Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2022

Northvolt intends to establish a battery gigafactory in Heide, Schleswig-Holstein, northern Germany. With an annual potential production capacity of 60 GWh, Northvolt Drei will deliver a supply of sustainably produced lithium-ion batteries to the European market, sufficient for some one million electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

Mercedes-Benz customers in Germany are now able to authenticate payments via an in-car fingerprint sensor. Examples of these digital services are connectivity apps that control comfort functions of the car, such as pre-air conditioning of the vehicle via a mobile device.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2017

Renault is launching a new version of the MY Renault application, which now connects directly to the vehicle. The new MY Renault vehicle-connected services are compatible with the R-LINK, R-LINK Evolution and R-LINK 2 multimedia systems. —Benoît Joly, Renault Connected Vehicle Sales & Marketing director.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

The personal mobility companion BMW Connected already comprises many functions designed to help users with their daily mobility needs. Using the Open Mobility Cloud as a basis, it connects touchpoints such as smartphones and smartwatches with users’ cars, thus weaving the car into their digital lives.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Following the market launch of our DRIVE PILOT Level 3 system, we will soon be offering a Level 4 system for parking with our INTELLIGENT PARK PILOT—all of that this year. The basis for the approval is a law that came into force in Germany in July 2021, which permits driverless driving in accordance with SAE Level 4 for motor vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Elli, the Volkswagen subsidiary that provides sustainable energy and charging solutions, has partnered with ev.energy to launch the Volkswagen Group’s first intelligent household electricity tariff: Volkswagen Naturstrom Connect. The tariff will use ev.energy’s platform to market and manage the new tariff with electric vehicle owners.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Benz unveiled the latest generation of its successful Sprinter model at an event held at a logistics center in the Duisburg, Germany docks. The current model of the Sprinter has been on the market since 2006. The new Sprinter is available for order now and will be launched in the European market starting in June 2018.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2022

Founded in 2018 by Nils Wollny, Marcus Kuehne, Daniel Profendiner, and Audi, holoride connects Extended Reality (XR) content in real-time with motion and location-aware vehicle data, such as physical feedback and navigation, to create hyper-immersive XR content and experiences for passengers. Other markets will follow successively.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2022

Together with eleQtron, ParityQC, QUDORA Technologies and the Technical University of Hamburg, NXP will pool expertise from across the industry to enable rapid advances in quantum computing and help roll out scalable and marketable solutions in the near future. ParityQC is the only quantum architecture company worldwide.

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Electric Cars Report

MAY 20, 2024

Milence, the joint venture between Daimler Truck, the TRATON GROUP, and Volvo Group, is making a strong market entry into the German market with two charging hubs under construction and scheduled to open in the 2nd half of 2024.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Germany is putting another €100 million into a subsidy program for private wallbox chargers, bringing the program total to €400M. Under the program, the purchase and installation of wallboxes are supported with a grant of €900. this enormous demand shows that we are spot on with our funding program.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

KG, a supplier of on-board telematics and mobile connectivity solutions. The agreement will enable Valeo to broaden its range of automotive geolocation and mobile connectivity solutions. This agreement allows Valeo in partnership with peiker to further strengthen its position in autonomous and connected vehicle solutions.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

In Beijing, Audi operates its largest research and development facility outside of Germany. The R&D center is part of Audi China, a 100% Audi AG daughter-company, and puts a strong focus on key future technologies such as connected car, piloted driving, new energy vehicles and digital services. MMI Screen of the Audi A4 L in China.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2023

The mid-size crossover, engineered and built in Germany, uses Volkswagen’s MEB platform ( earlier post ) and has seats for five across two rows. The new all-electric Explorer is the company’s first electric vehicle to be built at scale in the new Ford Cologne EV Centre in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 17, 2022

ACC is the result of an initiative undertaken by Stellantis and TotalEnergies—together with its subsidiary Saft—joined by Mercedes-Benz, and strongly supported by France, Germany, and the European Union. The MoU also covers infrastructure solutions including energy management to create a carbon net zero factory.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Porsche Engineering and Vodafone Business have established Europe’s first 5G hybrid mobile private network (MPN) at Nardò Technical Center (NTC) for the development of intelligent and connected vehicles. Besides the new mobile network, now NTC also offers its customers a high-performance 1 Gbit/s connection.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2023

Subject to receiving the necessary permits and approvals, these would be bp’s first offshore wind projects in Germany and are fully aligned with the company’s integrated energy company strategy and disciplined capital allocation. bp operates two refineries in the country and Aral—Germany’s leading retail network with c 2,300 sites.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A hydrogen exchange, similar to electricity and gas exchanges, could act as a catalyst for a market for climate-neutral hydrogen, according to an exploratory study, “A Hydrogen Exchange for the Climate”, presented to Eric Wiebes, the Netherlands Minister of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 29, 2022

Volkswagen and bp have launched a strategic partnership that will boost the adoption of electric vehicles (EVs) across Europe, unveiling their first charger in Dusseldorf, Germany. By the end 2024, up to 8,000 charge points could be available across Germany, the UK and other European countries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2015

Although Gen Y buyers are not yet very active in the new car market, global market research firm GfK suggests their preferences will be critical for the future of the connected car industry. GfK ran a 6-country study looking at which features of connected cars (such as entertainment, safety, behavioral tracking etc.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2023

With a Renault-designed adapter connected to the vehicle’s charging socket, the future electric Renault 5 can provide the same energy output as a 220-volt power outlet. Mobilize V2G will also be available on future Renault electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

In close alignment with AUDI AG, Audi China is systematically investing in smart cockpit technologies, innovative display concepts, intelligent voice control systems, and connectivity solutions. Audi has a history of developing specific products and technologies for the Chinese market. —Audi CEO Markus Duesmann.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Currently, there are already more than 1,200 charging points at Volkswagen’s ten sites in Germany. In the future, every Volkswagen dealer in Germany will provide at least one AC charger with 11 kW power and one DC charger with 22 kW power. Charger Connect (€599) and the ID. 3 at a charging station. Charger Pro (€849).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2023

China is already home to BMW Group’s largest R&D system outside of Germany, with locations in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenyang and Nanjing. China has established the largest R&D and innovation network outside Germany, with facilities and processes as advanced as the headquarters and numerous innovation partnerships.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The latest generation of charging columns is connected to the Internet via a cloud solution, enabling cashless payments, among other things. With this latest order, ABB is further expanding its market leading position in the charging infrastructure for electric mobility in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Most of the pre-bookers live in Germany, Norway, the Netherlands, Sweden and the United Kingdom. family as well as topics connected with e-mobility. —Jürgen Stackmann, Member of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand responsible for Sales, Marketing and After Sales. More than 100,000 ID.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2015

In 2012, NXP and Audi signed a strategic innovation partnership agreement designed to accelerate the speed of automotive innovation and time to market—including V2V communications. Connected vehicles Microprocessors and controls V2X'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2023

Under the agreement, bp pulse plans to install ultra-fast charging at APCOA car parks—Urban Hubs—in Germany, Austria, Belgium, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland and the UK over the next three years to help expand its charging network in city centers and further to accelerate urban e-mobility infrastructure throughout Europe.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2023

Fisker PEAR (Personal Electric Automotive Revolution) is Fisker’s vision of a sustainable EV as a connected mobility device. PEAR features a highly connected and electrical engineering architecture, and the first implementation of the Fisker Blade central computing platform. Alaska has a projected range of 230-340 miles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2022

Pending product approval, the Valencia plant could produce the electric and connected vehicles beginning later this decade. Ford is also moving forward with a $2-billion conversion of its Cologne, Germany, operations to begin producing electric passenger vehicles starting in 2023.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Through its subsidiaries in Belgium (Elia) and the north and east of Germany (50Hertz), the company operates 19,192 km of high-voltage connections. Market design: exploration of how to give consumers the freedom to choose their energy supplier, no matter where they have travelled.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2012

In the meantime, a diverse range of digital standards and radio frequencies have become established in each market. The findings returned by PROTON-PLATA will therefore also benefit the research project “Safe and Intelligent Mobility – Test Field Germany (simTD)”. DAB, DAB+, DVB-T, etc.) and mobile telecommunications (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

To achieve this, Sony conducted driving experiments connecting Japan and Germany with 5G, and is working with its partners to achieve low-latency transmission (video and control signals) and communication control (monitoring and prediction) using the telematics system installed in VISION-S 01.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

In such situations, this new collision avoidance function is connecting WABCO’s proven electronic braking system (EBS), advanced emergency braking system (AEBS), electronic stability control (ESC) and vehicle dynamics control systems to ZF’s electrohydraulic ReAX power steering system.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2023

We already know that electric vehicles will be dominating the market soon, ticking off the choice of vehicle based on how long the battery lasts, but what about the other two criteria? The industry is already starting to market its models based on the performance of its autonomous features. That also makes it hard to benchmark.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2023

This is one of the major steps both companies have agreed on recently to push LOHC market solutions and large-scale pilot projects forward. Hydrogenious supplies the Hydrogen Refueling Station Erlangen in Germany via LOHC—a worldwide novelty. Earlier post.) LOHC Storage Plant Rendering © Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 18, 2022

This makes the car manufacturer’s main plant the only production facility for MEB battery systems in Europe outside Germany. By then, the company expects to have increased the share of all-electric car sales in Europe to between 50 and 70%, depending on market developments.

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