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GM Shutters Halol Plant in India
As expected, General Motors Co. has ended production at its Halol assembly plant in Gujarat, India.
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As expected, General Motors Co. has ended production at its Halol assembly plant in Gujarat, India. GM built the final vehicle there on April 28 and will consolidate production at its Talegaon facility in Pune.
The carmaker’s partner in China, SAIC Motor Corp. continues to study a plan to buy the Halol factory but has made no decision. The facility, which has annual capacity to make 110,000 vehicles, had been building low volumes of the Chevrolet Cruze sedan, Enjoy MPV and Tavera minivan.
PSA stopped making cars in India in 1997. But in January it announced plans to begin assembling unspecified models there in 2020 through a venture with CK Birla Group. In February the French carmaker acquired India’s iconic Ambassador car brand. And in March PSA agreed to buy GM’s Opel operations in Europe.
In the meantime, reports say GM is pondering whether to end local production entirely by selling its money-losing Indian operations, including the Talegaon factory, to PSA Group. Under the scheme, PSA could continue as a contract assembler to make GM vehicles at Talegaon for export.
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