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Originally Posted by NovaSS4spdFan

Just saw an interview on Fox today. The Biden-Harris administration has promised to GM that they'd pledge 500 million to the cost of converting the Lansing Plant into a TOTAL electric auto manufacturing facility.
So if you believe that a Gen 7 Camaro will be ICE or even a hybrid, then you believe the moon is made of green cheese.
Anyone want to take bets that another plant will be retooled to make an ICE Gen 7 ?

TBH, I would not be surprised to see a hybrid or PHEV Camaro sometime down the road. Alongside an electric Camaro. It doesn’t have to be built at Lansing. Camaros have been built at Oshawa, Fremont, and Norwood before Lansing. Look at all the plants Equinox has been manufactured at. I’ve lost count. They used to mainly come from CAMI in Woodstock, Ontario as well as another plan on the east coast. Now they’re made in Ramos Arizpe, Mexico and one other plant that I don’t remember. It happens.

As far as Lansing Grand River and the government funding… The conversion of the plant was already under way. That’s one of the reasons Camaro ended when it did. Plant conversion needed to start. The Department of Energy Domestic Manufacturing Conversion grant money simply offsets some of the spending already planned for the complex. And GM was only one of nine grants awarded to several businesses from the same fund, totalling $2B. Only the GM award made news though. The other award recipients are

• ZF
• Volvo
• Harley Davidson
• Stellantis (Belvedere plan)
• Stellantis (Kokomo plant)
• Cummins Engine
• Blue Bird Bus
• Mobis

Each recipient has to apply for and qualify for the grant. The projects that receive the grants have to already be funded conversion projects. So the government is not TELLING any company to do anything. They are granting funds for plans the recipients already have, based on the quality of their projects and applications.