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The massive gamble by the Automotive Parts Manufacturers’ Association (APMA) is enjoying out in Las Vegas this week.

Project Arrow, the high-tech idea car produced with content material from 50 elements suppliers in Canada, was unveiled on the shopper electronics present generally known as CES on Thursday.

“It came out exactly the way we wanted it to and we think we finished on the exterior end, on the technology, the way it operates, and how all those systems operate together have come according to plan — on budget and on time,” mentioned Flavio Volpe, president of the APMA.

For now, there aren’t any plans to mass produce the car. The Arrow was constructed to showcase the Canadian auto business’s skill to fabricate electrical autos.

Being a part of this nationwide and worldwide-scale occasion is actually serving to corporations like mine and quite a lot of the opposite suppliers get our stuff on the market into the general public view.– Pat Troy, Ettractive Inc. in Oldcastle, Ont.

Pat Troy, chief technical officer of {hardware} and software program firm Ettractive Inc. in Oldcastle, Ont., is one in all a number of Windsor-Essex corporations that equipped elements for the Arrow.

“Being part of this national and worldwide-scale event is really helping companies like mine and a lot of the other suppliers get our stuff out there into the public view,” Troy mentioned.

About a 3rd of the 50 suppliers are positioned or have a presence within the Windsor space.

Troy, who’s in Las Vegas for the launch, mentioned publicity like this helps develop his firm.

The Arrow is absolutely electrical and a Level 3 autonomous car, that means it has the identical autonomous capabilities as are at present obtainable in different vehicles.

The Arrow was produced over the previous three years with a $5-million funding by way of FedDev Ontario and $1.8 million by way of the Ontario Vehicle Innovation Network (OVIN).

Both Volpe and Troy mentioned Canada wants to start out producing extra semi-conductors so producers aren’t reliant on abroad producers. Some elements of the Arrow needed to be sourced from Asia.

Ninety-seven per cent of the Arrow’s content material is Canadian.

The automobile might be on show in Las Vegas on the four-day CES present that started Thursday. It will then be featured on the 2023 Canadian International AutoShow in Toronto subsequent month.

Volpe mentioned the Arrow might be dropped at Windsor someday within the close to future.