The Mike Farewell Show
CityNews 570 Kitchener May 11, 2022 Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers Association, discusses how Ontario’s auto industry has been reborn. Listen here (@ 2:06:02).
Breaking down $13 billion worth of Canadian auto investment
Greg Layson, Automotive News Canada Podcast May 6, 2022 Flavio Volpe of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association weighs in on the recent explosion of auto investment in Canada. Listen here (@ 3:08).
EV Battery Questions
The Shift with Patty Handysides, AM800 May 4, 2022 We’ve secured an electric vehicle battery plant for Windsor. We’ve secured more research and development facilities for electric vehicles. With all these investments, Flavio Volpe, APMA president, explains all things batteries. Listen here.
How a $5-billion Stellantis-LG EV battery plant brightens Brampton’s future
David Kennedy, Automotive News Canada April 20, 2022 Flavio Volpe, head of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, said the automaker would not spend billions in Ontario to then shift production away from one of its two assembly plants in the province. Read article here.
Stellantis-LG $5-billion battery plant will ‘create a new supply chain’ in Canada
Grace Macaluso, Automotive News Canada April 15, 2022 Across the sector, the joint venture “is going to create a new supply chain,” said Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association. Read article here.
Ontario risks losing its auto crown as cheap, green power gives Quebec the EV edge
Gabriel Friedman, The Financial Post March 11, 2022 As both provinces race to woo automakers and battery makers, a new quandary could arise. Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association, said both provinces have advantages. Read article here.
GM and POSCO to build plant in Quebec to produce battery material for electric cars
Adena Ali, Global News March 7, 2022 Canada is starting to see the fruit of constant pitching by the different levels of government to players around the world, said Flavio Volpe, president of the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association. Read article here.
‘Too much noise in the data’ to fully gauge USMCA
Emily Atkins, Automotive News Canada July 29, 2021 Flavio Volpe, president of the APMA, said Canada has a chance to be the “battery capital of North America” if it can figure out the metals processing piece of the equation and the role of government funding. Read the article here.
“In the next year or two” Canada must decide to be a supplier of raw materials or battery cells
Emma Buchanan, Electric Autonomy Canada June 25, 2021 Flavio Volpe joins the fourth panel of Electric Autonomy Canada’s national EV battery supply chain series to discuss how Canada can be competitive in cell manufacturing. Watch the panel here.
Canada Conversations: Flavio Volpe: ‘We can be the battery capital of North America’
Greg Layson, Automotive News Canada June 25, 2021 It’s been a bumpy first year under the new USMCA trade pact, but Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association President Flavio Volpe says that deal and Canada’s natural resources gives Canada “a little bit more leverage” in the global auto market. Flavio also discusses the status of Project Arrow. […]
