The European automaker Stellantis struck a joint venture with South Korean battery company LG Energy Solution to build a $5 billion battery cell plant in Windsor, Ontario.
It is expected to be an enormous facility — the size of 112 hockey rinks, according to Mark Stewart, chief operating officer in North America for Stellantis. This week, on Down to Business I delved into the auto sector’s pivot to electric vehicles, one of the largest industrial transformations in history.
Guests include François-Philippe Champagne, federal minister of innovation, science and industry; Victor Fedeli, Ontario minister of economic development, job creation and trade; Drew Dilkins, Mayor of the city of Windsor; Stewart of Stellantis; and Joanna Kyriazis, a senior policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, a think tank affiliated with Simon Fraser University.Article content