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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

The electrolyzer will be installed at Ovako’s existing plant in Hofors, Sweden. There is huge potential in reducing CO 2 -emissions from steel-heating processes through green hydrogen. The electrolyzer will produce oxygen and hydrogen for Ovako’s steel-heating process and is a major step towards zero-carbon emission steel production.

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JULY 10, 2020

PowerCell Sweden AB will participate in an EU project that will develop and operate a refuse truck with fuel cells for Renova AB, western Sweden’s leading environmental enterprise within recycling and waste management. The overall aim of the project is to speed up the introduction of zero-emissions solutions for refuse trucks.

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JUNE 8, 2020

The 100% renewable electricity mix in Chengdu is the result of a newly signed supply contract and will reduce the plant’s CO 2 emissions by more than 11,000 tonnes per year. These and other measures are part of the climate plan Volvo Cars launched late last year. By 2040, Volvo Cars aims to be a climate-neutral company.

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MAY 19, 2020

The construction sector accounts for a quarter of CO 2 emissions, in Sweden and globally. All the materials and activities involved in its construction were calculated for their total climate impact: energy and materials used in the construction and what emissions these contribute to. Karlsson et al. What materials are used?

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JULY 3, 2021

As part of the Refhyne European consortium and with European Commission funding through the Fuel Cells and Hydrogen Joint Undertaking (FCH JU), the fully operational plant is the first to use this technology at such a large scale in a refinery. Shell has a target to become a net-zero-emissions energy business by 2050, in step with society.

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JUNE 17, 2021

As part of the collaboration, Volvo Cars will be the first car maker to secure SSAB steel made from hydrogen-reduced iron from HYBRIT’s pilot plant in Luleå, Sweden. The company also seeks to tackle carbon emissions in its wider operations, its supply chain and through recycling and reuse of materials. Source: HYBRIT.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Sweden has an ambitious target of being fossil-free by 2045. As a part of the initiative, the Swedish Government announced on 11 September the introduction of a greenhouse gas (GHG) reduction mandate for aviation fuel sold in Sweden in 2021. The reduction level will be 0.8% in 2021, and gradually increase to 27% in 2030.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2022

16 tonnes) are Switzerland, Norway, Sweden and The Netherlands. Even if volumes are still low, we see rapidly growing interest, both in Europe, North America and in other parts of the world. I’m convinced it’s becoming a key competitive advantage to offer electric, zero emission transports. Data: IHS Markit.

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AUGUST 24, 2021

The all-electric, zero-emission M.Vision X is a purpose-built 4-seater mobility vehicle. In addition, Hyundai Mobis operates a winter test facility in Arjeplog, Sweden. Hyundai Mobis unveiled the M.Vision X during an event earlier his year at its R&D heDquarters in Korea.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

Volvo Cars, A-hus and Vattenfall recently launched the six-month One Tonne Life project—an attempt by a family (the Lindells) to cut their carbon dioxide yearly emissions from seven tonnes per person to a more sustainable one tonne. Volvo has provided a C30 Electric ( earlier post ) for use in the project.

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JULY 13, 2022

The selected projects are located in Bulgaria, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland and Sweden. emissions coming from exhaust gases produced during lime production and store them permanently in offshore geological formations in France. A third project will capture the CO? Background.

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JUNE 4, 2019

The partners says that this hydrogen fuel cell electric bus solution will be the most cost-effective truly zero-emission option available, with a single-decker bus price below €375,000 after funding, a hydrogen price between €5 and €7 per kilogram and a service cost of €0.30 per kilometer. —Jacob Krogsgaard, CEO of Everfuel.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Volvo Cars and Northvolt have selected Gothenburg, Sweden to establish a new battery manufacturing plant which will commence operations in 2025, and complement the planned R&D center that both companies announced in December as part of an investment of approximately SEK 30 billion (US$3.3 Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 27, 2023

million) into the production of electric wheel loaders from its plant in Arvika, Sweden. The Arvika factory specializes in the production of medium and large wheel loaders and has already been successful in driving down its carbon emissions. Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) will invest SEK 65 million ($6.3

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MAY 30, 2023

million) to supply hydrogen fuel-cell trucks for the city of Gothenburg, Sweden. Upon completion, this contract will establish the largest fleet of its kind in Sweden. The vehicles offer the same range and load capacity as traditional fossil-fuelled vehicles while delivering zero emissions.

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MAY 30, 2012

Greenhouse gas emissions increased in the EU in 2010 as a result of both economic recovery in many countries after the 2009 recession and a colder winter, according to the latest greenhouse gas inventory published by the European Environment Agency (EEA). Emissions increased in 2010. below 1990 levels in 2010.

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JUNE 8, 2021

This is part of HYSEAS III , a Horizon 2020 funded project ( earlier post ). AqualisBraemar LOC’s scope of work is to design a double-ended sea-going passenger and car ferry capable of utilizing the hydrogen-powered drive-train and thereby running completely emission-free.

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MARCH 4, 2022

Over a three-year period, a small fleet of fully electric Volvo XC40 Recharge cars will be used as taxis by Cabonline, the largest taxi operator in the Nordic region, and charged wirelessly at stations in Gothenburg, Sweden.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Volvo Trucks delivered its first all-electric vehicles on 19 February: a refuse truck to waste and recycling company Renova, and a distribution truck to the logistics company DB Schenker and partner haulier TGM, operating in Sweden. The Volvo FL Electric trucks are part of a pre-series developed in collaboration with selected customers.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Starting in March, the truck will operate between two DHL Freight logistics terminals in Sweden, a distance of approximately 150 km (93 miles). The DHL-Volvo project is part of REEL, an initiative run by Sweden’s innovation agency Vinnova to promote the transition to an electrified freight transport system.

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AUGUST 29, 2022

The agreement addresses BMW Group’s upstream scope 3 emissions and includes recycling and end-of-life management measures. The company has a gross embodied carbon emission intensity obligation per tonne of steel, included in its customer contracts. Earlier post.). This limits the amount of energy used, storage and material handling.

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JUNE 22, 2021

As a first step for the 50/50 joint venture, Volvo Car Group and Northvolt aim to set up a research and development center in Sweden that will begin operations in 2022. Today, the production of batteries for Volvo Car Group’s fully electric cars represents a large part of the car’s total lifecycle carbon emissions.

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JULY 25, 2022

H2 Green Steel, a Swedish industrial start-up, is on a mission to accelerate the global steel industry’s greatest technological shift by eliminating almost all of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from the steel production process. H2 Green Steel production. Electrolysis is the starting point for the green steel production process.

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MAY 20, 2020

Northvolt and Vattenfall have launched of a new battery energy storage solution, Voltpack Mobile System—a rugged, highly modular lithium-ion battery system envisioned as a zero-emission alternative to replace diesel generators. —Torbjörn Johansson, head of Vattenfall Network Solutions Sweden.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

PowerCell Sweden AB signed a contract with Norwegian Havyard Group ASA for the development of the design and the technical specifications for a zero-emissions fuel-cell system. Havila Kystruten has been honored with a contract of building four new ships which will be equipped with zero emission solutions. —Per Wassén.

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JUNE 14, 2019

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, have developed a small, optical nano-sensor for pollution detection which can be mounted onto an ordinary streetlight. The technology is already in use in western Sweden, and researchers and other interested parties hope that the sensor could soon be used in many broad contexts.

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JULY 30, 2020

Up to 40% of a fully-electric vehicle’s CO 2 emissions come from battery cell production alone. To develop innovative and sustainable battery cell technology, the BMW Group is working as part of a technology consortium with the Swedish battery manufacturer, Northvolt, and Umicore, a Belgian developer of battery materials.

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JANUARY 13, 2021

The aim of the Alliance is to scale-up, by 2030, the production and deployment of hydrogen as a fuel produced by means of low-emission technologies and renewable energy sources. Since then, hydrogen buses and trolleybuses produced by Solaris have been sold to operators in the Netherlands, Germany, Italy, Sweden and Latvia.

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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. The location in Sweden is considered to be a low risk mining and investment jurisdiction.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

The lab comes in addition to ongoing e-motor development in Gothenburg, Sweden, and battery labs in China and Sweden. Electrification is part of the company’s comprehensive climate plan, which addresses carbon emissions across all its operations and products, towards its ambition to become climate-neutral by 2040.

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MAY 31, 2011

forms part of the Volvo Car Corporation’s evaluation of flywheel kinetic energy recovery system (KERS) technology, announced last week. efficiency-enhancing devices to reduce CO 2 emissions. Torotrak plc confirmed that its continuously variable transmission (CVT) technology. Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 26, 2020

ABB electrification and automation knowledge and solutions have been employed in a pioneering mine of the future project, which has ultimate ambitions to demonstrate zero carbon dioxide emissions and productivity increases of 50%. LKAB’s core business is the mining and processing of iron ore for the steel industry.

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MAY 27, 2021

Volvo Cars announced that its Torslanda site in Sweden is its first car manufacturing plant to reach fully climate-neutral status. This makes Torslanda the second plant in its overall manufacturing network to reach this status, after the Skövde engine plant in Sweden became climate-neutral in 2018. Torslanda plant.

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MARCH 13, 2020

Preem has chosen Haldor Topsoe’s HydroFlex renewable fuel hydrotreating technology to produce clean renewable diesel and jet fuel at its Gothenburg refinery in Sweden. This volume of renewable fuel can reduce emissions from cars and planes by 2.5 million tons CO 2 every year.

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MARCH 5, 2011

The vessel will sail between Turku and Stockholm, Sweden in the Baltic Sea. STX Finland is part of the international STX Europe Group. Lean combustion enables a high compression ratio, which in turn increases engine efficiency, reduces peak temperatures, and therefore also reduces NO x emissions.

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MAY 15, 2023

Most of these orders came from countries in the northern part of Europe, including the Netherlands, Germany, Norway and Sweden. With these new additions, Volvo Trucks has six electric truck models in series production, giving it the industry’s most extensive portfolio of zero exhaust emission trucks.

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MAY 19, 2019

The fuel supplied will produce up to 80% fewer emissions over its life-cycle compared with conventional jet fuel. With the planned Singapore refinery expansion Neste will have the capacity to produce up to 1 million ton of low-emission renewable jet fuel by 2022.

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