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AUGUST 5, 2021

SK Innovation’s EV battery plant located in Seosan, South Korea. SK Innovation said the spin-off will be a turning point for securing global competitiveness in the battery business. The battery business aims to grow into a global top player based on its battery order backlogs of “1 Terawatt + ?.” ( Earlier post.).

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Electric Cars Report

MARCH 15, 2023

Volvo Trucks is now starting sales of heavy battery electric trucks in South Korea, as the first global manufacturer to do so. Three different electric models are now available for South Korean transport companies to order – helping them, and the government, to reach ambitious climate targets.

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MARCH 26, 2023

SK On will partner with Korea’s largest cathode material company EcoPro, and Chinese battery materials producer GEM to build a battery core material production facility in Saemangeum, South Korea. The three companies together will spend up on 1.21

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

an automotive manufacturer headquartered in South Korea, to manufacture Faraday Future’s second electric vehicle, the FF 81, with start of production scheduled for 2024. Located near Seoul, South Korea, Myoung Shin is a parts supplier and automotive manufacturer for numerous first tier OEMs.

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JUNE 29, 2021

The ICCT study finds that the United States’ share of cumulative global EV production decreased from 20% to 18% since 2010 and only 15% of the approximately $345 billion in global automaker EV investments are flowing to the US. Similarly, European manufacturing accounted for 25% of global EVs through 2020, up from 23% in 2017.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Over the next five years, Volvo Cars will launch a fully electric car every year, as it seeks to make all-electric cars 50% of global sales by 2025, with the rest hybrids. —Geert Bruyneel, head of global production operations. I am pleased to celebrate this momentous occasion with our employees here in Ghent.

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APRIL 29, 2019

Korea Gas Corp. KOGAS), the state-run natural gas supplier and a major global importer of LNG, plans to spend 4.7 KOGAS said demand for hydrogen in South Korea will reach 1.94 South Korea has been seeking to boost the hydrogen economy as a new growth engine. trillion won (US$4.01 million tons by 2040.

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Hydrogen South Korea Gas Corporation 341

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JANUARY 11, 2021

With sales of 2,164,187 units (-7.5%), Mercedes-Benz maintained a leading global position compared with its core competitors. Overall, the largest markets for Mercedes-Benz were China, Germany and the US, followed by Great Britain and South Korea. 1,024,315 units were sold in the Asia-Pacific region (+4.7%).

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JULY 9, 2023

POSCO Holdings recently began construction at the Yulchon 1 st Industrial Complex in Jeollanam-do (South Jeolla Province, S. Korea) of the country’s first lithium hydroxide plant, which will produce secondary battery materials using lithium produced from brine in Argentina. POSCO Group’s lithium brine demo plant in Argentina.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2021

The governments of Denmark, Norway, and the United States, along with the Global Maritime Forum and the Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller Center for Zero Carbon Shipping, will lead a new Zero-Emission Shipping Mission as part of Mission Innovation.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Ltd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the joint development of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) system for marine propulsion and power generation with Navig8, a Singapore-based major shipping company which operates 140 chemical and oil tankers globally. Doosan Fuel Cell Co., Earlier post.).

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JULY 28, 2014

In a new report ( Transportation Forecast: Global Fuel Consumption ), Navigant Research forecasts total road transportation energy consumption will grow from 81.1 of global consumption in 2014 to more than 16.4% of global road transportation sector consumption by 2035. —“Transportation Forecast: Global Fuel Consumption”.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 13, 2024

Electric vehicle (EV) phobia is allegedly gripping customers in South Korea after an electric Mercedes-Benz caught fire. South Korea to talk with automakers about EV fire policies Audi is rolling out discounts for e-tron variants. Auto dealers for foreign brands plan to cut retail prices by around 30% for new buyers.

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APRIL 1, 2014

Accumulated number of xEVs in leading global markets. The batteries for the xEVs come mainly from Japan and South Korea, ZSW noted. Annual growth rate over the past three years is more than 100%. Click to enlarge. Nissan is the top-seller, followed by GM/Opel and Toyota; Tesla is accelerating rapidly. Click to enlarge.

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JANUARY 22, 2021

Toyota is the ruling OEM in the global HEV car market, with more than 60% market share in 2019. The report gives an in-depth look at the historic HEV market in China, Europe, Japan, South Korea, and the US, with an outlook over the next 20 years.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2021

g/m 3 ) increment of black carbon is associated with a 12% increase in LADC incidence globally. The research team found that it has increased globally by 3.6 ?g/m Meanwhile, a 1% decline of smoking prevalence was associated with a 9% drop in LSCC incidence globally. Globally, a 0.1 ?g/m g/m 3 yearly from 1990 to 2012.

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MAY 30, 2017

Through construction of the Hungary plant, Samsung SDI sets up a global electric vehicle batteries production tripod with plants in Ulsan, South Korea and Xian, China. Batteries are one of the most important parts supplied to global car makers.

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JUNE 23, 2021

Major solid-state battery players globally. Lithium-ion battery manufacturing has been dominated by East Asia, with Japan, China, and South Korea playing a significant role. The car plug-in market will take the largest share (66%) in 2031, followed by smartphone applications. Source: IDTechEx.

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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. H2USA, the new U.S. More than 2.2 More than 1.9

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Kia and Hyundai are unfazed by BYD’s electric vehicles launching in South Korea. Earlier this month, Chinese automaker BYD announced it would enter South Korea’s passenger car market in 2025. BYD entered South Korea’s commercial car market in 2016 but has yet to launch a passenger car there.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 21, 2021

The Genesis GV60—the Hyundai luxury brand's first dedicated electric vehicle, due next year—is shaping up to offer a technology first: It will be one of the first global-market EVs with original-equipment wireless charging.

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JULY 7, 2021

Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) announced that five key affiliate companies, including Hyundai Motor Company and Kia Corporation, will join Climate Group’s RE100 , a global initiative committed to moving toward 100% renewable energy. each will submit applications to the Korea RE100 Committee later this month.

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Electrek

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

On Tuesday, Kia launched the EV9 GT in South Korea with over 500 horsepower, a sporty new design, and a price tag just north of $60,000. Following its domestic launch, the sporty new trim will roll out to the US, Europe, and other global markets. Kias flagship electric SUV just got a high-performance upgrade. Check it out below.

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Teslarati

MAY 19, 2022

billion to produce electric vehicles at a new factory in South Korea. The factory ultimately would increase annual EV production in South Korea to 1.44 million vehicle capacity by 2030 would account for about 45 percent of the two companies’ global EV production volume by that year, Automotive News reports.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2018

People living in parts of southern Europe, South Korea and southern Japan and China also experienced more than 15 days a year of ozone levels above 70 ppb. TOAR is a project of the International Global Atmospheric Chemistry project, with support from NOAA, Forschungszentrum Jülich and the World Meteorological Organization.

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JANUARY 20, 2021

Global investment in carbon capture and storage (CCS) tripled to $3 billion, and that in hydrogen was $1.5 A geographical split of BNEF’s energy transition investment data shows that Europe accounted for the biggest slice of global investment, at $166.2 Global investment in renewable energy capacity moved up 2% to $303.5

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JULY 20, 2021

Group14 Technologies, a global provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, and SK materials, one of the world’s top manufacturers of special gases and industrial gases, are forming a joint venture to build a factory for lithium-silicon battery materials in South Korea.

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South Korea Lithium Ion Li-ion Building 221

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JULY 31, 2019

Global cumulative energy storage installations. The report goes on to model the impact of this on a global electricity system increasingly penetrated by low-cost wind and solar. Just 10 countries are on course to represent almost three quarters of the global market in gigawatt terms, according to BNEF’s forecast.

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

South Korea-based SK Innovation, a developer of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles, will invest $1.67 SK Innovation, which is part of SK Group, says that it is making the investment in Georgia to better compete in the growing global EV battery market. The new plant will be located in Jackson County, Georgia.

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MARCH 9, 2025

As of January, Samsung and Hyundai conducted a pilot project for their private 5G RedCap technology at Samsungs R&D center in Suwon, South Korea. We are also the [automobile] industrys first to verify 5G RedCap technology, reinforcing our global leadership in smart manufacturing solutions.

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DECEMBER 6, 2020

Findings released by international think tank the Global CCS Institute show that the total capacity of carbon capture and storage (CCS) facilities operating and under development grew by 33% world-wide over the last year. Source: 2020 Global Status on CCS. World map of CCS facilities at various stages of development.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The global energy storage market will grow to a cumulative 942GW/2,857GWh by 2040, attracting $1.2 We see energy storage growing to a point where it is equivalent to 7% of the total installed power capacity globally in 2040. China, the US, India, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, South Korea and the UK will be the leading countries.

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MARCH 18, 2017

Global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions were flat for a third straight year in 2016 even as the global economy grew, according to the International Energy Agency. Global emissions from the energy sector stood at 32.1 The data signal a continuing decoupling of emissions and economic activity.

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JULY 20, 2022

Green hydrogen and ammonia produced by the partners through new green field investments will support to meet POSCO Group’s targets to produce 500,000 tonnes of hydrogen globally by 2030. million metric tonnes of steel, making it the sixth largest steel producer in the world, and the largest in its home country of South Korea.

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AUGUST 1, 2021

SHI plans to conduct tests at LNG demonstration facilities at its shipyard in Geoje, South Korea and will be launching full-scale marketing for global ship developers.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Photo: Panoramic view of LG Chem’s petrochemical complex in Yeosu, South Korea. LG Chem will start replacing fossil feedstock commonly used in the manufacturing of polymers and chemicals with Neste Renewable Hydrocarbons in the upcoming months.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2019

WiTricity, the industry pioneer in wireless power transfer over distance, has entered into a technology licensing agreement with Yura Corporation, a leading South Korea-based automotive Tier 1 supplier. Yura is a global supplier of a wide range of automotive parts for conventional vehicles and xEVs.

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