Owing to poor cash flow, the NFI Group is set to receive a support package worth approximately USD187m from the Government of Manitoba and Export Development Canada.

The plant will be used for the assembly of LCVs as well as for the production of 50MW of green hydrogen using advanced electrolysis technology.

Enedym will retrofit Toyota’s North American and Japanese ‘tuggers’ used at its various manufacturing and parts facilities, with Enedym’s 45kW magnet-free electric motors, converting diesel fuel tuggers to battery or hydrogen power.

According to an agreement between the two companies, Omega will be authorised to upfit and resell VMC 1200 trucks with aluminium tanks and vacuum truck hose reels for cleaning sewers, septic tanks, and grease traps.

Production of these batteries will commence in late 2023, once their new manufacturing facility in Jamestown, New York, is fully operational.

By 2030, PowerCo hopes to receive up to 40-GWh worth of critical battery materials from Umicore – enough to make batteries to supply 550,000 EVs annually. 

Scheduled to open in late 2023, the 137,000-square-foot factory near Jamestown, NY, will produce lithium-ion batteries for e-trucks, e-buses and e-forklifts.

Ballard is to build a membrane electrode assembly plant to boost global fuel cell engine capacity.

The H2Évora green hydrogen plant In Evora, Portugal, will produce 15 tons of green hydrogen per year, saving 135 tons of CO2 annually.

The Canadian manufacturer received an order for 1,000 VMC 1200 trucks from Pioneer Auto Group, its exclusive dealer in the province of British Columbia.

First Hydrogen’s HFC-powered LCVs recently received type approval certification from the Vehicle Certification Authority (VCA) in Britain.

The companies include Italian bus manufacturer, Rampini Carlo SpA, South Korea’s NGVI Inc (Next Generation Vehicles International) and Australia’s, Aluminium Revolutionary Chassis Company (ARCC).