Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2023

—Milan Nedeljković The BMW Group has had a presence in the Chinese market since 1994 and founded the BMW Brilliance Automotive joint venture in May 2003. Over the past 20 years, the BMW Group has continuously expanded its activities in China, and production capacity in Shenyang has increased from 30,000 to 830,000 units.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2019

The Volkswagen Group and Ganfeng Lithium Co., Under the agreement, Ganfeng will supply lithium to the Volkswagen Group and its suppliers for the next ten years. Over the next ten years the Volkswagen Group will be launching 70-plus new pure electric vehicles. The global lithium demand is expected to more than double by 2023.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

—Christel Bories, Eramet group Chair and CEO. Since the early phases of the project in 2019, the teams have remained highly committed, preserving the assets and maintaining strong relationships with all stakeholders. We are now ready to engage the site’s development in the best conditions with initial production expected from 2024.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 15, 2018

With the opening of three new FAW-Volkswagen vehicle plants at three locations—in Qingdao, Foshan and Tianjin—as well as the Volkswagen FAW Platform Tianjin Branch component plant, the Volkswagen Group is strengthening its localization strategy in China. Volkswagen Group China will continue to grow accordingly.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2021

On 29 December 2020, Sichuan Yahua Industrial Group announced thatits subsidiary, Yahua Lithium, had signed a five-year supply agreement with Tesla. Alongside its State Lithium and Blossom Lithium operations, this increased the Groups’ total lithium compounds capacity to 32ktpy lithium hydroxide and 6ktpy lithium carbonate.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

Mercedes-Benz has entered a far-reaching strategic partnership with the Chinese battery cell manufacturer Farasis Energy (Ganzhou) Co., including taking an equity stake. Key elements of the agreement include the development and industrialization of advanced cell technologies, accompanied by ambitious goals for cost competitiveness.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2023

The Volkswagen Group is strengthening its position on the Chinese automotive market with cooperations between the VW brand and XPENG and between Audi and SAIC. The initial stage of the cooperation will provide for the joint development of two VW-brand electric models for the mid-size segment in the Chinese market.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 15, 2021

Hyundai Motor Group signed an investment contract with the government of Guangdong Province to establish an offshore fuel cell system production facility in Guangzhou, China. The investment advances the Group’s global hydrogen leadership and supports its push into China’s rapidly developing hydrogen industry.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2022

A new partnership between the Volkswgen Group’s software company CARIAD and Horizon Robotics , one of the leading providers of computing solutions for smart vehicles in China, will accelerate the regional development of Advanced Driver Assistance System (ADAS) and Autonomous Driving (AD) systems for the Chinese market.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2021

Last year, 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—formed a joint venture: United Fuel Cell System R&D (Beijing) Co.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2019

The integration of the intelligent cloud-based voice control service in the Chinese market opens up a variety of in-car entertainment and shopping options for BMW drivers while on the road. This latest move by the BMW Group follows integration of BMW Connected into Alibaba’s Chinese ecosystem.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2022

Deutsche Post DHL Group is selling the rights and know-how for the production of its StreetScooter electric vehicles to the international consortium ODIN Automotive S.à.r.l. In addition, Deutsche Post DHL Group will become a minority shareholder in ODIN. In addition, Deutsche Post DHL Group will become a minority shareholder in ODIN.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2022

EV Metals Group plc (EVM) launched the Australian Lithium Alliance, a strategic initiative to partner with Australian companies to accelerate exploration, development, mining, processing and production of lithium minerals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The BMW Group and Great Wall Motor have launched a new joint venture—Spotlight Automotive Limited—and are building a joint plant in China, where the BMW Group will produce future fully-electric models of its MINI brand. The BMW Group is already a leading supplier of electrified vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2021

Geely Auto Group (Geely Auto) officially announced the widely reported formation of Zeekr—a new electric mobility technology and solutions company based in China that will serve growing global demand for premium electric vehicles. The Chinese name of Zeeker has been confirmed as Ji Ke. Governance structure.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2020

Volkswagen Group Components is the central supplier for the first models of the new Volkswagen ID. family and numerous other Group brand models based on the modular electric drive matrix (MEB). 4 for the German, Chinese, and in future, US markets. The electric drives for the Chinese market are produced at the Tianjin factory.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Robert Bosch Venture Capital GmbH (RBVC), the corporate venture capital arm of the Bosch Group, has invested in Trunk, a startup based in Beijing. Trunk’s founders are Chinese pioneers in autonomous driving. Trunk provides combined hardware and software solutions for autonomous trucking.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2020

The BMW Group has signed a long-term supply contract worth €2 billion for battery cells with the Swedish company Northvolt. The BMW Group will also source cells manufactured in Europe from the Chinese manufacturer CATL from the plant currently under construction in Erfurt, Germany. —Andreas Wendt.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2021

The Volkswagen Group continued to gain momentum with its electric offensive in the first half of 2021. The Group has also consistently expanded its portfolio of PHEV models. As regards BEV deliveries by regions, the Group’s home market of Europe was clearly in the lead in the first half year, with 128,078 vehicles (share: 74.9%).

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

A Japanese group has written a plan that involves Tesla, hoping that the American EV maker will take a financial stake in Nissan. The group includes a former prime minister, his aide, and a former Tesla board member. Images: Nissan, Tesla] Become aTTAC insider.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2021

At the same time we are ramping up volume production in the Zwickau electric car plant and in our two Chinese MEB plants every week. At the end of 2020, the Chinese sites in Anting and Foshan also started production of MEB vehicles. Towards the end of 2020, the Chinese sites in Anting and Foshan began producing the ID.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2022

F) Arctic conditions in the frigid northern Chinese province of Heilongjiang. With methanol fuel price at Chinese pumps around 3RMB/L (€0.42/L —Eric Li, Chairman of Geely Holding Group. Geely Holding Group is the largest developer and producer of methanol vehicles in the world. From 0-100km/s takes 8.8

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

At the first stage of the project, InnovizPro lidar is being utilized in Shaanxi Truck’s autonomous proof of concept project at the Chinese port, with Shaanxi’s ultimate goal being the deployment of up to 600 trucks at this site. The company is also one of the leaders in China in the field of autonomous driving research and development.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Guangzhou Automobile Group Co., Chairman of Guangzhou Automobile Group Zeng Qinghong (left) and Toyota President Akio Toyoda (right). and Toyota Motor Corporation signed a Strategic Cooperation Framework Agreement to deepen their partnership in the fields of electrification and intelligent networking.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Working with Hyster-Yale Group and other project partners, Nuvera has incorporated E-45 engines into a Hyster top-loading container handler which will begin operation at the Port of Los Angeles later this year. Nuvera is also working on development of a Chinese fuel cell transit bus platform.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 10, 2021

Renault Group and Geely Holding Group, China’s largest privately-owned automotive group, announced an MoU framework agreement to create a cooperation focused on China and South Korea as initial key core markets. The cooperation will allow Renault Group and Geely Holding to share resources and technologies.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2023

The Volkswagen Group is investing around €1 billion in a new development, innovation, and procurement center for fully connected intelligent electric vehicles in the southern Chinese city of Hefei. The Group made the announcement at the Shanghai Auto Show.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2022

Geely recently launched its Methanol Hybrid Emgrand ( earlier post ) in the Chinese market. Geely Holding Group is the largest developer and producer of methanol vehicles in the world. The methanol hybrid is based on Geely’s fourth-generation B-segment Modular Architecture (BMA) Emgrand sedan. From 0-100km/s takes 8.8

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2019

The BMW Group is accelerating its electromobility expansion program, with the 25 electrified models to be introduced by 2023, two years earlier than the initial 2025 target. The BMW Group has always promoted emission-free mobility and advocated for its effective support. More than half of the 25 models will be fully electric.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The company also signed a separate MOU with China Iron and Steel Research Institute Group (CISRI) and Hebei Iron and Steel Group (HBIS Group) for an equivalent aim in Jing-Jin-Ji area as it introduced Hyundai XCIENT Fuel Cell heavy-duty truck for the first time in China at the 2020 China International Import Expo (CIIE).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The new TTTech Auto branch in Shanghai will bring its expertise and the series proven safe vehicle software platform, MotionWise , to car manufacturers, Tier 1 suppliers and partners to the rapidly developing Chinese automotive market. Asia is one of the most important growth regions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Volkswagen Group China is commencing construction of a battery system production factory in Hefei (Anhui province). VW Anhui Components Company is the first battery system plant to be wholly owned by the Group in China. Volkswagen Group's platform strategy is a competitive advantage which we are transferring into the e-mobility era.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A cross-industry group of European metals-producing and -using industries and their workers have issued a warning about the potentially catastrophic impact of the Chinese magnesium supply shortage. The current Chinese supply shortfall has already resulted in record prices and worldwide distortions in the supply chain.

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EV Central

MARCH 9, 2025

Throw in the fact that questions have been raised in Canberra about whether Home Affairs Minister Tony Burke is or isnt creating a security risk because he may or may not be driving a Chinese EV, and its hard to escape the conclusion that large parts of our community seem to have issues with our largest two-way trading partner.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2023

The BMW Group further expanded its R&D footprint in China with the opening of a new R&D Center in Shanghai. China is already home to BMW Group’s largest R&D system outside of Germany, with locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Nanjing. China is the place to be. The locally produced BMW i5, will be unveiled this year.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The BMW Group is speeding up the shift towards electromobility and strengthening its global network for production of electrified vehicles. The Chinese plant in Dadong also began producing the BMW iX3 this year. At the same time, the BMW Group is expanding its capacity for manufacturing electric drive trains.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2023

In November 2021, Finnish Minerals Group announced that it was negotiating with China-based Beijing Easpring Material Technology on the possibility to establish a cathode active materials (CAM) plant in Kotka, Finland. Finnish Materials Group owns 40% of that joint venture. Rendering of the Kotka CAM plant.

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