GM Canada’s $2 Billion Transformational Investments Are Creating 2,600 New Jobs Now and Canada’s First Electric Vehicle Production by the End of 2022
Source: · GM CANADA · | April 4, 2021
GM Canada is investing more than $2 billion in Canada to transform manufacturing facilities in Ingersoll and Oshawa
CAMI Assembly in Ingersoll to be Canada’s first full-scale EV manufacturing plant when it begins production of BrightDrop fully electric delivery vans in Q4 2022
Oshawa Assembly will add a third shift, bringing the new jobs created at the plant since reopening to more than 2,600
Oshawa will become GM’s only plant producing both heavy-duty and light-duty pickups
Source: GM Canada’s $2 Billion transformational investments are creating 2,600 new jobs now and Canada’s first electric vehicle production by the end of 2022. Pictured: Scott Bell, Vice President, Global Chevrolet, and Marissa West, President and Managing Director, GM Canada.
GM Canada today announced it will start production at Canada’s first full-scale electric-vehicle manufacturing plant in Ingersoll, Ontario later this year. In addition, at Oshawa Assembly, GM Canada will add light-duty pickup production and a third shift, creating more than 2,600 new jobs since operations resumed at the plant.
Together with the federal and Ontario governments, GM Canada made these announcements at the recently opened Canadian Technical Centre’s (CTC) McLaughlin Advanced Technology Track in Oshawa, Ontario, highlighting the company’s more than $2 billion in investments to transform its manufacturing operations.
Production of BrightDrop’s electric delivery vans will begin at CAMI Assembly in Ingersoll, Ontario in December 2022, following retooling of the plant this spring and summer.
BrightDrop’s first electric delivery van, the BrightDrop Zevo 600 (formerly EV600) was on hand for demonstrations. Also on hand was their new BrightDrop Trace (formerly EP1) electric carts, which were developed and tested in large part by GM’s CTC team in Ontario.
GM Canada also announced the Oshawa Assembly plant will be adding light-duty pickup production and a third shift of production in the coming months. As a result, Oshawa will be the only GM plant producing both heavy-duty and light-duty pickups, enabling flexibility and responsiveness to the North American market.