General Motors Canada Fact Sheet General Motors “Accelerated
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General Motors Canada Fact Sheet General Motors “Accelerated Transformation”: US $6 billion in annual run rate savings by the end of 2020 related to people, product portfolio and production - includes aligning manufacturing capacity across North America with shifting customer preferences and addressing excess capacity. Addressing North America Plant Capacity Utilization: There will be three North American assembly plants that will be without product allocation by the end of 2019: Oshawa Assembly, Detroit-Hamtramck in Michigan and Lordstown Assembly in Ohio. Supporting component and propulsion plants that will be without allocation by the end of 2019 include Baltimore Operations in Maryland, and Warren Transmission Operations in Michigan. In addition to the previously announced closure of Gunsan, Korea, GM will cease the operations of two additional plants outside North America by the end of 2019. Oshawa Assembly Production to end in December 2019: wind down of flex car line with Chevrolet Impala and Cadillac XTS (one shift) and Oshawa Pickup line (2 shifts) takes place in the second half of 2019. Total of 2,973 Oshawa Assembly jobs impacted (2,633 Hourly; 340 Salary/Contract). Total current GM Canada employment is 81,50 direct plus 300 contract. We have 1,000 On Star customer advisors in Oshawa and 450 GM dealers across Canada who employ 22,800 people Why Oshawa Assembly? • Operating at Half Capacity – running well below full capacity for several years (chart) • Insurmountable new product investment barriers –With the significant shift in buying patterns away from cars to favour trucks and SUVs, there are no available new vehicle programs to fill the gap at Oshawa Assembly. General Motors Canada Highlights • GM investments at CAMI in 2015 for Equinox (C$800 M) and in Oshawa Assembly in 2016 for transitional “shuttle” pick-up truck program (C$500 M) • GM CTC Markham Campus investment (C$17 M) to support engineering focused on software development, advanced safety, and autonomous vehicle technology. • GM’s main North American Cold Weather testing – Kapuskasing $10 million investment • New Toronto Urban Mobility Centre under development – Toronto East Portlands • GM Canada currently employs 8,150 direct hourly and salaried employees • GM Canada dealers employ 22,800 people across Canada • GM Canada will remain one of Durham Region’s largest employers • GM in May 2016 announced increase of GM Canada engineering positions to 1000 • GM Canada is now Canada’s largest automotive R&D, Software and Engineering company – CTC Markham now approaching 500 positions in software development, advanced safety and autonomous vehicle technology. Still growing and serves as a Canada new technology anchor. • Largest seller of electric vehicles in Canada in 2017 – over one third of all EVs sold in 2017 • GM Canada is a leading NSERC supporter with deep relationships with Canadian Universities, Accelerators (CDL) and Scale Up SMEs (over 1000 SME interactions with CTC Markham) • C$1.8 million STEM commitment to inspire young women and underrepresented groups • CAMI vehicle production volume alone (Chevrolet Equinox at full capacity / 3 shifts) remains similar volume to Ford Canada (yellow line in chart below) CAMI employs 2500 • St. Catharines Engine & Transmission production – Canada’s largest, new Cogen investment .