Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2017

The Government of Canada is moving forward with provincial and territorial partners, industry and stakeholders, to develop a national strategy to increase the number of zero-emission vehicles (ZEVS)—battery electric, plug-in hybrid, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles—on Canadian roads by 2018.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2023

The governments of Canada and British Columbia will jointly invest more than $395.5 The ZETF is closely coordinated with the Canada Infrastructure Bank’s Zero Emission Bus Initiative through which the CIB has committed more than $1.5 billion to supporting the deployment of zero emission buses.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 9, 2024

The US and Canada have created a Rail Decarbonization Task Force to explore ways to reduce emissions from the rail sector. Source: US DOT The post Transport Canada, US DOT and DOE issue joint statement on action to reduce rail-sector emissions – Charged EVs appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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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

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Zero-emission aviation powertrain developer ZeroAvia ( earlier post ) and De Havilland Aircraft of Canada Limited have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to develop a line-fit and retrofit program for De Havilland Canada’s aircraft models, using hydrogen-electric propulsion in both new and in-service aircraft.

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Plug N Drive

APRIL 17, 2024

Electric Mobility Canada (EMC) notes that the federal government continues to support the transition to electric transportation with some good news for potential EV buyers and for the EV supply chain. The post Budget 2024: Helping Canada get more EVs on the road – Electric Mobility Canada appeared first on Plug'n Drive.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The purchase order is conditional upon the satisfactory grant of non-repayable contributions to STC under Infrastructure Canada’s Zero-Emission Transit Fund (ZETF), for which STC has filed a formal application. Under the ZETF program, the Government of Canada aims to invest $2.75

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Use of the renewable diesel could reduce missions in the Canadian transportation sector by about 3 million metric tons per year, as determined in accordance with Canada’s Clean Fuel Regulation. Imperial also intends to use renewable diesel in operations as part of the company’s emission reduction plans.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

A new Conference Board of Canada report finds that Canada is unlikely to achieve an 80% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from 1990 levels by 2050. Canada’s road transport emissions were 40% higher in 2013 than in 1990. The challenge is that we are not moving fast enough. — A Long Hard Road.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2019

Sales of all zero-emission vehicles in Canada for the first six months of 2019 are up 30% compared with last year. Zero-emission vehicles represented roughly 3% of all new, light-duty vehicles sold in the first half of 2019, compared to roughly 2% during the same period in 2018.

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 23, 2022

Canada has adopted rules requiring the sale of zero emissions vehicles that closely follow those crafted by California.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2021

Air Products has selected Haldor Topsoe’s low-carbon SynCOR technology for a world-scale net-zero hydrogen energy complex in Canada. Hydrogen-fueled electricity will power the plant and offset the remaining five percent of emissions at the site. Earlier post.) The captured CO 2 will be stored underground.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2022

Canada-based Aurora Hydrogen, a company developing emission-free hydrogen production technology, has raised $10 million in Series A funding led by Energy Innovation Capital. This funding adds to additional funding by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) that the team received earlier this year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

Southland Transportation (Alberta, Canada) recently added 101 Blue Bird Propane Vision buses to its propane autogas school bus fleet. Districts in Canada are specifying the technology due to the superior cold weather operation, reduced maintenance and clean emissions, the company said.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 4, 2021

Most of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions come from transportation, and the country is working a little bit harder (slightly harder) to cut those emissions by electrifying more cars, trucks, and SUVs. It is a $50,000 investment that goes to the […].

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2013

The Government of Canada is adopting stricter environmental standards to reduce air emissions from ships navigating in Canadian waters. These changes further align Canada’s air emission standards with the United States. —Denis Lebel, Minister of Transport.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2020

Coach Atlantic Maritime Bus is the first to test MCI’s first all-electric coach—the MCI D45 CRTe LE CHARGE, designed for long-range express routes—in Canada. Government officials, transportation stakeholders and sustainability experts will also take part in the tour. MCI D45 CRTe LE CHARGE.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2017

Air Canada is participating in the Civil Aviation Alternate Fuel Contrail and Emissions Research project ( CAAFCER ), a research project led by the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) to test the environmental benefits of biofuel use on contrails. In 2016 Air Canada continued taking delivery of the Boeing 787 Dreamliner.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 30, 2019

New Flyer Industries Canada, a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc. million in federal funding from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to support the adoption of zero-emission transit buses. (NFI), million in federal funding from Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) to support the adoption of zero-emission transit buses.

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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. They will be operated by Alberta trucking companies Trimac Transportation and Bison Transport.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Canada recently released the first details of its flagship policy to achieve one of its most ambitious climate goals to date — by 2035, every new car sold in the country must be emissions-free. While ambitious, Canada may very well achieve the milestone within the next 12 years. of new cars sold in Canada were electric.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 11, 2021

The purchase was made in part using funds from the governments of Canada and Prince Edward Island, which are contributing more than $6.3 million to the clean school bus project through the Green Infrastructure stream (GIS) of the “Investing in Canada” infrastructure plan.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Tesla submitted some proposals for Canada’s 2023 Federal Budget that may lay the foundation for the arrival of the Semi in Canada. Tesla’s proposals were submitted as part of Canada’s pre-budget consultations before the government’s 2023 budget is finalized.

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Plug N Drive

MAY 1, 2024

Background Canada has over 27,000 public chargers and is on track to greatly expand on that as governments, car manufacturers and various charging network providers build out the public charging network. In Q3 2023, the market share of new ZEV registrations in Canada surged to a new all-time high of 12% according to Stats Can.

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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. blue hydrogen). The company’s technologies are used in over 1.5

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In the context of uncertainty caused by the pandemic, the government is presenting a first implementation plan for the period 2021-2026 that, in addition to reducing GHG emissions, is intended to stimulate economic recovery and job creation. billion over five years. Over the next five years, $3.6

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2020

Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) is seeking expressions of interest from firms which wish to enter into a commercial licensing arrangement to bring to market its methane oxidation catalyst. This technology has applications to the automotive industry and other sectors covered by regulations that control methane emissions. Background.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 14, 2022

Postal service’s fleet of 14,000 vehicles to be fully electric by 2040 Canada Post [last week] laid out its key commitments for the Corporation to reduce its environmental footprint and reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Canada Post has earmarked $1 billion to cut emissions and transform its fleet.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 18, 2016

The Government of Canada has published proposed Locomotive Emissions Regulations in the Canada Gazette, Part I. This marks Canada’s first regulation of air pollutant emissions from locomotives. The emission standards set out in these proposed regulations will also align with those of the United States.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2020

The number of available and announced models of zero-emission trucks, buses and off-road equipment in the United States and Canada is on track to rise nearly 78% by the end of 2020 compared to year-end 2019, according to the Zero-Emission Technology Inventory ( ZETI ), a product of CALSTART’s Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero program.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2016

Over the next 18 months, AZRA will invest C$40 million (US$31 million) to install 2,000 new electric charging stations and deploy the Twizy, Renault’s first 100% electric vehicle in Canada. Certified since 1 March 2016 by Transport Canada, its speed is capped at 40 km/h (25 mph) to come under the category of low-speed vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 23, 2017

Hydro-Québec and the US Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have agreed to explore collaborations toward the research and development of manufacturing and scale-up technology to advance transportation electrification and energy storage. —Berkeley Lab Director Mike Witherell.

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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. This is a globally significant project that positions CP at the leading edge of decarbonizing the freight transportation sector.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2023

This includes a plan to purchase more than 3,500 fully electric last-mile delivery vehicles and the electrification of more than 60 terminals across Canada. Purolator set a 2030 science-based goal to reduce Scope 1 and Scope 2 GHG emissions by 42% and put the company on a path to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. Richmond, B.C.;

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EV Adoption

MAY 5, 2023

In 2022, both the US and Canada surpassed one percent of vehicles in operation (VIO) being electric vehicles (both BEVs and PHEVs) for the first time, according to new analysis and estimates from EVAdoption. When looking at just BEV (full battery electric vehicles), the US jumped ahead of Canada by a modest 0.1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

Mitsubishi Motor Sales of Canada (MMSCAN) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Transport Canada, a part of the Canadian national government that is responsible for transportation policies and programs, for feasibility testing of the zero-emissions i-MiEV electric vehicle.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2016

The Governments of Canada and Québec will provide $76.5 million in funding to AE Côte-Nord Canada Bioenergy Inc. When upgraded into transportation fuels, this will remove up to 70,000 tonnes of CO 2 -equivalent emissions per year. The Government of Canada is providing $44.5 million investment.

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