Ontario to Pay 1/3 of Incentives for Both Stellantis, VW Battery Plants

A woman checks the status of the charge for her 2022 Volkswagen ID.4 EV at a charging station at a Scarborough, Ontario Canadian Tire on June 14, 2023. The Canadian Press/Doug Ives

Ontario has agreed to an auto pact with the federal government, to pay not just one-third of the production incentives in a deal with Stellantis and LG Energy Solution but also for a Volkswagen battery plant.

Stellantis and LG stopped construction in May on a $5-billion electric vehicle battery facility in Windsor, Ont., as they pressed the federal government to match what the United States would offer under its new Inflation Reduction Act.