Despite tariffs, GM continues to produce EVs in Mexico [update]

Despite the will-they, won’t-they uncertainty surrounding the future of tariffs and union jobs and – let’s face it – just about everything else in every industry these days, GM continues to build its Ultium-based EVs in Mexico.

Update 22APR25: corrected the translation from Milenio.

GM has exclusively produced electric cars at its plant in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico since last year, and has created some 5,000 new jobs in the area according to economist Raquel Buenrostro, who currently serves as Mexico’s Secretary of Anti-Corruption and Good Government. And those cars – including the popular Chevy Equinox EV and Honda’s hot-selling Prologue – have been huge hits in their respective segments.

The General seems to know a good thing when it sees one, so it should come as no surprise to learn that GM has not scuttled its assembly lines out of the country.

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“At the moment, none of the models produced in Mexico are being stopped or transferred to the United States,” the director of GM de México’s EV operations, Adrián Enciso, told the Spanish-language newspaper, Milenio.

Market Watch is reporting that the proposed tariffs, if they take effect, could raise GM’s cost to make electric cars in Mexico by up to $4,300 per vehicle. But while that could put a significant per-unit dent in GM’s profits, it’s worth noting that the EVs might continue to be built in Mexico and sold in Canada and other markets – the new Spark, especially, is targeted towards Central and South America, anyway.

And, frankly, GM can afford it.

SOURCE: Mexico News Daily.

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