TLDR: Stellantis commits its largest-ever U.S. investment ($13 billion over four years) to produce five new vehicles including Ram’s first midsize truck since the Dakota. Canada responds by serving a formal default notice after Stellantis moved Jeep Compass production from Brampton to Illinois despite receiving over $500 million in taxpayer subsidies. Net North American production increases; the shift is reallocation, not retreat.
Three thousand workers at Stellantis’s Brampton, Ontario plant learned in October that the Jeep Compass they were supposed to build would be made in Illinois instead. On December 4, their government officially declared the company in default.
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