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FeatureBorgward edges closer to Bremen return with assembly site deal
Andreas Heyer (left), chairman of Bremen Invest, and Ulrich Walker, CEO of Borgward GroupGerman car brand Borgward and Bremen Invest have signed a deal over the purchase of a future assembly site in the German city.The memorandum of understanding covers a 140,000 sq.m piece of land in the Cargo ...
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FeatureTrump’s campaigning ignores supply chain might
The president’s relentless criticism of trade terms and regulation often ignores some of the automotive industry’s most important developments for the futureSince his election victory, many have wondered about the extent to which Donald Trump, the president, would resemble Donald Trump, the presidential candidate. For the automotive industry and its ...
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FeatureFormer Tesla CPO plans gigafactory-style European battery plant in Scandinavia
Peter Carlsson, who was chief purchasing officer (CPO) at electric carmaker Tesla until 2015, is seeking investment to build Europe's largest electric battery manufacturing plant to to serve carmakers and other industries.While the exact location has yet to be determined, the Swedish executive has plans for a plus-32GWh production site ...
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FeatureMajor brands reveal plans for electric truck trials
MAN Truck & Bus and Mercedes-Benz Trucks have announced plans to allow customers to trial their respective electric trucks in real world situations, starting this year.MAN Truck & Bus, which is owned by Volkswagen Group, and an Austrian consortium, the Council for Sustainable Logistics (CNL), have reached agreement on the ...
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FeatureHonda and Hitachi announce plans for electric motor joint venture
Honda has signed a memorandum of understanding with Hitachi Automotive Systems for the joint production of electric vehicle motors, just a week after announcing a hydrogen fuel cell partnership with General Motors (GM) in the US.Hitachi has been selling motors for electric vehicles since 1999 to a number of carmakers ...
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FeatureScania welcomes plans to promote electrified road technology
Truckmaker Scania has welcomed plans by Sweden and Germany to speed up the development of electrified road technology.The plans are part of a new innovation partnership between the two countries launched on Tuesday (January 31st) during a visit to Sweden by German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The partnership aims to strengthen ...
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FeatureGM and Honda plan joint hydrogen fuel cell production by 2020
Global carmakers General Motors (GM) and Honda have taken their co-development agreement for fuel cell systems to another level, announcing an agreement targeting production by the start of the next decade.The two companies, which first signed a ‘master collaboration agreement’ in 2013, are to invest a total of $85m in ...
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FeatureTesla to build Model 3 powertrains in Nevada
Electric car manufacturer Tesla plans to invest $350m in its ‘gigafactory’ in Nevada to allow it to manufacture the drive units for its newest product, the Model 3.In his annual ‘state of the state’ address last week, Nevada governor Brian Sandoval announced the planned investment and said it would lead ...
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FeatureElectric vehicle firm Rivian buys former Mitsubishi plant in Illinois
Rivian Automotive, the US-based electric car hopeful, has agreed a deal to purchase Mitsubishi’s former manufacturing plant in Normal, Illinois.In July 2015, Mitsubishi confirmed it would end production of the Outlander model at the near 80,000 sq.m facility (pictured), its only plant in the US, switching production to Japan.Mitsubishi originally ...
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FeatureNikola unveils first hydrogen-electric truck
Salt Lake City, Utah-based Nikola Motor Company has unveiled its first hydrogen-electric truck, the Nikola One. Based on high-density lithium batteries, it is said to provide a 1,200-mile (1,920km) range and over 1,000hp of power.The company has also announced an agreement with Ryder to use its 800-plus locations in the ...
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FeatureLucid Motors picks Arizona as electric vehicle manufacturing base
Electric vehicle start-up Lucid Motors has announced Casa Grande, about 80km south of Phoenix, Arizona, as the location for its manufacturing centre, after evaluating over 60 sites in 13 US states.The facility will start producing the company’s first model in 2018 and by 2022, $700m will have been invested. The ...
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FeatureSetram introduces electric vehicles at Barcelona terminal
Spanish finished vehicle logistics provider, Setram, has deployed four electric vehicles (EVs) to help with operations at its car terminal in the port of Barcelona. Four Peugeot iPartner vans are being used at the terminal, which can store 13,300 vehicles. The vans are being leased from Spanish car rental and ...
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FeatureVW targets improved productivity and reduced variants in future plans
Volkswagen has fleshed out the major strategy for its namesake brand, having already announced a restructuring plan for its German plants last week.The Transform 2025+ plan, as it has been named, includes an initial focus on SUV vehicles, and an electric vehicle “offensive” from the end of the decade.The company ...
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Tesla planning battery ‘gigafactory’ in Europe
Following its buyout of Grohmann Engineering last week, electric vehicle maker, Tesla, is looking for a site in Europe to build a lithium-ion battery ‘gigafactory’ similar to the one it is currently building in Nevada, in the US.CEO Elon Musk made the announcement at a press conference in Germany last ...
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FeatureTesla buys automated manufacturing specialist Grohmann
Electric vehicle producer Tesla has agreed to acquire Grohmann Engineering, an automated manufacturing specialist, for an undisclosed sum.Located in Prüm, Germany, Grohmann will be renamed Tesla Grohmann Automation and is expected to design and produce several critical elements of Tesla’s automated manufacturing systems, as the electric car company targets production ...
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FeatureDaimler to quadruple battery production footprint at Kamenz plant
Daimler has started construction of a second lithium-ion battery factory in Kamenz, south-east Germany, which will quadruple the size of the existing production and logistics site to 80,000 sq.m.The €500m ($544m) investment forms part of a €1 billion injection of capital into the carmaker’s overall global battery production compound first ...
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FeatureUK summit: Electric vehicles to change current supply chain models
Electric vehicles will replace the internal combustion engine as the dominant vehicle type by 2030 in a shift expected to have substantial implications for the supply chain.Speaking at the first Automotive Logistics UK summit yesterday (October 6th), Philippe Funda, lead analyst for the EU, Middle East and Africa at forecasting ...
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FeatureSamsung SDI starts work on battery plant for EVs in Hungary
Battery maker Samsung SDI is building a 400 billion won ($365m) plant in Hungary with an annual capacity of 50,000 batteries for the electric vehicle market in Europe.The firm already supplies batteries to customers including BMW, with which it worked on the development of its battery cell technology, while in ...
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FeatureEurasian Economic Union slashes import duties on electric vehicles
The Eurasian Economic Union (EEU), which comprises Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Armenia and Kyrgyzstan, has lowered duties on the import of electric vehicles (EVs) for a year, running from September 2nd this year to August 31st, 2017.Currently the duty on light electric passenger vehicles stands at 17% of their value but ...
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FeatureParagon sets up dedicated division for EV remarketing
UK transport and logistics provider Paragon Automotive has launched a new division to help carmakers and fleet operators manage electric and hybrid vehicles through the de-fleet and refurbishment process.To support shipment of electric vehicles to its facilities and back out again for remarketing, Paragon is putting a dedicated truck fleet ...
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