shyft group said tuesday that it plans to invest 16 million to expand its charlotte mich facilities to enable production of blue arc ev its commercial electricvehicle brand launched last year the novi michbased specialty vehicle manufacturer said the investment would help build the capacity to produce up to 3000 evs per year and that the addition of blue arc ev production would bring a wide range of engineering manufacturing and technical jobs to charlotte the charlotte campus has seven facilities and is currently home to multiple product lines including walkin delivery vans motor home chassis and work truck chassis shyft group said shyft group previously announced an initial customer preorder for 2000 class 3 4 and 5 allelectric delivery vehicles