Canada and Ontario are jointly investing more than $1 billion to help Stellantis retool its Canadian auto plants to make electric vehicles.
Stellantis, the new company created a year ago by the merger of Fiat Chrysler and France’s Group PSA, is investing another $2.4 billion to its electrification projects.
They include creating flexible assembly lines that could pump out battery-electric and hybrid vehicles at Stellantis plants in Windsor and Brampton.
Stellantis is also expanding its research facility in Windsor to include a battery pack testing hub and an electric vehicle research centre.
Innovation Minister François-Philippe Champagne says there is a seismic shift underway in the auto sector and Canada’s industry is playing a big part of that.
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