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Canada awarding C$475M to Air Products for blue hydrogen energy complex in Alberta

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Under separate agreements, Air Products will receive: $300 million (CAD) (US$226 million) from the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), the Government of Canada’s program designed to spur innovation for a better Canada by providing funding for large projects and national innovation ecosystems. Dr. Samir J.

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Ford investing US$375M for R&D in Canada; doubling connectivity team, new research and engineering center

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Ford is investing an additional C$500-million (US$375 million) in its Canadian research and development presence, adding connectivity software and hardware engineers and establishing a new Ottawa Research and Engineering Center. Connectivity is the critical component to the future of mobility.

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Coach Atlantic Maritime Bus testing battery-electric MCI D45 CRTe LE coach in Canada

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Coach Atlantic Maritime Bus is the first to test MCI’s first all-electric coach—the MCI D45 CRTe LE CHARGE, designed for long-range express routes—in Canada. MCI D45 CRTe LE CHARGE. —” said Michael McDonald, MCI’s Sustainable Transportation Specialist. MCI offers two battery-electric models.

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Audi vehicles with the MIB 3 infotainment system will be holoride-capable from June 2022

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Founded in 2018 by Nils Wollny, Marcus Kuehne, Daniel Profendiner, and Audi, holoride connects Extended Reality (XR) content in real-time with motion and location-aware vehicle data, such as physical feedback and navigation, to create hyper-immersive XR content and experiences for passengers. Other markets will follow successively.

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Tesla prepares to export Model Y from Shanghai to Canada, report says

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It will be the first time the company will ship cars from China to North America, a move that will connect Tesla's largest and most cost-effective factory in the world with its biggest market, North America, the report said. Tesla's Shanghai plant exported 91,893 vehicles in the first quarter, up 24.39

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Opel with OnStar connectivity beginning in 2015

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Opel is planning to introduce OnStar across its passenger car range in selected European markets beginning in 2015. million customers in the US, Canada, China, and Mexico already use OnStar connected services. More than 6.5 —Opel CEO Dr. Karl-Thomas Neumann.

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GM to invest nearly $800M to convert CAMI into Canada’s 1st large-scale commercial EV plant; EV600 first

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This will support jobs and transform work at the plant over the next two years from Chevrolet Equinox production to production of EV600s, serving the growing North American electric delivery solutions market. The new CAMI investments build upon other recent GM investments in Canada, including the recently announced nearly $1.03

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