Automotive R&D centre receives $17M from province

Canada's oldest industry-academic automotive R&D centre is receiving $16.8 million from the Government of Ontario as part of an $85-million grant to Fiat Chrysler Automobiles Canada (FCA). The funding will be directed to the Univ of Windsor-FCA Automotive Research and Development Centre (ARDC) to boost its work on student training in product design and engineering encompassing extreme weather testing, corrosion control, road test simulation and night-time headlight testing. The remaining provincial funding ($69 million) will go towards advanced workforce training at FCA's Windsor assembly plant and technology enhancements related to the new Pacifica Hybrid minivan. FCA is committing $1 billion to the project