Automaker Stellantis has stopped all construction at a more-than C$5 billion ($3.74 billion) electric vehicle battery manufacturing plant in Windsor, Canada, over a disagreement with the federal government about subsidies, a spokesperson for the company said on Monday.
"It really worries me. We need the federal government to step up as they did for Volkswagen," Ontario Premier Doug Ford told reporters when asked about the construction halt.
But a Canadian federal government source familiar with the talks said the province of Ontario needed to offer more attractive terms to the automaker. "The negotiations are ongoing," the source said. "We want Stellantis to stay.... We've always said this is an important deal for us." Canada's deal with Volkswagen for a battery gigafactory, announced earlier this year, is the biggest single investment ever in the country's electric-vehicle supply chain., aiming for an annual production capacity in excess of 45 gigawatt hours and expected to create an estimated 2,500 new jobs in the Windsor area.
A spokesperson for Champagne, who described the deal as Stellantis's largest ever in the Canadian auto sector when it was announced, on Friday, said the "auto industry is crucial to the Canadian economy and to the hundreds of thousands of Canadian workers".
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