Lion Electric is to offer a lithium-ion battery pack, produced at its Mirabel facility in Quebec, with final certification of the product set to take place in Q1 2023 before going into series production.

Electric-powered medium and heavy-duty vehicle manufacturer, GreenPower Motor Company Inc, based in Vancouver, British Columbia, has appointed Peterson Trucks Inc as its official school bus dealer in the state of Oregon, with plans to expand throughout the USA.

The two companies will work together to make an emissions aftertreatment system for Westport's hydrogen "high pressure direct injection" (HPDI) product.

The contract with Winnipeg Transit stipulates a firm order for 16 electric buses, comprising an equal proportion of battery- and fuel-cell-electric drivelines.

Owing to poor cash flow, the NFI Group is set to receive a support package worth approximately USD187m from the Government of Manitoba and Export Development Canada.

The plant will be used for the assembly of LCVs as well as for the production of 50MW of green hydrogen using advanced electrolysis technology.

Enedym will retrofit Toyota’s North American and Japanese ‘tuggers’ used at its various manufacturing and parts facilities, with Enedym’s 45kW magnet-free electric motors, converting diesel fuel tuggers to battery or hydrogen power.

According to an agreement between the two companies, Omega will be authorised to upfit and resell VMC 1200 trucks with aluminium tanks and vacuum truck hose reels for cleaning sewers, septic tanks, and grease traps.

Production of these batteries will commence in late 2023, once their new manufacturing facility in Jamestown, New York, is fully operational.

By 2030, PowerCo hopes to receive up to 40-GWh worth of critical battery materials from Umicore – enough to make batteries to supply 550,000 EVs annually. 

Scheduled to open in late 2023, the 137,000-square-foot factory near Jamestown, NY, will produce lithium-ion batteries for e-trucks, e-buses and e-forklifts.

Ballard is to build a membrane electrode assembly plant to boost global fuel cell engine capacity.