GM to end Chevy Bolt EV production next year, move China-made Buick to U.S. factory

General Motors is shuffling wherever its vehicles are made successful a determination that volition displacement accumulation distant from China and Mexico and to a U.S. mill successful Kansas. That alteration volition besides mean the extremity of its rebooted Chevrolet Bolt EV, the lone conveyance presently built astatine the Fairfax Assembly Plant successful Kansas.

The mill philharmonic chairs bespeak an economical and governmental environment, shaped by the Trump administration’s tariff argumentation and its determination to extremity the national EV taxation credit, which provided up to $7,500 disconnected qualifying electrical vehicles. These changes person made it much costly to physique vehicles successful China and Mexico that are past sold successful the United States.

Production of the 2027 Chevy Bolt EV, which landed successful dealerships this month, is expected to extremity successful astir a twelvemonth and a half. The caller Chevy Bolt EV, which is priced astatine $29,990 including the destination fee, is 1 of the astir affordable caller EVs disposable to U.S. consumers.

GM confirmed to TechCrunch that the next-generation Buick Envision, presently built successful China, volition determination to the Fairfax Assembly Plant successful Kansas, opening successful 2028. The gas-powered Chevrolet Equinox, which is made successful the San Luis Potosí works successful Mexico, volition determination to the Kansas mill successful mid-2027.

The Bolt, meanwhile, volition person a abbreviated beingness if GM follows done with its antecedently announced plans.

“When we revealed Bolt successful October, we said and it was wide reported that it’d beryllium a constricted tally model,” a GM spokesperson said successful a connection sent to TechCrunch. “We had besides antecedently announced the gas-powered Equinox would beryllium coming to Fairfax successful mid 2027 aft Bolt accumulation ramps down. Today we’re announcing the next-generation Buick compact SUV volition travel to Fairfax opening successful 2028.”

The institution inactive sells different EVs, including an electrical Chevy Equinox and Chevy Blazer. The question is whether GM volition alteration people and prevention the Bolt if income are amended than expected. We bash cognize that GM has promised to marque caller aboriginal investments successful Fairfax Assembly for its adjacent procreation of affordable EVs. We conscionable don’t cognize when.