Canada's New Engine Could End the Entire EV Industry

About 1.5 to 2 kilos of rare earth magnets sit inside a typical electric car motor, and 94% of the world's sintered magnets are made in one country. In 2025, the supply slowed and a Ford factory in Chicago stopped. Now a new date is on the calendar: November 10, 2026. In Hamilton, Ontario, a McMaster University spin-off called Enedym has built an electric motor with no magnets at all. Just steel, copper and software. Honda has invested, and magnet-free airport tractors are already pulling luggage. The story runs from GM's magnet factory in Indiana, to Hydro-Québec's 1994 wheel motor, to TM4 in Boucherville, to the race between Tesla, BMW, ZF and Niron, and the rest of the supply chain from Saskatoon to Narva. Chapters 00:00 The date on the calendar 01:43 The magnet in every car 03:23 How America gave it away 04:56 The day the factories stopped 07:07 Quebec's lost motor 08:36 From Boucherville to the world 10:24 The motor from 1838 12:05 Hamilton 13:51 The airport test 15:21 Honda calls 17:32 The race 19:27 The rest of the chain 21:42 November 10 Note: some scenes are AI-generated illustrations, including an imagined future factory (concept, not a real announcement). Dates, figures and places come from public sources and company announcements (IEA, Ford, CLEPA, Hydro-Québec, Dana, Enedym, Honda, Saskatchewan Research Council, Neo Performance Materials, G7). Footage: Pexels, Pixabay. Music and sound effects: YouTube Audio Library. Map data: Natural Earth. #Canada #ElectricVehicles #CanadaInvents Image credits (Wikimedia Commons): Greetings from Anderson, Indiana - Large Letter Postcard / Steve Shook / CC BY 2.0 Anderson, Indiana Skyline / 765tru / CC BY-SA 4.0 Avro Arrow Replica / Ken Mist / CC BY-SA 2.0 BMW iX3, IAA Summit 2025, Munich (20250908-P1049823) / Matti Blume / CC BY-SA 4.0 BMW iX3, IAA Summit 2025, Munich (20250908-P1049824-2) / Matti Blume / CC BY-SA 4.0 BMW iX3 50, IAA Summit 2025, Munich (P1049826) / Matti Blume / CC BY-SA 4.0 CitroenC-Metisse9 / Ton1~commonswiki / CC BY-SA 3.0 Conservatoire Citroen 302 Citroen Metisse / Klaus Nahr / CC BY-SA 2.0 Dodge Intrepid 1994 / Crazytales / CC BY-SA 3.0 130th St at overpass to Ford Assembly Plant parking - Chicag / AlphaBeta135 / CC BY 4.0 Hamilton skyline / Akos Kokai / CC BY 2.0 Skyline of Stony Creek, Ontario / Gogerr / CC BY-SA 4.0 Hamilton steel mills / THENEWMIKON8ER / CC BY 3.0 Steel Mill in Hamilton, Ontario 03 / K2HWY / CC BY 4.0 Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Québec)-Tours à haute tension d' / Veillg1 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Varennes (QC)-IREQ-20230923 / Gaétan Veillette / CC BY-SA 4.0 Hamilton Ontario International Airport / Oaktree b / CC BY-SA 3.0 Boeing 727-260(F) (c-n 21979, C-GUJC) 2011-10-18 Andre Gerwi / André Gerwing / CC BY-SA 4.0 Prime Minister Keir Starmer attends the G7 Summit in Kananas / UK Prime Minister / CC BY 2.0 McMaster University, seen from above and from the southwest / Peter Cruickshank / CC BY-SA 2.0 McMaster University Sign at McMaster Children's Hospital / Takipoint123 / CC BY-SA 4.0 Río Narva entre Ivangorod y Narva, frontera Estonia-Rusia, 2 / Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 3.0 Castillo de Narva, Estonia, 2012-08-10, DD 01 / Diego Delso / CC BY-SA 3.0 Neodymium magnet 1140509 / Nevit Dilmen (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0 Neodymium magnet 1140510 / Nevit Dilmen (talk) / CC BY-SA 3.0 Neodimijski magneti, (Neodymium magnets) / Suradnik50 / CC BY-SA 3.0 Magnet pro magnet fishing / Marian.kabele / CC BY-SA 4.0 Nova Bus LFSe+ in Guelph / Gogerr / CC BY 4.0 Saskatoon, Saskatchewan / Quintin Soloviev / CC BY 4.0 Tata Indica, India / Aravind Sivaraj / CC BY-SA 3.0 Tata Indica EV Engine bay / PRES 00 / CC BY-SA 3.0