Manganese X Advances IN US Battery Leader C4V Validation Testing Program

MANGANESE X ADVANCES IN US BATTERY LEADER

C4V VALIDATION TESTING PROGRAM

Montreal, Quebec – April 17, 2024 – Manganese X Energy Corp. (TSXV: MN) (FSE: 9SC)

(TRADEGATE: 9SC) (OTCQB: MNXXF) (the “Company” or “Manganese X”) is pleased to report

its High Purity Manganese sample, being validated for commercial level qualification by US

Battery Leader C4V for its Gigafactory joint ventures, passed the first step of C4V's Electric

Vehicle (EV) Battery Cathode compliance standards' testing, leading to the next round of testing.

Manganese X’s High Purity Manganese sample is being qualified through C4V’s Digital DNA

Supply Chain Qualification Program as part of the non -binding Memorandum of Understanding

(MOU) the companies signed early 2024, (news release dated January 10th) leading to a potential

offtake deal from Manganese X's Battery Hill High Purity Manganese project in Woodstock, New

Brunswick, Canada.

The sample passed C4V’s Phase 1-A validation requirements and is currently in the next phase

of testing, Phase 1-B, which consists of Coin Cell Testing. Phase 1-B validation work will evaluate

the initial performance of the product in terms of capacity, stability, and functional capacity

evaluation (FCE).

Manganese X CEO Martin Kepman commented, "We're making strides, progressing through

C4V's multi-phased validation process, bringing us closer to securing a binding offtake deal for

our Battery Hill project. We are confident in the quality of our High Purity Manganese product and

its potential to meet C4V's EV-compliance standards for Gigafactory joint ventures.”

C4V is a US battery technology company and a global leader in renewable battery technology as

well as involved in some of the world’s largest Gigafactory developments.

About Manganese X Energy Corp.

Manganese X's mission is to advance its Battery Hill project into production, thereby becoming

the first public actively traded manganese mining company in Canada and US to commercialize

EV Compliant High Purity Manganese. Manganese has recently been added to Quebec’s list of

“critical metals” owing to its significance in emerging battery technologies. The North American

supply chain is presently dependent on overseas sources for Manganese. The Company intends

on supplying value -added materials to the lithium -ion battery and other alternative energy

industries, as well as striving to achieve new carbon-friendly more efficient methodologies, while

processing manganese at a lower competitive cost.

About C4V

C4V™ is a lithium -ion battery technology company possessing critical insight related to the

optimum performance of lithium -ion batteries and Gigafactories. C4V’s discoveries have been

fruitful in vastly extending battery life, safety and charge performance, however more important is

the Gigafactory offering that allows emerging countries to establish their own robust

manufacturing ecosystem. C4V works with industry-leading raw material suppliers and equipment

supply chain to bring to market fully optimized batteries possessing key eco nomic advantages

providing the ultimate “best in class” performance for various applications and end -to-end

solutions to produce them on a Gigawatt hour scale. With its highly scalable business model C4V

aims to achieve 100+GWh of cell production capacity globally by 2030.

For more information visit the website at www.manganesexenergycorp.com.

On behalf of the Board of Directors of

MANGANESE X ENERGY CORP.

Martin Kepman

CEO and Director

Email: [email protected]

Tel: 1-514-802-1814

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future exploration performance of the Company. This forward-looking information involves known

and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may ca use the actual results,

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