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NextStar Energy

NextStar Energy is a battery joint venture between Stellantis and LG Energy Solution.. NextStar Energy is the first large-scale, electric-vehicle battery plant in Canada2.

3 SOURCES · 12 DOCUMENTED FACTS · 2 DISPUTED · OPENED 2026-07-25 · UPDATED 2026-07-25
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NextStar Energy is a battery joint venture between Stellantis and LG Energy Solution.

NextStar Energy is the first large-scale, electric-vehicle battery plant in Canada

Stellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant
“NextStar Energy is first large-scale, electric-vehicle battery plant in Canada”
SOURCEStellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant·stored copy on file
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NextStar Energy is the first large-scale electric vehicle battery plant in Canada

Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So
“NextStar Energy is first large scale, electric vehicle battery plant in Canada”
SOURCEDeal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source

NextStar Energy battery plant will create an estimated 2,500 new jobs

Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So
“will create an estimated 2,500 new jobs in Windsor and the surrounding areas”
SOURCEDeal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source

NextStar Energy is a joint venture

Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So
“by our Dare Forward 2030 strategic plan”
SOURCEDeal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source

The plant aims to have an annual production capacity in excess of 45 gigawatt-hours (GWh)

Stellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant
“The plant aims to have an annual production capacity in excess of 45 gigawatt-hours (GWh)”
SOURCEStellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source

NextStar Energy is one of eight battery plants that LGES has secured in North America

Stellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant
“NextStar Energy is one of eight battery plants that LGES has secured in North America”
SOURCEStellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source

Production is planned to launch in 2024

Stellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant
“with production planned to launch in 2024”
SOURCEStellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source

Annual production capacity will be in excess of 45 gigawatt-hours

Stellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant
“and an annual production capacity in excess of 45 gigawatt-hours”
SOURCEStellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source

Production is planned to launch in 2024

Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So
“with production planned to launch in 2024”
SOURCEDeal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source

Annual production capacity will be in excess of 45 gigawatt hours

Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So
“and an annual production capacity in excess of 45 gigawatt hours”
SOURCEDeal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source

NextStar Energy battery plant aims to have an annual production capacity in excess of 45 GWh

Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So
“The plant aims to have an annual production capacity in excess of 45 gigawatt hours (GWh)”
SOURCEDeal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So·stored copy on file
VERIFIED — a word-for-word match in the stored source
Disputed — who says what, against what see standalone →

These are things people say about NextStar Energy that aren't settled fact — each one attributed to who's actually claiming it, so a claim never quietly passes as established just because it showed up in a document. Weigh it yourself.

Disputed
"We will soon produce state-of-the-art batteries here in Windsor"
Asserted by Danies Lee · stance: pro
The evidence on file mostly supports this, but it's still someone's claim, not a settled fact.
Stellantis Media - Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellant ↗
Disputed
"NextStar Energy will produce state-of-the-art batteries"
Asserted by Danies Lee · stance: pro
Not yet independently weighed — one source's claim, unconfirmed elsewhere.
Deal is Reached: Construction on Stellantis and LG Energy So ↗
Timeline see standalone →
2023
2023-07
Deal signed
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Undated
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NextStar Energy battery plant construction resumption
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Minister Champagne Tours NextStar Energy EV Battery Plant Site
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NextStar Energy EV Battery Plant Celebrates 'Topping Out' Ceremony
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Stellantis-LG Energy Solution Battery Joint Venture Named NextStar Energy, CEO Appointed
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NextStar Energy battery plant agreement
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Construction of NextStar Energy battery plant
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