Stellantis verhandelt über die Herstellung chinesischer Elektrofahrzeuge in stillgelegtem kanadischen Werk

Stellantis NV is discussing options for building electric vehicles in Canada with its Chinese partner, Zhejiang Leapmotor Technology Co., according to people familiar with the matter, a sign of how quickly the auto industry is being reshaped after Canada opened the door to companies from the world’s largest car market.

The talks are in an early stage, said the people, who asked not to be identified discussing information that’s not public. If the companies proceed, it would be the first major Chinese auto investment in Canada since Prime Minister Mark Carney reached an agreement with President Xi Jinping in January to reduce tariffs on Chinese-made EVs.

As part of that deal, Carney’s government said it wanted to attract new Chinese joint-venture investment “with trusted partners” in the Canadian auto sector within three years.

Stellantis looking for another government handout……

It will be incredible to see how quickly Canada can adopt these technologies we are seeing spread through Europe and China like wildfire. Western Europe is seeing something like 20% of all new cars as BEV and China is seeing plug-in hybrid/EVs hitting something ridiculous like 50% of market share.

Our country is huge compared to these places, but given that almost our entire population is centred around one central highway that runs east-west, I think it is more viable than people think to get 50% of vehicles electric without trying to force commercial trucks or long-distance haulers to convert too soon.

What is going to be more interesting is how American companies may use Canada as a sidestep to getting latched onto these foreign companies that have put in the R&D already, and how much the US is going to fight tooth and nail to keep Canada from becoming the backdoor for it.

Stellantis is useless and will just add another layer of profit that makes the end product more expensive. I’m not sure why they are needed.

Stellantis can suck it along with their shitty cars 

why do we keep making deals with this terrible company

So much for them being inexpensive. 

Not an April Fools joke. Stellantis owns 20% of Leapmotor. Leapmotor has already been exported to Europe by Stellantis, however it has been reviewed as the worst EV brand available in Europe….

Oh great, the one company I dislike more than *random Chinese EV company*.

Honestly I’d love the outcome of Trump’s presidency to be 15 years from now all our plants are Canadian subsidiaries of Honda, Toyota etc and Stellantis, Ford etc don’t even exist in the US anymore.

The government should use the past reneged contract as a massive bargaining chip to not sue Stellantis.

Kick out Stellantis, their products suck

An excerpt from the article:

>Those talks now include the possibility of building cars in partnership with Leapmotor, a fast-growing Chinese manufacturer. Stellantis bought a 20% stake in Leapmotor in 2023, and a year later the two companies formed a joint venture called Leapmotor International, focused on global production and sale of the electric vehicles.

>The joint venture plans to start producing Leapmotor electric SUVs later this year at a Stellantis factory in Spain, near a massive battery factory Stellantis is building with another Chinese firm, Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. Other parts for the car will be made by yet another joint venture, called Lieder Automotive, between Spanish and Chinese firms.

>Leapmotor and Stellantis also plan to produce EVs in Brazil and Malaysia, but those projects will rely, at least at first, on the use of “knockdown kits,” where the cars are largely built in China and then shipped overseas for final assembly.

>It’s unclear at this point what conditions might be placed on any Leapmotor-Stellantis venture in Canada, according to people with knowledge of the discussions, who said the talks are still preliminary and no decisions have been made.

Stellantis has a plant that is idle. Leapmotor would probably utilize almost nothing of the existing manufacturing lines. What is of value is the zoning and the gross plant infrastructure – this alone shortens the process to get up and running significantly. New car manufacturing facilities have a higher degree of automation, especially EV since they lack the engines of traditional automotive.

So there would be new employment but it would be perhaps 35%-45% of a traditional car plant. But there would be many downstream economic benefits in the wider sphere of all that is needed for component supply, trucking, etc.

Stellantis „partnership“ is they gaining income on the lease of their idle facility and perhaps some profit sharing. Stellantis did have a stake in the NextStar Energy battery manufacturing facility in Windsor but they recently sold it to Korea’s LG energy and apparently the focus of that plant is now towards grid energy storage solutions. Perhaps that might change yet again.

Stellantis is just as reliable as their cars at this point