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OCTOBER 8, 2020

Hyundai Motor Company delivered the first seven units of its XCIENT Fuel Cell, the first mass-produced fuel cell electric heavy-duty truck, to customers in Switzerland, with a total of 50 planned to hit the roads there this year. In the US, Hyundai is collaborating with logistics leaders to supply mass-produced fuel cell heavy-duty trucks.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Starting at the end of 2021, Faurecia will supply hydrogen storage systems for a first fleet of light commercial vehicles. Faurecia has already gained major contracts for the production of Light Commercial Vehicles and for a large-scale Heavy-Duty commercial vehicle project to promote hydrogen mobility in Switzerland.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Stadler and San Bernardino County Transportation Authority (SBCTA) have signed the first contract to supply a hydrogen-powered train to run in the United States. International rail vehicle construction company Stadler is headquartered in Bussnang in Eastern Switzerland. The FLIRT H2 train is planned for passenger service in 2024.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2019

Following these, more pilot schemes will be introduced in France, Germany, Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark. Vehicle-to-grid charging—also called reversible charging—modulates the charging and discharging of electric-vehicle batteries in accordance with users’ needs and the grid’s supply of available electricity.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2010

The new venture, which is called North Sea Global Ethanol (NSGE), has its headquarters in Zug, Switzerland, and initially a subsidiary in São Paulo, Brazil. One of the NSGE goals is to achieve complete integration of a fully sustainable supply chain to downstream end use.

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JANUARY 23, 2018

The award-winning TOSA e-bus, developed by ABB in Switzerland, is already in use in Geneva and will soon be implemented in the French city of Nantes. ABB also supplies the railway sector with innovative and energy-efficient technologies such as a traction transformer and converter made primarily in Switzerland.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2009

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has entered a partnership with the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China (MIIT) for Zero-Emission Mobility, a first step in bringing Zero Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) to China. In 2012, Nissan and Renault will mass-market electric vehicles globally.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2017

Switzerland-based Climeworks, a spin-off from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH), recently launched the world’s first commercial plant that captures atmospheric CO 2 for supply and sale to a customer. The plant is now supplying 900 tonnes of CO 2 annually to a nearby greenhouse to help grow vegetables.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

26t will make daily delivery rounds of between 100 and 200 km to supply Feldschlösschen Swiss clients from the brewer’s 15 logistical sites in Switzerland. These 20 Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E. It is the first order of this scale in Europe.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

GE Energy’s Industrial Solutions will supply and deploy the infrastructure products needed to make the projects possible, in particular charging stations and installer network. The agreement would see GE Capital lease EV vehicles across Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Sweden, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland and the UK.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The systems will be built at Leclanché’s facility in Switzerland with the cells manufactured at Leclanché’s Willstätt facility in Germany. The hybrid propulsion system delivered by Kongsberg includes supply and integration of shaft generators, frequency drives, energy management systems together with Leclanché battery systems.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

has entered into a collaboration and joint development agreement with Firmenich, the largest privately-owned fragrance and flavor company, based in Geneva, Switzerland. Amyris’s technology platform may be applied to produce an array of ingredients currently used in the fragrance and flavor industry in addition to fuels and other chemicals.

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DECEMBER 10, 2009

Valmet Automotive is a leading provider of engineering and manufacturing services to the automotive industry and recently became a THINK shareholder and strategic industrial partner. The THINK City in production at Valmet. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

Swiss battery Technology pioneer Battrion AG has teamed up with German roll-to-roll production specialist Jagenberg Converting Solution GmbH to supply anode pilot and GWh-production lines utilizing Battrion’s Aligned Graphite Technology for the lithium-ion battery industry. Battrion is an ETH Zurich spin-off founded in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2012

A team from ETH Zurich (Switzerland) report on their new methodology for performing regionalized life cycle assessment (LCA) and systematically choosing the spatial scale of regionalized impact assessment methods in a paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology.

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JUNE 5, 2020

Hydrogen produced from renewables will become competitive with fossil fuels in a few years and will play a key role in the energy transition, particularly in industry, heating and heavy transport. —Michele Viale, Managing Director of Alstom Italy and Switzerland.

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MAY 13, 2018

This stored energy is then available as backup whenever there is an insufficient supply of solar and wind power. Three different demonstration sites—Falkenhagen, Troia (Italy), and Solothurn (Switzerland) offer highly diverse testing grounds for PtG: Available energy sources (high wind power; PV and hydro; PV and wind power).

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APRIL 21, 2012

Some 60-70% of the global increment of woody biomass would be needed to produce 20% of current global primary energy supply, they note, and argue that such an increase in biomass harvest would result in shorter rotations, younger forests, lower biomass pools, depleted soil nutrient stocks and a loss of other ecosystem functions.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 30, 2025

Alix Partners reached out to 3,200 executives 1,000 of which were based in North America and 320 of which stemmed from the auto industry to create the report. For the automotive industry, the report notes that many markets are in a period of high volatility. Executives are also still concerned about the supply of semiconductor chips.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2009

Under the leadership of BASF Future Business GmbH, eighteen partners from industry and science have formed the cross-sector consortium “HE-Lion” to develop and bring to market safer, more affordable high-energy lithium-ion batteries over the next four to six years for use in plug-in hybrid automobiles and electric-vehicles. Source: BASF.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Beginning in 2019 and over a five-year period, Hyundai Motor and H2 Energy will provide 1,000 heavy-duty fuel cell electric trucks ( earlier post ) and an adequate supply chain for renewable hydrogen. Hyundai Motor Company has entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Swiss hydrogen company H2 Energy (H2E).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The event brought together technical experts from industry, government, and other stakeholders to compare and discuss standardization priorities for electric vehicles (EVs) outlined in the October 2011 Report of the CEN-CENELEC Focus Group on European Electro-Mobility and the April 2012 Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles – Version 1.0,

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

However, one of the biggest barriers to adopting robots in these industries is the challenge of navigating the rugged terrain found in these environments. In 2025, well be deploying our groundbreaking wheeled-legged robots with major logistics carriers for last-mile delivery to set new standards for efficiency and sustainability.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2010

kW on-board charger typical for charging at industrial plugs (fleet-owners); and. The evaluation will include discussions with potential industrial and financial partners, and an assessment of the preferences and desires of potential clients. LAMPO 2 is equipped with 4 different charging modes: Standard single-phase with up to 3.3

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2022

CIMC is a large, industrial conglomerate that has been a partner of Maersk for more than two decades. Its energy division—CIMC ENRIC—is a world-leading manufacturer of key equipment and services provider of engineering and system solutions for the clean energy, chemical and liquid food industries. Proman (Switzerland).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2018

Topic #02 on the use of hydrogen in industrial processes: “H2 is coming”. How to use hydrogen to avoid CO 2 emissions in industrial processes traditionally based on fossil fuel? How to produce cost competitive hydrogen while reducing greenhouse gas emissions? Topic #03 on sustainable food production: “Sustainable Farm to Fork”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2018

MAN Diesel & Turbo Schweiz AG has signed a cooperation agreement with ABB Switzerland for the development, production and commercialization of a three-way energy-storage system. For instance, heat can be transferred to district heating, the food-processing industry, laundry facilities, etc.,

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Green Car Congress

JULY 4, 2012

million EV charging stations (electric vehicle supply equipment, EVSE) to support them, according to a new report from Pike Research, “ Electric Vehicle Charging Equipment in Europe ”. The German industry has supported the Type 2 plug (the. Europe will have more than 2.9 The EU has declined to set a standard.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

HPL was spun out from Professor Graetzel’s laboratory at the EPFL (Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland) in 2003 and is focused on the development of nano-structured metal oxide energy storage materials and novel electrolytes for use in next generation lithium ion batteries. in South Korea.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2013

In addition to incentives from the State of New York and Empire State Development, the County of Oswego Industrial Development Agency is providing additional support for this investment. When complete, the Oswego facility will devote 80% of its total capacity to serving the automotive market. Nachterstedt.

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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. Methodology.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 25, 2009

Against this background, it is imperative that companies supply their shareholders with appropriate climate change data. CDSB was founded in January 2007 at the Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. —Paul Dickinson, Chief Executive of the Carbon Disclosure Project.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2016

Installed to support the production of stronger, lighter and safer vehicles, the $120-million CASH 3 line expands the company’s production to supply aluminum sheet for the body and cargo box of Ford’s 2017 F-150 SuperDuty pickups. The CASH 1 and 2 lines supply aluminum for Ford’s F-150.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Together with the partners Ineratec GmbH ( earlier post ) and Energiedienst Holding AG , the company has plans for a new pilot facility for the production of e-diesel in Laufenburg, in Canton Aargau (Switzerland). For the first time, the energy needed will be supplied from the renewable source of hydropower. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2015

Researchers from Purdue University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland are proposing a new integrated process involving the co-production of hydrogen and electricity from solar thermal energy—a concept they label “hydricity”. —Gençer et al. Emre Gençer, Dharik S. 1513488112.

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JULY 15, 2016

As this current is up to 10 times less than would be the case without storage, the connection can be made with a cheaper and more readily available low-power supply. This converts the incoming AC supply to DC in a similar way as is done for DC railways, trams or trolleybuses. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Also, on the occasion of the 5 th ceremony of the science award, a special prize for applied research goes to Dr. Martin Ebner from the ETH University Zurich, Switzerland for his excellent research in the area of fast charging of lithium-ion batteries. With the “Science Award Electrochemistry” he receives prize money of €50,000.

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