Ev Batteries

• Volkswagen, Stellantis subsidies will take 20 years to break even: watchdog

  An analysis from the Parliamentary Budget Officer finds it will take the federal and Ontario governments two decades to break even on EV-battery manufacturing subsidies.

  Canada

  Sep 12, 2023
  
• Copper foil plant for use in electric vehicles to open in Quebec

  The Quebec government is giving the company a $150-million loan, part of which is forgivable, for the $750-million project that is expected to create 260 jobs.

  Economy

  Sep 5, 2023
  
• Advertisement
• St. Lawrence Seaway shippers eye EV materials, but wheat and ore remain the staples

  Terence Bowles, who heads the seaway's management authority, said Canada remains "in the early throes'' of cobalt and lithium development for electric car batteries.

  Canada

  Mar 22, 2023
• Advertisement
• How electric vehicles are sparking a battery recycling revolution

  A new generation of Canadian recyclers have sprung up to make sure used EV batteries — and the precious minerals inside — don’t go to waste.

  Canada

  Feb 4, 2023
• Alberta-based E3 Lithium gets $37M from feds to support oilfield lithium extraction

  E3 Lithium has developed a technology to extract lithium, a light metal used to make EV batteries, from oilfield brines.

  Economy

  Nov 28, 2022
• World’s top automakers plan to spend $1.2T through 2023 on EVs, batteries

  The EV investment figure, which has not previously been published, dwarfs previous investment estimates by Reuters and is more than twice the most recent calculation a year ago.

  World

  Oct 21, 2022
• Canada signs EV agreements with Volkswagen, Mercedes-Benz

  The separate agreements will see the two German auto manufacturers secure access to Canadian raw materials for batteries in electric vehicles.

  Canada

  Aug 23, 2022
• Federal budget will include $2B for electric vehicle battery development: sources

  The Liberals' federal budget will include $2 billion in funding to ramp up the extraction of processing of critical minerals for electric vehicle battery development, sources say.

  Environment

  Apr 5, 2022
• Advertisement
• Electric vehicle battery plant coming to Windsor, Ont., to be fully operational by 2025

  Ontario Premier Doug Ford says the plant will secure the province's place as a North American hub for building the cars and batteries of the future.

  Canada

  Mar 23, 2022
• Advertisement
• GM and POSCO to build plant in Quebec to produce battery material for electric cars

  The companies say the new facility in Bécancour, Que., will cost US$400 million. It will produce cathode active materials (CAM) for GM's Ultium batteries.

  Environment

  Mar 7, 2022