Stellantis and LG announce $5-billion EV battery plant in Ontario – by Gabriel Friedman (Financial Post – March 24, 2022)

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Plant would eventually create more than 2,500 jobs within a key segment of the auto supply chain

European automaker Stellantis N.V. and South Korean battery manufacturer LG Energy Solution said on Wednesday they will invest $5 billion in a joint venture to build Canada’s first electric vehicle battery cell manufacturing plant, located in Windsor, Ont.

It would stand out as among the largest, if not the largest, investment in the Canadian auto sector in the country’s history and is expected to receive significant, if still undisclosed, financial support from the federal and provincial governments.

The 4.5-million square foot battery plant is expected to support 2,500 jobs within a key segment of the auto supply chain, the battery, which is expected to supplant the internal combustion engine as the single most valuable component in a vehicle over the next two decades.

“The facility is quite staggering … about the size of 112 NHL hockey rinks,” said Mark Stewart, Stellantis’s chief operating officer for North America. Stewart added the plant is aiming for annual production capacity in excess of 45 gigawatt hours, but declined to say how many batteries per year that would support. The company has said it wants 50 per cent of its vehicle production in North America to be zero-emission by 2030.

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