Stellantis will unveil the totally different fashions to be constructed at its meeting plant in Windsor, Ont., “within the coming months,” a senior govt stated Jan. 17.
“We’re getting pretty near with the ability to reveal which fashions are coming,” Mark Stewart, COO of Stellantis’ North American operations, advised Automotive Information Canada. “We’re going to be tremendous excited to host our union management to see the totally different fashions as we roll that out. And within the coming months, we’ll reveal what these are.”
An announcement will probably be made by the third quarter of 2023, stated Stewart, who was amongst firm officers accompanying Prime Minister Justin Trudeau throughout a tour of the minivan plant.
“Absolutely the objective is for the Windsor plant to get again on to a three-shift operation [as it had been] for a lot of, a few years.”
Windsor Meeting Plant, which employs about 4,000 hourly staff, is at present a two-shift operation. It builds the Chrysler Pacifica, the Grand Caravan particularly for the Canadian market and the Voyager for fleet gross sales.
However, in response to U.S.-based forecasting agency AutoForecast Options (AFS), the plant will quickly assemble the subsequent technology of the Dodge Charger and Challenger. They’re to be electrified variations of the muscle vehicles. Manufacturing of the present technology will cease at Ontario’s Brampton Meeting Plant (BAP) on the finish of 2024. In the meantime an electrified product from Jeep will take over their floorspace on the BAP.
Stellantis confirmed in Might 2022 that Charger, Challenger and Chrysler 300 sedan manufacturing would finish in Brampton in 2024 when the plant pauses for a retool. It additionally stated the Windsor plant would host the STLA Massive, a brand new car platform catering primarily to battery-electric autos (BEVs).
Stellantis, in a three way partnership with LG Power Answer, is constructing a $5-billion battery plant in Windsor, not removed from the meeting plant.
Final Might, Stellantis introduced plans to spend $3.6 billion to retool its Windsor and Brampton vegetation to provide electrified autos. The federal and Ontario governments every will contribute as much as $513 million towards the initiatives
With information from Greg Layson
CLARIFICATION: The following technology of the Dodge Challenger and Charger shall be constructed on the STLA Massive whereas the Ram Revolution EV pickup shall be on the STLA Body.