Stellantis confirms it has in hand a new financial offer from the government of Canada designed to help pay for an electric-vehicle battery plant already under construction in Windsor, Ont.

While Ontario Premier Doug Ford would not disclose how much more money the province is prepared to contribute to the $5-billion project, he told reporters in Windsor that Ontario “is in for one-third of the cost.”

Toyota vaulted ahead of competing brands to deliver the most vehicles eligible for the Incentives for Zero-Emission Vehicles (iZEV) program in April, largely thanks to a surge in shipments of its Rav4 plug-in hybrid.

Two levels of government agreed to support the plant with matching $150 million contributions, totalling roughly half of the $600 million in project costs, the parties announced May 29.