General Motors is pausing production at the GM Ramos Arizpe plant in Mexico, sources close to the matter tell GM Authority.
Production at the facility is paused as of the time of this writing, April 3rd, 2023. Production will partially restart during the week of April 17th. As a reminder, the Ramos Arizpe plant currently manufactures the ICE-powered Chevy Equinox and Chevy Blazer crossovers. Eventually, the facility will build the Chevy Equinox EV, Chevy Blazer EV, and Ultium-based Honda Prologue.
Speaking of which, GM Authority reported earlier this year that the Ramos Arizpe plant is expected to exclusively produce GM EVs by 2024. As previously mentioned, the Equinox EV, Blazer EV and Honda Prologue are the only electric vehicles confirmed to be manufactured at this facility. However, the door is wide open to expand the list of all-electric vehicles manufactured in Mexico. Furthermore, the Ramos Arizpe plant will export EVs to more than 45 countries around the globe once production commences later this year.
For background on the development of the plant itself, GM Authority previously reported back in July 2020 that General Motors was considering retooling the Mexican-based assembly plant for electric vehicle production. Then, a little less than a year later, GM halted production at the manufacturing complex in order to expand production lines to handle increased EV production capability. Since then, The General has invested more than $1 billion to facilitate the construction of equipment that can handle GM’s Ultium vehicle architecture.
This significant investment will transform the Ramos Arizpe plant into the fifth GM North America manufacturing site to produce electric vehicles, joining the likes of the EV plants in Spring Hill, Tennessee, Factory Zero in Detroit-Hamtramck and Lake Orion, both in Michigan, as well as CAMI in Ingersoll, Ontario.
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What does the source say, why they halt the production?
Retooling for ICE or EV model year 2024?
Is there going to be a 2024 ice blazer built yet ?
GM has invested over 1 billion in EVs, a vehicle our government is mandating the manufacturers build, but most consumers do not want to buy. The auto industry will file for bankruptcy or a bailout in the next couple of years. Biden mandated the vaccine, mandated EVs and today announced we will have to eat manufactured food because it’s better for the environment. I am tired of our government telling our corporations, manufacturers, and myself how we must follow their mandates to live. This is communism 101. Wake up America.
Retard!!
These people are crazy there is no climate crisis anywhere no one can prove it this is all an attempt to convert everybody in America to Communism and these idiot voters 18 to 24 that have been listening to these nuts are filing for and a lot of older people the world is not coming to an end it’s been changing for two billion years climate changes every 30 years so grow up America and go back to fossil fuels they’re not killing the Earth and keep eating beef pork and chicken not bacteria
I can still remember when this plant opened in 81. I worked for an industrial supplier and knew a lot of people from Pontiac motor division that went to Mexico for 6 or 12 month stint to get the plant up and running. A lot has changed since then. The shutdown explains why my 2023 Equinox order got cancelled. They had already told us that the Iron Gray color was built out for the year but we had no idea 2024 production would start in May.
Where’s my new 2023 now 2024 Equinox