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DECEMBER 24, 2020

Our environmental track record and continual efforts to help our customers build more sustainable communities played a major role in our decision to use renewable diesel in our fleet. We absolutely love the renewable nature of this product. Our experience has been positive. There’s no change in engine performance.

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MAY 21, 2022

Hyundai Motor Group (HMG) entered into an agreement with the State of Georgia to build its first dedicated full electric vehicle and battery manufacturing facilities in the US. The new facility will break ground in early 2023 and is expected to begin commercial production in the first half of 2025 with an annual capacity of 300,000 units.

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JANUARY 22, 2022

The investment will help boost production to meet the surging demand for advanced semiconductors, powering a new generation of innovative products from Intel and serving the needs of foundry customers as part of the company’s IDM 2.0 Construction is expected to begin in late 2022, with production coming online at the end of 2025.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

China dominates BloombergNEF’s (BNEF) lithium-ion battery supply chain ranking in 2020, having quickly surpassed Japan and Korea that were leaders for the majority of the previous decade. As EV demand grows there is an increasing need for cell manufacturing facilities close to automotive production.

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JULY 4, 2020

Demand for raw materials used in the production of electric car batteries is set to soar, prompting the UN trade body, UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), to call for the social and environmental impacts of the extraction of raw materials, which include human rights abuses, to be addressed urgently.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2021

TECO 2030 ( earlier post ) is aiming to establish Norway’s first large-scale production of fuel cells, optimized to be the heart of hydrogen-powered ships and other heavy-duty installations. This will be the first volume production of fuel cells in Norway and a hub for the Norwegian hydrogen industry. gigawatt, per year.

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NOVEMBER 27, 2022

Neste and CIM, part of NOVEN Group in France, the leading independent French group of companies providing oil storage and supply services, are collaborating to enable the supply of Neste MY Sustainable Aviation Fuel into France. Neste is committed to contribute significantly as we are increasing our global SAF production capacity to 1.5

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MARCH 5, 2021

billion) over the next five years to create a domestic hydrogen ecosystem—production, distribution, and consumption—through creation of domestic hydrogen infrastructure and also through partnerships with global companies. billion) by 2025 in a hydrogen production plant. In the second phase, SK will invest 5.3

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MAY 1, 2021

The BMW Group is launching production of battery components at its plants in Leipzig and Regensburg and expanding its e-drive production network. It has been less than a year since the decision was made to expand production capacity for e-drives in Germany. High-voltage batteries will also be produced in Regensburg from 2022.

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Ford announced that it intends to invest up to £230 million (US$316 million) at its Halewood vehicle transmission facility to transform it to build electric power units for future Ford all-electric passenger and commercial vehicles sold in Europe. Production capacity is planned to be around 250,000 units a year.

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JANUARY 14, 2021

Total and Engie signed a cooperation agreement to design, develop, build and operate the Masshylia project, France’s largest renewable hydrogen production site at Châteauneuf-les-Martigues in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur South region.

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MARCH 3, 2023

Electric vehicle (EV) powertrain technology increasingly relies on a reliable supply of quality SiC semiconductors such as MOSFETs, especially in 800V architectures. The fourth stage will see OEMs building EVs which align with the driver experience they want to deliver and their brand ethos.

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DECEMBER 3, 2021

After several years of development, Bosch is now starting volume production of silicon carbide (SiC) power semiconductors to supply automotive manufacturers worldwide. In the future, an increasing number of production vehicles will feature these chips. Picture: Bosch. The future for silicon carbide semiconductors is bright.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2021

The SiC design builds on BorgWarner's proven cooling technology that enables a reduced semiconductor area for cost-effectiveness. In North America, BorgWarner has secured a contract with a major OEM to supply high voltage inverters for battery electric vehicle (BEV) platforms including a variety of passenger cars and trucks.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

Statevolt , a battery startup seeking to build hyperlocal gigafactories, has acquired a 135-acre site in Imperial Valley, California, as the location for its 54 GWh Gigafactory. The business will manufacture batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and storage applications using resources and supply chains sourced entirely in the US.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

Yara signed a contract with Linde Engineering for the construction and delivery of a green hydrogen demonstration plant at Yara’s ammonia production facility at Herøya Industripark in Porsgrunn, Norway. Green ammonia is the key to reducing emissions from world food production and long-distance shipping.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Plug Power is expanding its green hydrogen ecosystem to the US west coast with the construction of a new production facility in Fresno County, California. As the largest green hydrogen production facility on the west coast, the plant will produce 30 metric tons of liquid green hydrogen daily, serving customers from San Diego to Vancouver.

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AUGUST 8, 2021

NEDO selected these joint contractors in the public offeriing for “Development of Technologies for Realizing a Hydrogen Society/Regional Hydrogen Utilization Technology Development/Hydrogen Production and Utilization Potential Research” and the study is scheduled to be conducted during FY2021 and FY2022.

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AUGUST 30, 2021

Dürr constructed the entire paint shop for Ford Motor Company, which included low and high viscosity material supply systems, robotic paint and sealer application equipment, and other process automation technology. Filter trolleys with easy-to-replace disposable cardboard filters permit quick replacement—even during production.

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MARCH 15, 2021

Canada has released a list of 31 minerals considered critical for the sustainable economic success of Canada and its allies—minerals that can be produced in Canada, are essential to domestic industry and security and have the potential to support secure and resilient supply chains to meet global demand.

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MAY 21, 2022

Volkswagen is expanding its global production network for electric vehicles by now starting to make the all-electric ID.4 4) and Hanover will also commence production this year. As a result, Volkswagen is creating the conditions in 2022 for building 1.2 As a result, Volkswagen is creating the conditions in 2022 for building 1.2

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FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Volvo Construction Equipment (Volvo CE) announced an investment into battery pack production at its excavator plant in Changwon, South Korea. The Changwon plant in South Korea specializes in the production of excavators and is the biggest excavator production site in Volvo CE. With the SEK 80-million (around $7.8-million)

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OCTOBER 21, 2021

A local 5G campus network is now available at its main plant in Wolfsburg that initially covers the main production development center and the pilot hall. The pilot project will test whether the 5G technology meets the demanding requirements of vehicle production with a view to developing this for industrial series production in the future.

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OCTOBER 15, 2021

Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards and Air Products Chairman, President, and CEO Seifi Ghasemi announced a $4.5-billion Air Products is a world-leading industrial gas company that produces and transports hydrogen and other essential industrial gases to many customer facilities in Louisiana, across the US Gulf Coast and around the world.

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DECEMBER 9, 2020

INEOS Automotive has acquired the manufacturing facility at Hambach from Mercedes-Benz and will start to build its Grenadier 4x4 there in late 2021. Additionally the site’s location on the French-German border, only 200km from Stuttgart, gives excellent access to supply chains, automotive talent and target markets.

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JUNE 10, 2021

Industrial gases leader Air Products, and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., in conjunction with the Government of Canada and the Province of Alberta, announced a multi-billion dollar plan to build a landmark new net-zero blue hydrogen energy complex.

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JANUARY 30, 2021

Volkswagen’s Transparent Factory in Dresden has begun series production of the battery-electric ID.3. This makes it the second production site for the ID.3 family—from initial advice and test drives, to production visits, co-constructing the ID.3 MEB production network. family and the MEB. 4 CROZZ and ID.4

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MAY 19, 2023

BBA) joint venture, Milan Nedeljković, member of the Board of Management of BMW AG responsible for Production, announced local production of the NEUE KLASSE in China. The blue highlighted structures are the new project buildings. To mark the 20 th anniversary of the BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd.

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AUGUST 3, 2022

Canada-based Aurora Hydrogen, a company developing emission-free hydrogen production technology, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Energy Innovation Capital. There is an accompanying need to develop new low-cost and low-carbon technologies for hydrogen production. —Andrew Gillis, CEO, Aurora Hydrogen.

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JANUARY 6, 2023

The partners aim to replace coal-fired power plants with hydrogen-ready gas-fired power plants in Germany, and to build production of low carbon and renewable hydrogen in Norway that will be exported through pipeline to Germany. Building production facilities in Norway to produce low carbon hydrogen from natural gas with CCS.

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DECEMBER 1, 2022

When Polestar developed Polestar 2, it developed a lifecycle assessment methodology with Volvo, which showed us that we have to stop talking about tailpipe emissions and stop investing in legacy technology, and instead start focusing on production-related emissions and environmental and social impacts.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Production is intended to start in 2026 with the three parties committing to at least 25 GWh of annual production capacity, which could potentially expand up to 45 GWh. Ford and Koç Holding had originally signed a non-binding MoU with battery maker SK On to build the battery JV in Turkey. Earlier post.)

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MARCH 6, 2022

Fully built out, the site will have a potential annual production capacity of more than 100 GWh of cathode material, which will enable cell assembly at multiple Northvolt facilities. The site will also feature cell production. We are thrilled to be able to open a new chapter in Borlänge’s history as a global industrial hub.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion will go to 11 projects in the materials separation and processing segment of the supply chain. Anovion , Scaling the Domestic, US Owned and Operated Anode Supply Chain for Synthetic Graphite, $117,000,000. Of that, $1.6 The awardees are: Materials Separation & Processing (Anode Materials).

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DECEMBER 5, 2022

The investment is the biggest milestone to date of Cepsa’s Positive Motion energy transition plan to lead sustainable mobility and the production of green hydrogen and advanced biofuels in Spain and Portugal this decade. The company will build two plants with a total capacity of 2 GW to produce green hydrogen.

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DECEMBER 18, 2021

Aemetis, a renewable fuels company focused on negative carbon intensity products ( earlier post ), has signed a 10-year, 450-million-gallon renewable diesel supply agreement with an industry-leading travel stop company, which is expected to generate more than $3 billion in revenue. billion miles of heavy truck and cargo transportation.

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JULY 28, 2022

In its Q2 letter to shareholders, solid-state battery company QuantumScape reported successfully building and testing ts first prototype 24-layer cells. Despite encountering challenges related to the quality and throughput of the production processes, the company said, it has made progress with the 24-layer cells.

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