The automaker says it will start retooling the Ontario complex in the second quarter of 2024 and being producing electric vehicles in 2025.
General Motors is already producing electric delivery vans in Canada, but Ford says this is the first time a full-line automaker has announced plans to produce passenger EVs in Canada for the North American market. Ford says the transformation of the Oakville site, to be renamed the Oakville Electric Vehicle Complex, will include a new 407,000 square-foot battery plant where parts from U.S. operations will be assembled into battery packs.
The investment was first announced in 2020 as part of union negotiations with the company, with workers seeking long-term production commitments and the Detroit Three automakers eventually agreeing to invest in Canadian operations in concert with spending agreements with the Ontario and federal governments.
The money is just the latest in a wave of EV spending commitments in Canada, including Volkswagen announcing in March it would build a battery cell plant in St. Thomas, Ont.This report by The Canadian Press was first published April 11, 2023.
Waste of 💰💰
Why did VW get government money?
basically like climatechaqnge EVs are a scam
The big three will gladly take the Billions from the taxpayers. When sales drop since the masses don't want loser EV, they will switch back to gas and tell government FU. Toyota or any other manufacturer that wants to capitalize going against WEF lies will make Billions.
Electric cars are garbage
Not Doug Ford. This the car maker Ford
How long those EVs been without being able to charge in Quebec now
But nobody is going to buy them
Not buying. Just bought rav4, gas and oil.
Woohoooooo !!!
Then they'll close the plant and dump all the workers when it suits them.
Garbage in Garbage out. I'm all for cutting emissions but this so-called green tech is browner than any diesel. All about political optics and in the end makes no difference.
Another reason the laundry your money in Oakville
Great news for my hometown!
Not ready for prime time tech. This will be a disaster.
l doubt most can afford the $ 50,000 cost for the vehicle but , it will reduce traffic and save the planet . So im told .
'in concert with spending agreements with the Ontario and federal governments. The money is just the latest in a wave of EV spending commitments in Canada' Spending taxpayers $Billions to create jobs we can't fill. Import more people. Need homes More development $cash for buddies
How much is our own money and how many jobs? Believe me, we are paying 200 grand a job. Sheer lunacy.
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