The fortune of money is aimed to kick the Stellantis EV future up a gear after an announcement that it would inject $2.8 B into its Canadian operations to build electric vehicles was made. A portion of the sum is intended to create Stellantis’ first battery lab in North America.
Stellantis have shed a little bit more light on their roadmap to electrification with some zealous plans to upgrade existing facilities in Canada while also introducing novel laboratories in the North American country. This is the viable solution to achieving a 100% EV sales strategy in Europe by 2030 as the clock to this mandate ticks over. The Stellantis EV future plans to incorporate 75 full electric models across its collection of automakers.
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The upgrades include the Windsor Assembly Plant and the Brampton Assembly plant which are scheduled to go under the knife over the next few years. Windsor will become what Stellantis has dubbed a “multi-energy vehicle architecture” that will form the basis of future EV’s and retooling for the Ontario based factory will take place from next year.
Thereafter, the Brampton Assembly Plant will receive its renovation to receive a new, flexible architecture to “support the company’s electrification plans,” which doesn’t allude to the fact that this will be purely EV focused. Retooling will take place at the Ontario facility from 2024 with production scheduled to resume in 2025.
The Automotive Research and Development Centre in Windsor is also expected to hire 650 additional engineering staff in a focus on developing electrified propulsion systems, batteries, power electronics, energy management, embedded software and motor controls amongst others. Construction of the battery factory in Windsor will commence in early 2024 and once complete, should be able to push out over 45 gigawatt-hours of packs each year with an employee capacity of 2,500 people.
