Speaking to reporters early Friday, Moro said North American production of EVs would likely begin in the 2028-30 third stage of that business plan. Marumoto had earlier suggested it could begin to meet local production requirements in the second half of the 2025-27 second stage. “Our assumption for North American production of EVs is Phase …
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British Columbia port workers are back on the job after a tentative agreement was reached between the employers’ association and the workers’ union, ending a 13-day-old strike, much to the relief of the Canadian auto industry. Brian Kingston, CEO of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers’ Association (CVMA), which represents the Detroit Three in Canada, and Flavio …
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Canadian lithium miner Avalon Advanced Materials Inc. has purchased land in Thunder Bay, Ont. to build a processing plant that will connect lithium mined in northwestern Ontario with battery cell manufacturers and electric-vehicle makers in southern Ontario and the United States. The Toronto-based miner, which is developing lithium mining projects outside both Kenora and Fort …
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Social media challenges, which have steadily increased since 2020, range from silly and benign to downright dangerous and harmful. One of the latest harmful challenges to hit social media this summer is the “Kia Challenge”—and it continues to gain momentum across the country. The Kia Challenge is a TikTok trend that encourages social media users …
From now on, Toyota enters the second phase, when it will quickly incorporate learnings and improvements from those EVs into forthcoming model introductions. That stage will last until around 2026, when Toyota will have built up enough capacity to sell some 1.5 million EVs globally. The third phase kicks off in 2026, when Toyota introduces …
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A spokesperson at the automaker’s headquarters in Michigan said on Monday that discussions with the German works councils were continuing and that the company needs to be “more competitive” as it transitions to EVs. He would not comment on specific job plans. Workers were told to expect concrete numbers of job losses from the automaker …
