electric cars

A Montreal-area electric vehicle maker says the $100-million investment from Ottawa and Quebec announced Monday for a battery pack assembly plant will help make its fleet less expensive.

“I do see challenges, particularly in the winter when snowplows would likely damage the cable when they run over them on the sidewalk,” says the head of the Electric Vehicle Council of Ottawa.

Fossil fuel cars waste hundreds of times more raw material than their battery electric equivalents, according to a study that adds to evidence that the move away from petrol and diesel cars will bring large net environmental benefits.

Ford is vowing to convert its entire passenger vehicle lineup in Europe to electric power by 2030 in just the latest sign of the seismic technological changes sweeping the auto industry.

Germany's economy minister says the country beat its target of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by 40 per cent last year compared to 1990 levels.

General Motors has set a goal of making the vast majority of the vehicles it produces electric by 2035, and the entire company carbon neutral, including operations, five years after that.

Financial incentives to recycle spent electric vehicle batteries are eroding. That could spell environmental disaster, writes Perry Gottesfeld.

New research shows the U.S. could rapidly decarbonize with existing technology and no real lifestyle changes.

The federal and Ontario governments promised Thursday to chip in $295 million each to support the mass production of electric vehicles and the batteries that power them.

Federal energy and environment officials were warned in late April that Canada's clean-tech sector was in danger as COVID-19 knocked the bottom out of the industry.

Tesla's sales of its increasingly popular electric cars got off to fast start this year, even though the company had to slam the brakes along with other major automakers last month because of worldwide efforts to contain the worst pandemic in a century.

Quebec Premier Francois Legault is dismissing naysayers who are accusing his government of wasting $30 million on a company that wants to build giant airships to transport heavy cargo around the province's far north.

“I have this incredible feeling when I see a material that nobody else has in his or her hands.”

Fiat Chrysler is in talks with the Taiwanese company Foxconn to develop and manufacture battery-powered vehicles, the U.S.-Italian automaker said on Friday, January 17, 2020.

The U.S. just got its climate report card for the year, and it's kinda OK.