GM's self-driving car unit Cruise to access $5 billion credit line

FILE PHOTO: A Cruise self-driving car, which is owned by General Motors Corp, is seen outside the company’s headquarters in San Francisco where it does most of its testing, in California, U.S., September 26, 2018. Picture taken on September 26, 2018. REUTERS/Heather Somerville/File Photo

BERKELEY, California (Reuters) -General Motors Co's majority owned Cruise self-driving car subsidiary said on Tuesday it would gain access to a multi-year $5 billion line of credit with GM's finance arm to fund its purchase of Origin vehicles starting in early 2023.

"This bumps up Cruise's total war chest to over $10 billion as we enter commercialization," Dan Ammann, chief executive of the Cruise unit, which also counts Softbank and Honda as minority investors, said in a blog posting.