General Motors chose September 9th – World Electric Car Day – to officially present the all-new 2024 Chevy Equinox EV in New York City, confirming that production of Chevrolet‘s next zero-emission crossover will take place in Mexico.
The automaker has announced that the all-new 2024 Chevy Equinox EV will be manufactured at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, as GM Authority had anticipated at the end of March based on information from sources familiar with the matter. In fact, at the moment, the Mexican plant is the only facility confirmed to build the Equinox EV worldwide.
Most notably, the new Chevy Equinox EV becomes the second all-electric vehicle that GM confirmed it will build at the Ramos Arizpe plant as part of the massive investment of more than $1 billion in the complex that the company announced in April 2021. The compact-sized, zero-emission crossover follows in the footsteps of the all-new 2024 Chevy Blazer EV, which will be the first electric model to roll off the plant’s production lines.
Recently, the Secretary of Foreign Affairs of Mexico announced that the electric vehicles manufactured at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant will be exported to approximately 45 countries once the complex begins production in 2023. Being the most affordable model and focused on the largest segment of the global auto industry, the Chevy Equinox EV is expected to become GM’s highest-volume zero-emission vehicle.
In addition to manufacturing and assembling the all-new Chevy Equinox EV, the Ramos Arizpe plant will also be responsible for manufacturing the Ultium battery pack and Ultium Drive motor that will power the vehicle. As just revealed, the Equinox EV features two power outputs: 210 horsepower and 242 pound-feet of torque in front-wheel-drive variants, as well as 290 horsepower and 346 pound-feet of torque with the eAWD system.
The all-new Chevy Equinox EV will be available for sale at dealerships in the United States and Canada in the fall of 2023, so it is estimated that the start of manufacturing at the Ramos Arizpe plant will take place during the third quarter of next year. Subsequently, the Mexican-made Equinox EV will be launched in other international markets and regions, such as South America and the Middle East.
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Another thing I hate about EVs is that face without a mouth. There’s no more Chevy smile
Yeah that smooth front looks weird. Put some trim there even if it’s a fake grille or emblem.
Like the Cadillac Lyriq? The Chevy Blazer EV is the same size.
I find that funny because I used to despise the Chevy smile with a passion because you could buy a $20,000 Chevy or a $40,000 Chevy and get the same look. To each their own.
Built in Mexico for the less expensive labor costs. But the savings are never passed along to the consumer. Corporate greed at its finest.
Maybe the savings GM is realizing by building this in Mexico allows them to price it starting at $30k and still make some profit?
C’mon, GMC Fan. You know production in Mexico flies in the face of receiving the 2008/09 bailout, yet here you sit blindly justifying GM’s continuing snub of the American worker and American taxpayer. It’s inexcusable…while you praise everything Mary.
GM thrives on fanboys like you to kiss their behinds without criticism.
Tell me you know nothing about the intense interconnectivity between NA countries and auto production without saying it… C’mon, Morrisangelo…
3 things you’ll conveniently forget. 1) This vehicle was designed, engineered, tested, and sourced in the US supporting 10s of thousands of jobs. 2) The motors and batteries are made in the US, which is not trivial to GA. 3) I doubt you’d be as “pissed” if it were made in Canada…
VERY easy question for you and GMC: Why is this built in Mexico and not Michigan, Ohio or Tennessee? This isn’t complicated, and your piecemeal explanation is inadequate.
It is as my name implies, commonsense. No one should need to explain why they are, it is plain as day…
The unions are the ones to blame for so much production leaving the US.
No argument on long-running union problems, but how do the other car makers, especially the foreign ones, build thriving plants and communities…like KIA in Georgia for example?
The foreogn plants have no unions.
“This vehicle was designed, engineered, tested, and sourced in the US supporting 10s of thousands of jobs.”
More like dozens…..
TYhe article clearly states “In addition to manufacturing and assembling the all-new Chevy Equinox EV, the Ramos Arizpe plant will also be responsible for manufacturing the Ultium battery pack and Ultium Drive motor that will power the vehicle”. Sounds like the batteries and motors will bemade in Mexico.
The article states the electric motor and batteries will also be made in Mexico.
Canada helped bail GM out. Mexico and China didn’t give them a cent.
If you hate GM so much for their bankruptcy, why do you visit this site? Considering how Ford received govt loans to stay afloat, do you hate on them just as much? Do you hate on Stellantis since they’re no longer an American company?
Reality is, GM is a global company and they develop production around the globe for worldwide sales. If that’s problematic for you, find an American only company to buy from. To help simplify what options that leaves you with, you’ll be going BEV and Rivian is your only option. I’m sure you’ll complain about that though as well
How can you talk to anybody about complaining when that’s literally all you do on here.
What exactly am I complaining about?
Loved GM from about 1974 to as recently as 2015. The ditching of Oldsmobile, Pontiac, Saturn, and even Hummer, and taking that god-awful bailout all flipped me to Ford. It didn’t help that my 2009 Suburban was an unmitigated disaster with constantly failing sensors, routine warning lights, an unsolvable driveline vibration, and a failing $1500 ABS module.
Pretty satisfied with my F-150s…and their builds in Louisville and Dearborn. They’ve sold at nearly a million a year over 2015-2020 time frame.
But hey, ignore me. Just look at gms heavily-diminished market share for what many other think about gm. The hard evidence is right in front of you.
Mexico is part of America, so those cars are as American as all of us.
You must work inside at GM on this project to know where the costs are going and being saved with a statement like that.
So today where very few cars start under 25k and most of the rivals in this class like the Rav4 and CR-V start at 27k this isn’t a good price for a vehicle still nearly two model years out? You must be living under a rock to not see the cost of everything today with inflation.
Best comment of the decade!
I have no interest in the Nox EV, will there still be an ICE version available?
Made outside of US will I believe will not make this qualifying for $7500 tax credits?
Government Motors will make sure the tax credit applies for NA vehicles.
Ms. Manzo:
Mexico last time I checked complies with the modified Nafta agreement.
It will qualify. Read the law.
Decades go by and we are still sending jobs to low wage countries. Corrupt corporate greed at it’s finest.
When the current Blazer was introduced and GM wanted to place one inside the Detroit baseball stadium, the UAW went ballistic about it. Never mind that the content of that vehicle was around 50% USA/Canadian. IOW, the majority of the engines and transmissions came from those two countries.
The IMO phony outrage that people spread about so many products is IMO misguided. If you were to be one of the few that still observes the reactions on Facebook that GM gets (see the posting about the Equinox EV) and know what complete nonsense people spread, well the truth behind so many postings is nonexistent.
It stinks that more isn’t built here. But then you realize, there are so many factors, it’s dang near impossible. Take it for what it’s worth, every manufacturer wants to be a good corporate citizen. But with some of the jibberish that many of us embrace, exactly how can they do it?
Why Electric ?
They tried sourcing boilers from Doble, but were unable to get enough of them.
Does eAWD = continuous always engaged 4 wheel drive? ORone electronically engages it only when you need it thereby maximizing range?
This is a question not a commentary! Does anyone know?
Imanjunk:
Don’t know for sure but I can make a Guesstimate that if it like other upcoming gm electrics then the 4wd will always be ‘engaged’ but its not too much of an ‘extra burden’ as it is in vehicles with a single gas engine….
But yes, expect the range of the battery to be 4% less than the 2wd versions.
eAWD is electric all-wheel drive. There is no powertrains so it is done electronically
If we want a car built in Canada or the USA we had better be looking for a foreign nameplate, kind of sad is it not!!
If all production of vehicles built in Mexico were built in the USA, the immigrant line from Mexico would be even longer to fill the jobs in the USA since there seems to be a shortage of workers here
GM is a global company. My 2009 Chevy Equinox was assembled at Ingersoll (Canada), but its engine was built by GM-SAIC (China) and its sealed transaxle was built by Aisin (Japan). In 13 years nothing had failed. But all the sales profit remained in the U.S. so why worry about where an Equinox was assembled? If you naysayers put your money where your mouth or fingers say here, we would have no foreign cars sold here.
So it won’t qualify for the ev tax break ? Good job GM / Joe Biden
So you can’t read?
CA and Americas electrical grid cant handle the EVs. Also the pollution from making them is quite a bit larger than ICE due to the mining of REM and the chemical processes for building the batteries. Also the batteries are very expensive & difficult to recycle.
Yes, EVs are a nice addition to the industry but not a total solution. Keep ICE as the common misconception of low crude quantities (deception by Rockefeller for more $$) and upgrade the infrastructure to service all the new EVs.
CA is having brown and blackouts and they want to go all EV by 2030. Get real!! They shut down all nucular power save one and green cant produce enough energy for a normal day.
And if you put solar+storage on your house it mitigates any issues with the grid, and you may be totally independent from the grid depending on how you spec your system.
Will never payback in the Heartland. I will stick with ICE.
I have a 2014 volt. I was going to buy the Chevy ….uhum diesel cruz back before 2014 but with diesel running passedu 4 bucks I chose not too and glad I did not. Then came VWs diesel gate. Then I randomly saw a web add on how cheap solar is in my state. And sure enough it was cheap enough of course after rebtes/tax incentives, etc… and yes the same stuff big oil still gets after 100 years pumping not to mention our military costs in the world…. So the total install of 36 panels cost me out of pocket net 9k when done in 2012! Today it should be a bit cheaper. I recovered that net out of cost in just 6 years max because as it turns out the Volt was coming out and I bought it instead. Between 90% of the time not having to buy gas but rather charging, all house electric covered and net metering (which is a must) credits to spare I space heated my main used areas while keeping the overall house hetat lower where I was not 90% of the time…which surely you all do too with zoning. I did not look back. I don’t regret any of the choices. In fact had I thought about this better in 2005 when the house was built I would have planned this future better. I don’t consider my self a tree hugger but definitely practical. I will gladly go to a full EV next even with some limitations until they are improved. How many years did people wait for the brick cell phone to go to the size they now have in their pockets for what 1/3 the original cost! I gladly will work around the 1 or 2 yearly trips out of a 300 mile charge range at sparsely EA chargers throughout the states until it is all more in place. Meanwhile I am saving a ton of money on gas even through this last year or so. And EVEN IF I paid my util its rate of electric it would have cost me uhum 11kwh per typical volt charge x 20cent AT MOST and is high = $2.20 cents TODAY. And thats not mentioning the maintenance I have had to do. 3x Tire replacments was my biggest cost then 3 coolant loops and 1 electric drvie oil change done at the dealer. I will gladly take these advantages and put up with temporary so called limited charging conditions while on the road as a temporary disadvantage.
If any of you’s were a real car enthusiast you would know that there were electric cars back in the early 1900 hundreds
then those that became to be known were the oil barons. Then they flooded the market with cheap oil thus putting the E cars out to pasture, just like what the big 3 did to Tucker! If it were not for all that oil we would have had E cars since then!
And that wont happen this time thankfully. Too much investment is on the way and already in place. But both can coexist for a while still which I have no issue with. Choices. Its about choices and let the best choice win just like Beta and VHS. But which is the new beta and which will be the new vhs? Not the plug type fall out too.
There goes the quality.
Wonder if the cartels have any effect on companies operating in Mexico?
I don’t understand the giant plastic faceless grille… Every time I see a Tesla or mach e I checkout the fronts to see how well the bumpers or grille are holding up … Common sense says it’s a chip magnet… Give it a couple of years and the front is gonna be hideous full of chips and scrapes… Just like the plastic body cladding fad that looks like crap after a few years… Now you’re gonna have front ends of EVs looking like they got in a bar fight with fading plastic cladding