Ontario's vision for an end-to-end electric vehicle supply chain, once an aggressive focus for Premier Doug Ford, has been sputtering as manufacturers delay or cancel plans, and the government is now looking to demands for batteries of a different sort to sustain it.
Ford and the federal government negotiated to bring three electric vehicle battery plants to Ontario — investments worth billions of dollars — and had hoped to not only see those batteries go into EVs made in the province but also to have them made with parts produced in Ontario and with minerals mined and refined in the province.
A few years after laying out the idea, though, its initial promise has waned.