The $800 million retooling of GM’s CAMI Assembly Plant was also announced Monday. The nearly total revamp of the Ingersoll, Ont., facility, which has made the Chevrolet Equinox crossover for a decade, was first announced in early 2021.
CAMI will build its final Equinox on April 29, triggering a six-month retool the next day, according to Mike Van Boekel, Unifor Local 88 plant chairperson. The plant will reopen late this year and employ around 1500 people, he said. They will produce new BrightDrop commercial delivery vehicles called Zevo 600 and 400 by GM.
Its choice to create the country’s first electric vehicle production plant shows how Canada is the ideal place to build cars of today and tomorrow, said François-Philippe Champagne, Canada’s minister of innovation, science and industry.