GM’s first BrightDrop vehicle will be the EV600 – a light commercial electric vehicle built specifically for delivering goods and services with a range of up to 250 miles per charge.
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General Motors and the Unifor union said on Friday that they had reached an interim agreement for the automaker to invest around C $ 1 billion ($ 785.42 million) in its CAMI assembly plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, to manufacture electric vans commercial.
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 at the factory.
The new agreement is based on GM’s recent investments in Canada, which in November agreed to invest C $ 1 billion in its plant in Oshawa to expand production of its large pickup trucks. [nL1N2HR1SK]
The Canadian government welcomed the agreement and said it would confirm its support once union members have ratified the agreement.
“We are waiting for the results of the ratification vote,” Canadian Foreign Minister François-Philippe Champagne said in a statement.
Unifor, the union representing hourly workers in Canada, said more details of the deal would be presented to local union members at an online ratification meeting scheduled for January 17, the results of which are scheduled to be released a day later.