Macnab EV Sales has signed a contract with Lightning eMotors to deliver 126 electric vehicles to the Canadian commercial vehicle distributor by the end of 2023. While there is still some time left on the order, deliveries of Lightning’s ...
Volvo Trucks received 486 orders for electric trucks in the first quarter of 2023, an increase of 141 per cent compared to the same period last year. This number is expected to increase over the course of the year ...
General Motors-backed Canadian battery recycler Lithion is building its first commercial critical minerals recovery facility in St-Bruno-de-Montarville, near Montreal, with plans to start operations this autumn. Construction is already underway and progressing on schedule, according to the release. Whether ...
GreenPower, an American manufacturer of commercial EVs, has unveiled its latest all-electric stake bed truck called the EV Star Utility. The vehicle is built on the company’s EV Star cab and chassis and is designed for vocational applications. Green ...
Nova Bus, the North American subsidiary of Volvo, has received a group order to supply up to 1,229 battery-electric buses to ten public transport operators in Quebec, Canada. The vehicles are set to be delivered between 2025 and 2027. ...
The Swedish battery cell manufacturer Northvolt and its subsidiary Cuberg are planning a factory in Canada, according to a media report. Many details are not yet known, but the companies have apparently already shortlisted two concrete locations. As Electric ...
Lion Electric has officially presented the Lion5, an all-electric Class 5 truck powered by Lion’s new in-house engineered and manufactured 800V battery packs. The Lion5 has a maximum payload of up to 12,500 lbs. and production is to start ...
I was on a multi-lane bridge and there was a black Bentley in front of me, it slammed the brakes hard and so did I, I was able to save myself from hitting it BHPian Sangwan recently shared this ...
US Truck manufacturer Paccar and Toyota are extending their collaboration efforts to bring hydrogen-fuelled Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks on the road. These will be equipped with Toyota’s next-generation hydrogen fuel cell modules. The trucks in question are the Kenworth ...
In Canada, the public fast-charging network for electric cars is to be doubled in the next four years. The charging network operator FLO has received a loan commitment from the Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) to build more than 2,000 ...
Canada’s largest city, Toronto, is investing CAD 700 million into procuring 340 electric buses and infrastructure. There is some funding through the provincial government. The equivalent investment of €465 million is being shared more or less equally by the ...
Canadian battery developer Nano One Materials has released an update on its plans for LFP and other cathode materials. Nano One plans to systematically accelerate the commercialisation of its One Pot process, starting with 200 tonnes per year. Production ...
Volvo Trucks North America announced Coca-Cola Canada Bottling is acquiring six Volvo VNR Electric trucks as part of a pilot program in the Greater Montreal Area. The six trucks are the first Class 8 battery-electric trucks in the distributor’s ...
Tesla wants to start shipping electric cars produced in China to North America. To this end, Tesla apparently started production of a version of the Model Y for the Canadian market at its Shanghai plant in early April. This ...
Volkswagen has unveiled further details about its battery factory in St Thomas, Canada. It will be PowerCo’s largest cell factory to date, create 3,000 jobs, and produce up to 90 GWh of battery cells per year. The Volkswagen Group ...
Package delivery service GLS Canada has purchased four Lion6 electric trucks, which have been locally designed, developed, and built by Lion Electric in Canada. These four electric trucks will replace the current diesel trucks operated by GLS Canada. The ...
Ikea Canada announced today it was adding 25 charging stations at five locations in Ontario and Quebec. These will join a growing network to be found at Ikea stores worldwide. The home furnishing retailer is also working to decarbonise ...
Polestar presented its third all-electric series model, the Polestar 4, at the Shanghai auto show. In terms of size and price, the SUV coupé is to be positioned between the Polestar 2 and Polestar 3. The most striking feature: ...
Ford has announced a 1.8 billion Canadian dollar (€1.2 billion) investment to transform the Oakville Assembly Complex in Ontario into a Canadian electric vehicle manufacturing centre. This EV centre is to include the assembly of vehicles and battery packs. ...
I’ve always tried to make the best of every media pass I’ve received. Whether it’s my first one, or in the case of Toronto’s Motorama Custom Car & Motorsports Expo my fifth or sixth, my focus has always remained the same: make the event look the ...
The Swedish industrial group Sandvik has received a major order from the Canadian mining company Torex Gold Resources to supply a fleet of mining machines for the Media Luna project in Mexico, including 15 battery-electric vehicles. The order is ...
The Norwegian battery company Freyr wants to join forces with Glencore, Caterpillar, Siemens and Nidec to advance the use of sustainable battery solutions in Europe and North America. For example, by looking at areas of common interest along the ...
One of the podcasts I listen to religiously is called Southern Vangard Radio. A hip-hop-centric broadcast, ‘Vangard features three, six-to-eight song mixes separated by talk breaks. During one of talk breaks about 15 episodes back, the two hosts lamented missing their life ...
US retail group 7-Eleven has announced the construction of its own fast charging network in the US and Canada under the new ‘7Charge’ brand. This is set to become “one of the largest and most compatible electric vehicle fast ...
The VW brand has increased its electric car sales targets in Europe and North America. In Europe, up to 80 per cent of the cars sold by VW are to be BEVs by 2030 instead of the previously planned ...
Electra Battery Materials Corporation has successfully recovered lithium in its black mass recycling trial being conducted at its refinery north of Toronto. The recovery and subsequent production of a technical-grade lithium carbonate product in a plant-scale setting validates Electra’s ...
Could there truly be one app to open them all, those Tesla cars? It looked like there was for a man in Vancouver who got into what he thought was his car and even drove off. It turns out ...
The Quebec government is investing nearly $60 million to boost its public network of EV charging stations by 30 per cent. The province has already selected 81 projects and expects about 400 new charge stops to come through these ...
Volkswagen is building its first battery cell factory outside of Europe. It has found a location in Ontario, Canada, where production should start in 2027. That VW is looking to manufacture cells in North America is no surprise. The ...
Canada Post has taken delivery of 14 electric delivery vans at its Nanaimo depot, making it the CEP provider’s first location with an entirely electric fleet. The depot acts as a test location, as Canada Post is looking to ...
Purolator, a courier service owned by Canada Post, will invest one billion Canadian dollars in decarbonising its fleet within the decade. This includes the purchase of more than 3,500 fully electric last-mile delivery vehicles and the electrification of more ...
After Mercedes-Benz announced far-reaching plans to build its own global HPC network in North America, Europe, China at the beginning of this year, the company is now giving more details. The development is to begin in the fourth quarter ...
According to carmaker Fisker, its first model, the Fisker Ocean, is getting ready to hit the streets in over 20 countries before the end of the year. Homologation testing for Europe and the US is said to be completed ...
Fisker has announced that ChargePoint will take on the role as its North American partner for public charging solutions. Customers buying a Fisker Ocean will gain access to ChargePoints charging network across the USA. The collaboration between the two ...
General Motors has announced an investment in its powertrain plant in St. Catharines in the Canadian province of Ontario to produce more than 400,000 electric drive system units per year in the future. However, GM is making the investment ...
In Canada, a new organisation called CUTZEB, the Canadian Urban Transit Zero Emissions Bus joint procurement initiative, has been formed to support public transit agencies in procuring zero-emission buses and corresponding infrastructure. The new organisation is a spin-off founded ...
SK Group subsidiary SK Nexilis has signed a supply contract with Northvolt for copper foil worth up to 1.4 trillion won (US$1,08 billion). The five-year contract will come into effect next year. The supply volume is to cover about ...
LG Chem has secured lithium from North America. The South Korean chemical company has signed offtake agreements with Piedmont Lithium for a total of 200,000 metric tons of spodumene concentrate (SC6). In addition, LG has also taken a financial ...
The automotive supplier Magna International is investing more than 470 million US dollars in six locations in the Canadian province of Ontario. The most capital-intensive of these six projects is the construction of a new battery casing plant at ...
Electric bus maker Lion Electric has secured backup from Mitsubishi HC Capital Canada for its financing division LionCapital Solutions. They will help customers in the United States and Canada to finance Lion electric school buses and trucks. The Canadian ...