Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2022

The new tanker will transport the liquid hydrogen to terminals in Germany, with a strategic vision to expand supply to other markets as demand increases. LH2 Europe will use the abundant renewable electricity in Scotland to produce green hydrogen and market it at a competitive price with diesel.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

According to Yahoo Finance, registration data from Germany’s Motor Transport Authority (KBA) shows the Volkswagen brand has delivered 49,200 electric cars in that country through the. continued] The post Tesla Outsold By BMW & Volkswagen In Germany, MG In UK appeared first on CleanTechnica. That was then; this is now.

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Teslarati

MARCH 18, 2025

As it turns out, news of Teslas demand death in Germany have been widely exaggerated. This is highlighted by the same poll that was used to frame the narrative that 94% of car buyers will not buy a Tesla in Germany. So no, Tesla is not done in Germany. Nowhere close.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2021

From 2022 onwards, the company will purchase electricity in Germany which comes exclusively from renewable sources. The CO 2 -free electricity from solar, wind and hydro sources is generated in various power plants, most of which are located in Germany. A green power concept of this type and scale is so far unique in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2020

Following a successful 12-month pilot project at five of its retail sites, Aral, bp’s market leading fuel retail brand in Germany, is set to roll out more than 100 ultra-fast charging points across its retail network in Germany over the next 12 months.

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CleanTechnica EVs

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

share in Germany, up from 17.3% Share In Germany – Volkswagen ID.7 January saw plugin EVs at 25.1% year-on-year. BEV volume shot up over 53% YoY, though from an anomalously low baseline, while PHEVs grew 23%. Overall auto volume was 207,640 units, down 2.8% Januarys best-selling BEV was the Volkswagen ID.7.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2023

Mercedes-Benz held its groundbreaking ceremony for a new battery recycling factory in Kuppenheim, Germany, which will help reduce resource consumption and establishing closed-loop recycling of battery raw materials. Mercedes-Benz lays the foundation for a sustainable battery recycling factory in Kuppenheim in southern Germany.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 11, 2025

share in Germany, down from 30.0% Share In Germany – Disappointing Year For EV Transition appeared first on CleanTechnica. December saw plugin EVs take 23.4% BEV volume was sharply down YoY in a hold-back ahead of tighter 2025 emissions regulations. Overall auto volume was 224,721 units, down 7% YoY. The December.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Mercedes-Benz plans to build a wind farm at its test track in Papenburg, northern Germany, with an output of more than 100 MW to cover up to more than 15% of the annual electricity demand of Mercedes-Benz Group AG in Germany. We make an active contribution to the energy transition and the expansion of onshore wind power in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2023

The start of production at the BMW Group Plant Leipzig in November 2023 will be the first time a MINI model is produced in Germany. This alternative to traditional materials reduces CO 2 emissions along the value chain by up to 85% and emphasizes the focus on minimizing the ecological footprint of the next MINI model generation.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 7, 2022

Mercedes-Benz’ DRIVE PILOT system for conditionally automated driving (SAE Level 3) can be ordered in Germany from 17 May as an optional extra for the S-Class for €5,000 and for the EQS for €7,430 (Driver Assistance Package Plus: €2,430 and DRIVE PILOT: €5,000) excl.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2022

Germany will invest up to €290 million to launch the Innovation and Technology Center for Hydrogen (Innovations- und Technologiezentrum für Wasserstoff, ITZ H 2 ), following the positive conclusion of a feasibility study (German only).

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 8, 2024

share in Germany, down from 25.7% share in Germany – Volkswagen Group Dominating Home Ground appeared first on CleanTechnica. November saw plugin EVs at 22.8% year on year. BEV sales were down YoY, though from an elevated baseline, while PHEV sales were up 14%. Novembers overall auto volume was 244,544 units, roughly flat YoY.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Volvo Trucks will deliver fully electric heavy-duty trucks to Amazon in Germany by year end. Heavy goods vehicles and other commercial vehicles make up around 36% of Germany’s domestic transport emissions, according to Germany’s BMUV. The 20 Volvo FH Electric are expected to drive more than one million road kilometers annually.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2023

Maersk has purchased 25 Volvo FH Electric trucks in Germany. Maersk is currently also looking into setting up charging infrastructure with green electricity for the own e-truck fleet at its warehouses in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2021

Covestro production site at CHEMPARK Dormagen/Germany ©Covestro Deutschland AG. The Krefeld-based subsidiary of Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies, LOHC Industrial Solutions NRW GmbH, will take charge of project management and plant operation.

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CleanTechnica EVs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

share in Germany, down from 24.5% Share In Germany – Below 2021 Levels appeared first on CleanTechnica. October saw plugin EVs take 23.6% BEVs in Europe’s largest auto market are now even below the levels of October 2021. Overall auto volume was 231,992 units, up 6% YoY. The bestselling BEV in October was the Skoda Enyaq.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2023

The eActros 300 Tractor for distribution haulage has covered around 3,000 kilometers from the Mercedes-Benz Wörth plant to Aksaray in Turkey, where the road endurance and reliability testing of the electric truck will be taking place. Test engineers chose a route across Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria for the trip.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2024

To that end, Mercedes-Benz opened a battery recycling center in Germany. As automakers continue to ramp up EV production, they're already thinking about what to do with battery cells once vehicles reach the end of their useful lives.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2022

Operated by bp’s Aral brand, the retail site at Schwegenheim in Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany now has two 300 kW ultra-fast chargers intended for electric trucks, powered by 100% renewable energy. In 2021 around 1,000 battery electric trucks were sold in Germany.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2021

This will create several thousand new fast charging points: the Germany network (Deutschlandnetz). These fast charging stations will complement the already existing large fast-charging locations and thus provide a nationwide and needs-based fast charging infrastructure throughout Germany. Sites must support up to 200 kW charging.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The dandelion rubber used is cultivated, extracted and processed in Germany. The tire has now been produced for two years at Continental’s tire plant in Korbach, Germany. Series production of a tire made of dandelion rubber is an important milestone in Continental’s sustainability strategy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2021

The company In-der-City-Bus, which is in charge of public transport in Frankfurt, Germany, has awarded a tender for 13 hydrogen buses to Solaris. The first Urbino hydrogen models are already cruising on European streets, and dozens more of these buses have been already ordered by carriers in Germany, Italy, Austria and the Netherlands.

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Electrek

MARCH 5, 2025

Tesla’s (TSLA) sales crash continues in Europe, with more countries reporting February numbers, including Germany, down 70%. Global sales of.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Teslas sales have dropped nearly 60% in January in Germany compared to the same period last year. The same thing is happening throughout Europe.

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Germany Sale Tesla Europe 145

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2020

—Jörg Nikutta, Managing Director for Germany and Austria of Alstom Transport Deutschland GmbH. The project is of a great importance to industrial policy that goes far beyond Germany. We have also obtained valuable data from the trial operation of the fuel cell trains for the further development of the propulsion technology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2023

In Germany, RWE and the Westfalen Group will work together to supply green hydrogen for hydrogen-powered vehicles. Through a joint venture, RWE and Westfalen aim to develop a hydrogen fuel station infrastructure in Germany for heavy commercial vehicles in particular.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2022

Electreon, a developer of wireless and in-road wireless electric vehicle (EV) charging technology for commercial and passenger EVs, will be deploying its technology in the first-ever public wireless road project in Germany. The project in Balingen shows how innovatively and consistently we are promoting e-mobility in Germany.

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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

JULY 22, 2021

To close the loop, production waste from the future Cellforce Group battery plant will be recycled at BASF’s prototype plant for battery recycling in Schwarzheide, Germany. Taycan Turbo S 800-volt system. As an automotive manufacturer, Porsche aims to be CO 2 -neutral in its overall balance sheet by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2021

However, the means of transporting this “green” hydrogen from the producer to the consumer are not established; Germany still does not have an extensive distribution network for hydrogen. Germany has a 511,000-kilometer gas grid and 33 gas storage locations. The two substances can be transported together in one line.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Located in Jülich, Germany, the facility will demonstrate the entire process from concentrating sunlight to producing synthetic liquid fuel on an industrial scale. The precise mirror field control technology was developed and installed by Synhelion Germany. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2022

For the past ten years, every private-customer parcel shipped within Germany has automatically been shipped “GoGreen”. Already, Deutsche Post DHL delivers mail and parcels carbon-free in more than 50% of its delivery districts, making it by far Germany’s most climate-friendly logistics provider.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2025

A total of 203,434 new cars took to Germanys roads in February. BEV momentum in Germany Battery-electric vehicle (BEV) registrations soared by 30.8% Germanys election impact National elections also took place in Germany last month. Hybrid registrations lead Germany Hybrid volumes increased by 6.1% of the market.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2021

The Volkswagen Group and bp intend to work together on extending and speeding up the deployment of ultra-fast electric vehicle (EV) charging facilities at bp retail sites across the UK, Germany and elsewhere in Europe. bp estimates approximately 90% of people in the UK and Germany live within a 20-minute drive of a bp or Aral site.

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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. 3 at a charging station. Volkswagen supplies two models eligible for the bonus: the ID.

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The Driven EV News

MARCH 6, 2025

The post Tesla sales plunge 75 pct in Germany as consumers react to Musk’s far right meddling appeared first on The Driven. Tesla sales slump sharply again in Europe's biggest car market, and posts sharp falls across the continent, with the notable exception of the UK.

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