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Northern Ontario is key to the development of electric vehicles, with the Cobalt, Hearst and Red Lake areas all providing minerals essential to the manufacture of batteries used in those vehicles.
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And if the stars align properly, there is even the potential for those batteries to be manufactured in the North, according to Nipissing MPP Vic Fedeli.
Fedeli, responding to a call by the Ontario Real Estate Association (OREA) to reverse the economic and social decline in rural and Northern Ontario, says $6 billion worth of investments in the auto industry in the past year is laying the groundwork for an improved economy.