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APRIL 30, 2022

In 2021, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) launched a call for proposals to support R&D projects for zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) manufacturing, systems, components, and batteries in Canada. Cummins, which acquired Hydrogenics Corporation in 2019, and partners AIS Technologies, Shelley Industrial Automation and Konnexio Inc.

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JUNE 18, 2022

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasts that liquid fuels production in Brazil, Canada, and China will increase this year and next, contributing to growth in overall non-OPEC petroleum production. After the United States, EIA expects liquid fuels production to increase the most in the non-OPEC countries of Brazil and Canada.

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JULY 18, 2019

Canada’s Minister of Natural Resources, Amarjeet Sohi, announced a new $4.5-million million Impact Canada challenge aimed at accelerating made-in-Canada battery innovation to better position the country in the highly competitive global market.

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MARCH 4, 2021

and global economies with businesses and manufacturers having to close doors and furlough employees, the global trade markets plummeted to an 11-year low of 41.5% According to the USGS in its Mineral Commodity Summaries 2019 report [ 2 ] , “World tungsten supply was dominated by production in China and exports from China.”.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects global consumption of liquid fuels such as gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel, to set new record highs in 2024. EIA also expects oil production in Canada, Brazil, and Norway collectively to grow 12% from 2022 to 2024, and also expects growth from new sources such as Guyana.

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MAY 20, 2022

Particular opportunity for the Global South identified as net-zero fuel production costs expected to be up to 20% lower in Latin America and Africa. Vancouver, Canada. billion in 2019. To meet the enormous demand for hydrogen-based fuels in the Global North, production centers in the Global South are urgently needed.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2019

million units for 2019. US Light Vehicle Sales, 2015-2018, and CAR’s Forecast, 2019-2025. The Center for Automotive Research’s (CAR’s) updated automotive sales outlook forecasts US light-duty vehicle sales at 16.8 CAR’s forecast includes a continuation of sales declines in 2020 and 2021 down to 16.5 million units in 2021.

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MARCH 6, 2019

Although Germany, the UK, US, Canada and Ukraine are phasing out domestic coal production capacity, expansion of production capacity in countries such as India and Indonesia is predicted to generate modest annual growth of 1.3% After declining consecutively for three years, global coal production increased by 2.8% to 7,188.8

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

At the North American Commercial Vehicle Show, Navistar International Corporation announced it expects a number of new product offerings and integrations with alliance partner Volkswagen Truck & Bus ( earlier post ), including plans to develop an electric-powered, medium-duty vehicle for the company’s core (US and Canada) market.

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The initiative aims to improve the country’s reliance on hardware infrastructure and to become a global hub for electronics manufacturing and design. By chance, he attended a session on microwaves given by IEEE Fellow Fadhel Ghannouchi , who taught electrical and computer engineering at the University of Calgary , in Alberta, Canada.

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MAY 3, 2019

The global battery energy storage market will to grow to $13.13 Asia-Pacific (APAC) and EMEA will be the dominant markets for battery energy storage systems over the forecast period 2019-2023. The US market for battery energy storage is estimated to reach $2.96bn in 2023, accounting for 23% of the global market.

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JANUARY 16, 2020

New research from McGill University and the University of California, Santa Cruz has found that the local streets of the world’s cities are becoming less connected, a global trend that is driving urban sprawl and discouraging the use of public transportation. Different forms of gated communities were also found to be on the rise globally.

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MARCH 30, 2017

Ford is adding more than 400 connectivity engineers in Canada and the US—approximately 300 of whom will be based in Canada—more than doubling Ford’s mobile connectivity engineering team. —Raj Nair, Ford executive vice president, global product development and chief technical officer.

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MARCH 4, 2021

In 2019, the Government of British Columbia, through the CleanBC Go Electric Advanced Research and Commercialization (ARC) program, selected Eagle for a grant of $290,000. Flake graphite accounts for approximately 40% of global natural graphite supply. The quarry is located in Passmore, near Castlegar.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2021

KGaA (SHS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the viability of transforming iron ore pellets into low-carbon hot briquetted iron (HBI) (a form of Direct Reduced Iron, DRI), a steel feedstock ( earlier post ) using green hydrogen generated from hydro-electricity in Canada. Earlier post.). billion.

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MAY 12, 2021

CP operates a 21,000-km (13,000-mile) rail network across Canada and the USthat serves deep-water ports on the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. In 2018, year-over-year, Canada's freight rail sector’s workload, measured by gross ton-miles, increased by 6.2%, and increased 10.1% compared with the five-year average.

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Last week, 37 electric vehicle (EV) driver associations from 26 countries, including Plug In America, joined forces to create the Global EV Drivers’ Alliance, building a worldwide EV community. For example, the market share for plug-in vehicles in Germany grew from 3% in 2019 to 13.5% in 2020, and the UK market went from 3.2%

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JULY 14, 2021

Electrify America announced its “Boost Plan” to more than double its current electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure in the United States and Canada, with plans to have more than 1,800 fast charging stations and 10,000 individual chargers installed by the end of 2025.

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APRIL 18, 2020

IHS Markit is forecasting that global commercial vehicle production (GVW 4-8) volumes in 2020 compared to 2019 will be down 22% (more than 650,000 units) to 2.6 These forecasts are informed by the latest IHS Markit global economic forecast updates, which reflect a 3.0% decline in global real GDP in 2020.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

The gigafactory will supply battery materials to Umicore’s car and battery cell customers in Europe and marks an important step in achieving the European Union’s ambition of having its own battery ecosystem that is both sustainable and competitive on a global scale. Currently, Umicore in Nysa employs about 240 people.

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JUNE 3, 2020

The number of available and announced models of zero-emission trucks, buses and off-road equipment in the United States and Canada is on track to rise nearly 78% by the end of 2020 compared to year-end 2019, according to the Zero-Emission Technology Inventory ( ZETI ), a product of CALSTART’s Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero program.

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JANUARY 1, 2020

From the 2010 model year through to September 2019, 14.6% market share in 2019. In contrast, pickups globally have had a significantly smaller market share—approximately 3.7% In contrast, pickups globally have had a significantly smaller market share—approximately 3.7% million), Canada (17.8 mpg vs. 17.8

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APRIL 25, 2022

Global automotive and industrial supplier Schaeffler has signed a five-year contract with Norwegian company REEtec AS for the purchase of rare earth oxides. Based on its proprietary technology, REEtec has been separating rare earths at an industrial-scale demo-plant since 2019.

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JUNE 4, 2020

million units in April 2019 to 292,600 vehicles in April 2020, according to JATO Dynamics. This represents the lowest monthly level since the 1970s, and the worst result among the big three markets: China, USA-Canada, and Europe. Registrations of SUV in April totalled 109,500 units, 78% less than April 2019. Volume fell from 1.34

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NOVEMBER 27, 2018

These steps include the reorganization of its global product development and product development staffs; the realignment of its manufacturing capacity including the shuttering of 5 North American plants and two international plants in 2019; and a reduction of salaried workforce. Compressing global product development campuses.

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JUNE 6, 2019

Transportation constraints such as a lack of adequate pipeline capacity and the resulting sense of price insecurity in western Canada have weighed on new large scale incremental investments in the oil sands, said Kevin Birn, vice president, IHS Markit. —Kevin Birn. —Kevin Birn.

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DECEMBER 16, 2020

Canada-based Neo Lithium Corp. CATL is a global leader in the development and manufacturing of lithium-ion batteries, with businesses covering R&D, manufacturing and sales in battery systems for new energy vehicles and energy storage systems. In 2019, the company’s EV battery sales volume reached 40.25

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JUNE 30, 2016

As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership.

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JANUARY 9, 2021

New Flyer Industries Canada ULC and New Flyer of America Inc., one of the world’s leading independent global bus manufacturers, announced the successful completion of a battery recycling pilot with North America’s largest lithium-ion battery recycler, Li- Cycle Corporation. subsidiaries of NFI Group Inc., Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In September, 2019, Rio Tinto launched a pioneering initiative in the steel industry, partnering with China Baowu Steel Group and Tsinghua University to develop solutions to help address the steel industry’s carbon footprint and improve environmental performance. Partner to reduce the carbon footprint across the value chain.

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JUNE 3, 2023

—Doug Parks, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain The companies established the Ultium CAM joint venture, which is majority owned by POSCO Future M, in July 2022. 2021 - Announced plan with POSCO Future M to produce CAM in Canada; site work in Québec commenced in March 2022.

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AUGUST 31, 2011

Global production of biofuels increased 17% in 2010 to reach an all-time high of 105 billion liters (28 billion gallons US), up from 90 billion liters (24 billion gallons US) in 2009. of all global fuel for road transportation—an increase from 2% in 2009, according to the report. Source: Worldwatch Institute. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 14, 2022

A 2019 provincial hydrogen study showed that by 2050, BC could expect hydrogen to provide a positive, $2.5-billion A 2019 provincial hydrogen study showed that by 2050, BC could expect hydrogen to provide a positive, $2.5-billion In 2021, British Columbia became the first province in Canada to release a comprehensive hydrogen strategy.

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OCTOBER 28, 2020

For self-driving vehicles, the index is still low, slipping to 34 from 35 in the United States, while holding steady at 36 in Canada. The 2020 Q3 study includes insights from the United States and Canada. More than three-fourths (78%) of respondents expect a range of 300 miles or more, up three percentage points from 2019 Q3.

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JULY 29, 2019

On 26 July, the first flue gas from the natural gas power plant, the Shepard Energy Center in Calgary, Canada, was directly transformed by the C2CNT process ( earlier post ) into carbon nanotubes. Xinye Liu, Jiawen Ren, Gad Licht, Xirui Wang, Stuart Licht (2019) “Carbon Nano?Onions 2019.07.007. 201900056.

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Starting in mid-2019, we have seen reports of the Hyundai Kona’s high-powered batteries spontaneously catching fire, with now 13 recorded incidents to-date, including fires in Canada, Korea, and Austria. IBreaking news yesterday, as Hyundai recall over 700 Kona’s in New Zealand following, recalls in Korea, North America, and Europe.

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OCTOBER 10, 2019

As of October 2019, UPS has agreed to purchase 230 million gallon equivalents of RNG over the next seven years, making the company the largest consumer of RNG in the transportation industry. UPS CNG Fueling Station. Houston, Texas, and Cleveland, Ohio.

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