Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Toyota’s fuel cell system, which was first introduced in the Toyota Mirai hydrogen-fuel-cell electric vehicle, has proved its value as a propulsion system for automobiles. It required a re-design of the system, followed by the build and installation of the compact fuel cell module.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2019

Magnis Energy Technologies Limited announced that the Government of India, Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises advises that Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and LIBCOIN (20% owned by Magnis) are in discussions to build India’s first Li-ion battery gigafactory. —LIBCOIN Chairman Rajan Duggal.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Honda Motor recently unveiled its work on two key advanced future safety technologies being developed with the goal of realizing “zero traffic collision fatalities involving Honda motorcycles and automobiles globally by 2050”.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2021

Accommodating a technology park, a test base and other function areas, this demonstration zone, open to the public, aims to build an innovation ecosystem that integrates research & development, test and production related to hydrogen energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2020

The system, easily integrated into today’s vehicles, uses Doppler radar to bounce radio waves off surfaces such as buildings and parked automobiles. Since it relies on existing radar sensor technology, readying the radar system for deployment in the next generation of automobiles should be possible. Credit: Princeton University.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2021

As a unique integration of a two-seat aircraft and an automobile, the Transition is designed to meet safety standards from both the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). Terrafugia, Inc. —Kevin Colburn, Vice President and General Manager of Terrafugia.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2023

Since starting engine production in 1985, the Anna facility has produced a diverse array of powertrain and other components, ranging from motorcycle and automobile engines to transmissions, suspensions and wheels. billion and employs 2,900 Honda associates who build V6 and inline 4-cylinder engines, including 1.5, million engines.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2020

Toyota Motor and five Chinese OEMs—China FAW Corporation Limited (FAW); Dongfeng Motor Corporation (DFM); Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., GAC Group); Beijing Automotive Group Co., BAIC Group); and Beijing SinoHytec Co., — signed a joint venture agreement for the establishment of United Fuel Cell System R&D (Beijing) Co.,

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 19, 2022

liter V8 engine for automobiles that is fueled entirely by hydrogen. Yamaha began developing a hydrogen engine for automobiles about five years ago. This expansion will install in stages various new equipment, including electric motor test benches, hydrogen supply equipment, and carbon-neutral fuel storage tanks at Building No.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2022

This collaboration marks a further step in efforts by the two automobile groups in producing low-emission models, as well as increasing their penetration in the Asian HEV markets. The new vehicles will be produced at the Renault-Samsung facility in Busan, South Korea, with production forecast to begin in 2024.

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South Korea Hybrid Building Vehicles 210

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2018

Although the traction motor system will be launched in the Chinese market first, Nidec plans to make the product available to European automobile manufacturers as well in the near future.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2021

For more than two decades, Ford has used recycled plastics not collected from oceans to produce various parts for automobiles. The introduction of parts made of recycled ocean plastic opens new opportunities and builds on a global effort to help reduce ocean debris that hampers sea life or, when harvested, further clutters landfills.

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Parts Ford Mariner Escape 434

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Hydrogen can cause brittleness in several metals including ferritic steel—high-chromium, magnetic stainless steels that have a low carbon content that are used in structural components of buildings, automobile gears and axles, and industrial equipment.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2021

We are using our economies of scale to make autonomous driving available to many people and to build a learning neural network. We will completely rethink the way we build cars and introduce revolutionary approaches. Digitalization, automation and lightweight construction play an important role here. —Ralf Brandstätter.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2019

BMW Brilliance Automotive (BBA) has become the first automobile manufacturer to enable full 5G wireless coverage at all its plants. With this development, BBA becomes the first automobile manufacturer to use 5G technology in automotive development and production. Full 5G coverage, transfer rate of 1 Gbps.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2021

Trunk.Tech is actively building a broad intelligent logistics ecosystem to support autonomous trucking in China. It also includes strategic partners China Heavy Automobile, Uberco, Ulse Automotive and Geely Commercial Vehicles for collaboration to promote mass production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2022

Kandi Technologies Group signed a framework agreement with Hunan Hengrun Automobile Co., Hengrun specializes in the research, development, manufacturing, sales and after-sales service of automobiles, parts, and accessories. It is one of several automobile companies fully certified to produce complete vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

The proposed facility will support industrial-scale production of advanced lithiated anodes for multiple battery cell makers and automobile manufacturers. Group14 intends to build two 2,000 ton per year commercial manufacturing modules. Applied Materials, Inc. ICL-IP America Inc.

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Manufacturer Parts Batteries Battery 435

Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2022

In a press briefing held in Tokyo on its initiatives in automobile electrification, Honda announced that it will spend approximately ¥5 trillion (US$40 billion) in the area of electrification and software technologies to further accelerate its electrification over the next 10 years, including both R&D expenses (¥3.5 trillion / US$12 billion).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2021

Baidu will provide intelligent driving capabilities to power the passenger vehicles for the new venture, and Geely, which holds the distinction of best-selling Chinese automobile brand in past years under the Volvo and Geely brands, will contribute its expertise in automobile design and manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2022

Managed by DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory, the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge builds on a 34-year history of DOE Advanced Vehicle Technology Competitions that have embodied the spirit of American automotive ingenuity.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For 2023, CR reported that EVs had 79 percent more problems than automobiles that use internal combustion. Automakers have also been building them a lot longer than their plug-in counterparts and they tend to be based on models that have been around for a while. “It Plug-in hybrids were even worse with 146 percent more issues.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2021

In cooperation with its long-standing joint-venture partner FAW, Audi is currently building a completely new automotive plant specially for the future generation of electric-powered models on the basis of the new PPE technology platform. The future series version will be produced in Europe and China, and is intended for sales worldwide.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Using Volkswagen’s expertise in vehicle integration, the teams also have been able to build from a charging power level of 6.6 The research project aims to generate new insights into the technological and physical hurdles of high-power wireless charging for automobiles.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2020

The buildings are expected to be completed by the summer of 2021. We are converting a major automobile plant during production. The two-color paintwork is one of the trademarks of the ID. In addition, a new high-bay shelving unit and an automated small parts warehouse are planned. —plant manager Uwe Schwartz.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 26, 2022

Turkey has a decades long history of producing automobiles for both domestic and global markets. Specifically, Turkey has established itself as a key builder of commercial vehicles, with the majority of those flowing through export channels to Europe, thanks to favorable customs agreements established in 1995.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2023

BYD thus becomes the first Chinese automobile manufacturer to own the intelligent vehicle body control technology throughout. BYD has released the BYD DiSus Intelligent Body Control System (DiSus System). The full stack self-developed BYD DiSus System is exclusively designed for new energy vehicles (NEVs).

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 3, 2025

Fords application covers Motor vehicles, namely gasoline and electric automobiles, pick-up trucks, sport utility vehicles and their structural parts. The automaker has been expected to build a four-door Mustang for years, and the rumor mill has been churning on the subject since before the Mach-Es rollout for the 2021 model year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2022

In states already in the program, the automobile industry has successfully met the required percentage. Each year, manufacturers must meet a ZEV credit amount that is based on average annual sales. Transportation is the leading source of greenhouse gas emissions in Delaware. DNREC Secretary Shawn M.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 28, 2021

They also agreed to promote the common use of communications systems by using connected services to link automobiles and society with the aim of creating new appeal, value and services, to be standardized for early provision of safer and more convenient connected services.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2014

Deutsche ACCUmotive, established in April 2009 as a joint venture, made Daimler one of the few automobile manufacturers to develop batteries for automotive applications and also to produce them in Germany starting in 2012. Deutsche ACCUmotive had approximately 230 employees as of 31 December 2013.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The proposed facility will support industrial-scale production of advanced lithiated anodes for multiple battery cell makers and automobile manufacturers. Group14 intends to build two 2,000 ton per year commercial manufacturing modules. Applied Materials, Inc. ICL-IP America Inc.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The Peel P50, produced in the early 1960s, was the smallest production automobile in the world. And now a new kit allows handy folks to build their own replica, although this time, it’s electric! more… The post This DIY kit lets you build your own street-legal tiniest car in the world appeared first on Electrek.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Its business lines include the sale of electrolyzer technology to customers interested in building their own green hydrogen production, the development of turnkey hydrogen plants to be owned and operated by Fusion Fuel, and the sale of green hydrogen as a commodity to end-users through long-term hydrogen purchase agreements.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

JiDU will quickly implement advanced intelligent cockpit technologies, bring these technologies to the market immediately and create reliable, self-evolvable automobile robots. We’re excited about JiDU’s first product to be the first production vehicle powered by the 4 th Generation Snapdragon Automotive Cockpit Platform in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2021

Desktop Metal, a provider of mass-production additive-manufacturing (AM) solutions, has qualified the use of 4140 low-alloy steel for the Production System platform, which leverages patent-pending Single Pass Jetting (SPJ) technology designed to achieve the fastest build speeds in the metal additive manufacturing industry.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

New investors Shell, Macquarie Capital, and Mori Building also participated in the round, as did existing investors Pitango, 83North, Hearst Ventures, Ervington Investments, Planven Ventures, Broadscale Group, and RiverPark Ventures.

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