Honda’s CA$15 billion commitment was touted by former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as the “largest auto investment in Canada’s history.” It was to include a battery plant with an annual capacity of 36 GWh while an EV assembly plant would have been able to build as many as 240,000 vehicles per year from 2028.

Honda said on Tuesday it would postpone by at least two years its large-scale investments to establish an electric vehicle supply chain in Canada. Originally announced in April of last year , the project is valued at $15 billion,