“Reliable, local sources that will get products to battery manufacturers will be necessary,” said an industry analyst.
Premier Doug Ford was in St. Thomas on Thursday morning to mark a $3.2-billion investment by Norway-based Vianode in a local plant officials say will eventually employ 1,000 and help power about two million electric vehicles annually. Synthetic graphite, key to the production of EVs and batteries, will be produced at the facility that’s expected […]
St. Thomas has landed a $2-billion manufacturing investment that will create 300 jobs and supply the region’s growing electric vehicle supply base. Vianode, a Norwegian industry that makes artificial graphite, critical in the production of electric vehicles (EV) and batteries, has already begun work on a plant slated to open in 2028, said Sean Dyke, […]
Matt Stevens, Finite Robotics CEO, said startups sometimes develop great products that are impossible for farmers to integrate into their operations
Weak sales have prompted GM to end production of an electric cargo van in Ingersoll, casting the future of hundreds of workers into limbo.
Southwestern Ontario’s auto sector received another blow on Tuesday after General Motors (GM) Canada announced it was ending the production of its BrightDrop electric-vehicle cargo van, which was assembled at the Cami plant in Ingersoll. The company said the decision to end production is the result of poor sales of the vehicle, of which GM […]
Canada can't hope to lead in a vital global industry by shutting itself off from competition, a McMaster University prof says
Workers at the Cami Assembly plant in Ingersoll are being squeezed by slow uptake of EV vehicles and a trade war started by the U.S.
A fire last week in a Lion Electric school bus in Quebec prompted an inspection of all of the company's buses
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Volkswagen’s electric battery division is adding workers and creating a training program for area schools to prepare an EV workforce
he subsidiary of Volkswagen is recruiting thousands of workers for its plant in St. Thomas
A Free Press reader supports London bike paths, but does not support "dangerous bike paths."