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Best of 2022

2. January 2023

Throughout 2022, this website featured more than 300 articles and videos about Germany as a business and high-tech location. Below is a list so that you can catch up on anything you might have missed.

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MAGAZINE: Deeptech

Trading on Complexity

27. March 2023/0 Comments/in All, Digital Economy, Innovations, Investors, Location, R&D, Start-ups /by

More and more start-ups in Germany are working on deeptech solutions – based on fundamentally new scientific-technological approaches and know-how. International businesses are already starting to benefit from this new wave of innovation.

MAGAZINE: Entrepreneurship

One to Watch: Lubomila Jordanova, co-founder and CEO of PLAN A

24. March 2023/0 Comments/in All, Climate Protection, Consumer Industries & Corporate Services, Digital Economy, Energy & Environment, Investors, Location, Regions in Structural Change, Start-ups /by

Few people in the greentec start-up scene in Berlin have a more impressive track record than Lubomila Jordanova.

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Future Mobility – Made in Germany

24. March 2023/0 Comments/in All, Climate Protection, Digital Economy, Electronics & Microtechnology, Energy & Environment, Location, Machinery & Equipment, Mobility & Logistics, Videos /by

Whether it’s electric vehicles and EV infrastructure, lightweight engineering, autonomous driving and digitalization, logistics or hydrogen as fuel: Mobility and transportation will change more in the next 20 years than it did in the previous 130. Our video looks at how this change will take place in Germany, and how YOUR business can profit from it.

IN BRIEF: Power Grid

Work Begins on First Converter for South-to-East German Power Link

22. March 2023/0 Comments/in All, Climate Protection, Energy & Environment, Location, Machinery & Equipment /by

One challenge in Germany is how to get renewably generated electricity from the north and east of the country to the industrial south.

IN BRIEF: AI

German Retail Looking to Artificial Intelligence

21. March 2023/0 Comments/in All, Digital Economy, Innovations, Location /by

Supermarkets, drugstores and other retailers in Europe’s largest economy are increasingly turning to AI to maximize efficiency and profits. And IT startups are benefiting from this trend.

IN BRIEF: EV Charging Stations

Germany Records Major Increases in EV Charging Stations and Capacity

20. March 2023/0 Comments/in All, Climate Protection, Electronics & Microtechnology, Energy & Environment, Location, Machinery & Equipment, Mobility & Logistics /by

German industry organization BDEW says that the number of electric vehicles charging points rose to more than 80,500 in 2022, an annual increase of 35 percent. Meanwhile, the capacity of charging stations in Germany jumped by more than 40 percent from 1.7 to nearly 2.5 gigawatts.

IN BRIEF: Battery Recycling

Finnish Battery Recycling Company Gets Green Light in Germany

20. March 2023/0 Comments/in All, Chemicals & Materials, Climate Protection, Energy & Environment, FDI, Investors, Location, Mobility & Logistics /by

Finland’s Fortum , one of Europe’s five largest energy companies, has received permission from authorities to start operations at its new lithium-ion battery recycling facility in Kirchardt. The company founded its German subsidiary in the southwestern town in the fall of last year.

IN BRIEF: Bikes

2022 Another Record Year for Bicycles and E-Bikes in Germany

17. March 2023/0 Comments/in All, Climate Protection, Location, Machinery & Equipment, Mobility & Logistics /by

There are now roughly the same number of bicycles as people in Germany, and e-bikes may overtake conventional bicycles in terms of new production and sales. Those are two of the main insights of the German bicycle industry organization ZIV’s annual report on the sector.

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Securing Germany’s Energy Supply

Germany is taking decisive steps to secure stability of energy supply in response to the energy disturbance in Europe caused by Russia’s war on Ukraine. See what measures have been taken to date and what is still to come in 2023.

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Corona Crisis and Germany

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ONLINEPLUS: Energy Transition

Germany’s Clean Energy Transition – “A Question of Must, not Whether”

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14. April 2022

When it took office late last year, the new German government promised to introduce wide-ranging legislation by Easter to accelerate the transition to clean energy. The so-called “Easter Package” delivers on that pledge.

IN BRIEF: Digitalization

Quantum Cooperation

29. January 2020/0 Comments/in All, Digital Economy, Editor's Choice, Industries /by

To build the next generation of super-computers, commercial and scientific heavyweights will probably need to team up. For this reason, Google is joining together with Germany’s Jülich Supercomputing Center to further develop this future-oriented technology.

IN BRIEF: Climate Protection

Waste Heat 2 Power

28. December 2020/0 Comments/in All, Climate Protection, Editor's Choice, Energy & Environment, Location, Start-ups /by

Düsseldorf cleantech start-up poligy has come up with a solution for harvesting waste heat and converting it into electricity.

IN BRIEF: Electric Mobility

Germany Poised to Become World Leader in EV Production

5. March 2020/0 Comments/in All, Editor's Choice, Industries, Mobility & Logistics /by

In a new study, McKinsey predicts that Germany will overtake China in making electric vehicles.

MAGAZINE: Entrepreneurship

One to Watch: Lidia Nachbaur, managing director of Qventis

6. August 2020/0 Comments/in All, Editor's Choice, Investors, Life Sciences, Regions in Structural Change, Start-ups /by

An office, a lab and EUR 50,000 – that’s all Lidia Nachbaur needed to start Qventis, a medical devices firm in Hennigsdorf, a small town in the state of Brandenburg, outside Berlin.

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The German government sees hydrogen technology as the key to the country’s clean energy future. It’s investing billions of euros in the sector. Germany aims to become the “world number one” in clean hydrogen energy technology – with the government investing €9bn. Our new video looks at how international businesses can get involved in German environmental H2.

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“No Alternative” to Germany Breaking Dependence on Russian Gas, Fossil Fuels

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28. March 2022

Germany’s transition to a clean energy future has picked up additional momentum after the Russian attack on Ukraine. We talked to Thomas Grigoleit, Germany Trade & Invest Director of Energy, Construction and Environmental Technologies about what the future will hold.

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