General Motors wants leadership in the electric car industry in America. Is not serious; a mystery, in fact, that the goal is to overtake Tesla by 2025. To achieve this goal, the automaker has announced a new maxi investment of 6.6 billion dollars (over 7 billion in total including an investment not destined directly for electric cars) for its manufacturing sites in Michigan. Investment that will allow & agrave; also to create 4,000 new jobs in addition to preserving about 1,000.
THE PROJECT
The American brand makes it known that it is the most; large single investment never announced. This figure is part of the $ 35 billion it will invest; by 2025 in its electrification project. Going into detail on GM's announcement, the approximately $ 6.6 billion will allow the American manufacturer to expand production of electric vehicles and batteries in Michigan .
Four billion dollars will be invested in the conversion of the Orion Township assembly plant alone for the production of the Chevrolet Silverado EV, unveiled in early January and the upcoming GMC Sierra electric . Orion Township will become General Motors' second manufacturing facility for electric pickups. Renovation work on the factory will begin immediately. Production of the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV in Orion Township will continue; even during these works. The new models will begin to be produced from 2024.
Compressively, thanks to this plant and the Detroit-Hamtramck Factory Zero, GM will be able to have a capacity production of 600 thousand electric pickups per year . By the end of 2025, General Motors, along with its other North American factories, is aiming to have a capacity; production for a total of over one million electric vehicles.
GM and LG Energy Solution , through their joint venture Ultium Cells , are investing $ 2.6 billion to build a third Ultium battery cell manufacturing plant in the United States in Lansing. Site preparations will begin over the course of next summer, with cell production scheduled for late 2024. This facility will supply; battery cells at Orion Assembly and other GM manufacturing facilities.
In addition to its electric vehicle investment in Michigan, the manufacturer is investing more than $ 510 million in its two assembly plants in vehicles in the Lansing area to upgrade capabilities of production.
- Delta Township – The investment is; for the production of the next generation Chevrolet Traverse and Buick Enclave
- Lansing Grand River & mdash; Does the investment concern the modernization of the systems
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