Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was also on hand, announcing a matching $131.6-million contribution from Ottawa to go toward Honda’s $1.4-billion upgrade.
When future historians go looking for the moment when the electric vehicle revolution truly got underway, they might end up pinpointing last Sunday’s Super Bowl, writes columnist Max Fawcett.
A report by McKinsey, one of the world's most influential consulting firms, estimates that $9.2 trillion will need to be invested every year for decades to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 C and end the climate emergency.
The federal government plans to slash planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles by 2040, and a new Canadian startup wants in on the action.
President Joe Biden's controversial plan to use protectionist tax incentives to promote U.S.-made electric vehicles, which threatens misery for the Canadian auto sector, is making for all kinds of strange bedfellows.
The Biden administration is raising vehicle mileage standards to significantly reduce emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases, reversing a Trump-era rollback that loosened fuel efficiency standards.