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Frito-Lay debuts pilot for upcoming electric fleet in Carrollton, TX

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Frito-Lay announced a new electric fleet that will serve the Dallas Fort Worth area, specifically Carrollton. Frito-Lay North America is the $19-billion convenient foods division of PepsiCo, Inc., The first pilot Ford eTransit truck has arrived just in time for Earth Day, with 40 arriving later this summer.

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GM and POSCO Chemical to process cathode active material at new $400M joint venture plant in Québec

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The companies previously announced plans to form a CAM processing joint venture in December 2021, majority owned by POSCO Chemical. It is so exciting to see GM Canada and Québec playing a key role in building the emerging ‘mines to mobility’ EV battery ecosystem in North America. Earlier post.)

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GM and MP Materials enter long-term supply agreement to scale rare earth magnet sourcing and production in US

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Rare earth materials sourced from Mountain Pass will be transformed into metal, NdFeB alloy and magnets at a new production facility MP Materials today announced it will build in Fort Worth, Texas, delivering an end-to-end US supply chain. —Shilpan Amin, GM vice president, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain.

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GM and Glencore enter multi-year cobalt supply agreement

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By the end of 2025, GM plans to have capacity to build 1 million electric vehicles in North America, and has announced a series of actions to create a new and more secure EV supply chain, including projects targeting key EV materials and components: Cathode Active Material (CAM) with POSCO Chemical.

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US DOD awards MP Materials $35M heavy rare earth processing contract

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MP Materials owns and operates Mountain Pass, the only integrated rare earth mining and processing site in North America. It will also enable the company to recycle all recoverable rare earths from end-of-life magnets and magnet production scrap, increasing the resiliency and environmental sustainability of the domestic supply base.

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New “50 by 50” Commission seeks to halve US transportation energy use by 2050

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Scott Keogh, President, Audi of America (Co-Chair); Dean Seavers, President, National Grid U.S. Passek, President, Copper Development Association; William Peduto, Mayor of Pittsburgh, Pa.;

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ExxonMobil adds 2.7B barrels oil equivalent to reserves; replaces 183% of 2017 production

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Other significant new proved reserve additions were made in Guyana, where the company funded the first phase of development last year, and in Mozambique, associated with the project funding of the Coral FLNG project in the gas-rich deepwater Area 4. billion gross oil-equivalent barrels prior to the 2018 Ranger discovery.

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