Canada Invests in Battery Innovation Roadmap

OTTAWA — Julie Dabrusin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Environment and Climate Change and Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, on behalf of Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, announced a $500,000 federal investment in Accelerate Alliance. This funding supports Accelerate Alliance in building a battery innovation roadmap that charts Canada’s capacity to develop, commercialize and scale up a sustainable domestic battery innovation ecosystem for both mobile and stationary applications.

This project, funded through Natural Resources Canada’s Energy Innovation Program, will also enable Canada’s battery innovators, including stakeholders across industry, academia and government, to advance their priorities for a sustainable battery ecosystem while cementing Canadian battery innovation leadership in the global marketplace.

This investment builds on last week’s visit from Japanese Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), Yasutoshi Nishimura, who signed a Memorandum of Cooperation (MoC) with Canada on battery supply chains. This MoC will enable both countries to leverage and promote investment attraction and enhance collaboration between the Canadian and Japanese private sectors related to investment opportunities in Canada’s electric vehicle, battery and critical mineral supply chains.

“The Battery Innovation Roadmap is an important resource to support industry and other partners to identify and pursue the economic opportunities in the battery supply chain — including in electric vehicle manufacturing and critical minerals processing,” said Jonathan Wilkinson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources. “The Government of Canada is pleased to support this important work.”