Former Hydro-Québec researcher Yuesheng Wang was arrested by the RCMP on Monday, and is the first person charged with economic espionage in Canada.
by videolink Tuesday morning to schedule his bail hearing. He spoke through a Mandarin-English interpreter. He was being held in custody at the RCMP headquarters in Montreal before being transferred to a provincial detention centre to await the hearing.
Tucked away in the middle of a vast campus of IREQ facilities, the CETEES and its 120 employees are an inconspicuous bunch. Their work, though, is at the forefront of Quebec’s energy ambitions. In sum: to develop solutions to speed up the adoption of electric vehicles and find a good way to store the energy produced by renewables like wind and solar.
The CETEES signed a partnership with Mercedes on bus batteries in 2020 that came to an end, and it’s now looking for an automaker or battery manufacturer to help it fine tune technology specifically for personal vehicles. Its intellectual property and leading-edge facilities are drawing interest “from around the world,” the centre says on its website. Among the four research partnerships it lists on the site, one is with the U.S. Army Research Laboratory.
The centre’s researchers are developing an ultra-thin lithium metal anode, which it calls the only one of its kind in the world. When perfected, the technology will go into solid-state lithium metal batteries, and deliver a high-energy density and good longevity with a light weight, according to Hydro-Québec. It’s also considered a safer alternative because it does not rely on flammable liquid electrolytes like the current generation of lithium-ion batteries.
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