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02/18/2024 - FCA Canada Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of FCA, founded as the Chrysler Corporation in 1925.
12/19/2023 - Today, NextStar Energy celebrated a “Topping Out” ceremony with local trades employees to commemorate the last structural steel beam installed in the construction of its new EV battery plant in Windsor, Ontario.
11/21/2023 - The first of 228 steel structural columns weighing over 800 tonnes have begun to take shape in the ongoing construction of the new cutting-edge Stellantis North America Battery Technology Centre located at the Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC) in Windsor, Ontario.
07/05/2023 - NextStar Energy, the vehicle battery joint venture between Stellantis N.V. and LG Energy Solution, today signed a binding agreement that secures the future of battery cell and module production in Windsor, Ontario.
04/01/2023 - Opened in May 1996 with a $30 million (CDN) investment, it was the first partnership of its kind in Canada that linked industry and academia. With a total Research and Development spend in Canada now exceeding $1 billion, the ARDC benefits all partners.
05/02/2022 - Stellantis today announced plans to invest $3.6 billion CAD ($2.8 billion USD) to secure the future of its Windsor and Brampton (Ontario) Assembly Plants and to expand its Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC) to accelerate the company’s move to a sustainable future.
02/01/2021 - The 205-square-metre Corrosion Teardown Laboratory dismantles vehicles to their basic components for evaluation of corrosion properties. Vehicles go through an extensively accelerated corrosion test at the FCA Michigan proving grounds before arriving at the Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC) in Windsor.
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02/01/2021 - The Vehicle Dynamics Simulator Laboratory was added to the Automotive Research and Development Centre in September 2019. It consists of two simulators – Dynamic Simulator and Compact Simulator. It is the first of its kind in North America to offer nine directions of movement to replicate the inputs a human body normally receives when driving.
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