Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2022

BMW has begun production of the fully-electric BMW iX1 in Regensburg; all its German plants can now produce electric cars. By 2024, at least one in three BMWs coming out of its Bavarian plants will be an electric car, said Milan Nedeljkovi?, The high-voltage battery in the BMW iX1 also comes from Regensburg.

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Electric Cars Report

APRIL 4, 2025

March became the largest month ever for registrations of electric cars. Some 69,313 new cars reached the road as manufacturers sought to deliver ever more zero emission vehicles. The post UK: Battery electric car uptake rises to highest ever volume in March appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Tesla has been quietly replacing their battery packs, seemingly a lot of them. At least since September, Tesla has been swapping out Cybertruck battery packs for new ones when they are brought in for other maintenance issues. continued] The post Tesla Is Secretly Recalling Cybertruck Batteries appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

Under the plans, Zeekr will use Geely Holding Group’s Sustainable Experience Architecture (SEA)—unveiled last year—and will include its own battery technologies, battery management systems, electric motor technologies and electric vehicle supply chain support.

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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 plant already builds the XC40 Recharge, the company’s first fully electric car, as well as a plug-in hybrid version of the XC40.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

The Volkswagen Group is expanding its WeShare electric car sharing project to Hamburg later this week; the pilot project launched in Berlin in 2019. —Philipp Reth, CEO of WeShare, Volkswagen’s car sharing service. We are all the more pleased that things are finally getting underway.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 9, 2020

Fortum, BASF, and Nornickel have signed a letter of intent to plan a Li-ion battery recycling cluster in Harjavalta, Finland, serving the electric vehicle market. This would enable a successful “closed loop” cycle to re-use the critical metals present in used batteries. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

More than two-thirds (68%) of lithium-ion battery production planned for Europe is at risk of being delayed, scaled down or cancelled, according to new analysis by the European NGO Transport & Environment. Battery production capacity equivalent to 18 million electric cars—1.2 Europe must act or risk losing it all.

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Companies Battery Batteries Production 430

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2021

Battery-electric AMG derivatives based on the new Mercedes Electric Vehicle Architecture (EVA) for luxury and premium-class vehicles. Extensive modifications to the drive, chassis, design and equipment will provide the hallmark AMG driving experience with all-electric drive. AMG High Performance Battery.

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Mercedes Hybrid Battery Batteries 448

Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2023

Torqeedo GmbH announced a new battery option for its Deep Blue series of marine electric drives: Deep Blue Battery 80. The new battery leverages lithium iron phosphate (LFP) chemistry and delivers 80 kWh of energy storage, twice the capacity of the previous generation of Deep Blue batteries.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

This post focuses on minerals used uniquely in the manufacture of electric cars. The table below lists the weight (in kg) of the minerals used in a typical electric car and a typical conventional car. Electric cars. Conventional cars. If the latter, what are the source countries? Rare earths.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2023

For most people, it will be things like how long the battery will last, how nice the screens are, and what computer chip it comes with. We already know that electric vehicles will be dominating the market soon, ticking off the choice of vehicle based on how long the battery lasts, but what about the other two criteria?

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The low-cost materials—made of lithium, boron and sulfur—could improve the safety and performance of electric cars, laptops and other battery-powered devices, according to the scientists. Most lithium-ion batteries today use a liquid electrolyte that can combust if the battery is punctured or short-circuited.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 22, 2021

Volvo Car Group intends to establish a joint venture with Swedish battery company Northvolt to develop and produce more sustainable batteries, tailored to power the next generation of pure electric Volvo and Polestar cars. The location of the new plant is yet to be decided.

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Volvo Battery Batteries Production 305

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2021

Aiming to gain a competitive advantage in the global EV market, Vietnam-based EV maker VinFast has been developing a number of partnerships with developers of advanced battery technologies. VinFast is also partnering with Taiwan-based ProLogium (PLG)—a developer of 100% solid-state lithium ceramic batteries ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2022

Solid-state batteries could reduce the carbon footprint of electric vehicle batteries by up to 39%, according to a study commissioned by European environmental NGO Transport & Environment (T&E) from Minviro , a company specializing in raw material life-cycle analysis, which compared emerging solid-state technology to current battery chemistries.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2021

In the first quarter of 2021, hybrid electric vehicles made up 18.4% of total passenger car sales in the EU, almost doubling their market share in a year, according to data from the European Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ACEA). of all new cars, while plug-in hybrids accounted for 8.2% of the car market.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2022

VinFast, through a company in Vingroup, announced an investment in the tens of millions of US dollars in ProLogium ( earlier post ), a manufacturer of solid-state batteries. ProLogium plans to provide solid-state battery cells to VinFast starting from 2024 to support VinFast’s next generation line-up.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2022

Bentley Motors will launch five new electric cars from 2025. From 2025, the first Bentley electric vehicle will be designed, developed and produced at its headquarters in Crewe, England. Bentley also revealed a £2.5-billion billion (US$3.4-billion) billion) sustainable investment to realize this strategy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2021

Rapidly moving towards becoming a fully electric car company, Volvo Cars is bringing battery cell technology development and production closer to home and aims to tailor its future batteries to the needs of its customers: a longer range and faster charging times. —Henrik Green, chief technology officer.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

Volvo Cars reported global sales of 60,398 cars in May, up 31% compared with the same month last year. The company’s fully electric cars were the main contributor to the growth, rising 196% during the period to 10,826 units (). The share of fully electric cars stood at 18%.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 25, 2025

Another new study shows that EV batteries last longer than previously thought while racking up sustainability points, too. The post Ordinary Driving Adds More Life To EV Batteries (It’s Official!) appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 7, 2025

million pure battery-electric vehicles (BEVs). continued] The post How Many Electric Cars Will The World Buy In 2025, 2027, 2030? Last year, the world bought 17.2 million plugin vehicles, and 10.8 That’s “a robust rise from the 16% (10%. appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2022

The investment gives Volvo Cars the opportunity to collaborate closely with StoreDot on new battery technology, as it aims to become a pure electric car company by 2030. This gives us the financial firepower to bring our revolutionary batteries to market quicker and boost ongoing R&D into solid-state technologies.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Whether it’s child labor in cobalt mining (shhh — cobalt is used in almost all electronic devices, but don’t tell anyone), range anxiety, or the collapse of the power grid if all electric cars charge at the same time, the internet is inundated with false statements and half-truths about electric.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

ŠKODA AUTO has started manufacturing battery systems for all-electric vehicles based on the Volkswagen Group’s Modular Electrification Toolkit (MEB) in Mladá Boleslav. This makes the car manufacturer’s main plant the only production facility for MEB battery systems in Europe outside Germany.

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The Driven EV News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

All-electric ID.7 7 Pro S electric sedan achieves nearly-800km range on a single battery charge, serving to demonstrate the continuing evolution of battery electric vehicle technology. 7 electric car covers 794 kms with single battery charge appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2023

In the first half of 2022, motors with oil cooling became the dominant form in the electric car market, taking 50% market share, according to a report from IDTechEx. Oil cooling became the dominant form of motor cooling for electric cars in 2022.

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Electric Cars Report

JANUARY 21, 2025

InDecember 2024, new EU car registrations rose by 5.1%. Spain led […] The post Europe: Battery-Electric Car Sales Overtook the Diesel Again in 2024 appeared first on Electric Cars Report. In contrast, declines were observed in France (-3.2%), Germany (-1%), and Italy, with a slight drop of 0.5%.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MARCH 8, 2025

With the exception of Nissan, Japanese car companies have been famously reluctant to bring competitive electric cars to market. continued] The post Honda & Toyota Introduce New Battery Electric SUVs In China appeared first on CleanTechnica. The EV revolution is in full swing in China, so if Honda and Toyota.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2022

Swedish electric car maker Polestar will provide battery and charging systems for Candela’s highly efficient flying boats. The battery deal will enable Candela to scale up production swiftly, bringing mass-market electric boats one step closer to reality. —Thomas Ingenlath, Polestar CEO.

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Battery Batteries Mariner Electric 259

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Rock Tech Lithium intends to build Europe’s first lithium converter—a production plant for battery-grade lithium hydroxide—in Guben, Brandenburg, Germany. This would correspond to the volume needed to equip around 500,000 electric cars with lithium-ion batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2022

By ensuring from the outset that the Architecture of Luxury could be tailored to the requirements of an all-electric Rolls-Royce, the marque’s engineers ensured the continuity of experience from its current portfolio, each evolution of which has done much to secure the brand’s ongoing global success. Digital Engineering.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 31, 2024

A6 and S6 Sportback E-Tron electric cars arrive in North America next spring or summer The first cars using Audi's new platform cut a sharp shape A 94.9-kwh

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The state of EV battery technology has come a long way since 1996, when GM deployed lead-acid chemistry in a short-lived attempt to bring electric cars back from a decades-long hiatus. The post Hints Of A Next-Generation EV Battery Emerge From New Lithium-Rich Layered Oxide Material appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 4, 2025

The US startup Ample is among the EV battery swapping firms poised for growth as the swapping movement continues to gather steam. The post What Did Elon Musk Know About EV Battery Swapping And When Did He Know It? appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 17, 2025

Recycling could enable Europe to cut its reliance on EV battery mineral imports by up to a quarter by the end of the decade, anew studyfinds. Materials from end-of-life batteries and gigafactory scrap. But the EU and UK risk missing out as half of local recycling projects are at risk.

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