Hello! Hope you had a fantastic week. This is the very first issue for the EV Canada Newsletter. I don’t think this first release will reach many people but hope that others will find this in the future and see how far electric vehicles have come.

This newsletter is specific for Canada but also want to share news coming from outside of Canada that could affect electric vehicles in Canada.

Canada

• General Motors has filed for a patent at the Canadian Intellectual Property Office for it’s new PowerBase system. Essentially the PowerBase will be a “Power inverter for use in a motor land vehicle” as referenced in filing. Basically it will be a system that will provide power to external devices/equipment. PowerBase is being developed and introduced to compete with Ford’s F-150 Lightning. You can expect to see this option available in 2024 vehicles. Detailed article: LINK

• The Government of Canada has announced 2-Million dollars in funding for 300 electric vehicle chargers (Level 2 or DC Fast chargers has yet to be determined) across Ontario scheduled to be available by September 2023. This comes soon after an announcement of 1.2-million dollars in funding for 250 Level 2 chargers across Nova Scotia. Press Release: LINK

• A lot of Tesla Model 3 and Model Y owners are experience heat pump issues which won’t allow the vehicle to heat. This could be a huge issue for us Canadians! Tesla has indicated that sometimes this can be caused by ice build up in the intake triggering the heat pump to alarm. This can be avoided by clearing ice from the intake manually or warming up the vehicle before driving. Full Article: LINK

• Canadian steelmaker Stelco Holdings Inc. is beginning to produce proposal drawings to build a recycling plant for electric vehicles and EV batteries at its Lake Erie Works in Nanticoke, Ont. The company has signed an agreement with German-Australian firm Primobius to license a two-step recycling process used to shred spent lithium-ion batteries and recover valuable metals for reuse.Stelco is targeting 2023 for starting up initial operations at the proposed site which would have capacity to produce close to 20,000 tons of nickel, manganese, cobalt and lithium per year, as well as approximately 40,000 tons of scrap steel. Full Article: LINK

• Looking to see what is available in Canada for EVs? Or curious of the release dates of ancticipated EVs? Check out the EV Tracker from Electric Autonomy at https://electricautonomy.ca/ev-tracker/

EV Around the World 🌏

• Ford wants to make the Ford F-150 Lightning more accessible to customers without the customer having to pay the dealer ridiculous fees for reservation. Some say the high fees contribute to less adoption of EVs by the general public. Ford has sent letters out to dealers reminding them of their contractual obligations which includes to “avoid in every way any ‘bait,’ deceptive, misleading, confusing or illegal advertising or business practices.” with the ability to redirect a dealers’ allocation of the F-150 Lightning elsewhere.Full article: LINK

• Rivian barely missed their original targets for 2021 having delivered 920 electric vehicles (target was 1,000). This number seems quite low when compared to their factory target of 150,000 units per year but Rivian is just ramping up! They have plans to open another plant which will be located in Georgia and have a target of 400,000 units per year and start production sometime in 2024.Full article: LINK

• Subaru has unveiled a concept electric car that looks absolutely amazing at the Tokyo Auto Salon 2022. There should be more breathtaking concepts to share next week!

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