General Motors has just announced that it will suspend production at the Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico for about six weeks as it begins work to adapt the complex for future electric vehicle manufacturing. As such, the Mexican factory will temporarily suspend its activities to receive new machinery and state-of-the-art robots, beginning the long-awaited conversion of the plant as the company’s new EV center.
The automaker’s Mexican subsidiary informed the local media that the Ramos Arizpe plant will initiate a technical stoppage from this Saturday, March 26th, until mid-May. During this period, which will include the usual stoppage of activities for collective vacations, the Ramos Arizpe plant will receive the necessary equipment to start manufacturing electric vehicles in 2023.
“General Motors announces that the GM Ramos Arizpe assembly plant will carry out a technical stoppage from March 26 until the second week of May, and it is estimated to operate normally in the week of May 16,” said GM Mexico in an official statement. “Production adjustments at the plant are due to the installation of machinery for future projects,” the company added.
This Ramos Arizpe plant update is part of the more than $1 billion investment for the complex that GM announced in April 2021, transforming it into the company’s fifth manufacturing site capable of producing electric vehicles from 2023. The Mexican complex will join the GM Lake Orion plant and GM Factory Zero facility in Michigan, the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee and the GM CAMI plant in Canada.
In addition to installing state-of-the-art machinery to manufacture upcoming electric vehicles, GM Mexico said it will take advantage of this long idle period at the Ramos Arizpe plant to train workers in certain key manufacturing areas and maintain existing equipment. The plant currently builds the Chevy Blazer and Chevy Equinox crossovers, as well as engines and transmissions.
The work beginning this month at Ramos Arizpe will serve to expand the production lines of the assembly plant and increase the global propulsion systems plant’s capacity, so the facility will be completely inoperative until mid-May. However, the conversion to manufacture electric vehicles will further enhance its importance as the automaker’s most strategic plant in Mexico.
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Source: Periódico Zócalo
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I asked the same question recently here and another reader said that Mexico would be chosen.
Yes, I believe Ramos Arizpe will be the site of both Blazer and Equinox EV production. The upcoming Buick EV crossover may go to Spring Hill if they decide not to import from China.
Yup….for the time being they will do EV and gas vehicles there
They are shutting down the Cami plant for 6 or so months to retool for the EV600 delivery van and some production staff will be out of work till early next year
Gas powered vehicles aren’t going anywhere anytime soon and this is just another ignorant decision made by CEO Mary Barra.
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It looks like a plant that build an ICE vehicle will also build it EV version. Lyriq-Spring Hill, Equinox and Blazer-Ramos Arizpe and etc.
GM closed and sold its second largest assembly complex in the USA at Lordstown Ohio. Mary said GM did not have the 300 million to retool.
Now GM is investing 1 billion in this Mexican plant. Wft.
About 2009, During the bankruptcy, I remember GM saying they needed taxpayer money to ‘keep good paying jobs in The USA’. Looks like they forgot that promise.
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Will Ramos Arizpe also get its own EV battery cell manufacturing facility, and cell scrap recycling facility as well?
I wonder where they mfg the e-drives and the powertrain components? And what about the battery housings for ten EVs?
I know that some are made at Nemak.
There probably is not enough at this plant for 250k units of ICE of Eqinox, 150k units of ICE Blazer plus the EV versions. My guess is that a second- or even third- plant will be utilized.
More Tijuana Taxis coming to an American town near you. Sorry Mary B; I’m not sold on the fact that GM should be investing head on in electric vehicles. Unfortunately our government wants electric vehicles too. I don’t see the difference between burning gas/diesel. So much electric comes from burning natural gas or coal not to mention the damage to the environment mining materials needed for battery production. I personally don’t think there is a clear cut winner.
Has the Ramos Arizpe facility started back up producing the Blazer? Ordered mine 3 months ago.