FOG BLOG CANADA LOG: CONVERTED GM PLANT IN INGERSOLL ON., NOW PRODUCING ELECTRIC DELIVERY VANS!

GM converts CAMI plant in Ingersoll, Ont., to make electric delivery vans 400 jobs at launch but that figure is expected to grow Workers assemble the components of a BrightDrop delivery van at General Motors’s CAMI EV plant, in Ingersoll, Ont., on Nov. 29. Production of the BrightDrop Zevo 600 electric delivery van is set to begin in January. A General Motors plant in Ingersoll, Ont., has been converted into an assembly line for electric delivery vans, making it the first full-scale electric vehicle-making facility in Canada.

The first BrightDrop Zevo 600 rolled off the line at the CAMI plant on Monday, marking the reopening of the facility that was temporarily shuttered in May in order to retool itself from making internal combustion engines into one that builds electric vehicles.

"We are fully committed to an all-electric future," GM Canada president Marissa West told CBC News in an interview. "We're seeing a really high customer demand."

Representatives of the provincial and federal governments, which each kicked in $259 million to help the automaker upgrade the facility, were on hand for a media event commemorating the opening. The total price tag for the GM's upgrades to its facilities in Ontario in Ingersoll and Oshawa was $2 billion, GM has said previously.