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Intangible assets (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2022
Intangible Assets [Abstract] |
Schedule of Detailed Information About Intangible Assets |
| December 31, 2022 |  | December 31, 2021
Intellectual property acquired from UTC | $ | — |  |  | $ | 74 |
ERP management reporting software system | 2,714 |  |  | 3,631 |
Intellectual property acquired from Ballard Motive Solutions (notes 7 and 27) | 2,500 |  |  | 17,083 |
| $ | 5,214 |  |  | $ | 20,788 |
12. Intangible assets (cont'd):
Schedule of Reconciliation of Changes in Intangible Assets |
|  | Accumulated | Net carrying
| Cost | amortization | amount
At January 1, 2021 | $ | 59,855 |  | $ | 56,091 |  | $ | 3,764 |
Acquisition of intangible assets | 17,279 |  | — |  | 17,279 |
Additions to intangible assets | 1,543 |  | — |  | 1,543 |
Amortization expense | — |  | 1,798 |  | (1,798) |
At December 31, 2021 | 78,677 |  | 57,889 |  | 20,788 |
Additions to intangible assets | 550 |  | — |  | 550 |
Amortization expense | — |  | 3,107 |  | (3,107) |
Impairment on intangible assets (note 27) | — |  | 13,017 |  | (13,017) |
At December 31, 2022 | $ | 79,227 |  | $ | 74,013 |  | $ | 5,214 |

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