GM Announces $1 Billion Investment in Mexico to Build Electric Vehicles

Less than one day after President Biden proclaimed American workers would build the electric vehicles necessary to bring us into the zero admissions future, General Motors said it plans to invest more than $1 billion in Mexico to produce electric vehicles.

The automaker said Thursday it would make a $1 billion investment in its Ramos Arizpe production facility. The plant will begin producing at least one electric vehicle beginning in 2023, the company said.

The company did not disclose which vehicles would be produced at the plant or where they would be sold. But the plant currently produces parts and vehicles, including the Chevrolet Equinox and Chevrolet Blazer, that are sold in the U. S. and globally.

GM’s Spanish-language statement did not appear on its U. S. media site, only on GM’s Mexico’s media site, the Detroit Free Press reported.

The United Auto Workers union decried the decision to invest so much in the Mexican plant.

In a statement responding to the Mexico investment, United Auto Workers Vice President Terry Dittes, head of the union’s GM Department, said: “At a time... (Read more)

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