Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

We are determined to support our customers in southern China drive growth with innovative products and sustainable solutions. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site. The site would ultimately be the third-largest BASF site worldwide, following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After about a year of intensive practical use by ten customers in Germany and Switzerland, eight of the purely battery-powered Mercedes-Benz eActros trucks are now successively going to new customers in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands. Lithium-ion batteries with 240 kWh supply the energy for the eActros.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

We are determined to support our customers in southern China drive growth with innovative products and sustainable solutions. BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site. The site would ultimately be the third-largest BASF site worldwide, following Ludwigshafen, Germany, and Antwerp, Belgium.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2018

For around ten years, MAN Truck & Bus has been working on innovative concepts for supplying and removing material in the urban environment. This problem involves developing ideas for reducing traffic at specific times and relocating it out of the city altogether, new approaches to the use of land, plus new transport and drive concepts.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

BASF plans to build an engineering plastics compounding plant and a thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) plant at the company’s proposed integrated chemical production (“Verbund”) site in Zhanjiang, China. These will be the first production plants to come onstream at the site.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

The investment positions Aleris to meet anticipated significant growth in North American automotive demand as the industry pursues broader aluminum use for the production of lighter, more fuel-efficient vehicles. When fully operational, the new facility will allow for the production of 480 million pounds of aluminum auto body sheet annually.

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Cars That Think

MAY 26, 2024

Demand for mental-health services has surged while the supply of clinicians has stagnated. As a company that relies on conversation, Woebot Health had to decide whether generative AI could make Woebot a better tool, or whether the technology was too dangerous to incorporate into our product. Today, the situation is vastly different.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

So it’s a good moment to consider where vehicle-to-grid concepts first emerged and to see in Utrecht how far they’ve come. But from the time Kempton and Letendre outlined the concept, potential users also feared losing money, through battery wear and tear. Production Zoes capable of bidirectional charging have yet to come out.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2017

The EU-funded three-year NELLHI project has concluded after successfully developing a new stack design of solid oxide fuel cells, from an all-European supply chain. Key challenges such as high costs, production at scale and capital investment have hampered widespread deployment of SOFCs. NELLHI received €1.6 million (US$1.9

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

CalCars supports conversion programs as a strategy to increase awareness and support for PHEVs and thereby motivate automakers to build production PHEVs. For Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and other Northern European countries, contact SP Innovation. For a list of conversions completed to date, see Where PHEVs (mostly Priuses) Are.

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