On March 6, the Mercedes-Benz Trucks and Buses announced the successful test of its eO500U electric bus in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on Line 5104 (Suzana / Cruzeiro) by Cia Coordenadas.
The test demonstrated the vehicle’s viability in real urban operations. The eO500U is a low-floor Padron 4x2 model with a chassis from

On May 6, it was announced that GM fired several workers at its plant in Sao Jose dos Campos, Brazil through a telegram sent to them.
Although GM did not mention the number of employees affected, the metalworkers union of Sao José Dos Campos and Region estimated that there were 50.
The telegram sent by GM mentions: “

On March 4, it was announced that the GM plant in Alvear, Argentina, resumed operations after almost 3 months of halt.
This suspension in production was caused by a lack of parts that its suppliers could not provide due to the debt acquired in dollars to import the products into the country.
At the time of resuming o

During November there were rumors in Brazil about GM leaving the country, following the same path as Ford in 2019.
These rumors started when GM announced the massive layoffs at its plants in Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Caetano do Sul and Mogi das Cruzes.
These layoffs started a strike and ended up with GM cancelling the

On November 8, 2023, it was reported that metalworkers at Brazilian plants of GM, Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Caetano do Sul and Mogi das Cruzes have decided to stop strike and returned to work on November 8th after reaching an agreement with the company, the union representatives said in a statement.
The Sindmetal unio

On October 23, metal workers at GM’s Sao Jose dos Campos, Sao Caetano do Sul and Mogi das Cruzes plants went on strike over personnel cuts the company made due to the drop in sales and exports despite having offered job stability until May 2024 to its workers.
"The plants will only resume production after the job cut

On October 10, GM decided to temporarily stop production at the Rosario plant in Alvear, Argentina due to a lack of imported parts from their suppliers.
The problem for importing the needed parts not only consists of obtaining the authorization of the SIRA system (the one that regulates the entry of products into the

On June 16, GM Argentina announced that it will increase production of the Chevrolet Tracker at the Rosario plant to meet the high demand in the domestic market, where it is the segment leader, and other South American countries. 
GM said that it plans to gradually increase production of the Chevrolet Tracker at the

On June 9, General Motors confirmed that it will stop production of the Chevrolet Cruze by the end of 2023.
Production of the C-segment hatchback and sedan at the Rosario plant will end without any direct replacement.
The Cruze shares a production line for the past year with the Chevrolet Tracker, enabling production

Light Vehicle output in Argentina attained great heights over the course of 2022 reaching 554,000 units and achieving 23% growth year-on-year. This growth seems to paint a picture of recovery from the supply shortages plaguing the industry, but is there more to the story? Argentina’s pre-pandemic environment is also

On October 4, GM announced the start of exports of the Chevrolet Tracker SUV from Argentina to Colombia and Brazil, the first being a new export market for the GM Rosario plant.
The first 5,000 units have already been produced during the month of September, and have begun to be exported to these markets in the region

On July 29, General Motors presented the first Chevrolet Tracker manufactured in Argentina, built at the company’s Rosario plant.
The B-segment SUV has until now been imported from Brazil in Argentina.
The presentation took place in the Buenos Aires town of Pilar at the Plastic Omnium plant, which manufactures the b

On June 8, General Motors announced it will be starting series production of a new vehicle during the month of July at its plant in Rosario, Argentina.
The new launch required an investment of USD 300 million for the manufacture of “an SUV with a global architecture and high added value”, with 80% of production dest

NGK announced it will invest another BRL 2 million to expand the use of solar energy at its manufacturing plant in Mogi das Cruzes, Brazil. NGK had opened a ground-level photovoltaic array in 2021 on a two hectare plot within the area of the factory. In just over a year, the 3,102 modules and 10 inverters installed r

On March 30, the GM plant in Rosario, Argentina began building pre-production units of the Chevrolet Tracker, the same model that has been built at the Sao Caetano do Sul Plant and imported from Brazil for the last two years.
It will now also be produced in Rosario to better supply the local market.
Sharing the produ

On November 9, General Motors do Brasil announced that Chevrolet's RS line is going to grow in Brazil.
The next model in line to debut will be a sporty version of the the Cruze, which is in final driving tests in Brazil and in Argentina, where the product will also be marketed.
“The Cruze RS will bring differentiate

On September 3, after the successful launch of the Onix RS, GM confirmed the launch of an RS version for the Chevrolet Cruze on the hatchback body style (five doors) by the end of 2021.
It will be the first time that the Cruze will have a five-door version with a truly sporty-looking setup.
Built at the Rosario plant

The GM Rosario plant in Argentina will have scheduled shutdown periods as it prepares to produce a new model by the end of 2021 on an assembly line shared with the current Chevrolet Cruze.
A total of USD 500 million is being invested in the plant for production of an unnamed “High Added Value” vehicle.
The first shut

General Motors is recalling more than 217,000 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada due to a transmission oil can leak, which can cause the vehicles to stop moving or potentially catch on fire. The issue is caused by two bolts that may be missing from the stop-start mechanism, which causes the fluid to leak. GM has not rec

On October 13, GM Argentina announced that during September it resumed the execution of its USD 300 million investment plan to produce a new Chevrolet brand model at its Rosario plant by the end of 2021.
Approximately 20 Argentine companies are participating in the expansion and remodeling of the Rosario plant.
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