GM stellt die Produktion von Elektrotransportern im CAMI-Werk in Ingersoll, Ontario, ein.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/gm-to-end-electric-van-production-at-cami-plant-in-ingersoll-ont-9.6946611
GM stellt die Produktion von Elektrotransportern im CAMI-Werk in Ingersoll, Ontario, ein.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/gm-to-end-electric-van-production-at-cami-plant-in-ingersoll-ont-9.6946611
8 Kommentare
We should seize the factories and the tooling and nationalize them. To hell wirh being used until were no longer fun to play with and being cast aside.
damn – I was just reading about how Target is buying these for a pilot project.
These are excellent cargo vans, the price is just high. Another victim of the trade war.
On previous posts I was supportive of the Ontario auto industry and the governments attempt to preserve it, but frankly, at this point, it’s clear it’s gonna collapse. Trump isn’t even 15% into his presidency and the auto manufacturers are already pulling out of Canada. If the feds can somehow recover it through a CUSMA renegotiation then awesome but at the point I would assume this industry is leaving and a) we need to be working overtime to get these workers a new industry and b) we should be developing a domestic auto manufacturer. I petition it be named Hoser Motors.
Also, I saw one of these vans on the road today and I legitimately didn’t even know they existed. Kinda weird to see this post here now.
A shame, as delivery vans are an ideal application for EVs. (Relatively low, but predictable daily travel, typically only used for 1 shift or at least parked overnight, with a lot of stop and go, with low speeds, volume, not weight limited).
The optics might not be right for it presently due to the trade war, but I think when things normalize we should follow the path of countries like Australia & Germany in regards to their auto industries & phase out the subsidies & tariff/non-tariff barriers while enacting programs to help workers transition to other jobs etc. Overall it’d be a more efficient allocation of economic resources and end unnecessary rent-seeking towards domestic producers that already fairly wealthy.
It would also help if we phased out fossil fuel, road & biofuel subsidies as well as the ones on EVs. Public spending on transportation can then go towards more transit-oriented developments alongside the government’s more YIMBY oriented housing & urban planning policies etc. If we built more mixed use (hybrid commercial-residential) neighborhoods with multiple types of housing, we could even start putting money towards funding streetcar suburbs like the ones in Riverdale in Toronto or that used to be common in North American cities prior to the car-centric urban planning reforms of the 1950s.
Frankly, GM and any other corporation who are pulling out of Canada at the first sign of problems can go kick rocks.
We should be nationalising the assets of companies that pull out and either selling these assets on the cheap to companies who are willing stay and commit to Canada or starting our own industry with these assets whether they be crown corps or private.
I know it’s never going to happen because of how politics and corporations work. But we have to stop bending over backwards to big transnational corporations who care about nothing other than their bottom line.
People can’t afford to buy the cars, any industry making items that can’t be afforded by the general public can’t have much demand to justify unlimited production.
We’ve connected our economy and our culture to the automobile and turned our back on adopting full proper work from home policies when its available. The automobile is going to be the golden goose that ends up fucking us up the ass.