Tariffs Or Slow Sales? Cami-Made Electric Vans Stockpiled on us lots

Cami-Made Cargo Vans Are Filling Parking Lots in the Us and Observifies Are Wondering If Sales Are Slow for the Fully Electric Vehicles, or if Gm is Stockpiling to Avoid Looming Tariffs on Canadian Made Vehicle.

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It may be a bit of both, Said One Industry Leading US Analyst.

Automotive Media has reported Hundreds of Brightdrop Cargo Delivery Vans Are Stored On Lots in Flint, Mich., As well as in Ontario Near the Ingersoll Manufacturer, with Sales of the Vehicle Slugish in a Complete Market.

But the Industry also is about to be hit on thursday with a 25 per cent Us Tariff on Canadian Goods, so Canadian Automakers Benefit from Getting Veholes Across the Border Before then.

“It may be a bit of both,” sam fiorani, vice-president of autoforecast solutions in pennsylvania, said of the slow Sales versus stockpiling debate.

“GM Launched a New Brand (Vehicle) but commercial Buyers Go with what they know and trust. There’s also no consumer market for it unlike other vans. It is strictly for cargo delivery,” he said of challenges facing the brightdrop.

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In Fact, GM SOLD A LITTLE MORE THARE THAN 1,500 Brightdrop Vans in the US and 232 in Canada in 2024, Well Off -Comititor Rivian Selling More than 13,400 Electric Cargo Vans that Year, leading the EV Cargo Van Sector.

“There’s a lot of Competition in a Market that has fully accepts Electric Vehicles. But i Still Think It Could Take Off,” Fiorani Said.

If Automotive Tariffs Kick in On Thursday, “It will make selling an exisseive vehicle Even more difficult,” He Said.

It may be that all automation recently rampd up production and feel vehicles south of the border to avoid 25 per hundred tariffs on vehicle and parts, said mike van boekel, flesherson of unifor local 88 at cam.

“We know they are trying to get ahead of tariffs. I think Everyone in Canada is trying to do that,” van Boekel Said of the Glut of Locally Made Vans in the US

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Cam World Have Been On The Job For Three Weeks Sale the Last Scheduled Plant Shutdown. But no one is certain how long they will be back to work if tariffs are implemeted.

“There’s a lot of frustration and anxiety. We just waiting to hear,” Said Van Boekel. “We Will Keep Building Unil We Hear Differently.”

Cost is also an Issue as the brightdrop 600, with an estimated rage of 437 kilometers. One Costs about US $ 74,000. Ford’s Etransit, Which has a shorter Range, starts at $ 51,600. GM is offering up to us $ 31,000 in incentives. Cami also Makes A Smaller Version of the Van, the Brightdrop 400.

Cami also was believed to be in line to get another vehicle to assemble, but the tariff disputed has suspended that, although it may be resurreced if a new trade deal emerges between canada and the us, fiorani said.

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“The plant is modern, gm has been invested in it and even with poor Sales of the brightdrop we we were expecting anchorother vehicle for the plant before tariffs,” he said.

Recently the Detroit Free Press Reported Gm and Hyundai Were in Talks to Partner on Gm Commercial Assembly Electric Vans for the Korean Automaker. The Report Stated Hyundai is considering manufacturing the vans in North America by 2028, Adding Production to An Existing Facility or Contracting Out the Manufacturing.

There are about 1,300 workers at Cami Assembly in Ingersoll.

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Electric vehicle cargo van Sales US 2024

• Rivian Commercial Van – 13.423
• Ford E-Transit-12.610
• Chevrolet Brightdrop – 1.529
• Mercedes Benz Sprinter – 191

Source: Insideevs

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