l engines to approximately 480,000 by 2015, from 141,000 in 2011. On July 11, the General Works Council along with IG Metall announced that they had secured a protection package for all employees of Ford-Werke GmbH at the Cologne site. The agreement, approved by Ford Motor Company management in the USA, ensures job security for over 10,000 employees through the end of 2032. The agreement provides a strong safety net for all employees, along with ...

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ll continue and expand its activities in the engineering, development, production, and supply of high-performance battery systems, electric drive units, electronic systems and user interface components. Rimac Technology will be ramping up its production capacity and will be manufacturing tens of thousands high-performance systems per year by 2024 and further ramping up to volumes of hundreds of thousands with products ranging from small hybrid ba...

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of sustainability. The site will include facilities for researching and developing cell chemistry as well as production facilities for manufacturing battery cells. On August 25, Porsche announced that it is adjusting its battery strategy due to slower EV growth and market changes in China and the USA.Cellforce Group GmbH will no longer expand high- performance battery production. It will continue as an independent R&D unit, and the associated s...

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EV platform and five electric SUVs Mahindra to cease SsangYong Motor Company as subsidiary of company Mahindra & Mahindra plans to launch 2-door/4-door small pickup trucks equipped with a diesel engine compliant with the emission standards of California, USA, in early 2010. The automaker established Global Vehicles USA to develop marketing activities in the USA. The company will establish a sales netwo...

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plant for EV powertrain Mahindra rolls out 1 millionth vehicle from 3 manufacturing plants Mahindra Group to observe no production days Airtel, India partners Tech Mahindra to deploy 5G at Mahinda's Chakan Plant Mahindra launches Scorpio-N in South Africa Mahindra, India Scorpio SUV crosses 900 thousand units production milestone Mahindra & Mahindra, India launches XEV 9S, a new all-electric 7 seater SUV Mahindra starts o...

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15, Volkswagen informed that the plants of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand are to successively restart production. First, production is to be resumed at the plants in Zwickau and Bratislava (Slovakia) in the week from April 20. The other plants in Germany and in Portugal, Spain, Russia and the USA are to restart production in the week from April 27. Subsequently, in the course of May, production will be resumed successively in South Africa, ...

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tainablilty's page in the HP of Daimler Truck Group, Daimler Truck is setting the course for "green" production: All European plants aim to be CO2-neutral by 2022, in India and the U.S. by 2025, and other countries by 2039. Renewable electricity is one approach to get there. In Europe and Portland, USA, for example, the company plans to purchase all electricity from renewable energy sources by 2022. The company already have installed photovoltaic...

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the end of the year. Out of 3,900 plant workers, 750 will be laid off during the two months, and additional 500 during the period from January to June 2009. Audi AG announced that the new "Q3" compact SUV will be produced at SEAT site in Martorell, Spain beginning 2011, instead of assembling in the USA. Total investment in the Martorell plant will amount to 300 million euros. Annual production capacity will be up to 80,000 units. It was reported ...

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nd the body component manufacturing site in Olofström, Sweden will continue to plan their production on a weekly basis and adapt according to needs in the other plants. On September 19, Volvo Cars announced the end of production of all its diesel-powered models by early 2024, at Climate Week NYC, USA. The company plans to sell only fully electric cars by 2030, with an aim to be a climate-neutral company by 2040. The announcement follows the dec...

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ll also roll off the assembly line at the Wolfsburg site in autumn. It will invest around EUR 460 million in the transformation of the main plant by the beginning of 2025. The plants in Zwickau and Dresden have already been fully converted, and production of the ID.4 began last year in Chattanooga, USA. On September 26, multiple sources reported that Volkswagen is temporarily halting production of its electric cars, ID.3 and Cupra Born, at its Zw...

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h and Innovation Centre (FIZ). It has already completed an intensive program of testing under demanding conditions during the development phase and will now be used as a technology demonstrator for locally carbon-free mobility in selected regions from spring 2023. BMW Group Plant Spartanburg in the USA supplies the base vehicles for the hydrogen model, which has been developed on the platform of the BMW X5. The fuel cell systems located have been...

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o meet the welcome growth in demand. On August 2012 BMW announced it will launch the DriveNow Car-Sharing Service featuring all-electric BMW ActiveE in San Francisco, California, in September. 70 ActiveEs will be in 14 stations for this service. Initial membership registration requires $39, and the usage fee is $12 for the initial 30 minutes with additional fee charged depending on the time of use. When necessary, the ActiveE can be charged at th...

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rive models, as well as a four-seat smart forfour electric drive model for the first time. All three of the smart electric drive models will be powered by the same electric motor. The drive is produced in Renault's plant in Clèon, France. The new smart fortwo electric drive will be launched in the USA before the end of the year, followed by the market launch of the two-seater and four-seater in Europe in early 2017. On June 14, Groupe Renault in...

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e of producing its 6 millionth vehicle i.e., an electric EQA. The milestone marks both a historic moment for the plant and a significant achievement in Mercedes-Benz's global compact car production, with approximately 210,000 vehicles produced in 2022. In a dealer memo on February 10, Mercedes-Benz USA said that it was discontinuing sales of the A-Class sedan after the 2022 model year. While it began production in Aguascalientes, Mexico in 2018, ...

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100 km. Daimler has invested EUR 25 million in the two German van plants in Dusseldorf and Ludwigsfelde for production of the new Sprinter. On February 7, Mercedes-Benz Vans presented the new eSprinter, which will be produced in Düsseldorf and Ludwigsfelde, Germany and Charleston, South Carolina, USA, in two body styles and lengths. The market launch of the new eSprinter will begin in the U.S. and Canada in the second half of 2023 with a long p...

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ercedes-Benz Vans is investing EUR 350 million in the all-new eSprinter from 2021 to 2024 with EUR 150 million invested at the three plants. On February 7, Mercedes-Benz Vans presented the new eSprinter, which will be produced in Düsseldorf and Ludwigsfelde, Germany and Charleston, South Carolina, USA, in two body styles and lengths. The market launch of the new eSprinter will begin in the U.S. and Canada in the second half of 2023 with a long p...

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on the MMA platform from 2024 onwards. Beijing Benz Automotive Co. Ltd. (BBAC) has been producing Mercedes-Benz vehicles locally for the Chinese market since 2005. A few weeks ago, production of the all-electric EQE business sedan started at the Shunyi plant. The Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, USA, will soon start production of the EQS SUV, with the EQE SUV to follow later this year. Both models are produced on the same line together with th...

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on the MMA platform from 2024 onwards. Beijing Benz Automotive Co. Ltd. (BBAC) has been producing Mercedes-Benz vehicles locally for the Chinese market since 2005. A few weeks ago, production of the all-electric EQE business sedan started at the Shunyi plant. The Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, USA, will soon start production of the EQS SUV, with the EQE SUV to follow later this year. Both models are produced on the same line together with th...

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maximum torque of 568Nm, 265kW EQS 450 4MATIC and 400kW EQS 580 4MATIC with 396Nm.EQS 450+ delivers ranges of up to 536-660 km while EQS 450 4MATIC and EQS 580 4MATIC provided up to 507-613 km (WLTP).In a few months, production of the new EQS SUV will begin at the Mercedes-Benz plant in Tuscaloosa, USA.The battery plant in nearby Bibb County, which just opened in March, supplies the batteries for the new Mercedes EQ model. Production at both site...

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sources as part of its ‘Way To Zero’ strategy. The supply of wind energy in Volkswagen’s processes during the last four and a half years has saved a total of 692,296 tons of CO2 from being emitted into the environment. On September 1, it was reported that Volkswagen de México achieved 93.6% usage of renewable energy across its Puebla and Silao plants while reducing energy consumption per unit by 22% through digitalization. The automaker h...

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