Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Tenneco has established new test facilities for hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines at its Powertrain test centers in Burscheid, Germany, and Ann Arbor, Michigan. Preparation of an H 2 ICE test cell.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Mercedes-Benz Vans unveiled two design variants of the Concept X-CLASS, previewing the coming X-Class pickup, in Stockholm. The introduction of the one-ton pickup with seating for up to 5 people will make Mercedes-Benz the first premium manufacturer to account for the changing customer requirements in the global segment of mid-size pickups.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site. BASF signed the first Memorandum of Understanding for the Verbund site with the Guangdong Provincial Government in Berlin, Germany, in July 2018.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2016

Francis Gatare, Director of the Rwanda Development Board, and Thomas Schäfer, CEO of Volkswagen Group South Africa, this week signed a memorandum of understanding for a new integrated mobility concept in Kigali in the presence of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and Dr. Herbert Diess, CEO of the Volkswagen brand. —Thomas Schäfer.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

—Oliver Zipse, Chairman of the Board of Management of BMW AG The BMW iX5 Hydrogen developed on the basis of the current BMW X5 was first unveiled as a concept at the IAA show in 2019. Fuel cell systems are manufactured in two main steps, based on the individual fuel cells. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2015

Opel has launched CarUnity, its new carsharing concept. CarUnity enables individual mobility everywhere in Germany—at any time and with greatest flexibility. People in Germany can offer their car for rental or rent a car with the free app. It does not matter if the car is an Opel or a different brand. —Tina Müller.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2017

The Volkswagen Group has taken an additional important step to implementing its digitalization strategy with the launch of the Future Center Europe, located in Potsdam, Germany. People’s experience is now the focal point for the Future Centers as they develop new concepts. Every development begins with a user story.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Within the framework of the initiative, the E-Mobility Group is bringing together the main players—e-truck customers, power grid operators, energy suppliers, charging hardware manufacturers and charging software providers—thus promoting shared infrastructure solutions for truck customers within the network.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2020

Teijin Limited will establish Teijin Automotive Center Europe GmbH (TACE) in Wuppertal, Germany in February as a new base for technical functions within the company’s automotive composite business. It is expected to speed up concept, designing, prototyping and the evaluation of technological proposals developed by each base.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2019

SEAT, a member of the Volkswagen Group, will unveil its el-Born electric vehicle concept at the 2019 Geneva International Motor Show. The SEAT el-Born concept fuses the core aspects driving change in the automotive industry: electrification, autonomous driving, shared-mobility and connectivity.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

In this connection around 800 jobs will be reduced across both units in the current fiscal year. Around 500 of these jobs are at sites in Germany. We will not be losing any technology segments through this but will adapt our site concept and consolidate capabilities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2019

BASF plans to implement a comprehensive smart manufacturing concept at the Verbund site. BASF signed the first Memorandum of Understanding for the Verbund site with the Guangdong Provincial Government in Berlin, Germany, in July 2018.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2015

A consortium of 16 automobile manufacturers, automotive suppliers and public partners has launched the Ko-HAF (Kooperatives hochautomatisiertes Fahren, Cooperative Highly Automated Driving) project in Germany. Ko-HAF, which is targeting highly automated driving at higher speeds, has a total budget of €36.3

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2017

The agreement involves the following: Joint-development of a software solution, which will guarantee interference-proof secure communication between car components, the car, and its external connected infrastructure. Once developed, the proof-of-concept SCU solution will be tested via security-related verification and validation methods.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2014

Audi aims to meet stringent CO 2 limits worldwide with a new generation of extremely economical combustion engines and alternative efficiency technologies as well as new features in the areas of connectivity and driver assistance. The workforce will also grow in the context of the investment in the main plants in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2019

The advanced performance materials help electronics, consumer products and automotive manufacturers reduce weight, improve safety and efficiency. We will do this by establishing the new plants close to growing customer industries, and through improvements in efficiency realized from our smart manufacturing approach.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The Mercedes-Benz powertrain plants in Germany are starting production of key components for the battery-powered eActros heavy-duty truck. Before the modules become part of an operational pack, they are first installed into a metal housing and then connected to other components such as busbars, control systems and wires.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2017

At the kick-off event, representatives from politics, business and research discussed the importance of research programs for connected production. Thirty partners from Germany and a further 79 participants will work together for three years. Productive4.0 is part of ECSEL, the European funding program for microelectronics.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2022

As in the fuel cell, the key component of an electrolyzer is a stack, which comprises several hundred individual cells connected in series. To maximize the efficiency of hydrogen production and extend the service life of the stack, the smart modules are to be connected to the Bosch cloud. Bosch is to develop the stack.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2018

The partners in the NextGenAM 3D printing project—Premium AEROTEC, Daimler, and EOS—have put their first pilot plant into operation at Premium AEROTEC in Varel, northern Germany. Additive manufacturing (AM) is becoming an increasingly important factor in industry, also with regard to series production.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2018

During these tests, a heavy-duty FUSO Super Great operates electronically connected and semi autonomously in a platoon with trucks of other Japanese commercial vehicle manufacturers. In 2014, Daimler Trucks launched the truck-concept Mercedes-Benz Future Truck 2025 with autonomous driving function.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

The event is being organised by the Ministry of Commerce, in partnership with several other ministries and industry bodies such as SIAM, ACMA, Automotive Tyre Manufacturers’ Association, Society of Manufacturers of Electric Vehicles, and NASSCOM. Initially, there was so much resistance to this concept.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2018

The electricity supply for the heavy goods vehicles is provided by means of a pantograph from an overhead power line—the eHighway concept ( earlier post ). In Germany alone, heavy goods traffic results in CO 2 emissions of 56 million tonnes per year.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

By the end of 2020, Hermes Germany intends to deploy 1,500 Mercedes-Benz Vito and Sprinter electric vans in urban areas across Germany. —Frank Rausch, CEO of Hermes Germany GmbH. In the strategic partnership with Hermes Germany, Mercedes-Benz Vans is proving its expertise in all four areas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2022

Here, in connection with the renewed material synthesis of cathodic active material, it will be investigated whether the separation of metal compounds is really necessary to produce new, fully high-performance cathode material. All process steps are holistically accompanied by an ecological and economic life cycle analysis.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

Urban mobility concepts and intermodality, traffic control and management, autonomous driving and parking, innovative vehicle concepts and alternative technologies as well as air pollution control are the cornerstones of the partnership. Made in Germany – tested in Hamburg.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2017

Germany-based semiconductor supplier Infineon is Volkswagen’s first partner under its TRANSFORM 2025+ strategy ( earlier post ). The company is cooperating directly with chip manufacturers in the program. At the same time, it entails massive investments in e-mobility and connectivity. Hence, the partnership with Infineon.

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Cars That Think

MAY 1, 2024

It was such a novel concept that when von Miller approached the Carl Zeiss company in Jena, Germany, to manufacture such a projector, they initially rebuffed him. In 1924, public demonstrations of the Zeiss planetarium took place on the roof of the company’s factory in Jena, Germany. The planetarium operated for 50 years.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2018

Autonomous Driving, Connectivity, E-Mobility and Shared services. China is promoting Autonomous Driving as a part of boosting intelligent connected vehicles (ICVs) and its recent “smart city, smart China” initiative, giving China a vital role in BMW Group’s Autonomous Driving development program. million miles).

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EV Central

MARCH 1, 2023

The new platform will also enable a radically different manufacturing process designed to dramatically reduce the cost of production. Battery packs and electric motors are at the core of that; Tesla says its next generation drivetrains are about US$1000 cheaper to manufacture than today’s vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2013

Dr. Martin Winterkorn, Chairman of the Executive Board of Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft, during a meeting with Brigitte Behrens, Executive Director of Greenpeace Germany, in Hanover. We will remain in dialogue with Volkswagen, also as regards mobility concepts for the future. This commitment was underscored by Prof.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

The energy control stations at BMW Group Plants Dingolfing and Landshut are stepping up their activities in the balancing-power market in Germany. Research by the team at neue energieökonomik (neon) in Germany has, however, identified a so-called “ German Balancing Paradox ”. The German Balancing Paradox. Source: neon.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

SAIC Mobility Europe, a division of China’s largest vehicle manufacturer, SAIC, is introducing the Maxus light commercial vehicle brand. It is available initially to fleets in France, Germany, Austria and Benelux, with other markets to follow soon. It is offering these large panel vans from its sites across Germany and Austria.

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Electric Vehicles India

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

1) E-Mobility World (15th March 2023, Friedrichshafen, Germany) The event will last 3 days. The dynamic concept showcases electric vehicles. 2) The Battery Show (23-25 May, Stuttgart, Germany) The event will take place over two days. 2) The Battery Show (23-25 May, Stuttgart, Germany) The event will take place over two days.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2014

Delphi Automotive PLC will unveil the second generation of its Technology Truck concept highlighting future technologies at the upcoming IAA Commercial Vehicles show being held 25 Sept - 2 Oct in Hannover, Germany. It combines traditional radio functionalities with modern connectivity options and internet access.

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My Energi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Recently shipping its 100,000th unit, myenergi exports worldwide and operates subsidiaries in Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands. myenergi production staff manufacturing products here in the UK. myenergi HQ Expansion plan concept. Model: Jolene Davis. Photographer: Charlotte Stowe.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W. TerraPower LLC, Bellevue, Wash.

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