Environment

Mitsubishi Engineering-Plastics Corporation (MEP), a global leader in high-performance polyacetal materials, has announced a new polyacetal (POM) product family that meets the increasingly [...]

Propulsion Québec, the Electric and Intelligent Transportation (EIT) cluster, announced a new partnership with Québecor, a Canadian leader in telecommunications, media and [...]

Last November, the Ministère de l’Économie et de l’Innovation allocated $12.7 million in financial assistance to the Cégep de Saint-Jérôme for the construction of the Institut du [...]

Tesla has unveiled its new, bigger battery — known as the 4680 — during “Battery Day” on September 22, 2020. According to Tesla, the new cell will increase battery range by 16%, offers six times [...]

Propulsion Québec recently unveiled a new study on the state of innovation in Quebec and a look at electric and intelligent transportation (EIT) conducted with the Chamber of Commerce of [...]

The Volvo Cars manufacturing plant in Chengdu, the company’s largest in China, is now powered by 100 percent renewable electricity, taking the company’s global renewable electricity mix in its [...]

Beginning in late 2022, General Motors’s Spring Hill manufacturing facilities in Tennessee is expected to be powered by 100 percent solar energy, according to a press release issued on May 14. Up [...]

UPS announced that they’ve started a pilot fleet of 35 electric delivery vehicles in London, England and Paris, France. The vehicles are built by the British technology firm ARRIVAL and have an [...]

Norway is the world leader in EV adoption per capita but this has unintended consequences. The number of electric cars is expected to impact the power grid in two major ways. Overall electricity [...]