Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2011

According to the survey of 4,760 European consumers, 16% see themselves as potential first movers to buy or lease an electric vehicle, while 53% say they might be willing to consider it, and 31% say they are not likely to consider purchasing or leasing an EV. There is no doubt that electric vehicles are the future of the automotive industry.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Ballard Power Systems announced a purchase order from Van Hool, a leading bus OEM and Ballard partner headquartered in Belgium, for 10 fuel cell modules to power Van Hool A330 buses to be deployed in Emmen, the Netherlands, under the JIVE2 funding program. Van Hool A330 Fuel Cell Buses powered by Ballard.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2013

With the purchase of Ensus, CropEnergies strengthens its position as one of the leading bioethanol producers in Europe and increases its annual production capacity of bioethanol by 50% to more than 1.2 Through the capital increase within the scope of the authorized capital, Carlyle will become a shareholder in CropEnergies, holding 2.6%

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

The companies have also entered into an off-take purchase agreement for battery cells. At Busworld 2017 in Kortrijk, Belgium, Scania unveiled the hybrid Scania Interlink Low Decker and the battery-electric Scania Citywide bus. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 2, 2013

Two separate reports highlight the ongoing improvement in vehicle technologies and the growing trend toward consumers purchasing more fuel efficient vehicles in the US and in Europe. l/100 km) and who intend to purchase a vehicle in the future, expect a seven mpg increase, or to get 31 mpg (7.6 Source: CFA. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2019

The first wave of auditing includes sites in Belgium, Germany, Spain and France with others to follow. To be awarded with ResponsibleSteel certification, each site will undergo a third-party audit with an independent Certification Committee making the final certification decision.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2014

The intended global agreement shall contain the options for a future purchase of Renault Kangoo Z.E. is an electrified vehicle that is used to transport DHL Express shipments at the moment in France as well as in Aruba, Belgium, Denmark and Germany. The Kangoo Z.E. Overall, DHL currently uses 304 electric vehicles including Kangoo Z.E.,

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

SB LiMotive recently purchased Cobasys, a nickel metal hydride battery firm based in Orion. Her previous missions to Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan and Sweden have resulted in 49 companies announcing nearly $2 billion in new investment in Michigan and more than 20,000 new or retained jobs.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

The research team, which also included scientists from Belgium, Germany and Ukraine, reported its results in Nature Communications. Buckyballs are easy to make – they can be isolated from soot – and the type of diamondoid we used here, which consists of two tiny cages, can be purchased commercially. —Hari Manoharan. Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2021

De Lijn, the public transport operator (PTO) in the Flemish part of Belgium, is ordering 44 new articulated plug-in e-hybrid buses; further, the operator confirmed the upgrade of 280 if its current hybrid buses into e-hybrids. The main reason for depot charging is that De Lijn strictly purchases green electricity only.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2020

This is because of cheaper electricity, lower EV retail prices and higher purchase incentives in France. These models will be even more affordable thanks to the recent recovery measures announced by the German and French governments, which include new EV purchase incentives.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2012

As more European countries, including Belgium, Poland and Turkey, adopt winter tire legislations, TPMS revenues and unit sales will increase in the short and medium term. Consumers are more likely to replace their sensors while purchasing new tires.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Ballard Power Systems announced a purchase order from Van Hool, a leading bus OEM and Ballard partner headquartered in Belgium, for 20 FCveloCity-HD 85kW fuel cell modules to power buses in Groningen, the Netherlands, under the JIVE2 funding program. Ballard plans to deliver the 20 FCveloCity-HD 85kW modules in 2020.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

Established in 1987, the Toyota Technical Centre is home to TME’s research and development, purchasing, and production engineering activities. Located in Zaventem, Belgium, the centre currently represents a total investment of €140 million. Early in 2006, Toyota inaugurated the expanded Technical Centre.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 31, 2012

To be included in the Pike report, the EVSE companies had to: sell EVSE units as individual products, not EVSE provided by an automaker with its PEV; be a manufacturer, not just a service provider that purchased hardware from other companies; manufacture Level 2 chargers—i.e., excluding companies that only provide DC fast chargers; and.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

Ford Pro has already handed over its first E-Transits under the agreement, joining Deutsche Post DHL Group’s electric fleet used for last mile deliveries in several countries worldwide (Bulgaria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Germany, Luxembourg, Mexico, Netherlands and UK).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Consumers’ expectations around the performance and purchase price of electric vehicles are so divergent from the actual offerings available today, that no more than 2–4% of consumers worldwide would have their expectations met, according to a new survey from Deloitte. range, convenience to charge and purchase price of the vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2016

Toyota will launch the Mirai fuel cell vehicle in Sweden and Norway this summer, following other European countries that have introduced the Toyota Mirai in 2015 (UK, Germany and Denmark) or early 2016 (Belgium). The Netherlands will follow later this year. The Mirai launched in Japan in December 2014 and in the US in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

Ford of Europe has put two giant wind turbines, each with a height of 150 meters, into service at the Ford Genk plant in Belgium. Since March last year, electric power on the 270-acre site, home to a team of around 3,000 engineers, has been purchased from 100% renewable sources.

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Electric Cars Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Drivers on the Uber platform in seven European countries can now purchase discounted home EV chargers, as Wallbox – a leading provider of EV charging and energy management solutions worldwide – and Uber expand their partnership across the continent.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2022

Portfolio upgrades, enhancing efficiency, increasing renewable energy purchases, reducing throughput and sales of fossil refinery products, and increasing the share of recycled and sustainable feedstocks will be the key levers in achieving these targets. Projects such as ReOil will help to replace virgin feedstocks with sustainable ones.

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Oil Gas Production Austria 465

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2017

Energy storage company Leclanché SA and Škoda Electric, a manufacturer of electric drives and traction motors for trolley and electric buses, have signed a Joint Development Agreement and Framework Purchase Contract through which Leclanché will provide Škoda Electric with battery solutions for its electric bus expansion strategy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2010

The Orange Book is frequently used by prospective aircraft purchasers as a predictor of aircraft performance. GP7200 Engine Program participants include SNECMA (France), Techspace Aero (Belgium) and MTU Aero Engines (Germany). Specific Fuel Consumption (SFC) improvement for the GP7200-powered aircraft.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2017

In recent months Fastned invested in new grid connections and the purchase of faster chargers with a charging power of up to 350 kW. In the past year, the portfolio has been expanded with a large number of locations in Germany and Belgium. —Bart Lubbers, co-founder of Fastned.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2016

To date, TS LNG has been responsible for managing the engineering, purchasing, construction and commissioning of the Gate Terminal plant in the Netherlands, an international benchmark in the regasification plant sector.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 29, 2024

Upon further inspection, van Vliet confirmed that the Cybertruck is owned by rapper Kosso, who recently talked about purchasing the car is Oisterwijk, though he was considering getting plates from either the Czech Republic or Albania. What are your thoughts?

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2017

Today Ballard FCveloCity engines are powering more than 80 buses around the globe: 41 in Europe, including Belgium, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Scotland and the U.K.; 24 in the Cities of Foshan and Yunfu, China; 13 in the US, including the states of California, Massachusetts, Michigan and Ohio; 3 in Brazil; and 1 in India.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2015

An analysis of new car registration in Germany for 2014 reveals that driver assistance systems are playing an increasingly greater role when it comes to purchasing a car. Automatic emergency braking systems are even more common in Belgium than in Germany. Parking assistance systems are very popular outside Germany as well.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It will give them a chance to try the automated driver-assist system for a month and maybe even convince them to purchase the update when the offer ends. The tradition originated in China’s Nanjing University in 1993 and has since spread to other parts of the world, including Southeast Asia, Germany, Belgium, and the United Kingdom.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2021

The Volta Zero was launched in September 2020; at the end of 2020, Volta Trucks announced what was believed to be Europe’s single largest purchase of full-electric large commercial vehicles with the sale of 1,000 Volta Zeros to Petit Forestier, Europe’s largest refrigerated commercial rental fleet.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

EU citizens were the least likely (54%) to say that they would be willing to compromise on purchase price (i.e. Cyprus, Luxembourg, Greece and France were the countries where the largest proportions of respondents were willing to compromise on a car’s speed, size and range, when making a purchase, in order to reduce emissions.

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Cyprus Transportation Malta Luxembourg 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2018

An additional 12 new markets for Polestar 1 have been added and will open for pre-orders simultaneously, including Switzerland, the UK, Belgium, Finland, France, Poland, Austria, Spain, Italy, Denmark, Portugal and Canada. Customers will also be able to purchase the Polestar 1 outright if desired.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2023

In its sixth consecutive year, the latest report looks at the view of nearly 25,000 drivers across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands and the UK. According to the report, two fifths (42%) of the respondents have purchased an EV within the last year and more than two-thirds (67%) within the last two years.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2015

Ballard anticipates receipt of purchase orders under the ESA that will lead to delivery of these fuel cell modules to Van Hool in 2015 and 2016. Van Hool is a Belgium-based independent bus, coach and industrial vehicle OEM. There are currently 27 Van Hool fuel cell buses, powered by Ballard modules, in public transit operation.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

The company has put two giant wind turbines, each standing more than 150 metres tall, into service at its Ford Genk plant in Belgium. The turbines in Belgium are expected to meet a significant part of the plant’s power needs, where it produces the Mondeo, Galaxy and S-MAX models.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

The abrupt removal of purchase subsidies contributed to a 16.4% It called on German lawmakers to follow Belgium’s company car policy, which sets attractive depreciation rates for electric cars and phases out depreciation for combustion engines. As a result, EV sales in Belgium increased by 48% in the first half of the year.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Umicore is actively working with cell manufacturers to advance SSB tech, and recently opened a material prototyping center in Belgium that supports all the steps in SSB production, from formulation to testing. Based on our precious metals recycling, we pioneered industrial-scale battery recycling in 2011 in Belgium.

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