GM and its subsidiary BrightDrop have opened up an EV manufacturing plant in Canada after fully retooling the CAMI Meeting plant in Ontario.

The automaker started retooling CAMI for EV manufacturing on Might 1, 2022, and in simply seven months, the group put in fully new manufacturing tools overlaying two million sq. ft.

BrightDrop will now use the CAMI plant to fabricate its Zevo 600 electrical supply vans, and DHL can be its first Canadian buyer.

“The BrightDrop Zevo is a main instance of GM’s versatile Ultium EV structure, which is permitting us to shortly launch a full vary of EVs for our prospects,” stated GM President Mark Reuss. “As of at the moment, I’m proud to name the CAMI EV Meeting group the primary full-scale all-electric manufacturing group in Canada.”

Supply: GM