General Motors of Canada Limited

GM is a Green Leader.

With plans to invest over $1 billion in R&D in Canada over the next 7 years, GM is playing a leading role in engineering and manufacturing fuel efficient vehicles for today and developing advanced environmental technologies for tomorrow, offering solutions for customers that range from gas-friendly to gas free.

Like many new GM vehicles, the Canadian-built 2010 Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain compact crossovers feature highly fuel efficient direct-injection technology that helps achieve the segment’s best highway fuel consumption, and the new turbo-charged Chevrolet Cruze compact car is also expected to deliver segment leading fuel consumption.

Other advanced green technologies include E85 biofuel-capable powertrains, hybrid and plug-in hybrid technologies, electric vehicles, as well as hydrogen fuel cells, like the Chevrolet Equinox fuel cell-powered vehicles assembled at GM’s Canadian Engineering Centre in Oshawa, ON which comprised the world’s largest fuel cell demonstration fleet.

GM will launch the ground-breaking Chevrolet Volt electric vehicle in Canada in 2011, which provides up to 64 km of electric-only driving on a single charge and, unlike any other electric car, also provides extended range capability to ensure that drivers are never stranded.

GM Canada is the first automotive manufacturer to be recognized as an “Environmental Leader” under Ontario’s Environmental Leader program.



President and Managing Director
Mr. Kevin W. Williams

2009 production
Almost 350,000 vehicles (including CAMI) (more than 85% for export)

Employment
9,000 and approximately 24,000 employed across the dealer network

Investment in Canada
More than $5.5 billion invested in the past decade with over $500 million announced in 2009 and 2010

2009 Parts purchases
GM Canada purchased C$5.7billion from Canadian parts suppliers

Products marketed
Chevrolet, Buick, GMC, Cadillac

Major production facilities in Canada
Ingersoll, Ontario - 1 assembly plant
Oshawa, Ontario - 1 assembly plant
St. Catharines, Ontario - 1 powertrain facility

Regional offices and PDC’s (Parts Distribution Centre)
British Columbia PDC - Langley, British Columbia
Western Zone Office - Calgary, Alberta
Edmonton PDC Edmonton, Alberta
Central Zone Office - Oshawa, Ontario
Eastern Zone Office and PDC - Pointe-Claire, Quebec
Woodstock PDC – Woodstock, Ontario

Dealerships
450 dealerships employing over 24,000 individuals across Canada

Research and Development Presence

	GM’s Canadian Engineering Centre (CEC) in Oshawa, Ontario is the only vehicle design/research centre in Canada. CEC is an integral part of the GM Global Engineering Enterprise, using state-of-the-art technology to leverage the best engineering talent around the world to bring our customers the best vehicles. CEC’s focus is on green research and development of vehicle technology in the areas of energy diversification, fuel economy and vehicle electrification.
	Part of the CEC, the GM Cold Weather Development Centre located in Kapuskasing, Ontario is a unique to Canada facility where current and future General Motors products undergo testing reliability and performance studies in severe climatic conditions.
	GM Canada has committed to conduct some $1 billion in R&D work in Canada over the next seven years and this work will also engage Canadian suppliers and academic institutions in innovative partnerships.
	As a great example of such partnerships, GM’s Canadian Engineering Centre will play a central and leading role in the Automotive Innovation Network as announced in the Beacon Project, drawing together leading academic institutions to work jointly with automotive supply companies to further innovation and commercialization of products serving Canada’s automotive supply chain. The Network is formed of a number of collaborative initiatives including participation of University of British Columbia, University of Waterloo, McMaster University, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), Auto21, Université de Sherbrooke, McGill University, École Polytechnique Montréal and l’Institut Nationale de Recherche Scientifique (INRS) as well as key Canadian automotive suppliers.
	The Automotive Innovation Network will be served by the GM Canada Automotive Centre of Excellence (ACE) being constructed at the UOIT campus in Oshawa. The $90+ million ACE facility is a foundation facility for the UOIT High Technology Research Park in Oshawa, aligned with a greener automotive agenda, focused on specific high opportunity automotive technology areas and designed to leverage the collective skills of the public and private sector to respond quickly to the significant technology shift occurring in the automotive industry. The ACE will be the first commercial automotive innovation centre of its kind in the world – a place where industry researchers and students will collaborate to create and test new automotive innovations, with a focus on bringing them to market as rapidly as possible. ACE will contain a world class climate wind tunnel capable of simulating almost any vehicle road condition in this R&D laboratory.
	Six (6) NSERC chairs.

General Motors of Canada Limited Web site
www.gm.ca