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Vale and GM sign long-term nickel supply agreement in Canada

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Vale Canada Limited, a subsidiary of Vale S.A., and General Motors signed a term sheet for the long-term supply of battery grade nickel sulfate from Vale’s proposed plant at Bécancour, Québec, Canada. The amount of contained nickel is sufficient to supply approximately 350,000 EVs annually.

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Canada launches Hydrogen Strategy

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The Government of Canada has launched its Hydrogen Strategy , a framework that seeks to position Canada as a global hydrogen leader, cementing this low-carbon and zero-emission fuel technology as a key part of a path to net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. The Strategy will utilize Canadian expertise to build new hydrogen supply.

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BMW i Ventures co-leads investment in circular supply chain company Cyclic Materials; recycling rare earth elements

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BMW i Ventures announced an investment in Canada-based Cyclic Materials , a circular supply chain company focused on recycling rare earth elements (REE) ( earlier post ). The financing will be used to establish a hub and spoke network for the company’s commercial scale operations.

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NGen Canada awarding $76M to 15 zero-emission vehicle projects

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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. Lead: Cummins Inc.; Partners: AIS Technologies Group, Shelley Industrial Automation, Konnexio Inc.

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Canada awarding more than $344M for critical minerals development

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The Government of Canada will award more than $344 million in funding to suport five new critical minerals programs and initiatives. 70 million to strengthen Canada’s global leadership role in enhancing critical minerals supply chain resiliency through international collaborations related to critical minerals.

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Li-Cycle delivers first commercial shipment of recycled battery material

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a North-America-based lithium-ion battery resource recovery company, recently completed its first shipment of commercially recycled battery material, containing energy metals concentrate. Li-Cycle Corp. , Earlier post.) The company also announced that it will establish its first US-based facility in New York State.

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Skeleton Technologies to supply supercap modules to Class8 Energy; €11.6M contract

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As a first concrete example of this new cooperation, Class8 Energy announced an agreement with the largest Canadian heavy vehicle parts distributo—UAP’s Heavy Vehicle parts division—to supply Skeleton’s supercapacitors to them. —Jean Labrie, CEO of Class8 Energy.

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