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Common Motors stated Wednesday it programs to start out pickup output at its Oshawa, Ontario, assembly plant faster than at first planned.

“We are accelerating the begin of output of comprehensive-dimension vans at Oshawa Assembly to the fourth quarter of this yr, in advance of the past concentrate on of January 2022,” the automaker stated in a short statement.

GM Canada officers weren’t promptly obtainable for comment.

“Oshawa Assembly is on monitor to supply a single of the quickest plant launches in GM record,” the automaker stated.

The $one.3-billion investment decision is envisioned to generate practically one,seven-hundred new positions. — one,500 of them output personnel.

The automaker is investing $one.3 billion in the manufacturing facility so it can once once again develop comprehensive-dimension pickups there. Trucks are envisioned to start out rolling off the line in early 2022.