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Original Whitepaper, Geotab, May 2021 Whether driven by federal mandates to reduce emissions, the need to balance budgets by lowering operating and fuel costs or simply trying to get ahead of the inevitable transition to EVs, government fleet managers are increasingly shifting towards exploring the idea of electrifying their fleets.

Original Report, Clean Energy Canada, May 19, 2021 The world’s largest economies are ramping up their climate ambitions and radically reimagining their economies. Canada too must not only identify where our strategic opportunities lie in a future net-zero world—but also take steps today to ensure those opportunities don’t pass us

Original Article, W. Azeez, World Economic Forum, May 12, 2021 While global car sales took a pandemic-related hit last year, electric vehicles (EVs) bucked the trend. The number of EVs registered across the globe expanded massively in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA) – and this is set

Original Report, O. Alexy et al., McKinsey & Company, May 21, 2021 The shift to electric powertrains will ripple back to affect the machine-tool industry. Powertrain equipment demand made up more than 40 percent of the automotive industry’s share of global transportation equipment demand in 2019. Given the significance of

Original Article, M. Robinet, May 3, 2021 Suppliers face critical decisions on a daily basis. Crises come and go. Dealing with erratic production schedules driven by semiconductor supply shortages and coping with rising prices for strategic materials such as steel and resin underscore the cyclical challenges of the auto business.

Original McKinsey Report, Various Authors, mckinsey.com, April 6, 2021 General Motors’ January announcement that it would join other automakers by selling only zero-emission vehicles (in its case, by 2035) was one of the most well-publicized examples of something that has become crystal clear over the past few years: the momentum