16 Apr 2024, 13:12 Julian Wettengel Cars Business & Jobs n-tv / Handelsblatt / Elektrek / The Guardian Plans announced by electric vehicle manufacturer Tesla to cut ten percent of its global workforce have led to worries over the potential impact on ...
21 Feb 2024, 13:15 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs rbb Residents of the Grünheide municipality near Berlin have rejected the planned expansion of the local Tesla factory in a non-binding referendum, public broadcaster rbb reported. Asked about ...
26 Jul 2023, 13:20 Carolina Kyllmann Mobility Tagesspiegel / t-online U.S. car manufacturer Tesla will have to revise its plans to expand its gigafactory for electric cars in the German state of Brandenburg over concerns the new buildings would be partly ...
10 May 2024, 15:57 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb / Die Welt Activists protesting against the expansion of the Tesla factory in Grünheide have tried to enter the factory's premises, leading to clashes with police and arrests made on the US ...
20 Jul 2022, 13:56 Expert VZBV- Federation of German Consumer Organisations Verbraucherzentrale Bundesverband Cost & Prices Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business 91tv Customer protection association vzbv has filed a lawsuit against Tesla over ...
10 Feb 2020, 13:33 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Welt am Sonntag The German state might grant support payments to US carmaker Tesla only if the e-car producer makes sure that "research and development as well as value creation take place in Germany", ...
02 Nov 2021, 12:55 Jessica Bateman Transport Cars Handelsblatt Europe faces an overcapacity of e-car battery production as the continent supports the build-up of a domestic supply and a large number of factories are currently being constructed, reports ...
13 Feb 2020, 13:37 Sören Amelang Cars Manager magazin Tesla has searched for bats in the wooded area where it plans to build its German car factory and also plans to resettle ants living there, reports manager magazine. In addition, the US carmaker ...
08 Apr 2021, 12:37 Julian Wettengel Cars Tagesspiegel / The Driven U.S. e-car company Tesla has criticised that slow approval processes for German industry and infrastructure projects stand in the way of urgent climate action efforts, as the carmaker ...
12 Apr 2021, 14:11 Edgar Meza 91tv 91tv Storage Cars The German government has assured US automaker Tesla that it will make financial support available for battery production at its new factory near Berlin, Dietmar Neuerer reports in ...
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01 Oct 2024, 10:44 91tv Team dpa: Renewables cover 56% of Germany's electricity in first three quarters This represents an increase from 52% in the same period last year. Energytransition.org: Germany's mixed record disappoints the climate ...
02 Dec 2019, 13:43 Freja Eriksen Cars Tagesspiegel / dpa The German district near Berlin that e-carmaker Tesla has chosen as the location for its first European gigafactory is awaiting the paperwork from the US company to go ahead with necessary ...
22 Mar 2022, 15:21 U.S. e-car company Tesla has inaugurated its first European production hub with the gigafactory near Germany’s capital Berlin. Opened only two and a half years after Tesla’s bombshell announcement for the location in the birth country ...
18 Feb 2020, 13:48 Rachel Waldholz Cars 91tv / Handelsblatt / Der Spiegel Conservative politicians and business associations are criticizing a ruling this weekend that temporarily halted work at the site of Tesla’s proposed e-car “Gigafactory ...
20 Feb 2020, 14:00 Rachel Waldholz Cars Elections & Politics Handelsblatt / 91tv Representatives from the German Green Party and major German environmental organizations have called for work to continue at Tesla’s proposed e-car factory ...
20 Jun 2023, 12:27 Expert VDA- German Association of the Automotive Industry Transport Jessica Bateman Cars Business & Jobs dpa / Die Welt Around half of all e-cars made in Germany are being produced in the eastern states, despite the region only ...
17 Jun 2021, 11:51 Sören Amelang Cars Tagesspiegel Tesla may have to stop construction of its "Gigafactory" near Berlin following new legal action brought by environmental NGOs, reports Thorsten Metzner in the newspaper Tagesspiegel. The ...
27 Jan 2020, 14:24 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Handelsblatt / n-tv American e-carmaker Tesla has applied for state subsidy payments in Germany to fund battery cell research and production in the host country of the company's planned new gigafactory, ...
20 Jul 2020, 14:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars rbb24 US carmaker Tesla’s planned gigafactory near Berlin continues to cause worries about the production site's water consumption, public broadcaster rbb24 reports. The local water supplier in the ...
28 Jul 2021, 12:16 Julian Wettengel Cars Business Insider Legal action brought by environmental NGOs continues to be a hurdle for Tesla’s “Gigafactory” near the German capital Berlin, reports Business Insider. The Brandenburg Nature and Biodiversity ...
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31 Oct 2024, 10:27 91tv Team The Guardian: Record levels of heat-related deaths in 2023 due to climate crisis, report finds Almost half of global land area saw extreme drought for at least one month, according to Lancet Countdown. EEA: EU greenhouse gas ...
10 Mar 2021, 13:46 Sören Amelang Cars Industry dpa Tesla sticks to its timetable and wants to open its "gigafactory" in Grünheide, near Berlin, in the summer despite recent delays, industry sources told German newswire dpa. The start of ...
24 Sep 2021, 13:31 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Storage Cars Policy 91tv The production of e-car battery cells in Europe is on track to become "the most successful industrial policy project since Airbus," German economy ...
07 Mar 2022, 14:05 Sören Amelang Cars Business & Jobs Reuters / 91tv Tesla received a conditional permit for its first European "gigafactory" near Berlin, while rival Volkswagen approved construction of a brand new e-car plant ...
27 Jul 2020, 13:05 Edgar Meza Storage Cars manager magazin US electric car manufacturer Tesla will be manufacturing battery cells along with electric vehicles at its planned German factory in Grünheide near Berlin, manager magazine reported citing ...
13 Nov 2020, 15:00 Sören Amelang 91tv 91tv Cars 91tv Germany's metalworker's union IG Metall staged a protest against the switch of Daimler's Berlin plant manager to rival Tesla, the California-based electric car ...
16 Oct 2020, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars rbb24 / Der Spiegel US carmaker Tesla has been forced to halt construction works at its planned e-car and battery factory near Berlin after failing to pay a water bill to the local supply company, which then ...
28 Nov 2024, 13:06 Julian Wettengel Coal Renewables 91tv The incoming coalition government in the eastern German state of Brandenburg has said it aims to continue the expansion of renewable energies to make the region surrounding the country ...
30 Jun 2020, 13:38 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Expert BMWi- Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy (until 2021) Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie Renewable Energy Act | EEG 2014 Business & Jobs Cost & Prices ...
Following in the footsteps of federal states Saarland, Rhineland-Palatinate, North-Rhine Westphalia, and Baden-Württemberg, the Bavarian government is vying to host American car company Tesla’s Gigafactory, the Süddeutsche Zeitung reports. Bavaria’s ...
Germany and China will use ongoing government talks to sign an agreement for the construction of a new battery-cell gigafactory in the state of Thuringia, a spokesperson from the state's economy ministry told the 91tv. Chinese producer ...
The government of the federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia has expressed interest in hosting the American car company Tesla’s electric vehicle and battery production facility, Handelsblatt reports. The state’s economy minister, Andreas Pinkwart, ...
A BMW TV spot airing on U.S. television pokes fun at electric vehicle maker Tesla and its ongoing problems while promoting its own e-car, Sebastian Viehmann writes in Focus Online. Tesla is facing technical difficulties with its autopilot feature, ...
German engineering company Siemens has offered its digital enterprise technology to help build Europe’s largest lithium-ion battery factory, planned by Northvolt, Reuters reports. Siemens said it would invest 10 million euros in the project – that has ...
09 Jan 2025, 13:30 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars dpa / Ingenieur U.S. carmaker Tesla, which is headed by highly controversial CEO Elon Musk, registered the biggest slump of new registrations among all electric vehicle (EV) manufacturers in Germany last year. ...
19 Oct 2023, 13:21 Carolina Kyllmann Renewables 91tv The German government has proposed the right steps to accelerate the rollout of photovoltaic (PV) systems, local utilities association VKU said ahead of a parliamentary discussion about ...
The federal government wants to soften the blow of phasing out coal by investing in large battery factories, or Gigafactories, according to an article in Die Welt. In coal-mining areas around the country, these manufacturing facilities could provide a new ...
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is eyeing Germany as a potential location for his company’s planned battery cell “Gigafactory” in Europe. Musk tweeted: “Germany is a leading choice for Europe. Perhaps on the German-French border makes sense, near the Benelux ...
Battery manufacturers say so-called gigafactories for battery production won't be economically viable in Europe for years, Daniel Wetzel writes for Die Welt. The car industry must first agree on a standard, Christian Riedel, spokesperson of Johnson ...
10 Jul 2018, 11:52 Chinese battery maker CATL plans to build a large factory in the eastern German state of Thuringia to supply manufacturers in the birth country of the automobile with battery cells to facilitate the transition to low-emission mobility. ...
09 Mar 2022, 13:00 Benjamin Wehrmann Fossil fuels Renewables Security 91tv The pivot away from Russian energy imports will require Germany to double down on its energy transition efforts and apply a speed similar to that of Tesla with its new ...
German government support for domestic battery cell production is the right step and thankfully, carmaker VW looks set to establish its own gigafactory in cooperation with Korean specialist SK Innovation, writes Stefan Menzel in an editorial in business ...
22 Nov 2024, 13:11 Carolina Kyllmann Elections & Politics MDR / dpa Three parties have agreed to form a coalition in Germany's eastern state of Thuringia following elections in September. The Christian Democrats (CDU), Social Democrats (SPD) and ...
16 Jun 2021, 12:19 Edgar Meza Coal Society rbb Germany’s eastern states are set to greatly benefit from the country’s energy transition due to the high number of future-oriented companies based there and to the coal exit compromise, which will see the ...
18 Nov 2019, 12:34 Tesla's announcement to build a "gigafactory" for e-car production in Germany is likely to speed up the slow shift to electric mobility in the country, politicians and mobility experts have said. Media called the ...
16 Mar 2022, 13:37 Edgar Meza Cars 91tv The establishment of U.S. carmaker Tesla will likely lead to the emergence of an electromobility cluster in Germany’s Berlin-Brandenburg region that could benefit from the numerous small and medium ...
07 Jan 2020, 14:03 Expert Federal Motor Transport Authority Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt Cars Transport Freja Eriksen Cars 91tv / Frankfurter Allgemeine The number of pure electric new car registrations in Germany rose by more than 75 percent in 2019 ...
17 Mar 2021, 13:02 Sören Amelang Mobility Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung VW subsidiary Audi has abandoned the development of new combustion engines. "We will no longer develop a new combustion engine, but will adapt our existing combustion engines to ...
02 Feb 2023, 13:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv The announcement of a new microchip factory of U.S. semiconductor producer Wolfspeed with an investment by German automotive industry supplier ZF has been welcome by ...
06 Jul 2022, 13:46 Benjamin Wehrmann Renewables Business & Jobs WirtschaftsWoche The local availability of renewable power sources could increasingly become a boon for northern German states and could shift the country’s industrial centre of gravity ...
13 Jun 2022, 12:05 Julian Wettengel Fossil fuels Cost & Prices 91tv German chancellor Olaf Scholz has assured the country’s eastern states that they will receive support in dealing with the fallout of an embargo on Russian oil supplies. ...
02 Jun 2022, 13:53 Edgar Meza Renewables Business & Jobs Der Tagesspiegel The planned structural transformation of the former East German states towards more sustainable industry – including renewable energy generation-- holds great potential but it ...
02 Apr 2020, 13:44 Sören Amelang Storage 91tv German storage company Tesvolt says it has started production in "Europe's first gigafactory for commercial battery storage systems." The new production line, in the Eastern German ...
07 Feb 2020, 12:55 Julian Wettengel Cars 91tv German carmaker Opel, a subsidiary of French PSA, plans to manufacture enough battery cells for half a million e-cars annually in a new factory in western German Kaiserslautern from 2024. Opel ...
16 Mar 2021, 13:31 Expert VW- Volkswagen Transport Cars Charlotte Nijhuis Mobility Handelsblatt / Wirtschaftswoche Online German car manufacturer Volkswagen plans to build six battery cell factories in Europe by 2030, the carmaker announced on Monday, ...
09 Dec 2019, 13:08 Rose-Anne Clermont Cars 91tv Electric passenger cars are being given too much focus as a way of reducing carbon emissions, analysts at Deutsche Bank Research said in a paper, titled ' E-mobility: Without subsidies ...
24 Sep 2020, 12:43 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Society rbb24 / 91tv Tesla's planned e-car factory near Berlin continues to draw criticism from local residents who take issue with the fact that work already began despite pending licenses, ...
06 Feb 2019, 13:54 Benjamin Wehrmann 91tv 91tv Storage Business & Jobs Handelsblatt The battery cell factory planned to be built in Germany by Chinese manufacturer CATL will have a much greater capacity than initially planned, Lukas Bay ...
09 Nov 2023, 14:08 Benjamin Wehrmann Hydrogen Business & Jobs 91tv With a new factory for building electrolysers in Berlin, Germany’s Siemens Energy and France’s Air Liquide hope to lay the groundwork for a flourishing hydrogen economy in ...
16 Jul 2020, 13:50 Expert BASF Business & Jobs Fossil fuels Benjamin Wehrmann Cars International Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung A cooperation with Russian resource company Nornickel could stain the sustainability credentials of Europe's planned ...
15 Jan 2020, 14:17 Sören Amelang Cars International Die Welt At the Las Vegas consumer electronics show CES, technology "made in Germany" only plays a supporting role, while real progress happens elsewhere, report Stefan Beutelsbacher and Thomas ...
11 Oct 2021, 13:53 Edgar Meza Cars Business & Jobs WirtschaftsWoche / Spiegel / Reuters Tesla is flying high in Germany: In September, more electric Tesla Model 3s were registered in the country than leading domestic models, such as the BMW 3 Series, ...
19 Oct 2021, 13:40 Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs Die Welt / Handelsblatt / Reuters The home state of Volkswagen, Lower Saxony, would not tolerate a large-scale reduction in staff at Germany’s largest carmaker, state premier Stephan Weil (SPD) ...
03 Mar 2020, 13:44 Rachel Waldholz Cars Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung / Handelsblatt Tesla could break ground on its new e-car factory outside Berlin as soon as this month, and the company could be eligible for 280 million euros in subsidies from the ...
01 Jul 2021, 13:36 Expert Agora Verkehrswende Think tank on energy transition in the transport sector Transport Cars Freight Edgar Meza Benjamin Wehrmann Cars Business & Jobs 91tv / Die Welt The shift to electric mobility could turn out ...
03 May 2021, 10:50 The batteries used in electric cars will quickly become more sustainable, and many concerns about their CO2 footprint are overblown, says Hans Eric Melin, founder and managing director of London-based consultancy Circular Energy ...
28 Aug 2020, 10:02 German coal regions will finally be able to use state support funds from the landmark phase-out agreement to help with their transition away from the fossil fuel. Federal and state governments signed a deal in Berlin to make official ...
31 Aug 2023, 10:00 Climate change is putting Europe’s water resources under immense pressure. Scientists expect heavy rain and dry periods to happen more often, be more severe, and last longer, leading to floods and droughts. Without swift mitigation and ...
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11 Apr 2016, 00:00 Sören Amelang Kerstine Appunn Spiegel Online/AFP/Süddeutsche Zeitung “Utilities increase nuclear provisions” The utilities have increased their provisions for the nuclear exit in the last year, according to a report by press agency AFP ...
12 Jul 2021, 12:20 Germany's upcoming general election adds fuel to the debate about whether combustion engines have a future in the birth country of the automobile and whether a general speed limit should be introduced on its famed autobahns. Given ...
20 Dec 2021, 10:55 The start of Germany's new government makes 2022 a crucial year for the country's landmark energy transition. All eyes are on the three-way coalition's first steps towards implementing its ambitious climate plans, which ...
07 May 2021, 13:45 Electric cars have long been touted as key to a more sustainable future, but their contribution is clouded by the climate impact of making and disposing of them. As part of an industry-wide bid to roll out entirely CO2-neutral vehicles, ...
12 Oct 2018, 16:30 The surge of far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and a strong showing of the Green Party look set to end the absolute majority of conservative Christian Social Union (CSU) in Bavarian state elections on 14 October. The CSU is a ...
28 Jul 2023, 14:30 The European Union’s two largest economic and industrial leaders, Germany and France, have spearheaded efforts to put the EU ahead in the global scramble for green industry leadership and decarbonisation technologies. Despite ...
14 Jan 2020, 10:06 Germany's shift to electric mobility looks set to get underway in earnest in 2020, and the country's mighty carmakers look ahead with trepidation to what promises to be a tremendous effort for the industry. Against the ...
28 Sep 2018, 15:37 Germany's solar power industry used to be a leader of the renewable technology's global expansion but a series of political blunders has killed off solar power companies and passed the torch on to China, solar power researcher ...
12 Apr 2022, 09:53 Russia’s attack on Ukraine has added a new dimension to Germany’s ambitious aims for ramping up the share of renewables in its energy system. Marking a “ historic turning point,” the fast elimination of fossil fuel imports for Germany ...
