Industry committee  Thank you for that question. It's a really nice one. The moderate-range, lower-cost vehicle will have a battery chemistry based on lithium iron phosphate. This is really quite good, because iron and phosphorus are highly abundant and very sustainable. Another good thing about t

Industry committee  It's quite likely. One thing about these electric-powered yard machines is that they're incredible. I don't know if you own one.

Industry committee  They're awesome—no oil changes, no gas.

Industry committee  It's incredible. They're so great. I have an electric lawnmower and so on. It's awesome. In Quebec, there are all kinds of companies—and Sarah can talk about this—that make things like electric snowmobiles, electric jet skis and whatever the heck electric recreational vehicles.

Industry committee  No, I don't think that's right. The market is there at the moment. In my role with Novonix, we're developing energy storage products for residential homes. To try to get lithium-ion batteries for those products from tier one manufacturers is virtually impossible. You go to them

Industry committee  The technology is going in a good direction. The cost is coming down. The lifetimes are becoming longer. The safety is becoming better. Everything is becoming better over time. I really don't know how to answer your question, except to tell you that things are getting better al

Industry committee  I'm not sure I'm the right person to be answering that question. There are probably others in the mining sector who would be better. All I know is that lithium in the ground and highly pure lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide are not the same. To go from one to the other requi

Industry committee  Well, the gap is enormous. The governments have very nicely realized the importance of electric vehicles in eliminating tailpipe emissions. At the same time, we have to be able to get more renewables onto the energy grid, solar and wind, and for that we need energy storage, be it

Industry committee  Thank you for inviting me as a witness. I'm a professor in the department of physics at Dalhousie University. I'm also chief scientific adviser to Novonix of Bedford, Nova Scotia. My research group of about 30 people is funded by Tesla and NSERC from 2016 to at least 2026 under