SORRY UAW: US Automakers Go to Mexico for Electric Vehicle Manufacturing
Posted on 05/01/2021
General Motors (GM), the largest U.S. automaker, decided to have its fifth plant to build its 2023 electric vehicles in Mexico where labor is cheaper and regulations are less cumbersome. General Motors plans to invest more than US$ 1 billion at its manufacturing complex in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico. This is for a new paint shop and innovative technology that will start operations in June 2021. GM will build batteries and electrical components at Ramos Arizpe starting later in 2021. GM sold 2.55 million vehicles in the United States in 2020, but only about 20,000 were EVs, including the Chevy Bolt hatchback. GM thinks it can sell all of its cars with zero emissions by 2035. GMs other EV plants are in: Spring Hill, Tennessee; Factory ZERO in Detroit and Hamtramck, Orion Assembly in Orion Township, and CAMI in Ingersoll, Ontario, Canada.
Detroit Free Press
General Motors has picked a fifth plant to build its 2023 electric vehicles and it is in Mexico, which the United Auto Workers union calls a slap in the face.
GM has already declared it will make EVs at four locations in the United States and Canada.
But on Thursday, GM said it will invest more than $1 billion at its manufacturing complex in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico, for a new paint shop and innovative technology that will start operations in June 2021.
In a statement, GM said part of the initial investment is to prepare the site for an expansion of the assembly and Global Propulsion Systems plants, to make Ramos Arizpe Complex the fifth GM manufacturing facility to produce electric vehicles.
General Motors has decided its fifth electric vehicle facility should be in Mexico and has set aside $1 billion for its complex in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico. While a portion of the funds will go toward a new paint shop, the manufacturer also said the money would be used to prepare the site for EV and battery production, angering the United Auto Workers (UAW).
“This is a slap in the face for not only UAW members and their families,” stated UAW Vice President Terry Dittes. “General Motors automobiles made in Mexico are sold in the United States and should be made right here, employing American workers.”
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General Motors has picked a fifth plant to build its 2023 electric vehicles and it is in Mexico, which the United Auto Workers union calls a slap in the face.
GM has already declared it will make EVs at four locations in the United States and Canada.
But on Thursday, GM said it will invest more than $1 billion at its manufacturing complex in Ramos Arizpe, Coahuila, Mexico, for a new paint shop and innovative technology that will start operations in June 2021.
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