Keith Nuthall

Canada’s federal government is developing legislation setting a 2035 deadline for sales of all new light-duty vehicles to be zero-emission vehicles (ZEVs). Meanwhile, the provinces of Québec and British Columbia have...

The strengthening U.S. dollar could lower the price of Canadian vehicle exports in the U.S., which – for passenger vehicles (other than buses) – have been falling.

Canadian auto and parts manufacturers had feared earlier proposals, which would have meant the $7,500 maximum tax credit would be available only on U.S.-made EVs. The revised deal extends the credit to EVs made in...

Vic Fedeli, Ontario’s minister of economic development, job creation and trade, tells Wards the plant will be “the final piece in the puzzle” of an integrated EV supply chain in Ontario.

While industry associations welcome an expansion of financing for EV purchase subsidies and the development of battery-mineral production, more money is needed, they say.

At Ingersoll, located roughly halfway between Toronto and Detroit, GM will scale up production of BrightDrop battery-electric delivery vans in December after retooling this spring and summer. Production of the...

“It’s better…not to mandate what consumers have to buy, but to incentivize non-emissions vehicles,” says Tim Reuss, CEO of the Canadian Automobile Dealers Assn.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford notes the Windsor battery plant will have close supply-chain links with Northern Ontario producers of battery materials such as lithium and nickel.