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GM and Glencore enter multi-year cobalt supply agreement

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Glencore and General Motors announced a multi-year sourcing agreement in which Glencore will supply GM with cobalt from its Murrin Murrin operation in Australia. kt of cobalt metal, down 17% and 14% respectively, year-on-year, reflecting a lengthy scheduled statutory shutdown in May/June and various maintenance issues earlier in the year.

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Sandia innovation eliminates reliance on rare-earth magnets for large-scale wind turbines

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The technology proves beneficial in lowering costs, improving sustainability and reducing maintenance. These materials come at a high initial cost and are vulnerable to supply chain uncertainties. Graphic illustration of the basic principle of the Twistact operation. Graphic courtesy of Sandia National Laboratories).

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Drive Electro to supply components for another 200 electric buses in Moscow

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Most of the battery packs and propulsion equipment for the Russian capital’s electric buses are made by Drive Electro, which has manufactured and supplied components for 400 of the city’s electric vehicles. This year, Drive Electro will supply Moscow with battery packs for a further 200 electric buses.

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Roskill: Spread of COVID-19 threatens cobalt supply; bottlenecks out of DRC

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With countries imposing prevention and control measures against the virus, a number of cobalt-producing operations have been temporarily closed for maintenance since March. At this time, the loss of supply from these closures amounted to more than 1% of the total mine supply in 2019. —Gulley et al.

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Skeleton Technologies to supply supercap modules to Class8 Energy; €11.6M contract

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As a first concrete example of this new cooperation, Class8 Energy announced an agreement with the largest Canadian heavy vehicle parts distributo—UAP’s Heavy Vehicle parts division—to supply Skeleton’s supercapacitors to them.

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Alstom reports successful 1.5y trial operation of Coradia iLint fuel cell trains, next project phase begins

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The Local Transport Authority of Lower Saxony (Landesnahverkehrsgesellschaft Niedersachsen, LNVG) was the first company to believe in hydrogen, investing in it with the order of 14 Coradia iLint trains and thirty years of maintenance and power supply.

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Electreon to supply Israel’s 4th largest bus operator with wireless charging infrastructure; simultaneous charging of 30 buses

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As part of the agreement Electreon will provide maintenance, support and operation services for the next 12 years. 2022 is Electreon’s year of transition from planning, development and construction of supply chains towards large-scale production and sales. million in the project. The cost of the deal is $1.9

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