Cleantech
Carbon pricing may be overrated, if history is any indication
Historically, radical technological change has been achieved not by relying on price signals to coordinate change, but by the state intervening and coordinating it directly
CUTRIC partners with post-secondary institutions on electric bus research
The Canadian Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium has supported the electrification of routes in Vancouver, Brampton, Ont., and Toronto’s York Region
GM gets tax break for new plant next to factory it closed
GM will build an electric battery cell factory in Ohio
OPG, Hydro One creating EV charger network; Feds investing $8M [UPDATED]
160 fast chargers will be built at 73 locations
$3M in federal funding to cut plastic food, construction waste
Three companies winners of the government’s plastics innovation challenge, part of a plan to ban many single-use plastics by 2021.
Xebec secures $27M in orders from US dairy farmers
Will supply turnkey biogas upgrading plants and small-scale containerized Biostream systems to produce renewable natural gas.
B.C.’s cleantech sector continues to grow: KPMG
The KPMG report finds the B.C. sector is increasingly export-oriented, with 87% of revenues forecast to be generated outside of the province in the next three to five years
Shift to EVs reshaping Canada’s automotive industry: KPMG in Canada
The report says if current predictions are realized, annual global production of electrified vehicles by the top 12 OEMs will reach as many as 13 million by 2025
Feds invest $3.5M in green mining in Sudbury, Ont.
Receiving funds are a manufacturer of electric drive systems and an organization developing heat exchange technology
NTSB releases details in 2 crashes involving Tesla Autopilot
The U.S. National Transportation Safety Board is investigating crashes in California and Florida
