Originally published at: https://wheelive.com/2021/01/18/gm-is-planning-to-produce-ev600-electric-van-in-canada/
The company announced that they plan to produce the EV600 electric van at its Ingersoll, Ontario plant, starting in late 2021.
The EV600 was uncovered recently, as a part of another BrightDrop commercial vehicle unit, and the production announcement channels US$800 million toward the plant, under a speculative concurrence with the Unifor labor union and including government uphold not yet detailed.
With a 250-mile range, 120-kw DC quick charging for to 170 miles of added range every hour, weight evaluations under 10,000 pounds, and dactive-safety includes that intently mirror what’s offered on the most recent passenger vehicles, it’s pointed as a delivery devic for metro-zone armadas.
GM indicated a mechanized delivery pallet/cabinet intended to be utilized with the EV600, and said that there are two different vehicles being developed as a component of the new brand, which will incorporate resource the board and armada the executives programming for organizations. FedEx will take conveyance of the van and pallet before the year’s over.
The EV600 announcement will make the plant one of the principal volume-production EV facilities in Canada for passenger or light commercial vehicles, yet it won’t be the one and only one. Ford has affirmed intends to fabricate various electric vehicles at its Oakville, Ontario industrial facility beginning around the middle of the decade.
The association has additionally said that an uagreement a year ago with Fiat Chrysler remembered both plug-in hybrids and fully electric models.
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