Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2020

After growing by more than 2% in 2019, global gas use is set to fall by around 4% in 2020, as the COVID-19 pandemic reduces energy consumption across the global economies. The report shows that medium-term growth will come from increasing cost-competitiveness and increased global access to gas. —Jon Moore, CEO of BNEF.

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MARCH 30, 2021

Mercedes-Benz and Siemens will cooperate on advancing digitalization and automation in the automotive industry, supported by the State of Berlin. Berlin-Marienfelde site to become competence center for the digitalization of the global Mercedes-Benz production network. Mercedes-Benz AG aims to digitize its production processes.

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APRIL 18, 2021

RWE Supply & Trading and Australian hydrogen project developer The Hydrogen Utility Pty Ltd (H2U) have joined forces to develop hydrogen trading between Australia and Germany. Furthermore, the planned LNG Terminal in Brunsbüttel, where RWE intends to book capacity, can be a location for the future import of hydrogen into Germany.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Australia and Germany have released national hydrogen strategies to help grow the development of renewable hydrogen as a clean source of energy. Rahman Daiyan, from the ARC Training Center for The Global Hydrogen Economy (GlobH2E), with local and global industry partners including Deloitte, Baringa Partners and MAN Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2022

Hyzon Motors, a US-based global supplier of hydrogen fuel cell trucks and buses, will acquire ORTEN Betriebs GmbH and subsidiaries, and ORTEN Electric Trucks GmbH, German manufacturers of innovative truck and trailer bodies for the beverage industry. The transaction is expected to close in the fourth quarter, 2022.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Abu Dhabi National Oil Company’s (ADNOC’s) first shipment of low-carbon ammonia recently left the United Arab Emirates (UAE) bound for Hamburg, Germany. This is the first cargo of low-carbon ammonia to be shipped to Germany. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2020

BASF has officially broken ground for its new cathode active materials (CAM) production plant in Schwarzheide, Germany. BASF’s groundbreaking ceremony today marks a further step in the right direction for Germany’s industrial sector and the establishment of a European value chain for electric mobility.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

This will be the first volume production of fuel cells in Norway and a hub for the Norwegian hydrogen industry. We combine a best-in-class fuel cell solution with a long history of being a trusted engineering partner to leading companies in the global maritime industry. —Tore Enger, CEO of TECO 2030 ASA.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2021

In the future, they will drive the global production of battery-electric and hydrogen-based drive systems in a production and technology network for electric drive components and battery systems, together with the sister plant in Detroit. Our industry is undergoing a transformation toward CO 2 -neutral trucks.

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APRIL 19, 2022

Mexico-based global construction materials company CEMEX is partnering with integrated chemicals and energy company Sasol ecoFT and renewable energy company ENERTRAG to combine CO 2 with hydrogen to produce sustainable aviation fuel. ENERTRAG is a renewable-energy company based in Brandenburg, Germany.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Global Bioenergies will soon be receiving €2.6 —Marc Delcourt, CEO of Global Bioenergies. Global Bioenergies and Cristal Union created the joint venture IBN-One. Global Bioenergies and Cristal Union created the joint venture IBN-One. million and IBN-One €0.5 Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company will establish a Hyundai Mobility Global Innovation Center in Singapore (HMGICs) to accelerate its innovation efforts, with support from the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB). HMGICs will become Hyundai’s global open innovation hub. It also will help define the future business direction for the company.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Webasto, a global systems partner to the automotive industry, has started the production of batteries for electric vehicles in Germany. The manufacture of battery packs for a European bus maker has already commenced at the company’s Schierling site in the district of Regensburg.

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MARCH 6, 2022

Northvolt and Stora Enso recently signed a letter of intent on a purchase of the Kvarnsveden Mill and the surrounding industrial area in Borlänge, Sweden. With its access to energy, industrial water and the broad production know-how in the region, Kvarnsveden is an optimal site for a gigafactory.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2019

Ford Motor Company and Volkswagen AG are expanding their global alliance to include electric vehicles—and will collaborate with Argo AI to introduce autonomous vehicle technology in the US and Europe. Looking ahead, even more customers and the environment will benefit from Volkswagen’s industry-leading EV architecture.

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MARCH 7, 2023

Tesla in Berlin, Northvolt in northern Germany and Italvolt near Turin are among the projects that stand to lose the greatest volumes of their slated capacity as the companies weigh up investing in the US instead. EU battery manufacturing is caught in the crossfire between America and China. Europe must act or risk losing it all.

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JANUARY 18, 2021

The developments are part of the H2Mare initiative which is a lighthouse project likely to be supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research ideas competition "Hydrogen Republic of Germany".

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NOVEMBER 1, 2020

Germany-based ElringKlinger and France-based Plastic Omnium, two automotive supplier leaders in their respective business areas, will create EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies, a joint venture dedicated to fuel cell stack development, production and commercialization.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Hydrogen pipelines are already used to supply industrial hubs (at petrochemical plants for example). Globally, Europe is at the forefront of efforts to produce and import green hydrogen and its attention is now turning to building the necessary infrastructure to get it to demand centers. France, Spain, and Germany.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2019

Daimler Trucks is establishing the Autonomous Technology Group as a global organization for automated driving, bringing together its worldwide expertise and activities, as of 1 June. The newly established Autonomous Technology Group is part of Daimler Trucks’ global effort to put highly automated trucks onto the roads within a decade.

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JULY 4, 2023

Demand is expected to initially build on the decarbonization of existing industrial uses of hydrogen (95 MtH 2 eq), most notably for fertilizer production. Decarbonizing current and developing new end-uses, it can abate up to 85 GtCO 2 eq in cumulative emissions by 2050, more than twice global CO 2 emissions in 2021.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

The presentation of results was made by Dr. Petronela Gotcu, manager R&D Cells and Dr. Hilmi Buqa, vice president R&D Cells, Leclanché, at the International Battery Production Conference 2020 Braunschweig, Germany, held online this year from November 2 - 3. Leclanché is one of the global leaders in applying the WBB technology.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 7, 2018

The EMG will soon be defining the strategy for everything from electrical components to completely electric vehicles for all brands and all business divisions, while also working to create a single global electric architecture. It is the market leader in Germany, Europe and the NAFTA region. Daimler trucks will invest more than €2.5

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JULY 14, 2021

The goals of both partners are to industrialize the planned battery cell production at the Salzgitter site of Volkswagen Group Components and to develop first use cases of the Volkswagen unified cell concept for the volume segment. Volkswagen is thus the first global automaker to invest directly in a Chinese battery supplier.

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JANUARY 8, 2014

During 2014, the global plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) industry is poised to grow by 86% and will surpass more than 346,000 new vehicles sold, according to a new white paper—“ Electric Vehicles: 10 Predictions for 2014 ”—published by Navigant Research. Electric motorcycles breakout. H2USA, the new U.S. More than 2.2

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AUGUST 25, 2022

Nikkiso Clean Energy & Industrial Gases Group (CE&IG), a part of the Nikkiso Co., Korea, and Neuenbürg, Germany. Starting with these hydrogen station projects, the Nikkiso Group aims to further expand its hydrogen-related business by strengthening its participation in the hydrogen supply chain and expanding into the global market.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2020

The project results therefore contribute to Sustainable Development Goal 13 on Climate Action of the UN Global Compact through decarbonization with the major advantage of doing so at a lower cost than the technologies currently in use. The project had a budget of €4.2

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MARCH 21, 2023

EKPO bipolar plate EKPO Fuel Cell Technologies (EKPO), headquartered in Dettingen/Erms (Germany), is a leading joint venture in the development and large-scale production of fuel cell stacks for CO 2 -neutral mobility. The contract covers an initial term of five years as from 2026 and a total volume in the mid-triple-digit million euro range.

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OCTOBER 13, 2022

An estimated 387GW/1,143GWh of new energy storage capacity will be added globally from 2022 to 2030, according to the forecast—more than Japan’s entire power generation capacity in 2020. The US and China are set to remain the two largest markets, representing more than half of global storage installations by the end of the decade.

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MARCH 12, 2022

Benchmark will explore this topic at its upcoming Battery Megafactories Europe 2022 , 22-23 March, Berlin, Germany.). By 2030, Benchmark anticipates Europe’s top five battery makers by capacity to be: Tesla (Germany): 125GWh. CATL (Germany): 80 GWh. ACC (Total/Stellantis) (Germany, France, Italy): 64 GWh.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2020

For more than 20 of them, such as long-distance and heavy-duty transportation, industrial heating, and heavy industry feedstock, which together comprise roughly 15% of global energy consumption, the hydrogen route appears the decarbonization option of choice—a material opportunity.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2021

These should be traveling the world’s oceans by the end of 2023, serving the North American route between Emden in Germany and Veracruz in Mexico. Volkswagen was one of the first car manufacturers to subscribe to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement that aim to limit global warming to significantly less than two degrees by 2050.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In particular, TotalEnergies has the ambition by 2030 to operate directly or indirectly up to 150 hydrogen refueling stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France. Currently, the truck manufacturer is testing a new enhanced prototype of its Mercedes-Benz GenH2 Truck on public roads in Germany.

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OCTOBER 25, 2020

Ethylene is widely used in the chemical industry; its worldwide production exceeds that of any other organic compound. With the EDHOX process, we have not only developed a cost-efficient alternative but are also providing the petrochemical industry with a low-emission process.

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MARCH 24, 2021

Mercedes-Benz has started producing high-performance batteries for its all-electric luxury EQS at its Stuttgart-Hedelfingen plant, as part of the Untertürkheim location in Germany, ahead of the sedan’s world premiere on 15 April 2021. technologies. Targeted extension of in-house EV expertise focusing battery cells.

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DECEMBER 5, 2019

The new plant is the third production facility in the company’s global battery production network. The battery factory in Bangkok meets Mercedes-Benz standards in terms of ergonomics, industrial safety and digitalization. In this way, all battery types can be manufactured in the new line for all current and future plug-in hybrids.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Volvo Trucks unveiled a completely new, fully electric rear axle at the IAA Transport show in Hannover, Germany. —Jessica Sandström, SvP Global Product Management at Volvo Trucks. Volvo Trucks has the widest offer of battery-electric trucks in the industry, with six different models in serial production.

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