Honda has “indefinitely suspended” its Canadian electric vehicle manufacturing value chain in Ontario, the automaker said May 14.

This comes a year after the automaker announced it was postponing work related to the project.

It also comes two months after Honda cancelled plans for three electric vehicles that were to be manufactured in Ohio, though there is some hope of the plan still proceeding in Canada, just no timeline of when that might happen.

The automaker said the “indefinite suspension of the Canadian value chain investment project in response to evolving business conditions, a change in external resource strategy and shifting customer demand.”

Additionally, the company said that based on its revised strategic objectives, it determined the suspension of the project is appropriate at this time.

“We will continue reviewing our future procurement and business strategies, while carefully monitoring market conditions,” the company said.

About Honda’s Ontario EV production plans

Honda was planning to establish four facilities to support production of electric vehicle manufacturing in Ontario.

This would have included an EV assembly plant and an EV battery plant in Alliston, where the company already assembles vehicles, plus two other related facilities, one of which would be located in Port Colborne. The company had not announced where the fourth would be.

The new EV plant in Alliston was supposed to create as many as 1,000 jobs.

No job cuts at Honda of Canada Mfg.

Honda’s assembly facility in Allison, Honda of Canada Mfg., produces the Civic sedan and CR-V sport utility vehicle, and employs roughly 4,200 people.

The automaker said the suspended EV project has no impact on current employment at Honda of Canada Mfg.

The plant produced about 400,000 vehicles in 2025.

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