Top 5 stories of the week: NextStar plant on time; Pacifica ban; Unifor on Oakville plan; more

Stories with ties to electrification dominated the automotive headlines in Canada this week. News that the NextStar electric-vehicle battery plant, a joint venture between Stellantis and LG Energy Solution in Windsor, Ont., would begin output this fall was the most read article of the week. Stellantis was also part of the second most-read story because a Canadian ferry operator banned transportation of the automaker’s hybrid Pacifica minivan because of a fire risk.