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Dodge Charger Daytona assembly at Stellantis’ Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada Stellantis\u2019 Brompton plant in Canada has been idled since 2023, making it an ideal candidate for Chinese EVs. <\/p>\n Dodge Charger Daytona assembly at Stellantis’ Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada Stellantis\u2019 Brompton plant in Canada has been idled since 2023, making it an ideal candidate for Chinese EVs. <\/p>\n
Stellantis is looking into bringing Chinese cars to North America.<\/p>\n
The automotive giant\u2019s CEO said there\u2019s an opportunity to assemble Chinese-branded EVs in Mexico and Canada.<\/p>\n
As for the United States, there is currently \u201cno space\u201d for doing something like this.<\/p>\n
The automotive juggernaut that goes by the name of Stellantis<\/a> is looking into manufacturing Chinese-branded cars in North America. The conglomerate, which has over a dozen brands under its wings, holds a majority stake in a joint venture with Leapmotor<\/a>, enabling access to relatively cheap electric vehicles that could be assembled locally.<\/p>\n Antonio Filosa, Stellantis\u2019 CEO, recently said that the company \u201cfor sure\u201d sees opportunities in expanding the manufacturing and sales of Leapmotor-branded cars to Mexico, and potentially Canada. That said, don\u2019t expect to see Leapmotor-branded EVs rolling down American streets anytime soon.<\/p>\n \u201cI believe that there is space in Mexico. There is, maybe, space in Canada. We\u2019ll see,\u201d Filosa said at the company\u2019s North American headquarters near Detroit, quoted by CNBC<\/a>. \u201cNow there is no space in the United States. We don\u2019t see that.\u201d<\/p>\n The company knows a thing or two about building partially assembled cars or from knock-down kits. In Europe, Stellantis is using one of its plants in Spain to build Leapmotor cars, and it\u2019s now talking to Dongfeng<\/a>, another Chinese auto company, to build more expensive Voyah models in France.<\/p>\n In North America, Leapmotor has a small presence in Mexico, but the cars were initially slated to come from China. That may change if one of Stellantis\u2019 plants in the region starts building the vehicles locally.<\/p>\n The same goes for Canada. Leapmotor has not yet established a presence in the United States\u2019 northern neighbor, but the country has opened the gates to Chinese-made EVs<\/a>, limiting the input to 49,000 imports per year, all of which are subject to a massively reduced tariff rate of 6.1%. However, Stellantis also has a car factory in Brompton, Toronto, which has been sitting idle since the end of 2023, when the previous-generation Dodge Charger and Challenger went out of production. (The new Charger<\/a> is built at the Windsor Assembly Plant.)<\/p>\n Reopening the Bromton factory would give Stellantis an upper hand in the region, allowing it to build Chinese-branded EVs that are assembled locally, instead of being imported from China. But this is just speculation at this point.<\/p>\n What isn\u2019t speculation, though, is Stellantis\u2019 strong approach to striking deals with other automakers. Besides working closely with Leapmotor, the company recently signed a memorandum of understanding with Jaguar Land Rover to explore how the two automakers could collaborate in the United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dodge Charger Daytona assembly at Stellantis’ Assembly Plant in Ontario, Canada Stellantis\u2019 Brompton plant in Canada has been…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":24275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13129],"tags":[514,17903,13581,2004,1540,12112],"class_list":["post-24274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-stellantis","tag-canada","tag-chinese-cars","tag-dodge-charger-daytona","tag-evs","tag-north-america","tag-stellantis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} Leapmotor B10 – Launch in Brazil <\/p>\n