General Motors is leaving 500 workers in a factory in Canada because of the weak demand of its all-electric Brightdo vans, According to the CNBCThe
GM told CNBC that these cuts were not related to the ongoing trade war by President Donald Trump. The company is cutting one of the two shifts at the CMI plant in Ontario and will be lazy for 20 weeks starting in May.
The cuts are briefly briefly but somewhat new turns in turbulent history. It produced brightdrops as a separate entity in GM in 2021, but it absorbed in 2023, and in 2024, the brightdrop vans suffered a recovery after a few battery fire. After last year, GM Brightdrop has been removed Under the Chevy BrandThe