Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2022

In 2021, Next Generation Manufacturing Canada (NGen) launched a call for proposals to support R&D projects for zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) manufacturing, systems, components, and batteries in Canada. Center of Excellence for High Volume Manufacturing of Hydrogen Fuel Cells. Lead: Cummins Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Construction of the first stage of the Saskatchewan Research Council’s (SRC) Rare Earth Processing Facility, which includes a Monazite Processing Unit (MPU) and a Solvent Extraction Unit (SXU), is underway The facility will be the first of its kind in Canada. The conversion of REE ore to individual REE products is done in two main stages.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Under separate agreements, Air Products will receive: $300 million (CAD) (US$226 million) from the Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF), the Government of Canada’s program designed to spur innovation for a better Canada by providing funding for large projects and national innovation ecosystems.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2022

GM is expanding its efforts to educate public safety, fire and emergency service providers throughout the United States and Canada as EV sales grow. First responders are being taught to look out for orange-colored wiring that indicates high voltage. EV safety doesn’t begin at the point of a collision.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

After calling off beats with GM to “beat out Tesla” with a cheap SUV, it has now emerged with news that it is mulling over a $14 billion EV and battery plant in Canada. According to Japan’s Nikkei , the Japanese automaker is looking at several sites in Canada, including one near its auto factory in Alliston, Ontario.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2022

Canada-based Nutrien Ltd. is evaluating Geismar, LA as the site to build the world’s largest clean ammonia facility. Building on the company’s expertise in low-carbon ammonia production, clean ammonia will be manufactured using innovative technology to achieve at least a 90% reduction in CO 2 emissions. Source: Nutrien.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2019

The Memorandum of Understanding commits both governments to work together on developing their respective regulations to cut greenhouse gas emissions from light-duty vehicles, such as those currently in effect in Canada, California and the 13 US states that have adopted California’s standards.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 27, 2023

Seven major global automakers—BMW Group, General Motors, Honda, Hyundai, Kia, Mercedes-Benz Group, and Stellantis NV—will create a joint venture to build a new charging network that will significantly expand access to high-powered charging in North America. Each site will be equipped with multiple high-powered DC chargers.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2023

This location sees more than 10,000 medium and heavy-duty commercial trucks travel daily across the state, or across the state’s borders into Canada. Furthermore, Michigan accounts for 30% of all truck and rail freight between the United States and Canada, making Redford an ideal first location to concentrate on for this activation.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2019

The Government of Canada recognizes that marine species, including the Southern Resident killer whale, are impacted by underwater vessel noise. Building on the Oceans Protection Plan, the Government of Canada introduced last year the $167.4-million Killer whales. Holly Fearnbach, NOAA).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

BrightDrop, GM’s new business focused on electric last-mile deliveries ( earlier post ), has completed the first production builds of the EV600, a key milestone to deliver its first electric light commercial vehicle (eLCV) to FedEx Express in time for the holiday season. BrightDrop EV410.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The company plans to establish a manufacturing facility in the City of Markham in Canada that will build battery production equipment for its Gigafactories worldwide. Tesla Canada’s facility in Markham will most likely produce equipment for the company’s long-awaited 4680 battery cells.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2019

Dana Incorporated will provide its Spicer Electrified e-Propulsion solution with integrated TM4 SUMO HP motor-inverter system to power Class 8 tractor-trailer units that will move freight year-round between Edmonton and Calgary in Alberta, Canada. The trucks are part of a three-year, $11.2-million Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2017

Leclanché North America, part of Switzerland's Leclanché SA; eCAMION, based in Toronto; and SGEM, based in Geneva; will partner to develop and to install a network of 34 fast-charging stations along the Trans-Canada Highway (TCH). The project, designed to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles in Canada, entails an investment of C$17.3

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Air Products plans to invest approximately $500 million to build, own and operate a 35 metric ton per day facility to produce green liquid hydrogen at a greenfield site in Massena, New York, as well as liquid hydrogen distribution and dispensing operations. The commercial operation of this facility is targeted to begin in 2026-2027.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2021

Industrial gases leader Air Products, and its subsidiary Air Products Canada Ltd., in conjunction with the Government of Canada and the Province of Alberta, announced a multi-billion dollar plan to build a landmark new net-zero blue hydrogen energy complex. The company’s technologies are used in over 1.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2022

The company said it will expanding existing co-processing volumes to approximately 5,500 barrels per day, and build a stand-alone renewable diesel complex within the Burnaby Refinery capable of producing approximately 6,500 barrels per day of renewable diesel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The facility will build both traditionally powered Cadillac products and EVs. Newly announced planned investments include: $2 billion will be invested in Spring Hill Manufacturing to build fully electric vehicles including the luxury Cadillac LYRIQ. The all-new Cadillac LYRIQ will be the first EV produced at Spring Hill.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2022

GM is the first OEM to introduce a Plug and Charge feature to the company’s existing and future EVs that is designed to work on multiple, public networks in North America. Plug and Charge builds on GM’s previously announced commitment to invest nearly $750 million in charging infrastructure through the Ultium Charge 360 ecosystem.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2022

This facility would be the first of several that Graphex may potentially construct in the US, Canada, and Europe as warranted by market conditions and commercial opportunities. The site’s historical character as a 20th century supplier to the automotive industry is meaningful and noteworthy to both EES and Graphex.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2023

CPKC moves essential goods across a 20,000-mile network to support economic growth throughout Canada, the US and Mexico. In June, CPKC and CSX Corporation announced their intent to enter into a joint venture for the building and deployment of hydrogen locomotive conversion kits for diesel electric locomotives.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2020

These are high-powered units—total rated power of more than 1,715 kW (2,300 horsepower) in Canada—that travel long distances and spend much of their operating time at high power levels. Line-haul locomotives move freight and passenger cars between yards and terminals. —Keith Creel, CP’s President and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

Ferus Natural Gas Fuels and ENN Canada Corporation are forming a joint venture today to construct, own and operate two LNG liquefaction plants in Canada. As Operator, Ferus Natural Gas Fuels is responsible for the design, engineering, construction, operation, and marketing and sales of both facilities.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2022

Cummins and Canada-based Buhler Industries , a leading tractor manufacturer under the Versatile brand, signed a letter of intent for plans to integrate the Cummins 15-liter hydrogen engines in Versatile’s equipment to lead the decarbonization of the agriculture market. Cummins M15H. Versatile 620 fitted with a Cummins X15 diesel.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Electrify America recently unveiled its first application of a megawatt-level battery energy storage system (BESS) for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, building upon the company’s existing BESS installations at more than 150 stations across the US, including more than 100 installations in California.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Ferus NGF) held the grand opening of the first merchant liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Canada. To support the entire LNG supply chain, Ferus NGF has also designed and built specialized mobile storage and dispensing equipment to provide full-service fueling solutions. Ferus Natural Gas Fuels Inc.

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Cars That Think

JULY 14, 2022

This spurred Julie Angus to cofound the startup Open Ocean Robotics to design, build, and operate oceangoing uncrewed surface vehicle (USV) drones. The company designs and builds the drone’s hull, deck, and circuit boards. Canada, in 2018. She is the company’s CEO. Data Xplorer. www.youtube.com.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2021

BrightDrop is an all-new business within GM offering commercial customers an ecosystem of connected and electrified products and services designed to improve the delivery of goods and services from the first to last mile. The new CAMI investments build upon other recent GM investments in Canada, including the recently announced nearly $1.03

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The collaboration between the engineering teams in Augsburg (Bavaria) and Vancouver (Canada) has been exceptional. We are extremely proud to have achieved this important milestone together with Ballard.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Empire State Development (ESD) announced that Canada-based Li-Cycle Corporation will establish its first US-based Li-ion battery recycling facility in New York State. Li-Cycle Technology uses a combination of mechanical size reduction and hydrometallurgical resource recovery specifically designed for lithium-ion battery recycling.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Designed to ultimately enable hands-free driving in 95% of all driving scenarios, Ultra Cruise eventually can be used on every paved road in the US and Canada. Ultra Cruise will cover more than 2 million miles of roads at launch in the United States and Canada, with the capacity to grow up to more than 3.4 million miles.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2022

is planning to build a 3,000 barrels per day (bpd) renewable fuel plant (Refuel YYZ) in Southern Ontario. Fluor Corporation is the contractor for Refuel YYZ and will be providing front end engineering and design (FEED) services, as well as detailed engineering, procurement, and construction management (EPCM) support. Refuel Energy Inc.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

KGaA (SHS) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to explore the viability of transforming iron ore pellets into low-carbon hot briquetted iron (HBI) (a form of Direct Reduced Iron, DRI), a steel feedstock ( earlier post ) using green hydrogen generated from hydro-electricity in Canada. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2022

Canada-based Rock Tech Lithium has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (“MoU”) with the Government of Romania. The converters are designed to process all available forms of material: freshly minded raw material, intermediate products, and secondary (recycled) raw material. Rock Tech owns its own mine in Canada.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 25, 2023

Managed by Argonne National Laboratory for DOE and co-sponsored by Stellantis, this government and industry partnership will build the next generation of engineers, technicians and workers to address the demand for a domestic electric-vehicle/battery workforce.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 19, 2013

The Government of Canada is supporting a three-year project that will result in the construction of a $19-million, demonstration-scale facility in Alberta that will use algae to recycle industrial carbon dioxide emissions from an oil sands facility into commercial products such as biofuels. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2023

In recent months, Dimeta and Enerkem successfully completed pre-feasibility studies for these projects and are now moving into the feasibility phase—targeting the start of Front End Engineering and Design (FEED) next year.

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