Automotive and mobility news
There’s always something new happening in the automotive and mobility sector. Catch up on the latest developments.
OVIN News
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Ontario Supporting SMEs with the Launch of its Going Global Initiative
Ontario launched Going Global today, a pioneering new initiative that will support Ontario small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as they expand their global footprint and enter into new markets. This initiative will provide Ontario companies with unparalleled opportunities to broaden their consumer reach, showcase their innovative offerings in international markets, and foster new and strategic partnerships within the international innovation ecosystem.
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Ecopia AI Completes Digitally Smart Map of Toronto
Ecopia AI (Ecopia) announced the completion and delivery of a high-precision digital map of the City of Toronto that will be used to help Toronto become a smart city. The map was made possible with support from the Government of Ontario and represents the future of transportation mapping, while underscoring the importance of high-quality geospatial data.
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Joyride revolutionizes Ontario’s urban mobility with OVIN partnership.
OVIN’s investment will facilitate the development and installation of telematic Internet of Things (IoT) devices, specifically tailored for Waev Inc.’s GEM low-speed vehicles.
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Ontario Invests in U of G’s AI and Machine Learning to Drive Future Automotive and Mobility Workforce
The University of Guelph’s Centre for Advancing Responsible and Ethical Artificial Intelligence (CARE-AI) will launch a new micro-learning platform for high school and post-secondary students to spark interest in AI and machine learning in the automotive and mobility sectors.
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Waterloo secures OVIN funding for outreach programs
The University of Waterloo has secured $345,000 from the Ontario government to run three outreach projects designed to connect the next generation of workers to the province’s growing automotive sector.
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Waterloo secures OVIN funding for outreach programs
The use of virtual reality across all industry sectors brings more interactivity, flexibility and connectivity to work, without compromising the sense of presence. VR is driving widespread changes to allow companies to leverage their digital assets and improve processes such as prototyping, reviewing design, product development, training and promotion of products and services.
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How Ontario Tech is supporting Ontario’s innovative electric vehicle and mobility sector and developing the next generation of talent
The use of virtual reality across all industry sectors brings more interactivity, flexibility and connectivity to work, without compromising the sense of presence. VR is driving widespread changes to allow companies to leverage their digital assets and improve processes such as prototyping, reviewing design, product development, training and promotion of products and services.
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Invest WindsorEssex partners with Virtualware to accelerate VR CAVE capabilities for the automobility sector
The use of virtual reality across all industry sectors brings more interactivity, flexibility and connectivity to work, without compromising the sense of presence. VR is driving widespread changes to allow companies to leverage their digital assets and improve processes such as prototyping, reviewing design, product development, training and promotion of products and services.
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OCI Partnership Helping to Accelerate Equity in the Auto Sector
Accelerate Auto’s mission is to advance career opportunities for Black people in the auto industry while tackling the systemic racism that is hampering progress. Their work involves actively promoting the automotive and mobility industry to Black talent in high schools and post-secondary schools, collaborating with educational institutions, connecting students to scholarships and mentorship opportunities, advocating for greater equity in the sector to industry groups and employers and more.
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NORCAT and Partners Unite to Improve Safety, Productivity, and Sustainability in the Global Mining Industry
NORCAT, the global leader in skilled labour training and development and innovation services, together with their technology partners, are excited to announce the launch of the Mining Technology Innovation Challenge, a Canada-wide competition for innovators to create 5G applications to enhance safety, productivity and operational improvements in the global mining industry.
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First All-Canadian, Zero-Emission Concept Vehicle Designed in Ontario Unveiled at Consumer Electronics Show
Project Arrow, the first, all-Canadian, zero-emission connected vehicle, designed and built in Ontario, was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show, one of the largest and most influential technology events in the world. Project Arrow makes use of Ontario’s complete end-to-end automotive supply chain and demonstrates the province’s world-class automotive capabilities and innovation on a global stage.
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Ontario investments in Regional Technology and Development sites across the province
The Government of Ontario announced an investment of $18 million through the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN) toward the province’s seven Regional Technology and Development Sites (RTDS).
Ecosystem Highlights
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Future of Cities Call for Solutions
Communitech and the Future of Cities 2022 partners have teamed up with 20+ municipalities from across Canada to identify the top challenges faced by our cities. Now, we’re looking for homegrown tech companies that can deliver solutions to one or more of the issues. If you are a Canadian tech company with a solution relevant to the challenges below, apply today.
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2021 Connected intersection Challenge
The adoption of the Cellular-V2X standard will increase the number of connected vehicles on city roadways. To help prepare, Fortran and its contest partners BlackBerry and Cradlepoint are pleased to support the 2021 Connected Intersection Challenge.
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Spotlight on Ottawa’s Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Ecosystem
Canada’s capital is among the country’s top technology hubs, and combined with its long history in auto manufacturing, Ottawa is well-positioned to lead in the burgeoning connected and autonomous vehicle industry.
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Transportation Innovation Challenge: Automated Sidewalk Winter Maintenance
Be part of the first trial at Toronto’s new Transportation Innovation Zone! Are you developing new technologies to clear snow or apply salt to sidewalks? The City of Toronto is inviting you to join a first-of-its-kind Transportation Innovation Challenge at the City’s new Transportation Innovation Zone at Exhibition Place in early 2021. All of the information you need to know can be found in the Call for Applications or at the City of Toronto website www.Toronto.ca/TIZ
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Canada improves but other countries keep pace in KPMG’s 2020 AV readiness index
Canada is the world-leading hub of AI. There is a talent capability in AI, decision telematics and lidar at a density found nowhere else in the world
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Otto Motors, Ontario-based maker of autonomous vehicles for factories, raises US$29-million
Otto Motors, a division of Clearpath Robotics Inc., builds squat but agile battery-powered, pallet-sized vehicles that autonomously transport loads of as much as 1,500 kilograms at two metres per second to assembly lines.
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Kitchener’s Avidbots sees increase in demand for robot floor cleaners
A Kitchener company that builds cleaning robots is seeing demand for its product increase during the COVID-19 pandemic. Avidbots build an autonomous floor cleaning robot called Neo that is used in commercial spaces including malls and airports.
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The Sensor: Legal Insights into Autonomous Vehicles
In the short term, physical distancing and other restrictions have forced the closure of some vehicle and robotic manufacturing, adversely impacting connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) development. In the long term, however, the COVID-19 pandemic may propel the industry forward, by recasting our focus on the use of robotics and automated forms of service delivery, along with infrastructural and city planning aspects. Though a number of CAV companies have had to halt development and testing due to COVID-19, CAVs are carving out a role for themselves in a global community that is shifting priorities, altering habits, and becoming preoccupied with reducing human involvement in everyday tasks.
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Province selects University of Windsor for autonomous vehicle study
Two University of Windsor professors have received a provincial grant for a study of human interaction with Advance Driver Assistance Systems aimed at helping the Ministry of Transportation formulate future autonomous vehicle policy.
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The Very First Standard We Need for Autonomous Vehicles
Nowadays, there are multiple ongoing standardization efforts in the Autonomous Driving Systems (ADS) domain, whose goal is to try to standardize different aspects of ADS technologies, especially safety validation and verification procedures or approaches.
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Auto Industry Pledges V2X Expansion, but Only If FCC Protects Airwaves
The auto industry announced Thursday that it plans to install 5 million pieces of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) equipment over the next five years, but only if the Federal Communications Commission reverses course on a plan to take away airwaves currently reserved for development of the technology.
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Outbreak to remap future vehicle design, interiors
Across the car world, designers remain among the relative few in the industry who can continue their daily work uninterrupted, more or less. While factory stalls everywhere from Volkswagen Group to General Motors sent thousands of line workers home, the men and women who work to outline your car’s roof or orchestrate the feel of the lambswool carpets beneath your feet can gather virtually to push projects forward.
News Releases
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Ontario Accelerating the Shift to Electrification through New OVIN R&D Partnership Fund Stream
Through the new Advanced Charging and Vehicle-to-Grid Stream, the province will support Ontario-made innovations that strengthen Ontario’s position as a global leader in the EV transition
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Ontario Spotlights Momentum in the Shift to Electrification through OVIN at the 2024 Canadian International AutoShow
Featuring the Ontario Ministry of Energy’s new EV Charging Connections Procedures and EV innovations driven by industry leaders, the OVIN Speakers Series highlights Ontario’s vision for an electrified future.
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OVIN and e-mobil BW GmbH Announce Strategic Partnership to Strengthen Collaboration on Automotive and Mobility Innovation
Province of Ontario and the State of Baden-Württemberg are strengthening their economic relationship through a new strategic partnership between the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN) and the agency of the State of Baden-Württemberg e-mobil BW. This new Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) marks the continuation of the long-standing MOU between the two regions which was renewed last October. It will enhance further cross-jurisdictional collaboration and bolster both regions’ leadership positions in the global automotive and mobility sector.
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OVIN Supports More Auto Innovation in the Ottawa Region
Invest Ottawa’s Area X.O will accelerate the commercialization of made-in-Ontario automotive technologies
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OVIN Preparing Workers for Careers in Ontario’s Auto and Mobility Sector
The Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN) is launching its new Content Partnerships (CP) Program to help workers upgrade their skills and find employment in Ontario’s growing auto sector. Under the new CP Program, postsecondary institutions can receive up to $100,000 to develop automotive and mobility-focused rapid training programs, also known as micro-credentials.
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OVIN to launch demonstration sites for automotive and mobility technologies
New demonstration zone will operate across York Region, one of Canada’s largest automotive manufacturing regions.
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Ontario Building the Auto Manufacturing Workforce of the Future
The RFW program aims to bridge the gap between students, of all ages, and the auto industry, while also focusing on reducing the stigma associated with careers in the skilled trades. Non-profit organizations, school boards and post-secondary institutions will receive up to $500,000 each to lead eight-month-long automotive-focused programs to at least 500 students. Each program is designed to address the unique needs of the region and the ages of the students. Programs can range from play-based learning for young children, to manufacturing, robotics, and mining workshops for older students.
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Ontario Building the Auto Manufacturing Workforce of the Future
The Ontario government is investing nearly $6 million to support 14 innovative projects to connect the next generation of workers to the province’s growing auto sector.
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Ontario reinforces commitment to Communitech, University of Waterloo and Waterloo Regions’s transportation community through OVIN
The RFW program aims to bridge the gap between students, of all ages, and the auto industry, while also focusing on reducing the stigma associated with careers in the skilled trades. Non-profit organizations, school boards and post-secondary institutions will receive up to $500,000 each to lead eight-month-long automotive-focused programs to at least 500 students. Each program is designed to address the unique needs of the region and the ages of the students. Programs can range from play-based learning for young children, to manufacturing, robotics, and mining workshops for older students.
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Eastern Ontario Joins Province’s EV Revolution with Game-Changing Battery Materials Manufacturing Investment
KINGSTON — Umicore plans to make a $1.5 billion investment to build a first of its kind industrial scale cathode and precursor materials manufacturing plant, in eastern Ontario. This investment would support Ontario’s vision of building an end-to-end electric vehicle (EV) supply chain in the province and becoming a North American hub for building the cars of the future. Building the facility will provide employment for around 1,000 people in the construction phase and employment for several hundred in operations.
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Acerta Analytics to Develop Machine Learning Models to Predict Nissan Vehicle Maintenance Needs, with Support from the Government of Ontario Through OVIN
Acerta Analytics Solutions Inc. — the Ontario-based company whose machine learning and artificial intelligence (ML/AI) solutions turn complex product data into actionable insights for customers in the automotive and transportation industries — has partnered with Nissan thanks to support from the Government of Ontario through the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN).
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Connecting Ontario’s Manufacturing Might with Critical Minerals in the North
As the next step in the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN), the Northern Ontario RTDS is a collaboration between public and private sector partners in North Bay, Sault Ste. Marie, Greater Sudbury, Temiskaming Shores, Timmins, and Thunder Bay.
