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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24 min
The missing link in Ontario's EV supply chain
Road Trip host Marco Chown Oved is back for a surprise bonus episode where he visits the new factory announcement in Port Colborne, Ont. that's filling in the missing link in Ontar…
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25 min
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…
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22 min
Canada set to have the best EV supply chain in the world
While China dominates the EV supply chain today, the ranking — put out by Bloomberg — really looks at the future and singles out Canada for having better environmental and labour s…
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28 min
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 ton…
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27 min
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…
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25 min
The first cobalt refinery in North America is in Canada
In this episode, we visit a cobalt refinery in Cobalt, Ont. that’s running on renewable power and doubling as a battery recycling plant. Electra Battery Materials bought the plant…
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20 min
Can EV batteries be made with Canadian minerals?
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 an…
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40 min
Bonus episode: Host Marco Chown Oved sits down to discuss the 2,300 km road trip
In a cross-over episode of Toronto Star podcasts, This Matters' Ed Keenan interviews Road Trip: Electric Avenues' Marco Chown Oved, the Star's climate change reporter. They have a…
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Introducing Road Trip Season 1, Electric Avenues, chronicling a 2,300 km winter trek in an EV
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 and photogr…