TaAZ), in Taishet, Siberia. of global production of aluminum and 6.5% In 2020, RUSAL accounted for about 5.8% of alumina production; 44% of RUSAL’s production accounts for value-added products.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

As part of the agreement, the two companies will carry out a number of assessment activities, including technical and economic feasibility studies to explore potential projects and solutions to foster and promote hydrogen development in the UAE, and elsewhere globally. As part of a €7.4-billion

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2021

Fisker and Magna also confirmed that production of the all-electric Fisker Ocean SUV is projected to start on 17 November 2022 at Magna’s manufacturing facility in Graz, Austria, where they have produced more than 3.7 million vehicles for several global automakers.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2012

Large-scale bioenergy production from forest biomass is unsustainable and will increase greenhouse gas emissions, according to a group of international researchers in an invited analysis in the journal Global Change Biology/Bioenergy. The work was supported by several agencies in Europe and the US Department of Energy.

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JUNE 2, 2023

—Stefan Gaigg, Managing Director at Miba Battery Systems Miba Battery Systems develops and produces its battery solutions currently at its VOLTfactory #01 in Austria, and will also supply AEHRA the battery system with the FLEXcooler, which Miba says is the most lightweight cooling system with outstanding performance available today.

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DECEMBER 3, 2018

A European Commission study from 2017 estimated the global electric bus stock to count 173,000 buses, with 98% of the global stock being situated in China. Recharging infrastructure improving unevenly in different parts of Europe.

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AUGUST 18, 2022

Rheinmetall, with its subsidiary Rheinmetall MAN Military Vehicles (RMMV), is a global leader in tactical military truck development and manufacturing. The HX3-CTT is the new, next-gen variant of the globally successful HX family of military-off-the-shelf tactical trucks.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

It is available initially to fleets in France, Germany, Austria and Benelux, with other markets to follow soon. It is offering these large panel vans from its sites across Germany and Austria. In 2015, the company ranked 46 th on the annual Fortune Global 500 list, with $106.68 SAIC Motor sold 6.49 billion in revenues.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Global Bioenergies reported that runs using wheat straw hydrolysate provided by its partner Clariant were successfully performed in its Leuna demo plant, leading to the production of cellulosic isobutene for the first time at this scale. million by the Bio Based Industry- Joint Undertaking (BBI-JU) as part of the H2020 program.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2009

REVA is the brand of the Reva Electric Car Company, a Bangalore, India-based company formed as a joint venture between Maini Group of India and AEV LLC of California and backed by US investors Global Environment Fund and Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Samsung SDI has agreed to acquire the battery pack business of Magna International, a leading global automotive supplier. The global market for electric vehicles, including hybrid and plug-in hybrid models, is forecast to reach 7.7 Financial terms of the deal will not be disclosed. million vehicles by 2020, compared with 2.1

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