Coast to Coast in 18 Charges: VW ID.4 travels across Canada and achieves Guinness World Record
Ajax, Ontario — Rainer Zietlow recently drove a Volkswagen ID.4 electric vehicle across Canada, stopping just 18 times to recharge—a feat the adventure driver has won a Guinness World Record for. Zietlow and his cameraman, Elric Popp, departed St. John’s, Nfld., on July 25, 2023. The pair traversed 7,133 kilometres across Canada, making just 18 […]
Magna Millions: Magna International invests $790 million to build three Ford EV parts plants
Aurora, Ontario — Aurora, Ont.’s own Magna International signed onto three major projects with Ford this past week, bearing a nearly billion dollar price tag, to build three new electric vehicle parts plants in the U.S. Of the three facilities slated for construction, two will be located within Ford’s BlueOval City campus in western Tennessee, […]
Lightening the Load: Concord, Ont. parts plant to transition to EV components thanks to FedDev investment
Concord, Ontario — As huge sums of money are currently being floated above Ontario’s burgeoning EV industry, the federal government announced Thursday that it will be investing $5 million into a Concord auto parts plant specializing in lightweight EV parts. With this boost in funding from the Federal Economic Development Agency of Southern Ontario (FedDev […]
