Production will not be moved elsewhere; the BrightDrop Zevo line is, for all intents and purposes, dead.
The move comes just two years after GM, with $500 million in Canadian government support, celebrated opening CAMI as Canada’s “first full-scale EV manufacturing plant.”
The company delivered a marginal 146 vans in the US in 2022 and just 497 in all of 2023.
But things were finally picking up this year despite a production pause in April.
Data from 2025 shows the ramp was finally hitting its stride, with sales reportedly jumping to 2,384 units in the third quarter alone—a massive 869% increase year-over-year. The company was on track to sell around 4,000 units this year.
That’s not a massive number, but it was heading in the right direction.
GM, however, sees it differently. As noted by industry observers, GM executives are comparing BrightDrop’s 4,000 sales to the 60,000+ sales of its ancient, gas-guzzling Chevy Express and GMC Savana vans, a platform that dates back to the 1990s.