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Road Trip | Electric Avenues

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From mine to battery to electric vehicle – Ontario’s clean economic future is being built around electric vehicles (EVs). The Star's climate change reporter Marco Chown Oved and photographer (and EV owner) Steve Russell embarked upon a week-long road trip  – in an EV, of course – to visit sites around the province that will figure in this cleantech future.

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Episode Our last stop: specialty EVs for the mining industry Cover

Our last stop: specialty EVs for the mining industry

When we started this podcast, we really wanted to visit each step of the EV production process to show a complete picture of the supply chain, but in the end, we couldn’t seal the deal. First off, the cam and cathode production isn’t coming to Ontario. Right now, it’s all being built in Bécancour, Quebec. And while there are plans to retool auto assembly plants to make EVs, there’s currently only one that’s operational — the GM electric delivery van plant in Ingersoll — and when we asked to visit, we found out it had been shut down due to supply chain snags. So instead, our final stop is North Bay where they are making specialty EVs for the mining industry. Toronto Star photographer Steve Russell and climate change reporter Marco Chown Oved went on a road trip through northern Ontario in the dead of winter. It was cold, blizzarding and icy. They travelled 2,300 km during the coldest week of the year. And they did it in an electric vehicle (EV).

15. März 2024 - 24 min
Episode Can Ontario’s resource-extraction and industrial economy transition to the clean economy? Cover

Can Ontario’s resource-extraction and industrial economy transition to the clean economy?

Steel is one of the biggest emitters of carbon in the world. Currently, steelmaking is responsible for seven to nine percent of total global emissions. That’s about 2.6 billion tonnes of carbon — or four times more than all the emissions produced in Canada. And because most steel is made by melting down iron using coal, it’s very hard to decarbonize. In Sault Ste. Marie, Algoma Steel is transitioning its 100 year old coke oven and blast furnaces to electric arc furnace technology. It’s a change that will cut its carbon emissions by 70 per cent. Since Ontario’s electricity grid is so clean, Algoma Steel will become some of the cleanest steel on the planet. It’s already being used in EVs and will soon make its way into electrical towers and infrastructure used to build the clean economy.

1. März 2024 - 27 min
Episode Ontario has every stage in the EV supply chain right here at home Cover

Ontario has every stage in the EV supply chain right here at home

Ontario is virtually unique in the world. Thanks to plentiful natural resources, clean energy and a large automotive sector, it has every stage in the EV supply chain right here at home. In theory, the province could mine the metals, make the batteries, produce the steel and assemble the electric car entirely in the province. But to plot a way to a more prosperous and environmentally responsible future, we need to look at our past. That’s why we headed to Cobalt, one of Ontario’s biggest mining boom towns, where great wealth was hauled out of the ground for more than a century, and now, very little remains. We met up with Charlie Angus, the local MP, former punk rocker, journalist and amateur historian.

23. Feb. 2024 - 26 min
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