Ontario, Home to Major Automakers, Invests in Homegrown Electric Cars
The city of Windsor, Ontario is a short tunnel ride from downtown Detroit, and the province of Ontario is home to a major automobile industry. A 2006 survey pointed out that Ontario actually builds more cars than Michigan does. According to the survey, the province builds 2.5 million cars and trucks every year, has 125,000 workers on assembly lines and another 250,000 “associated with the auto sector generally.” Canada has not, however, been central to the accelerating push to electrify the transportation fleet, but—as President Obama did with his recently announced $2.4 billion in stimulus money for battery manufacturing—the provincial government (which has also had to bailout local automakers, just like the U.S.) is seeking to jump-start the local EV industry. According to Sandra…
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