Stellantis

U.S. Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg visited several facilities in Howard County.

Eleven union auto manufacturing plants will receive a $1.7 billion federal grant to increase production of electric vehicles and parts.

Two manufacturing plants in Indiana will join nine other union shops in helping to nearly double the number of electric vehicles made in the U.S. every year.

The United Auto Workers union is ending its 44-day strike at Chrysler-parent Stellantis after reaching a tentative agreement that union leaders say “got every penny possible out of this company."

As of Friday, about 830 people have been taken off the Kokomo production lines. They will likely return to work once the strike ends.

Electric vehicle parts are often less complex than traditional gasoline-fueled vehicles. Union leaders worry jobs will be lost in the transition.

For the third week in a row, no Ford, General Motors or Stellantis facilities in Indiana were called to join the picket lines.

In a statement Wednesday, the company said the anticipated layoffs are due to the United Auto Workers' "targeted" strike at an assembly plant in Toledo, Ohio.

As part of the UAW’s new “targeted” strike strategy, only three assembly plants began striking after the deadline: a Ford plant in Michigan, a General Motors plant in Missouri and a Stellantis plant in Ohio.

The United Auto Workers union contracts at General Motors, Ford and Stellantis expired Thursday night without a tentative agreement on a new contract in sight. Some UAW workers are striking, but not in Indiana.