Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa listens as U.S. President Donald Trump proclaims new gasoline economic system requirements, within the Oval Workplace on the White Home in Washington, D.C., U.S., December 3, 2025.
Brian Snyder | Reuters
AUBURN HILLS, Mich. — Stellantis CEO Antonio Filosa stated he believes there’s alternative to develop the automaker’s partnerships in North America to fill vegetation and improve gross sales — and probably to supply Chinese language-branded autos outdoors of the U.S.
Filosa on Thursday stated the corporate “for positive” sees alternative in increasing its manufacturing and sale of autos with Chinese language automaker Zhejiang Leapmotor Know-how Co. to Mexico in addition to probably Canada.
“I consider that there’s area in Mexico. … There’s perhaps area in Canada. We’ll see,” he stated throughout a information convention after an investor day on the firm’s North American headquarters close to Detroit. “Now there isn’t a area in america. We do not see that.”
Legacy automakers, particularly ones with deep roots within the area akin to Stellantis, have been involved about Chinese language automakers coming into North America. U.S. executives have expressed worries that the operations may very well be a gateway to American shoppers.
Amid commerce tensions with the U.S., Canada is at the moment permitting 49,000 Chinese language-made electrical autos to be imported for retail gross sales yearly at a tariff fee of 6.1%.
A notable choice in Canada is a big Stellantis meeting plant in Brampton, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto. The plant hasn’t produced a brand new car for the reason that finish of manufacturing of the Dodge Charger and Challenger in December 2023.
Filosa stated Stellantis’ tie-ups with Leapmotor proceed to develop as a means for the corporate to develop its gross sales, be taught from its Chinese language counterpart and share capital bills.
Since 2023, Stellantis has additionally been a 51% majority proprietor of a three way partnership with Leapmotor that features the unique rights for the sale and manufacturing of their merchandise outdoors better China.
Stellantis, which is the most important shareholder of Leapmotor with a 21% stake, earlier this week introduced an expanded partnership with the Chinese language automaker in addition to the formation of a European three way partnership with Chinese language automaker Dongfeng.
Within the U.S., Filosa stated he additionally nonetheless sees alternatives for the corporate to companion with non-China manufacturers, like with the announcement it made earlier this week to discover collaborations with Jaguar Land Rover.
“We see potential to companion in [the] U.S. with different tasks,” he stated throughout the media briefing. “JLR, it’s a partnership that may work very effectively for each events since you see that the profile of what we industrialized, construct, isn’t that completely different … so there’s some synergy within the product conception that we are able to share with JLR.”
