Trudeau Announces Deal for New Electric-Vehicle Battery Plant in Ontario

Trudeau Announces Deal for New Electric-Vehicle Battery Plant in Ontario
A car is charged at a charge station for electric vehicles on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on May 1, 2019. The Canadian Press/Sean Kilpatrick
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau says Ottawa has reached a deal with Umicore, a global materials technology and recycling group, to build a new battery facility in Ontario’s Loyalist Township.

Speaking at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., today, the prime minister says the facility will supply materials for one million electric vehicles a year.