Building Canadian Power in Advanced Battery Materials
Prime Minister Mark Carney’s trip to Beijing this week resulted in a trade agreement that will permit up to 49,000 Chinese EVs to enter Canada.
As the Canada Strong Budget (2025) deploys $280 billion in capital investments over five years, Canada’s battery sector is experiencing a rare alignment of political will, infrastructure funding, and market demand.
I am writing to provide insights from Canada’s electric vehicle supply chain.
Industry consultation seeks to position Canada as a leader in the North American ZEV market
Accelerate welcomes the historic $15 billion investment by Honda in EV assembly and battery component manufacturing.
Mining and battery executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and government delegates gathered at RBC Capital Markets recently for a roundtable discussion on pathways toward more private and public investment into Canada’s battery ecosystem.
Accelerate, Canada’s leading Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) industrial alliance, is delighted to announce the addition of five distinguished individuals to its Board of Directors.
Whether it’s a hiccup or just headwinds, something is happening in the electric vehicle market. Despite EV sales in the US and Canada continuing to carve out record shares of the new vehicle market, the second half of 2023 has started to see quite a bit of handwringing on the future of the ZEV industry.
Companies from every part of Canada’s Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) supply chain converged on Ottawa this week
The multi-year partnership will help Accelerate leverage Canada’s strengths to take advantage of transformation in the auto sector, creating opportunities and jobs upstream and downstream across the country.
Accelerate Launches A New Zev Supply Chain Interactive Map
Dunsky Energy & Climate Advisors report, EV Charging and Jobs in Canada, estimates thousands of new EV charging installation jobs needed to support charging demand, in line with Canada’s ZEV regulation sales targets
Prior to the tabling of the federal budget on March 28th, Accelerate had been very active in advocating to the government that it apply a strategic industrial policy lens to any fiscal response to the US Inflation Reduction Act. While it is important that Canada continue to attract the foreign direct investment that will form a bedrock for this industry, we argued that industrial policy for Canada must go beyond
