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GM BrightDrop Expands to Canada with Ingersoll EV Plant

Posted on 5 December 2022 by Ken Zino

With taxpayer-financed support from both Canadian governments, GM has retooled the CAMI Assembly plant become the new global manufacturing home of BrightDrop’s fully electric delivery vans starting with the BrightDrop Zevo 600 electric delivery van. CAMI expects to produce 50,000 Zevo vans annually by 2025. Scaled production is expected to begin with Zevo 600 models in January 2023 and Zevo 400 models in late 2023. In the US, BrightDrop completed delivery of the first Zevo 600s to FedEx last year. Continue reading →

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Stellantis, LG Energy Solution JV for Battery Plant in Canada

Posted on 23 March 2022 by Ken Zino

The new joint venture company will invest more than $5 billion CAD ($4.1 billion) to establish operations, which will include an all-new battery manufacturing plant located in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. Plant construction is scheduled to begin later this year. Production is planned to launch in the first quarter of 2024. Stellantis is Windsor’s largest employer and has a long history there. Chrysler began operations in 1925 and has employed generations of Windsor–Essex workers at its facility. Continue reading →

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