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Vancouver-based Ceylon Graphite granted industrial mining licence for M1 mining project in Sri Lanka

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The Licence grants exclusive rights to mine graphite from within the M1 mining area. With the M1 permit in hand, the company expects to be hoisting graphite after the shaft has been deepened by twenty feet and crosscut to a parallel vein system. Vancouver-based Ceylon Graphite Corp.

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Zepp.solutions secures €2M grant to build fuel cell systems factory

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Zepp.solutions, a Dutch company specialized in hydrogen fuel cell technology, has secured a €1.98-million million grant from the European Just Transition Fund (JTF) for the development of a fuel cell systems factory. The factory will be situated in Europe’s strategic transport hub, the Greater-Rijnmond region. Earlier post.)

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Phoenix Motorcars, EasyMile win grant for development of first FMVSS-compliant autonomous shuttle bus in US

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Furthering its success in powering traditional medium-duty shuttles and trucks with its cutting-edge electric drivetrain technology, Phoenix Motorcars will integrate EasyMile’s driverless technology to its range of zero emission vehicles. The company’s electric vehicles have logged more than 2.3-million million zero emission miles.

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LiquidPiston receives SBIR grant to develop X-Engine as hybrid-electric platform for UAVs

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a developer of advanced rotary internal combustion engines for diesel and jet fuels ( earlier post ), received a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant from the US Army for the development of its X-Engine as a hybrid-electric propulsion platform for UAVs. LiquidPiston, Inc.,

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Saietta Group wins APC grant to bring production of axial flux traction electric motor to 150k units per year

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UK-based tech company Saietta has won a major grant , through the UK’s Advanced Propulsion Center (APC) that will fast-track the first stage of the production process ramp-up for its innovative Axial Flux Traction (AFT) electric motor.

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Solvay invests in Li-metal battery company Sepion

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Sepion raised funds to accelerate commercialization of lithium metal batteries for long-range and low-cost electric vehicles. million grant to advance the development of its safe anode-free hybrid lithium-metal cells from a lab-scale validation to a pre-prototype. This would enable an existing Gigafactory to become a 1.4-fold

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Iveco Group acquires full control of Nikola Iveco Europe

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has acquired the full and sole ownership of the German company resulting from the former joint venture Nikola Iveco Europe, now to be renamed as EVCO (Electric Vehicles COmpany). Iveco Group N.V.

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