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JUNE 2, 2020

SSAB, LKAB and Vattenfall, the partners in the joint venture HYBRIT ( earlier post ), are preparing for the construction of a demonstration plant for the production of fossil-free steel on an industrial scale. Consultations have begun for deciding on placement of the plant in Norrbotten, Sweden.

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JULY 13, 2022

Grants will be disbursed from the Innovation Fund to help bring technologies to the market in energy-intensive industries, hydrogen, renewable energy, carbon capture and storage infrastructure, and manufacturing of key components for energy storage and renewables. residue streams, renewable hydrogen and biogas to methanol. Background.

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MARCH 12, 2022

Northvolt (Sweden): 16 GWh. In terms of quality, Europe has four of the world’s seven tier one lithium-ion battery makers; once Northvolt’s gigafactory in Sweden is active, Benchmark anticipates this will also become a tier one producer. Northvolt (Sweden x 2): 92 GW. Samsung SDI (Hungary): 20 GWh. SK Innovation (Hungary): 7.5

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JANUARY 22, 2022

Renault-Samsung Motors (RSM) will manufacture Hybrid Electric and Internal Combustion Engine Vehicles in Busan for the local market and for export. Zhejiang Geely Holding Group and Renault Group have signed a cooperation agreement to launch all-new vehicle lineup for the South-Korean market.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Italian casting machine manufacturer IDRA announced a partnership with Volvo in a press release this week, with the company set to install two 9,000-ton Giga Presses at the automaker’s Košice, Slovakia factory. . The collaboration with the brand exemplifies the company’s dedication to driving progress in the industry.”

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Iberdrola and H2 Green Steel (H2GS, earlier post )have signed an agreement to build a plant with an electrolysis capacity of 1 GW. The project in Boden in northern Sweden has shown that there is a strong demand for green steel from a broad customer base. and 5 million tonnes of green steel plate per year on the same site.

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MAY 26, 2021

Mercedes-Benz AG is the first car manufacturer to take an equity stake in Swedish start-up H2 Green Steel (H2GS) as a way to introduce CO 2 free steel into series production. With the partnership, Mercedes-Benz is tackling one of the biggest challenges in the automotive industry on the road to CO 2 neutrality.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Battery anode company Talga Group Ltd completed an A$25-million (US$19-million) placement to fund the Electric Vehicle Anode (EVA) pilot plant as part of the development of the Vittangi Anode Project located in northern Sweden. This work is important for steel, car and battery manufacturing industries.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 28, 2024

The first pre-production Power Agnostic 930E prototype will make its way to Sweden in the coming months, where it will be put to work alongside other electric Komatsu machines in Boliden’s Aitik copper mine , one of the largest such operations on the European continent. Far too many to list here, in fact. But heavy equipment?

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2022

Hitachi Energy signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with H2 Green Steel to leverage electrification, digitalization, and hydrogen to support the decarbonization of the steel industry. Green steel to be used in the manufacturing of Hitachi Energy’s products, once H2 Green Steel starts production.

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JULY 18, 2024

Photo: First Solar The US’s largest solar panel maker, First Solar (Nasdaq: FSLR), says it’s building the largest thin film R&D center in the Western Hemisphere. million-square-foot facility will include a pilot manufacturing line for producing full-sized prototypes of thin film and tandem PV modules. Get started here.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Scania, a member of the Volkswagen Group, is developing a fuel cell refuse truck together with Renova, a waste handling company in western Sweden, fuel cell manufacturer Powercell Sweden AB, and JOAB, a manufacturer of truck bodies. The truck will feature a fully electrified powertrain as well as an electrified compactor.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Siemens has achieved a breakthrough by finishing its first full load engine tests for gas turbine blades completely produced using Additive Manufacturing (AM) technology. Furthermore, Siemens tested a new blade design with a completely revised and improved internal cooling geometry manufactured using the AM technology.

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JUNE 16, 2022

FREYR has licensed the 24M platform with the ambition to reduce the steps in the battery cell manufacturing process and subsequently reduce carbon emissions. Our intention is to eventually meet their supply needs through our facility in Sweden, which aligns well with FREYR's mission to source materials as locally as possible.

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MARCH 25, 2022

On 13 July 2021, the Council of Ministers approved, as the first PERTE, the development of an ecosystem for the manufacture of the Electric and Connected Vehicle, within the scope of the Recovery Plan. In total, Volkswagen plans to build six Gigafactories in Europe with an annual capacity of 240 GWh together with partners.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2021

The company is also planning to scale up production of Fennac to an industrial level in 2022. This includes the building of a new industrial scale manufacturing unit in Sweden, with the annual capacity to produce 2,000 tonnes of the cathode Fennac, enabling 1GWh of sustainable batteries.

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JUNE 20, 2024

The BMW Group continues to have a strong interest in establishing a high-performance manufacturer of circular and sustainable battery cells in Europe.” manager magazine said Northvolt is having trouble ramping up industrial series production – it’s two years behind schedule and producing too much waste.

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OCTOBER 20, 2016

Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s Enterprise Services business will help National Electric Vehicle Sweden (NEVS) accelerate the setup of its global electric vehicle production. As part of the project, HPE will create a global manufacturing IT platform for NEVS that will operate across plants in Sweden and China.

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JUNE 3, 2020

Local, regional and state governments as well as corporate innovators have set strong commitments for fleet electrification and manufacturers want to supply the vehicles they require. Industry leaders such as (but not limited to) BYD Motors, the Ingka Group (IKEA’s parent company), Nikola Motors, Siemens, The Lion Electric Co.,

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APRIL 6, 2023

The Austin-based company has been launching new products and making strategic acquisitions to build complete solution-level capabilities for EV battery testing and validation, led by its automotive customers who don’t have time to build up the technology themselves. There is also a growing sense that a few EV winners could take all.

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JUNE 8, 2023

Skeleton Technologies is a manufacturer of high power, fast charging energy storage for transportation, grid, automotive and industrial applications. The industry needs modular systems applicable for retrofit and newbuild, capable of reducing emissions and enable flexibility.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The construction industry’s shift takes another step forward as Volvo CE inaugurates a new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility to support the production of electric wheel loaders at its plant in Arvika, Sweden. The new facility measuring approx. m (over 16,000 sq. million) in 2023.

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APRIL 27, 2018

Once completed in 2019, the scale-up and research facility will be used to develop, test and industrialize lithium-ion battery cells before large-scale production. The facility will enable fully process representative manufacturing and allow a faster and more efficient time to market for unique formulations, cell formats and technology.

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DECEMBER 13, 2021

As part of its NEW AUTO strategy, the Volkswagen Group is aiming to become the world’s leading manufacturer of electric vehicles. Battery cell manufacture in Salzgitter is expected to provide jobs for more than 2,500 people in the future. There are plans to build additional gigafactories at sites in Spain and Eastern Europe.

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APRIL 9, 2018

Michelin subsidiary IMECA is working with Symbio FCell on the industrialization of this technology. The French tire and auto components manufacturer is in a build-up phase in its fuel cell manufacturing initiative. The coating service will take place at Impact Coatings’ facilities in Linköping, Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

The Volvo Group and Isuzu Motors signed binding agreements to form a strategic alliance within commercial vehicles in order to capture the opportunities in the ongoing industry transformation, in accordance with the Memorandum of Understanding signed in December 2019.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2023

Sweden-based international mining and minerals group LKAB has identified significant deposits of rare earth elements in the Kiruna area in the far north of Swedish Lapland (some 200 km north of the Arctic Circle). We need to strengthen industrial value chains in Europe and create real opportunities for the electrification of our societies.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With the rapid expansion of Scania’s electrified range of trucks, buses and engines, the company plans to, over several years, invest more than 1 billion SEK (US$116 million) in a battery assembly plant in Södertälje, Sweden. Meanwhile, electrified industrial and marine power solutions are being developed. million (€15.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Northvolt intends for its factory to supply European customers in the automotive and key industries with high quality and customizable battery solutions. Northvolt plans to build Europe’s largest and most advanced lithium-ion battery factory in Sweden, using the semiconductor foundry as a model.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2019

Furthermore, a 50/50 joint venture to build a 16 GWh battery cell factory in Europe is planned during the course of this year. The company is currently setting up pilot production of battery cells and a battery cell production facility (Northvolt Ett) with an initial capacity of 16 GWh in Sweden.

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JUNE 29, 2017

Germany has launched a ~€60-million, three-year consortium of leading industrial companies to investigate high-volume production of automotive fuel cell stacks. The “AutoStack-Industrie” project is funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport and Digital Infrastructure ( BMVI ), with €21.3 million in the first year.

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MAY 26, 2022

Created with the mission to build cleaner, more efficient engines, Achates Power has an experienced staff of engineers and scientists working with leading engine manufacturers to bring the opposed piston engine to market. Combustion and Propulsion Systems, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden.

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OCTOBER 20, 2017

Northvolt ( earlier post ) announced a partnership with the two Swedish municipalities Skellefteå and Västerås for the establishment of Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant. Skellefteå is part of a raw material and mining cluster in the north of Sweden and has a long history of process manufacturing and recycling.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2014

At the end of December 2013, Volvo Construction Equipment’s (CE) Braås facility, a 45,000 m 2 -site in southern Sweden, which specializes in the design and manufacture of articulated haulers, became powered entirely by renewable energy sources, including wind, biomass and hydropower.

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MARCH 15, 2022

Swedish battery company Northvolt announced today that it will build a new €4 Billion battery Gigafactory in Northern Germany in the city of Heide. The plant, known as “Northvolt Drei,” will be the company’s third production facility of at least 60 gigawatts of annual capacity and its first outside of Sweden.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

AstaZero is the first full-scale proving ground for future traffic safety solutions, opened in Sweden. AstaZero’s industry partners consist of Volvo Car Group, Volvo Group, Scania, Autoliv and Test Site Sweden. The name Asta (Active Safety Test Area) relates to the facility’s connection to a vision of zero traffic fatalities.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

million in 2022, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers. million people (and a countless number of factory robots) work in the electric vehicle industry as the country surges ahead in its EV transition. Chinese automakers expect to have sold some 9.4 million EVs and hybrids last year, a bump from 6.9

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