GM Will Spend $2 Billion to Upgrade Plants, Increase Production in Ontario
In another bit of great news for Ontario and its auto workers, General Motors announced this week that it will spend $2 billion to refit and upgrade two plants in the province, including its CAMI Assembly facility in Ingersoll, Ontario which will start assembling electric vehicles. The plant will thus become Canada’s first electric-vehicle assembly plant.
The retool of the CAMI plant will happen on an accelerated schedule as well, with production of EVs at the plant expected to begin by the end of 2022. The Ingersoll plant will handle manufacture of BrightDrop electric delivery vans. Recall that BrightDrop is a GM-owned company that is getting ready to launch its Zevo 600 model, with the Zevo 400 to follow next year. Its customers to date include FedEx and Verizon.
GM has made clear it wants EV production capacity to reach 1 million units in North America by the end of 2025. And, it is making it clear as well that Canada will play a central role in achieving that target. Explained Steve Carlisle, GM's president of North America, “Canada is now critical to EV battery supply chain. There’ll be a little bit of Canada in every electric vehicle at GM.”
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