The automaker is attempting to shorten global supply chains that the pandemic and Russian invasion of Ukraine revealed as being all-too-vulnerable
factories for EVs, the Detroit-based company is expanding its operations and taking the near-shoring approach to an extreme level.
In 2021, GM announced plans to invest $1-billion to build electric delivery trucks – branded as its BrightDrop line – at its CAMI plant in Ingersoll. The following year, the federal and provincial governments put money into the project, along with a retooled factory in Oshawa, Ont. Last December, Mr. Ford andwere on hand to watch the first BrightDrop vans roll off assembly lines.
The battery factory opened in August, 2022, and GM chief executive officer Mary Barra told the Reuters news service that production has been hampered because “our automation equipment supplier is struggling with delivery issues.” Until the robots are up and running, she said GM and LG are being forced to build battery modules by hand, on manual assembly lines.
Second, GM moved to permanently clear its bottleneck in Ohio by building a new factory in Ontario. Batteries that used to make a five-hour trip from Lordstown to Ingersoll will now take a five-minute journey from one side of the CAMI plant to the other.
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