Windsor Getting Stellantis Battery Factory The big news this week is a new battery plant coming to Windsor, ON. Stellantis (formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles/FCA) has announced that the Ontario city will receive a $5 billion investment to build more than 45 gigawatt-hours of EV batteries every year. The plant, a venture with LG Energy Solution, is set to open in early 2024 and could supply more than 600,000 EVs every year. “Our joint venture with LG Energy Solution is yet another stepping-stone to achieving our aggressive electrification road map in the region, aimed at hitting 50 percent of ..read more

Every week, wheels.ca selects a new vehicle and takes a good look at its entry-level trim. If we find it worthy of your consideration, we’ll let you know. If not, we’ll recommend one – or the required options – that earns a passing grade. For anyone not familiar, Genesis is an upstart luxury brand backed by well-known and successful companies in South Korea. Drawing on the engineering might and expertise of that country’s home-market automakers, Genesis has been taking established luxury brands to task by offering vehicles with expressive styling and top-shelf build quality. After setting tabl ..read more

From potholes to traffic congestion, CAA South Central Ontario (CAA SCO) is calling on all road users across the province to nominate and vote for roads they believe are in urgent need of repair. The CAA’s annual Worst Roads campaign provides a platform for Ontarians to give decision-makers a snapshot of what roads are not meeting their expectations. “Over the past 18 years, the CAA Worst Roads campaign has had a direct impact on road infrastructure and helped to prioritize much-needed road repairs,” says Teresa Di Felice, assistant vice-president, government and community relations for C ..read more

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My friend Gerald Donaldson lives in Toronto, has a rustic cabin deep in the Ontario woods (“You can hear the wolves at night,” he said), writes for the website “F1” and lives and breathes Formula One, among other racing series. He’s written two dozen books on F1, from biographies of Gilles Villeneuve and James Hunt to the story of McLaren. Every year around this time, we would sit down and talk about the new season of F1. Usually, it was at a downtown eatery called Over Easy. But then came COVID-19 and it’s been by telephone ever since. And Over Easy is history, I discovered the other day. So ..read more

The race to respond to our changing climate is on. Cities around the world are looking for innovative ways to reduce emissions, leverage new technology and encourage carbon-reducing lifestyles. The City of Toronto is no exception. In 2019, Toronto declared a climate emergency and has since adopted an aggressive target: reaching net zero emissions by 2040. Through mandatory green building standards, improvements to bike lanes and bike-share programs, and the expansion of public transit, here at the city we are advancing our role in reducing global carbon emissions. Yet, despite these efforts, T ..read more

Electric vehicles are not fans of the cold. They don’t travel as far in winter temperatures, plus they need to keep their passengers warm, which uses up more of their battery range. The colder it gets, the more work the battery needs to do. Unlike with gas-powered vehicles, these cars also take longer to charge in colder temperatures. The difference is noticeable even when temperatures are at or slightly above freezing. Admittedly, by Canadian winter standards, that is not extreme. Even at ideal temperatures, EV quick chargers, just like the vehicles, have different max charging speeds.   ..read more

From the snow-capped mountains of Friuli, Italy, to the industrial epicentre of Turin, they still talk about the man with the flamboyance and the fiery temper. His presence is still felt in every showroom. His spirit still turns every screwdriver in every Formula One garage. More than three decades after his death in 1988, mention Enzo Ferrari’s name in the streets of Italy and the reaction is like a splash of that infamous red. “Ferrari?” says a young Italian teenager as he plays with a model race car on the street outside his suburban home 100 kilometres north of Venice. “That is what I want ..read more

The 1963 Sting Ray coupe will forever be remembered as the car that changed the fortunes of the Chevrolet Corvette brand, but not without massive controversy, General Motors infighting and a very prominent and short-lived design feature. In fact, without the changes made for 1963, it’s quite possible that the Corvette would have died. Truth be known, “America’s Sports Car,” as it came to be called, wasn’t given much of a chance when it first appeared at General Motors’ 1953 Motorama car show. After all, the men behind it, designer Harley Earl and engineer Ed Cole, had barely six months to conv ..read more

While most car shoppers in Canada are busy tripping all over themselves to buy SUVs and crossover-like vehicles, there is a small – but determined – group which still prefers an old-school four-door sedan as their preferred way in which to ferry the brood. That’s why, even as manufacturers such as Ford exit the car business, some companies still see opportunity in this once booming segment. Perpetually at or near the top of sales charts for this type of rig is the Toyota Camry. This is a nameplate that’s had so much success that it is not disingenuous to suggest nearly everyone reading this ar ..read more