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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

DHL Global Forwarding, the air and ocean freight specialist of Deutsche Post DHL Group, has signed an agreement with Air France KLM Martinair Cargo (AFKLMP) for the purchase of 33 million liters of sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). Companies can own SAF by buying and selling it without physically tracing the fuel through the supply chain.

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MAY 1, 2022

Umicore and Automotive Cells Company (ACC)—a joint company between Stellantis, Mercedes-Benz and TotalEnergies together with its subsidiary Saft—have signed a long-term strategic supply agreement for EV cathode materials in Europe. Earlier post.). —Yann Vincent, CEO of ACC.

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FEBRUARY 7, 2020

Faurecia recently was awarded a significant contract for fuel cell electric vehicle storage systems from Hyundai Motor Company. In June 2019, Faurecia announced the creation of a global center of expertise for hydrogen storage systems at its R&D center in Bavans, France. Earlier post.).

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MAY 21, 2021

The supply will go beyond 2030. In addition, the companies intend to design and develop jointly even more advanced next-generation battery cells and packs for truck-specific applications, with a focus on high modularity and scalability in order to support different truck applications and flexible compatibility with future e-truck models.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

The Renault-Nissan Alliance has signed an agreement with Orange, one of the world’s largest telecommunications operators, to supply it with a fleet of 200 electric vehicles for its needs in France. Orange will use the electric vehicles mostly for car-sharing purposes between its buildings and installations in France.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Renault Group and Finland-based metals producer Terrafame have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the future supply of nickel sulfate. With this agreement, Renault Group will secure a significant annual supply of nickel sulfate from Terrafame, representing up to 15 GWh of annual capacity.

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MAY 24, 2019

Paris-based Régie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP) has signed a contract with Solaris Bus & Coach for the supply of the Solaris Urbino 8.9 Solaris vehicles have been present in France since 2003. Since then, the company has delivered nearly 550 buses to the country, of which more than 100 went to Île-de-France region.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

Automotive Cells Co ( ACC ) has partnered with UK startup Circulor to check the provenance and embedded carbon emissions of raw materials the France-based battery maker uses for electric vehicle (EV) battery cells, the two companies said on Wednesday. ACC is a joint venture between Stellantis, TotalEnergies and Mercedes-Benz Group.

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DECEMBER 10, 2022

The company will invest €60 million in the construction of its first production facility, called “Plant One”, of which €30 million comes from a European Investment Bank (EIB) loan facility. The company is working with partners to apply the technology in next-generation consumer electronics, electronic vehicles and e-flight applications.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

Swiss shipbuilding company Shiptec AG, based in Lucerne, and Siemens Energy SRL, Milan, have selected Leclanché to supply energy storage systems for two new hybrid-powered vessels that will operate on Lake Geneva. The first of the nine ships ordered by Grimaldi is currently undergoing sea trials.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2012

Belgium-based chemical group Solvay has opened two rare earth recycling units in France. In order to diversify its sources of supply and preserve resources, Solvay has developed a process for recovering rare earths contained in end-of-life equipment such as low-energy light bulbs, batteries or magnets.

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MAY 31, 2022

To support the exponential growth in demand for battery cell materials, Arkema and Nippon Shokubai are taking a step forward by launching feasibility studies and establishing a joint venture to enable the mass-production of LiFSI electrolyte salt at Arkema’s Pierre-Bénite site in France by end 2025.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Mercedes-Benz is taking an equity stake in European battery cell manufacturer Automotive Cells Company (ACC) to scale up development and production of next-generation high-performance battery cells and modules. ACC will supply Mercedes-Benz with high-performance battery technologies from its production locations from the middle of the decade.

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DECEMBER 14, 2015

delivered its 1,000 th commercial vehicle to be powered by natural gas in France. The recipient of this milestone unit is French company CityLogistics, which provides urban logistics services and deliveries in the cities of Lyon and Villeurbanne, with plans to extend to other parts of the country.

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JUNE 5, 2023

However France is catching up, partially because of its largesse in investment tasks in advance. 2 billion euros and assemble 3,000 jobs over future, France presented incentives usefulness greater than 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion), one supply with wisdom of the trade in advised Reuters. For the two.3-billion-euro

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France Batteries Battery Financing 52

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DECEMBER 6, 2021

Alstom and MOL, Hungary’s leading oil and gas company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to structure cooperation in examining the use of hydrogen technology in rail transportation. Alstom’s hydrogen technology has also been purchased by SNCF (France) and FNM (Italy). —Jean-Baptiste Eyméoud, President of Alstom France.

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JULY 13, 2021

Hyzon Motors ( earlier post ) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with TotalEnergies that reinforces the two companies’ shared commitment to evaluate and develop hydrogen refueling and vehicle supply solutions for long-haul transport to customers across Europe.

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AUGUST 7, 2022

MAN Energy Solutions will provide a methanation unit for a wastewater treatment plant in Pau, France. —Arnauld Filancia, President, MAN Energy Solutions France. Storengy has entrusted MAN Energy Solutions France with the engineering, supply, transport, installation and on-site commissioning of the methanation unit.

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APRIL 28, 2023

For the all-new Megane E-TECH Electric, Constellium supplies aluminium Auto Body Sheet for outer panels from its Surfalex product range, combining high strength with excellent surface quality and hemming properties, and for the inner panels from the forming-optimized Formalex product range.

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MARCH 6, 2022

France-based global energy company TotalEnergies’ Normandy platform has successfully started production of sustainable aviation fuel1 (SAF). The refinery’s output represents 12% of France’s total refining capacity and the petrochemicals plant accounts for 11% of plastics produced in France.

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MAY 3, 2021

In 2019, EDF strengthened its commitment to the energy transition by creating Hynamics, a subsidiary aimed at making EDF a key player in the low-carbon and renewable hydrogen sector in France and internationally. The Group is involved in supplying energy and services to approximately 37.9 million of which are in France.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

The company is currently producing e-axles in China and Europe but will start making them in North America as well ahead of an expected surge in demand. The company plans to be capable of building an annual 7 million e-axles by March 2026. In France, a plant Nidec runs jointly with Stellantis began operating earlier this year.

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OCTOBER 15, 2013

Mobility company Transdev , through its subsidiary Proxiway, which specializes in car sharing, has launched, in partnership with the Toshiba group, an innovative car sharing service using solar energy and quick-charge points in the eco-district of La Confluence, Lyon, France. The project will run for two years until December 2015.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

In particular, TotalEnergies has the ambition by 2030 to operate directly or indirectly up to 150 hydrogen refueling stations in Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France. The company is focused on both CO 2 -neutral technologies: batteries and hydrogen fuel-cells.

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APRIL 1, 2020

Faced with the compelling need for more respirators, the French government asked a group of French industrial companies led by Air Liquide to study the possibility of increasing the production of respirators so as to provide 10,000 respirators in 50 days, between the beginning of April and mid-May.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In line with the ambition of both companies to reach net zero CO 2 emissions by 2050, this major partnership aims to accelerate the reduction of the CO 2 emissions of the aviation industry. Supply of sustainable aviation fuels produced in France by TotalEnergies to decarbonize Safran’s airplane and helicopter engine tests in France.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Vulcan Energy Resources ( earlier post ) and Stellantis have signed a binding lithium hydroxide offtake agreement to supply, starting in 2026, a minimum of 81,000 tonnes and a maximum of 99,000 tonnes of battery-grade lithium hydroxide over the duration of the initial five-year agreement. Source: Vulcan Energy.

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JUNE 1, 2020

The implementation of this project, the first industrial-scale power-to-X-to-power demonstrator with an advanced hydrogen turbine, will be launched at Smurfit Kappa PRF’s site—a company specialized in manufacturing recycled paper—in Saillat-sur-Vienne, France. In this case, the “X” will be hydrogen.

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JULY 1, 2023

It received financial support from Innovate UK, UK’s national innovation agency, and the Automotive Transformation Fund, a funding program to support the electrification of vehicles and their supply chains in the UK. EMILI, launched in 2022, is also using lithium-bearing granite as its source mineral. Li with a Li recovery of more than 90%.

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JANUARY 12, 2023

Euro Manganese has entered into an offtake term sheet with Verkor , a low-carbon battery manufacturer based in Grenoble, France, for the sale of high-purity manganese sulfate monohydrate (HPMSM) from the company’s Chvaletice Manganese Project in the Czech Republic. Earlier post.) The term sheet is non-binding.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

HCS Group will be supplied exclusively for sales of Gevo’s renewable isooctane into high-end applications ranging from high purity solvents to specialty fuels under its Haltermann Carless brand, excluding use of isooctane for on-road transportation fuels.

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MAY 31, 2022

Stellantis will supply TME with the new large-size commercial van for sale in Europe under the Toyota brand. The large-size LCV announcement deepens the collaboration enabling Toyota to complete a full LCV line-up in Europe, while allowing both companies to benefit from development and production cost optimisation.

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APRIL 11, 2023

Independent research and business intelligence company Rystad Energy estimates that there are about 91 planned hydrogen pipeline projects in the world, totaling 30,300 kilometers and due to come online by around 2035. Hydrogen pipelines are already used to supply industrial hubs (at petrochemical plants for example). Additionally, 3.4

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FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Shell will generate additional value in customer access and global scale in trading and supply chain positions. The company established its first biogas plant in Denmark in 2015 and now has 14 operating plants with associated infrastructure, feedstock arrangements, and 2022 production of around 6.5 mln MMBtu/yr (3,000 boe/d).

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JANUARY 30, 2014

Ballard Power Systems will supply Solaris Bus and Coach with two zero emission fuel cell power modules to be used in buses planned for deployment in Hamburg, Germany. The Company manufactures intracity, intercity and special-purpose buses as well as low-floor trams.

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United Arab Emirates Supplies Poland Fuel 261

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APRIL 6, 2021

The company says that fuel cells show great promise—especially for LCVs—as the next level of zero-emission propulsion technology. Fuel cell technology can fulfill customer range expectations combined with towing and payload capacity, the company said. Less than 34-minute refueling. More than 400 km (249 mile) range.

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Hydrogen Light Commercial Fuel 307

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JULY 4, 2011

PetroChina Company Limited and INEOS Group completed the deal to form trading and refining Joint Ventures between PetroChina International (London) Company Limited, and INEOS Investments (Jersey) Limited on 1 July. The refinery supplies fuel by pipelines into France, Switzerland and Southern Germany.

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