GM investing $245M for new vehicle program at Orion Township plant
22 June 2015
General Motors will invest $245 million and add 300 new jobs at its Orion Assembly plant to support launching an all-new vehicle program. Investment in Orion totals $962 million since the UAW and GM worked together to reopen the previously idled plant in 2010.
This latest investment comes seven months after the announcement of a $160-million investment to launch Chevrolet’s Bolt EV, which is expected to achieve more than 200 miles of range on a single electric charge.
The new announcement is a part of the $5.4 billion GM has announced it will invest in US manufacturing over the next three years. Approximately $3.1 billion of the $5.4 billion has been identified, leaving $2.3 billion to be announced by year end.
Since June 2009, GM has announced US facility investment of approximately $17.8 billion. About $12.4 billion of that has come since the 2011 UAW-GM National Agreement. In total, these investments have created 6,250 new jobs and secured the positions of approximately 20,700 others.
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