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Fuel Cell News 

Aug. 8/00 Global Thermoelectric Inc. Announces C$100 Million Financing Agreement
 
Aug. 4/00 Global Thermoelectric Announces First Quarter Results\ Higher Power Densities
 
July 31, 2000 Enbridge and Global Thermoelectric Establish Fuel Cell Development Alliance

July 11/00 Global Thermoelectric Comments on Potential Transaction

May 16/00 Global Thermoelectric achieves significant improvements in fuel cell power outputs

May 2/00 BMW, Delphi Automotive and Renault sign memorandum to develop an  solid oxide fuel cell auxiliary power unit

May 1/00 Global Thermoelectric successfully tests modular residential fuel cell unit.

Feb. 3/00 Global Thermoelectric Successfully Tests Integrated Fuel Cell System

Dec. 22/99 Delphi Automotive Systems and Global Thermoelectric Successfully Test Integrated Gasoline-Fueled Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Power Generation System

Nov. 4/99 Global Thermoelectric Completes Fuel Cell Support System Test, Adds Senior Fuel Cells Personnel

Aug. 25/99 Global Thermoelectric Receives Purchase Order for Next Segment of Delphi Automotive Systems Fuel Cell Project

Jul. 22/99 Global Thermoelectric Successfully Runs Fuel Cell System Directly on Natural Gas

 

Thermoelectric Generators News

Jul. 12/99 Global Thermoelectric Announces Receipt of $19 Million Generators Contract - Largest Ever Awarded to the Company

 

Compartment Heater News

May 17/00 Global Thermoelectric awarded a heater supply contract for the M113 Armored Personnel Carrier Upgrade Program

Sep. 22/99 Global Picks up an Optional $8,000,000 Contract

Jul. 15/99 Global Thermoelectric Ships 1,000th Heater to the U.S. Army

 

Corporate and Financial News

Aug. 22/00 Global Thermoelectric Inc. Closes C$100 Million Equity Financing
 
Aug. 8/00 Global Thermoelectric Inc. Announces C$100 Million Financing Agreement
 
Aug. 4/00 Global Thermoelectric Announces First Quarter Results

Jun. 12/00 Global appoints new Vice President and Chief Financial Officer

Jun. 02/00 Global Thermoelectric announces fiscal 2000 results. Company reports record revenues and strong financial position for the coming year.

Mar.31/00  Global Thermoelectric Adds Chief Information Officer

Jan. 27/00 Global Thermoelectric Announces Nine Month Results: Revenue Up Fifty-One Percent

Nov. 30/99 Global Thermoelectric Closes Special Warrants Offering; Promotes Dr. Dave Ghosh to Vice President of the Fuel Cell Division 

Nov.  22/99 Global Thermoelectric Inc. Announces Sale of an Additional 1,800,000 Special Warrants 

Oct. 26/99 Global Thermoelectric Announces First Half Results

Sep. 09/99 (Announcement of the Pilot Scale Factory) Global Thermoelectric Announces Offering of Common Shares

Jul. 27/99 Global Thermoelectric Announces First Quarter Results

Jun. 09/99 Global Thermoelectric Announces Fiscal 1999 Results, Declares Dividend on Preferred Shares

 

Interviews

Listen to Brendan Kyne, an analyst from Marathon Mutual Funds, give Global a strong buy recommendation (.mp3 file, 3 minute download at 56 k) in a Market Call program interview.

Jan. 28/00: Sound file from the Investors on-line interview with Jim Perry. This is a good interview where Jim handles some questions and produces Global's reformer out of his pocket. (MP3 file 11:58 long - about 11 min. download time at 56k)

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Oct. 1/99: Jim Perry's interview with stockhouse.ca is a quality look into the strategy driving Global's success.

 

Articles

SHfn Aug.22/00 This 3 part series from Stockhouse covers the fuel cell sector. Roundup: Who's Who In The Fuel Cell Race | Roundup Part 2-Likely Winners in Fuel Cell Race | Fuel Cell Roundup Part 3: In the Shadow of Giants - Do These Seven Micro-Caps Have a Chance?

Aug.8/00 Futuretech article discussing SOFC technology markets

Aug. 1/00 Can-inNvest Article on the Global & Enbridge Agreement

July 25/00 US Navy launches plans for electric armada  ; this article describes the research dollars the US Navy is putting into electric power for ships.

Jul. 12/00 Global Thermo jumps on deal talks; an article on Global's talks with European and North American firms, 2 Recommendations $55 and $70

Jun. 12/00 Fuel cell technology a possible alternative; an article which features Global and Ballard.

May 5/00 Auto Intelligence Article BMW/DELPHI/RENAULT

An article discussing different Canadian alternative fuel companies.

  An article discussing the events at the Delphi 42 Volt Conference for European Automakers in Munich.

International Trade Minister Pierre Pettigrew visits Global and Jim Perry shows him around the plant.

(Apr. 4/00): Yahoo has a short article on the potential of the power industry.

(Apr. 2/00): Fuelling the Future: This article from CBC's website has a good overview of the oil crisis, and the Canadian companies that are rising to the challenge of providing solutions. Global's Jim Perry is quoted in Part 3 and Part 4 of the presentation. You can listen to the actual CBC program excerpts by hitting the links on the left of the webpages.

European Fuel Cell Forum Article Mar. 18/00: Lights go on in Europe an article on the SOFC, and the financial and commercial interest that is growing in the technology.

Apr/00: The following is an excerpt of the article edited by Dan McCosh in the April Popular Science: Fill 'Er Up--with Hydrogen (Pg. 37)

"It's now likely that the first fuel cell to appear on a production car will not be a powerplant, but a solid oxide fuel [cell] being developed by Delphi Automotive Systems and Global Thermoelectric of Canada. The fuel cell operates at high temperatures, converting gasoline to electricity directly. It will be used to power a car's electrical system. It could be in a production car within a few years." 

Mar. 8/00: Calgary fuel cell firm gets boost from BMW

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Mar. 8/00: This Stockhouse article reports on the BMW announcement at the SAE conference officially recognizing Global's work with the APU.

   

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