GM Authority recently reported that General Motors is beginning work at the Ramos Arizpe, Mexico plant for the production of electric vehicles starting next year at the complex. Although the automaker has not yet officially announced which EVs it plans to build at the facility, the all-new Chevy Equinox EV could be the first zero-emission vehicle made at the automaker’s most strategic plant in Mexico.
According to Zócalo, the all-new Chevy Equinox EV will be the first next-generation product to emerge from the announced conversion of the GM Ramos Arizpe plant, which will become the automaker’s fifth electric vehicle manufacturing hub in North America after the GM Lake Orion plant and the GM Factory Zero plant in Michigan, the GM Spring Hill plant in Tennessee, and the GM CAMI plant in Canada.
After reporting the details of the technical strike that GM Mexico will start from March 26th to mid-May at the Ramos Arizpe plant, located in the Mexican state of Coahuila, the local media affirms that the factory’s new installations will serve to manufacture the all-new 2024 Chevy Equinox EV. The electric crossover is scheduled to launch at the end of next year.
As such, this is the first time specific and credible information has emerged about the manufacturing location of the all-new Chevy Equinox EV since the model’s global debut on January 5th at the 2022 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. If materialized, the next Equinox EV would become the second all-electric vehicle to be manufactured in Mexico after the Ford Mustang Mach-E, produced at the Ford Motor Company plant in Cuautitlán.
Since the surprise announcement of the all-new Chevy Equinox EV earlier this year, the Ramos Arizpe plant has been projected as the site of choice for the zero-emission crossover for two main reasons. First, the current third-generation Chevy Equinox is one of the vehicles manufactured in that complex today, and second, in April 2021, GM announced a million-dollar investment in the plant to produce EVs starting in 2023.
Additionally, manufacturing the all-new Chevy Equinox EV in Mexico would be a key step in GM’s ambitious strategy to offer it at a starting price of around $30,000 in the US market, below that of the subcompact-sized Chevy Bolt EUV. However, being an important global vehicle based on the Ultium platform, the Ramos Arizpe plant should not be the only facility in charge of manufacturing the Equinox EV, as it should eventually be produced in other GM plants, as is the case with the ICE model.
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I wonder will there be a GMC Terrain EV, or what is the future of the Terrain once the equinox goes EV ?
GM promises 30 EV models. It would only make sense that a lot of them are sister cars. I think Cadillac is coming out with an XT4-like EV. Adding a Buick EV and and GMC Terrain EV would make the most sense.
30 EVs globally by 2025 with 20 of those for the US. There will be more EVs coming after 2025.
I will not purchase a Chevy Equinox if they are made in Mexico and not in the USA!
They are still American and GM products (Mexico is part of America). You should complain to all your neighbors that buy imports instead of complaining here. My 2009 Equinox was built in Canada with a Chinese SAIC 3.4 L V6 engine and a Japanese Aisin transaxle. It has NEVER given me any problem in 13 years.
I think Carol is talking about “assembled”. But you do make a good point and wow 13-year-old Equinox, that’s fantastic.
*Assembled* is being made. The car is built from scratch and assembled in the plant.
Boy, you people are idiots
Raymond with 13 years great service maybe more new EV vehicles should be quality built in Canada like all those past Equinox and Terrains were before being shifted for production to Mexico ,Oshawa Assembly is still under utilized and has a new EV test track on site !
You probably have no clue where your current car is built while you’re screaming the star spangled banner.
Aren’t they already made in Mexico though?
It doesn’t seem to be hurting the sales.
I have no problem purchasing a Mexican product. We need stability on our borders and a strong economy in Mexico reduces the number of undocumented immigrants entering the country. We should encourage more manufacturing in Mexico and Central America instead of relying on China.
The issues with our borders is due to a weak ass president and his asinine policies. Giving more of our jobs to Mexico will not solve the problem since very few of the illegals are from Mexico.
The great wines of Napa Valley are made from grapes picked by Mexican workers. I suppose you also would refuse to drink a full glass that is on the table in front of you.
I’d say it would be surprising if it wasn’t. The ICE version is already built there.
GM in the Mary Erra is not at all interesting in keeping production within the US. Fine, GM is a world company, but they are making NO effort to keep production here on practically anything. Sad.
A vehicle like this, to build this here, would really be a great opportunity to demonstrate you still want to be heralded as a US company.
Let us hope that gm never needs to go back to the government for any help like in 2008. Imagine the field day congress will have pointing out that the import brands build almost as many vehicles in the US as gm.
Building this in the US would just make it more expensive, and consumers don’t care.
Who says they won’t produce it here and in Mexico as they currently do?
Not sure where you call home, but the Equinox was or maybe still is, built in Canada, but either is or will soon be discontinued there to make room for the BrightDrop production.
https://gmauthority.com/blog/2021/01/gm-cami-plant-to-migrate-from-chevy-equinox-to-brightdrop-ev600-production/
4 out of the 6 EV factories planned so far are in the US. The other two are in Mexico and Canada. All 4 of the battery factories planned are in the US and are all new construction.
I do like the big rims/tires, which gives this new Equinox EV a more substantial presence.
The current Equinox has a lot of competition. GM has to move well above the current model features/performance, in order to compete with all the players in this category, for all Equinox EV, hybrid and ICE versions.
This new EV looks very good.
You know some make a big issue about a vehicle built here or Mexico.
But let’s really look at this. Most models built there are either shared with Mexico and South America or are lower end and lower priced models.
People get on the box and cry they should make it here and refuse to buy then if it is made here often they never buy because it cost too much.
Kind of like Walmart everyone complains about the imported items at Walmart but yet they still shop there due to cost.
With our economy on the edge of tanking cost is going to be a prime factor with many products.
GM will build most of their cars here from mid price and up if not a major export. Or they will bring it here if we are the smaller market.,
GM for a long time has been the last to import products and or leave many markets. Yet people just underestimate the cost and lost sales if not priced right.
Most American’s are buying from non American companies already so if you have a beef do so with the American buying public that shops price more than country.
This is the real world and you have to consider all factors not just your personal beliefs.
Is it mexico or future United Nations of America’s
That would be cool. Like the EU but in the North American. No passport needed when driving your Nox cross border to Mexico, Canada.
You are a visionary, bro!
Very small border south of Mexico too. End the cartel and government runs and taxes all narcotics
There was a new coin developed as a prototype: The “Amero”. You can buy it at eBay.
Looks a lot like Encore GX. Wondering if this car will be badged as Buick in China? EV models have been rebadged depending on market since Volt.
Hope GM builds the Nox in the USA
If that really is how the Equinox EV looks like, I think it will sell really well. Looks really nice, and $30k usd is a really competitive price too. I’ve always though BEV’s are too expensive, when comparing the same car to the ICE version (Bolt EV vs Bolt, Kona EV vs Kona) the EV cars usually cost $10k more. But having this at $30k makes it a lot more attractive.
The fact is we now live in a global economy. Corporations shop for labor the same as consumers shop for products. You wouldn’t pay $700 for a TV when the same TV can be purchased elsewhere for $500, and corporations aren’t going to pay someone $20 an hour to produce a widget when they can get it produced elsewhere for $10 an hour. People complain about American auto companies making cars outside the USA, but have no problem with their clothes, tools, electronics, appliances,etc being made outside the USA.
Well said! It’s funny how all these self-proclaimed CEO’s and economists understand how business works. I bet they are all wearing $200 Nikes made in Vietnamese sweat-shops and watching their $900 Indonesian assembled TV while surfing the web on their $1200 Chinese made iPhone. Don’t get me wrong, I try to buy American made from American companies when I can but it is nearly impossible with some products.
Exactly. These same people that clamor for cars to be made by UAW workers are the same ones that use the least expensive illegal immigrant they can find when it comes time to replace the roof on their house.
PUT AMERICANS TO WORK …
Sadly, Americans don’t want to work! Demanding $15/hr to flip burgers instead of getting a big-kid job.
Why work when our government can pay people to sit at home collecting tax-payer funded unemployment???
*Assembled* is being made. The car is built from scratch and assembled in the plant.
Its amazing how little the public knows about where their vehicles are made. For example every single Mercedes Benz crossover that you see anywhere in the world – every single one! – is made in Vance Alabama.
And assembled is made — from scratch, same thing.
Assembled and made are two different items. Many vehicles are assembled in one country with parts made elsewhere. If an engine is made in Brazil and installed in a vehicle assembled elsewhere the engine was still made in Brazil
Nowhere are the engines made where the cars are built. ALL the parts on a vehicle are shipped in to the plant where the vehicle is built. The part is not the car. The seats are made by the company that makes seats, the motors that run the seats are made by the company that makes seat motors. The wire harnesses are made by the company that makes wire harnesses.
These is how things are made. The CARS are made in the plant that makes cars.
Ultium motor stators are made in Lockport (western) New York.
That’s like saying a double wide mobile home is made on the lot it’s sitting on. No, a double wide mobile home is MADE in a factory and ASSEMBLED at it’s final destination by adjoining two halves with bolts to make one unit
Not even close. Obviously you have not actually worked at a automotive manufacturing plant.
Not even close. Obviously you have not actually worked at a automotive manufacturing plant.
At the plant they make the fenders, punch out the sheet metal, form the body and weld it together.
Then they assemble it. They MAKE the vehicle.
For example, every Mercedes Benz Crossover sold in the world is made and assembled in Vance Alabama.
The wire harnesses come from Mexico.
The seats are made by the same company that makes the seats for Chevy.
Thank you Tom G and Carol and anybody else who strongly supports the United Auto Workers. We need automotive jobs here in the USA and shipping them to other countries is not good. I have owned 3 Chevy Volts and loved each of them. But the powers that be quit making them. They were great automobiles. I was sure that sooner or later I’d find another GM EV that pleased me but impatience got the best of me. Went to the Ford dealer as soon as the Mach Es started showing up. Drove one. Fine car. The pen was in my hand and the purchase order was on the desk and then I found out the car was made in Mexico. I walked out, happy that I had not spent 40 grand on a foreign product but sad that Ford had decided to ship the manufacturing of what was sure to become a popular car out of country. Not now nor ever an automotive worker.
When you have work done around your house do you call your local building trades union hall and ask them to perform the jobs that you need completed, such as painting, roofing, plumbing, electrical work, masonry?
Are the clothes you’re wearing or the TV you’re watching union made? Didn’t think so.
Oh wait, you hired union workers to make your clothes and build your TV.
So, “always hire union.” Doubt that.