India's hidden urban mines are going to landfills: Why e-waste needs a second life
As smartphones, laptops, televisions, electric vehicles, and household appliances become an integral part of modern life, electronic waste (e-waste) is emerging as one of the world's fastest-growing waste streams. Yet, every discarded electronic device contains more than just obsolete technology—it...
Stricter fines, greater scope for innovation: Hungary targets cleaner practices in battery manufacturing
Hungary will raise the maximum fine for serious environmental violations by large manufacturers to 5 billion forints (USD 16 million) under new measures to strengthen environmental oversight across industries, including EV battery manufacturing, recycling, and decommissioning. The changes come as...
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Novelis launches high-strength aluminum automotive body sheet for next generation cars
Novelis, the world leading aluminium rolling and recycling company has announced the launch of Advanz™ 6HS-s650, a specialized aluminium automotive body sheet product with extraordinary strength, lightweighting, formability, performance and structural integrity. It is the strongest 6xxx series...
Bumchun Precision to construct aluminium battery terminals plant in Hungary
Bumchun Precision will reportedly construct an aluminium battery terminals manufacturing facility in Hungary with an investment of EUR40.8 million (US$45.3 million). As per the report, Hungarian government is providing EUR8.13 million in funding towards the investment. The facility, to be built in...
More global automakers likely to collaborate with local carmakers in China to accelerate EV output
Renault and Toyota Motor have each signed a deal with a domestic Chinese electrified vehicle manufacturer to jointly produce EVs. China is encouraging foreign automakers to strike similar deals with domestic producers in order to expand EV output in the country. Collaboration between foreign...
Hydro supplies ASI-certified sustainable aluminium for the battery housing of Audi e-tron
Aluminum producer Hydro now supplies ASI-certified sustainable aluminium for the battery housing of the first fully electric SUV of Audi called Audi e-tron The aluminium component is processed and manufactured in an environmentally friendly manner and under socially acceptable working conditions....
CAAM projects automobile sales to drop by 5% in China in 2019
The China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) has forecast the automobile sales to drop in China in 2019. Weaker purchasing capacity due to slower economic growth and the new vehicle emission standards could be some of the reasons for the estimated drop in car sales, according to a...
Toyota to venture into Chinese battery-electric vehicles and battery market in collaboration with BYD Co.
Toyota Motor Corp. and its Chinese partner BYD Co. will develop battery-electric vehicles and batteries as the Japanese automaker is looking at building affordable EVs for the world's top vehicle market in collaboration with its Chinese partners. Toyota and the Chinese electric automaker announced...
Bentley unveils futuristic concept electric car made from aluminium and carbon fibre to mark its centenary anniversary
Bentley marks its 100 th birthday with a new futuristic concept car EXP 100 GT designed for the world of 2035. Unveiled at The Home of Bentley in Crewe, the autonomous and completely electric vehicle represents the British luxury car brand’s vision of future car design while preserving the...
Chinese automakers hit by cash crunch on steady downturn in China’s new vehicle market for last four quarters
Continuous downturn in China’s new vehicle market for last four quarters has created cash crunch for a number of automakers, a report from Automotive News China says. BAIC Yinxiang Automobile Co., a subsidiary of state-owned automaker BAIC Motor Group, suspended major part of production for H2 2018...
Sino-American trade war slows down Chinese economy; auto sales on a steady downward trend
Chinese economy has registered its slowest growth since 1992 last quarter at 6.2%, down 0.2 percentage point from March quarter. The negative data is indicating the impacts of the prolonged Sino-American trade war. Though U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping agreed in June...
Nalco to diversify into merchant mining; high-end alloy and lithium battery production on the card
Nalco is looking at venturing out beyond aluminium to invest in value added segments like production of high-end alloys for space vehicles and electric cars and lithium battery production; the company chairman TK Chand said this in an interview to Economic Times. The company is also planning to...
China’s auto charging piles amount to over 1 million by June
China Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Promotion Alliance data on Wednesday, July 10, shows that by the end of June 2019, China had over 1 million charging piles or power ports for electric vehicles, up 69.3 per cent year on year. For public charging piles, members of the alliance added...
Ford 2020 Explorer sheds weight using an aluminium hood and a mixed material body
Ford has adopted a “mixed materials” strategy to shed weight on the 2020 Explorer SUV available on sale this summer. “Weight was a factor in every decision we made,” Explorer chief engineer Bill Gubing said. The SUV’s structure includes steel, aluminium, magnesium and plastic to keep the weight...
China’s car sales register a drop of 9.6% YoY in June
Sales of passenger vehicles in China stood at 1.73 million in June, a decrease of 7.8 per cent year on year, according to data from the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) released on Wednesday July 10. In May, CAAM data showed that sales of passenger vehicles shrank 17.4 per cent...
Nio CEO eyes Europe market for its electric vehicles; looking at boosting its share in domestic market
William Li, the founder and CEO of Nio, the EV startup in China is eying the European market for its EVs; he said this in an interview during the Shanghai auto show. He believes that Chinese automaker can break into the European market with the help of EVs. However, the company is very careful...
China’s NEV sales up 38.7% YoY in June; Total sales in H12019 stand at 577,000 units
China Passenger Car Association (CPCA) data shows that China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) sales in June recorded month-on-month growth by 38.7 per cent and year-on-year by 98.7 per cent to stand at 134,000 units. In the previous month as well, China’s new energy vehicle (NEV) sales had registered a...
JLR to build electrified vehicles in its central England plant making way for more aluminium consumption
Jaguar Land Rover is planning to invest significantly in building Electric vehicles in its home market to compensate for the loss due to slump in diesel sales and Brexit uncertainty. The automaker is planning to offer an electrified option to all its upcoming models from next year as it tries to do...
Aurora Labs signs MoU with Swedish rolled aluminium manufacturer
Australian metal 3D printing developer Aurora Labs Ltd has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Swedish industrial company, Gränges AB. The MoU, which will operate for a term of up to five years, provides a framework for: pre-order an Aurora RMP-1 Rapid Manufacturing Printer by Gränges, supply...
NEVS rolls out a full-electric sedan based on the old Saab 9-3 platform from its Tianjin plant
Electric vehicle maker National Electric Vehicle Sweden has rolled out a full-electric sedan based on the old Saab 9-3 platform from its plant in the north China port city of Tianjin on Saturday, June 29. According to its parent company, China Evergrande Group, the launch will accelerate NEVS’...
