Electric vehicles

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is in Laos this week to meet with southeast Asian leaders — the Liberal government’s latest effort to strengthen Canada’s ties in a region with strong Chinese influence.

China is eating our lunch. We can debate about unfair competition or not, but they're running full speed toward the future while we're stuck in the past.

The arguments against electric vehicles get weaker by the day. When will the people making them give it up?

Surveys and studies are being done to understand where Canadians are on a slew of climate issues, including electric vehicles and heat pumps.

It’s time to give our kids a healthier ride by committing to accelerating the transition to electric school buses.

It is already more cost effective over the long term to buy an electric vehicle than a gas-powered model, but the savings must get substantially higher if Canada is to meet its EV sales targets, the parliamentary budget office concluded in a new analysis.

It sends mixed signals for Ontario to forge a path toward being a manufacturer of EVs, parts and batteries while failing to encourage the use of them at home.

Zen E-bikes is developing battery cooling technology that could make batteries 'withstand more than anything on the market right now'

More than 230 million litres of oil were collected across nine provinces in 2022. Fortunately, much of that dirty engine oil is recycled by organizations such as British Columbia’s Interchange Recycling.

Public funding helped electric vehicles go mainstream. Are alternative proteins next — or are they too polarizing?

Here's how much cheaper it is in major Canadian cities to charge an electric vehicle at home vs buying an equivalent amount of gasoline at the pump…

Sadly, the 2024 Paris Olympics Games fall well short of being as green as they could be. Its partnership with Toyota is a big reason why. 

It may come as a surprise that electrification of the transport trucking industry is well underway.

The two companies will each receive $5 million from the federal government to help finance the development of new technologies designed to recover valuable nickel, cobalt, copper and other minerals from the “black mass” of shredded flat batteries.

Nigeria's government is cracking down on illegal mining, making dozens of arrests of unlicensed miners since April for allegedly stealing the country’s lithium, a critical mineral used in batteries for electric vehicles, smartphones and power systems.