Five electric-vehicle technology projects at Canadian manufacturers will get off the ground this fall with support from Next Generation Manufacturing Canada.
The federally backed organization tasked with cultivating homegrown manufacturing breakthroughs said Aug. 13 that it will dedicate $13.5 million from its latest tranche of program funding to the research work.
Each project is a collaboration between two Canadian companies operating in the EV or battery supply chains. In addition to the federal funding, the 10 companies involved will contribute a further $26.5 million, taking the total value of the commercialization work to $40 million.
The five research projects:
- Dana Canada and KA Imaging of Waterloo, Ont. will collaborate on advanced manufacturing processes for EV power electronics and heat exchangers.
- Windsor-based manufacturers Flex-Ion and SPM Automation will work on lithium ion battery innovations and integrated systems for next-generation EVs.
- Green Graphite Technologies of Montreal and London, Ont.-based coatings startup Calumix Technologies will work on readying graphite recycled from secondary sources for use in EV batteries.
- Nano One and Worley Chemetics, both based in Vancouver, will work on optimizing Nano One’s “one-pot” battery materials production process.
- Plasmagear of Montreal and Vancouver’s Ionomir Innovations will collaborate on high-performance fuel cells.
The five new EV research projects are the latest in a series of more than 200 collaborative scale-up efforts backed by NGen over the past few years across both automotive and other sectors.
