GM’s first BrightDrop vehicle will be the EV600, an electric light commercial vehicle designed specifically for the delivery of goods and services with a range of up to 250 miles per load.
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General Motors and the Unifor union said Friday they reached an interim agreement for the automaker to invest nearly $ 1 billion ($ 785.42 million) in the CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario. to manufacture commercial electric vans.
Under the interim agreement, which has not yet been ratified by union workers, GM has agreed to start large-scale commercial production of EV600, an electric van, at its CAMI plant, Unifor said in a statement.
The Detroit automaker said in a separate statement that work would begin immediately on the plant.
The new deal is based on GM’s recent investments in Canada, which in November had agreed to invest $ 1 billion at its Oshawa plant to expand production of its full-size vans. [nL1N2HR1SK]
The Canadian government welcomed the deal and said it would confirm its support as soon as union members ratify it.
“We await the results of the ratification vote,” Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement.
Unifor, the union that represents hourly workers in Canada, said more details of the deal would be presented to local union members at an online ratification meeting scheduled for Jan. 17, the results of which will be published a day later.