General Motors gives up on BrightDrop electric vans

General Motors is abandoning its BrightDrop electric delivery vans, just four years after introducing the vehicles .

The company announced Tuesday alongside third-quarter earnings that it made the decision because the “commercial electric delivery van market developed much slower than expected.” GM also blames the “changing regulatory environment and the elimination of tax credits in the United States” — the result of the second Trump administration’s hostility toward EVs.

BrightDrop production has been suspended at GM’s CAMI Assembly facility in Ontario, Canada since May, when the company also cut 500 jobs . GM said Tuesday that it needs to have “meaningful discussions” with government leaders in Canada about “opportunities” for the plant. In the meantime, GM told TechCrunch that