Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

After going into operation in just over a year, it will supply the company with at least 82,000 megawatt hours of geothermal energy per year and will cover about 60% of total heat requirements. signed a long-term contract on the supply of heat energy with the Hungarian company “DDEnergy.” For the project, Audi Hungaria Motor Kft.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

SK IE Technology (SKIET) signed an MOU with Sunwoda , the 9 th largest battery manufacturer in terms of global market share (according to SNE Research in 2022), to strengthen cooperation in supplying battery separators. SKIET plans to supply separators produced at its Changzhou factory in China to Sunwoda.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China continues to dominate BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) global lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking, for the third time in a row, for both 2022 and its projection for 2027, due to continued support for the electric vehicle demand and raw materials investments. —Allan Ray Restauro, metals and mining analyst at BNEF and lead author.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2021

—Rolf Najork, the member of the Bosch board of management responsible for industrial technology. Bosch’s role is to supply automated assembly lines for welding and gluing the battery cells. Bosch believes its industrial technology is the way forward in its own plants as well.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

In Germany, all Mercedes-Benz plants will be supplied with CO 2 -neutral energy. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. With a CO2-neutral energy supply of the plants, we are consistently pursuing this approach and are actively driving sustainability in production.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2018

Mercedes-Benz Cars is starting construction of its first “Full-Flex Plant“ in Kecskemét, Hungary, about 90 km in the south of Budapest. With an investment of one billion euros, we are building in Hungary the first ‘Full-Flex Plant’ in the global production network of Mercedes-Benz Cars. Three of them are currently being established.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2021

This acceleration in new capacity collectively totals 560 kt—equivalent to a 67% increase in the nameplate industry capacity that existed at the end of 2020 (830kt). From January to May 2021, more than a dozen new projects and expansions have been reported globally, Roskill said.

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Teslarati

AUGUST 12, 2022

billion to build a 100 GWh battery plant in Hungary. The Debrecen, Hungary battery plant would join CATL’s Munich, Germany facility as the second for the company in Europe. We’re proud to see our Ambition 2039 supported by CATL’s commitment to CO2 neutral production in Hungary.”

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2011

Germany, the first to implement the lowest sulfur level of 10 ppm in 2003, remains atop the ranking, followed by Japan and a six-country tie for third place among Austria, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Hungary and Sweden. Environmental damage to forests, crops and water supplies can also result from long-term, high-sulfur emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2022

The numbers highlight the increasingly global spread of battery gigafactories, as automakers look to secure local supply chains to lower costs and reduce the risk of trade disruption. In March China’s EVE Energy announced plans to set up its first European battery plant with an estimated capacity of 30 GWh in Debrecen, Hungary.

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Li-ion Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

China leads the demand and supply of all of the key battery materials, accounting for more than 85% of the total global supply of cathode materials, anode materials, electrolytes, and separators. —Gautam Rashingkar, Chemicals, Materials & Foods Industry Analyst at Frost & Sullivan.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Emerging from this considerable research and development is the ground-breaking Blade Battery which is revolutionizing safety, durability and performance in the EV industry. Notably, BYD owns the vertical supply chain for seamless integration and manufacturing control, including the production of semiconductors.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2018

The company operates five facilities globally, including three in Germany and one each in Hungary and China, and employs approximately 400 staff. The automotive industry has been rapidly evolving over recent years with developments such as EVs, autonomous cars and car sharing.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2025

There, d elegations from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Hungary, and Romania finalized an ambitious plan: to generate up to 6 gigawatts of clean energy in the Caucasus region, run the electricity through a cable along the bottom of the Black Sea, and deliver it to Europe. That would be enough to supply over 2 million European households.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2022

Ford expects a compound annual growth rate for EVs to exceed 90% through 2026, more than double forecasted global industry growth. Ford and CATL—the world’s largest battery producer—have signed a separate non-binding MOU to explore a cooperation for supplying batteries in Ford’s markets across China, Europe and North America.

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Ford North America F-150 Batteries 221

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2020

—Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz AG, Production and Supply Chain. The compact SUV EQB will be the first purely electrically powered production vehicle from Hungary and will complement the plug-in hybrid portfolio consisting of the CLA and CLA Shooting Brake. Global battery production network.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2017

Together with our ambitious colleagues, we as a works council want to help to shape the change in the automotive industry for electric mobility. The pioneering 48-volt on-board power supply is celebrating its premiere in the new generation of the S-Class and will be gradually introduced in various model series. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2022

—Jörg Burzer, Member of the Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Group AG, Production and Supply Chain. Core Luxury: The Mercedes-Benz plants in Bremen, Germany and Kecskemét, Hungary to manufacture vehicles in Europe based on the MB.EA Battery systems will be supplied by the global Mercedes-Benz battery production network.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 10, 2025

A large supply of used models and significant discounting continues to put pressure on market values. from 2024, according to data from industry authority PZPM. Discounts on new prices, plus a large supply of used vehicles, continues to put pressure on market values. km across a carmakers fleet.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The HERE-SBD Automotive EV Index highlights, since 2020, US state-level and European country-level leaders and laggards based on various critical metrics, including the number of charging points (Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment), vehicle registrations, geography, and road network length.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

This war will have many long-term consequences, but possibly none more important than its effects on the future of the European energy supply. Rapid severing of Europe’s Russian supplies would create an unprecedented economic and existential emergency on the continent. European gas supplied three-fifths of the continent’s demand.

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Push EVs

JULY 21, 2022

Ford expects a compound annual growth rate for EVs to exceed 90% through 2026, more than double forecasted global industry growth. Ford and CATL – the world’s largest battery producer – have signed a separate non-binding MOU to explore a cooperation for supplying batteries in Ford’s markets across China, Europe and North America.

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Ford F-150 North America Batteries 105

Baua Electric

MARCH 11, 2025

Chinas Global Dominance in the Electric Vehicle Industry China has emerged as a powerhouse in the electric vehicle (EV) industry, playing a dominant role in global EV production, sales, and technological advancements. Global Expansion of Chinese EV Brands Chinese EV manufacturers are no longer limited to their domestic market.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 22, 2024

But now China has said it will “rein in” some of its huge EV expansive in response to criticism of “unfair” industrial and trade policies. There are also some disorderly competition behaviors,” Xin Guobin, vice-minister of industry and information technology, told the Financial Times. What that means is anyone’s guess.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

The company opened its first manufacturing plant in Thailand this summer, with several more planned in Hungary, Turkey, Brazil, and Mexico. Starting as a battery maker has given BYD a drastic advantage as the industry shifts to electric vehicles. BYD also owns most of its supply chain, driving down costs further.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 11, 2024

South Korea’s SK On plans to start mass producing lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries as early as 2026 to supply several automakers as it pushes to deliver a lower cost battery chemistry favoured by its Chinese rivals, a senior executive said. SK On has production sites in the United States, South Korea, Hungary, and China.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

This concerning development was confirmed by the latest data from the industry association, ACEA. This included Hungary (up 19.1%), Poland (up 17.6%), Austria (up 16.5%), the Netherlands (up 13.7%) and Portugal (up 10.3%). This means the supply of pure petrol vehicles is declining. This was a 0.1 and 6% respectively.

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Cars That Think

JULY 20, 2021

John Snow's 1854 Broad Street map of cholera contagion in London was not only instrumental in identifying lessons learned—the most important being that cholera was transmitted via the water supply—but also in improving policymaking during the crisis. China enters world markets as major exporter of industrial products.

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EV Sales

MARCH 22, 2021

8TH PLACE: SOUTH KOREA, 51 POINTS (6TH IN 2019) Claim to fame: Korean EV makers (basically, the Hyundai-Kia conglomerate) continued their advance, nearing 200k made in 2020, while Korean battery makers cemented their global dominance with twin giants LG Chem and Samsung launching factories in Hungary, and more being built elsewhere.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2025

These tariffs could unsettle the global supply chain , raise list prices, create consumer uncertainty, and lead to potential job losses. Tariff backlash The news has been met with a significant backlash from global leaders, carmakers, and industry bodies. BMW has begun production of its Neue Klasse in Debrecen, Hungary.

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