The PowerCo electric vehicle battery plant in St. Thomas has lost a critical customer, a year from an expected start to production.
The Canada-U.S.-Mexico free trade agreement that allows a fully integrated vehicle sector is up for renegotiation.
To the small-town hospital in Ingersoll, home to the auto assembly plant that had employed most of its members, the union local donated $10,000. Another $5,000, it gave to an inter-faith charity that helps the needy in the Southwestern Ontario community, including with Christmas hampers. The same amount it shared
St. Thomas and Ingersoll aren't far apart, but there's a world of difference in how they've been hit by the auto industry's electric bet.
Volkswagen’s electric battery division is adding workers and creating a training program for area schools to prepare an EV workforce