Ev Batteries

• 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
  
• 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
  
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• 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
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• 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
• 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
• 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
• New report urges B.C. to become region’s leader in recycling electric vehicle batteries

  There could be more than 100,000 electric vehicles on the road in B.C. in three years, and one clean energy think tank wants to make sure their batteries can be recycled.

  Canada

  Dec 7, 2021