On April 3, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced a matching 25% tariff on U.S.-made vehicles as a response to U.S. President Trump’s 25% tariff on automotive imports that came into effect at midnight. Carney expects the Canadian tariff to generate CAD 8 billion which will be used to support workers and businesses. 
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On April 3, Stellantis North American chief Antonio Filosa announced to employees that it is pausing production at some of its Canadian and Mexican assembly plants as new U.S. tariffs placed on automotive imports take effect, a move affecting nine total plants that will trigger about 900 temporary layoffs at several

On April 2, DesRosiers Automotive Consultants announced that approximately 185,000 light vehicles were sold in March 2025, up 11.4% from the same month in 2024 and signifying it as the best March figures since 2018.
The SAAR for March was a robust 2.02 million, broadly in line with February.
“On the BEV front there w

On March 31, Siemens announced a CAD 150 million (approximately EUR 97 million) investment over five years to establish a Global AI Manufacturing Technologies R&D Center for Battery Production in Canada.
The new R&D center, located initially at Siemens Canada’s head office in Oakville, as well as in Toronto and Kitc

Canadian light vehicle assembly has entered a period of structural change over the last few years, with investments in plants and supply chains now coming under risk, according to DesRosiers Automotive analysts. 
Following the peak in 2000 when production was at 2.915 million, volumes declined to a nadir in 2021, whe

On March 31, Nouveau Monde Graphite Inc. filed financial reports with the securities commissions or securities regulatory authorities in each of the provinces of Canada, and with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission.
The Updated Feasibility Study for the Matawinie Mine and the Bécancour Battery Materi

On March 28, Suprajit Engineering Limited signed an asset purchase agreement for the second tranche of the SCS acquisition, covering the assets and certain liabilities of SCS China (Stahlschmidt Zhejiang Automotive Co., Ltd.) and SCS Canada (Stahlschmidt Ltd.). The acquisition will be executed through Suprajit USA In

On March 26, U.S. President Donald Trump after announcing 25% tariffs on all imported automotive products, U.S. President Donald Trump suggested in a late night post on his Truth Social that further tariffs would be imposed on the European Union and Canada if they retaliated in unison.
“If the European Union works wi

On March 26, during a campaign stop at the Ambassador Bridge in Windsor, Ontario, Prime Minister and Liberal Party Leader Mark Carney promised a CAD 2 billion “strategic response fund” to help Canadian auto manufacturing and strengthen a supply chain under threat from U.S. tariffs.
Carney, who became prime minister l

On March 26, Nissan announced it will launch more than 10 new and refreshed products in in the U.S. and Canada through 2027, including next-gen EV and hybrid tech and INFINITI models.
In FY2025:
The U.S. and Canada will be the first markets to launch the all-new third-generation Leaf, reimagined as a sleek and spacio

On March 25, Canada’s Transport Minister Chrystia Freeland said that the government has frozen CAD 43 million (USD 30.11 million) of rebate payments for Tesla and banned the company from future EV rebate programs.
Earlier in March it was reported that Tesla had filed an extraordinary number of EV rebate claims in the

Several South Korean media sources reported that one of the US subsidiaries of the LG Group, LG Technology Ventures, had made a series A investment in a Canadian lithium extraction company, Summit Nanotech Corporation. The exact size of the investment is not publicly disclosed, but it is assumed to be within the rang

Ford is moving over vehicles and components across the U.S. Canadian border as fast as it can as it prepares for any future tariff announcements on April 2.
One truck full of 45 Ford engines used in the popular Super Duty pickup would cost Ford about USD 70,000 in tariffs, while a truck stocked with 66 of the 5.0-lit

On March 17, Toronto’s mayor Olivia Chow banned financial incentives for Tesla vehicles bought as taxis or ride-share. The city has been offering taxi and ride-share drivers reduced licensing and renewal fees until the end of 2029 if the cars are electric, but Tesla EVs are excluded from the program. Chow said that t

Electrovaya Inc. announced that it has closed a direct loan of USD 50.8 million from the Export-Import Bank of the United States under the bank’s “Make More in America” initiative, meeting substantially all the bank’s conditions to begin drawdowns on the loan. The loan will be combined with USD 20 million BMO Credit

On March 18, Magna announced a program in collaboration with NVIDIA to integrate the NVIDIA DRIVE AGX platform within its next generation of advanced technology solutions. It will use the next-generation NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor system-on-a-chip (SoC). NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Thor delivers up to 1,000 trillion operations per s

On March 18, Vancouver, British Columbia-based window technology creator Miru Smart Technologies introduced one of the world’s largest electrochromic sunroof window devices for the automotive industry. The use of Argotec advanced thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) interlayer films demonstrates the scalability and comme

South Korea’s lithium hydroxide manufacturer, EcoPro Innovation Co., Ltd., announced that it agreed with a Canadian electric power company, Hydro-Québec, to develop next-generation lithium metal anode materials jointly. They plan to combine EcoPro Innovation's lithium processing technology with Hydro-Québec's researc

Tesla is being suspected of gaming Canada’s federal EV rebate program, and causing it to end earlier than expected. The Canadian government warned consumers and dealers in mid-January that its iZEV incentive program for the purchase of EVs that was supposed to end in March, was running out of money faster than planne