By Anne Bourgoin America’s very first hydrogen-powered passenger train runs in the Charlevoix region. French manufacturer Alstom has delivered two cars to Baie-Saint Paul for the touristic [...]
By Éric Descarries At a press conference held on the Circuit de la Sarthe (24 Hours of Le Mans) on June 9, Toyota President Akio Toyoda unveiled the world premiere of a prototype [...]
By Éric Descarries Hyundai Auto Canada recently confirmed the delivery of three NEXO 2023 hydrogen fuel cell vehicles to Québec-based Charbone Hydrogène. The handover took place at Hyundai [...]
By Piero Facchin Inflation has not been kind to batteries. After more than a decade of remarkably steady declines in the price of lithium-ion batteries, the trend reversed last year. The increase [...]
(Article published in Automotive Innovations magazine, June 2023) By Isabelle Havasy Launched last year by NAPA, the NexDrive program is aimed exclusively at shops under the NAPA AUTOPRO [...]
By Éric Descarries The idea has been brewing for decades in the imaginations of tire designers, but all signs point to the possibility of a final version in the near future. We’re talking here [...]
By Éric Descarries For as long as we’ve been talking about batteries with a range of 1,000 kilometres or more, the Chinese company Gotion High-Tech Co. has unveiled a [...]
By Éric Descarries If we are to achieve the goal of replacing almost all internal combustion engine vehicles with electric vehicles, we need to install a sufficient number of charging stations. [...]
(Article published in Automotive Innovations magazine, March 2023) By John C. Morris The recent Canadian International Auto Show media day was light on new ICE vehicles but easily [...]
By Anne Bourgoin Yves Giroux, Parliamentary Budget Officer (PBO), estimates in a report that the cost of the Volkswagen (VW) battery plant will cost the federal government $16.3 billion, [...]