The Windsor Assembly Plant's future will be announced this summer.
The future status of Stellantis' Windsor Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada, will be announced in the third quarter of this year, and it may be used to build the next-generation Dodge Charger and Challenger. Currently, it's tasked with manufacturing the Chrysler Pacifica and Chrysler Voyager minivans.
Speaking to Automotive News Canada, Mark Stewart, Chief Operating Officer of the automaker's North American operations, said, “We're getting fairly close to being able to reveal which models are coming. We're going to be super excited to host our union leadership to see the different models as we roll that out. And in the coming months, we'll reveal what those are.”
The current Charger, Challenger, and Chrysler 300 are assembled at Ontario's Brampton Plant, but that's due to conclude at the end of 2024. Their replacement will reportedly be an electrified Jeep vehicle. The automaker refused to divulge any additional details.
As for the next generation of Dodge's muscle cars, we have already confirmed they will be built on the new STLA Large architecture. This platform is capable of accommodating both internal combustion and fully electric vehicles.
Dodge strongly hinted it will continue to build ICE muscle cars beyond 2024, in addition to an all-electric one. The latter was previewed last year as the Dodge Charger Daytona SRT concept.
In preparation for this, Stellantis has already inked a joint venture agreement with LG Energy Solution to build a $5 billion battery plant in Windsor. Last spring, the automaker confirmed it will invest $3.6 billion to retool the Windsor and Brampton plants to build electrified vehicles. Windsor currently employs 4,000 hourly workers in a two-shift operation. With the new investment, the goal is to increase that to a three-shift operation.
“The absolute goal is for the Windsor plant to get back on to a three-shift operation [as it had been] for many, many years,” Stewart added.
Despite Stellantis not providing information regarding its minivans' future, we shouldn't consider them dead just yet. After all, that new architecture would also be ideal for an all-electric minivan using design cues from the Chrysler Airflow Concept.
Source Credits: Automotive News Canada
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