General Motors Co. is adding a third shift to its Oshawa, Ontario, plant to increase truck production and will soon begin transforming another Canada plant for electric vehicles, the automaker said Monday.
GM Canada is investing more than $2 billion in its Canada operations for truck production in Oshawa and electric delivery vans at the CAMI Assembly plant in Ingersoll. CAMI will be Canada's first full-scale EV plant when production of GM's BrightDrop electric delivery vans starts in the fourth quarter. BrightDrop is a startup within GM focused on providing electric delivery products.
The addition of the third shift in Oshawa, which had lost its vehicle production in 2019, comes as GM's light-duty truck plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is down this week and next because of the global semiconductor shortage.
