Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2023

General Motors plans to invest more than $1 billion in two of its Flint, Michigan, manufacturing sites—Flint Assembly and Flint Metal Center—to prepare those plants for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) heavy-duty trucks. GM has announced more than $1.7

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Electrek

MAY 1, 2023

General Motors (GM) is preparing to launch its new Silverado EV later this year with plans to build a $200 million electric vehicle parts plant. The new parts plant will support the production of GM’s new electric truck, which is expected to ramp up in the second half of the year.

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Electrek

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

General Motors is preparing for an all-electric future as the automaker announced Friday it would be investing $760 million into its Toledo, Ohio, plant as it gets the facility ready to produce drive units for future GM EV trucks.

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2021

General Motors announced earlier today that it will build an all-new EV under its Chevrolet brand by electrifying the Silverado pickup, a highly-dedicated and popular model that has been a top choice of GM truck buyers for years.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

General Motors’ Chevrolet brand reported US deliveries of 19,700 units of the Bolt EV/EUV in Q1 2023. Combined with Cadillac LYRIQ deliveries of 968 units—and the delivery of 2 units of the HUMMER EV Pickup—General Motors delivered 20,670 battery-electric vehicles in Q1. of all GM new vehicle deliveries in the period.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

GM and Vacuumschmelze (VAC) of Germany announced plans for VAC to build a plant in the US that will manufacture permanent magnets for the electric motors used in the GMC HUMMER EV, Cadillac LYRIQ, Chevrolet Silverado EV and more than a dozen other models using GM’s Ultium Platform. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

General Motors will invest $760 million at its Toledo, Ohio propulsion manufacturing operations to prepare the facility for production of drive units that will be used in future Ultium-based battery electric trucks, including the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC Sierra EV and GMC HUMMER EVs. billion at Toledo since 2011.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2022

Glencore and General Motors announced a multi-year sourcing agreement in which Glencore will supply GM with cobalt from its Murrin Murrin operation in Australia. GM and POSCO Chemical are building a new facility in Quebec, Canada, as part of their joint venture to produce CAM for GM’s Ultium batteries.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

General Motors Co. The facility will build both traditionally powered Cadillac products and EVs. The six US facility investments total more than $2 billion, bringing the total amount GM has invested or committed to invest in its US manufacturing sites to more than $29 billion since 2009.

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The Driven EV News

MAY 1, 2023

GM is reportedly planning to build a new electric vehicle parts plant to support the production of the company’s new Silverado electric ute. The post General Motors eyes new $US200m EV parts plant for Silverado electric ute appeared first on The Driven.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 12, 2022

General Motors has secured a new source of cost-competitive nickel and cobalt for Ultium battery cells after making a strategic investment in Queensland Pacific Metals (QPM) of Australia ( earlier post ). —Jeff Morrison, GM vice president, Global Purchasing and Supply Chain.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2023

General Motors and Lithium Americas will jointly invest to develop the Thacker Pass mine in Nevada, which is the largest known source of lithium in the United States and the third-largest in the world. Lithium carbonate from Thacker Pass will be used in GM’s proprietary Ultium battery cells. Tranche 1: GM to purchase 15.0

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

General Motors and Isuzu announced a $175-million investment through their DMAX joint venture to build an all-new, diesel engine components plant in Brookville, Ohio. V-8 Turbo Diesel (L5P) for Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD. V-8 Turbo Diesel (L5P) for Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra HD. 2017 Duramax 6.6L

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

General Motors may have found its solution to the trouble and bottlenecks it has had with the Ultium battery project. That solution lies within Kurt Kelty, a former Tesla battery technology senior director, who will join General Motors later this month as the company’s Vice President of Batteries.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2022

General Motors and POSCO Chemical are working with the governments of Canada and Québec to build a new $400-million facility in Bécancour, Québec, to produce cathode active material (CAM) for GM’s Ultium batteries, which will power electric vehicles such as the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC HUMMER EV and Cadillac LYRIQ.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2021

General Motors and MP Materials ( earlier post ) have formed a strategic collaboration to develop a fully integrated US supply chain for rare earth magnets. Neodymium-iron-boron (NdFeB) magnets are critical inputs that enable electric motors to transform electricity into motion.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2023

General Motors (GM) has resumed production at a Detroit assembly plant, after a fire broke out at the plant earlier this week. GM and the Detroit Fire Department plan to continue investigating the incident, which occurred at a shipping dock at the plant and involved lithium-ion battery materials.

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EV Specifications

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Magna announced that it has secured new business from General Motors (GM) to supply battery enclosures for the all-new 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV. The company will produce the enclosures at its Magna Electric Vehicle Structures facility in St.

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2023

General Motors bid farewell to the Chevy Bolt today in its first-quarter earnings call, bringing closure to its best-selling electric vehicle. Barra said the decision concerns GM’s progression in its quest to dethrone Tesla from the peak of EV leadership. The methodology of GM to eliminate the EV that made up 97.5

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Teslarati

JANUARY 25, 2022

Today, General Motors made its $7 billion plan to expand electric vehicle and EV parts manufacturing in Michigan official. Additionally, it will build a new battery factory and convert an existing factory into a hub for manufacturing its electric pickup trucks. Last week, we reported that GM was planning to invest at least $6.5

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Teslarati

MARCH 19, 2024

General Motors’ (GM) battery plant in Michigan, named Factory Zero, is leaving production hell. General Motors has been experiencing its own version of production hell with Factory Zero. To reach its target, General Motors’ battery production must run smoothly.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

General Motors (GM) looks to get back on track this year as executives believe EV “production hell” is behind it. After missing EV sales targets for the past two years, will 2024 be the year of execution, as GM says it will? Is GM putting production hell behind it? Chevy’s Bolt EV was third.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 11, 2023

General Motors is implementing a strategic shift in its electric vehicle strategy. Fans of the Chevy Bolt EV need not fear, however, as GM would be transitioning the slightly larger and arguably better-looking Chevy Bolt EUV to the Ultium platform. This makes the Chevy Bolt GM’s most popular electric vehicle today.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

General Motors will increase its EV and AV investments from 2020 through 2025 to $35 billion, representing a 75% increase from its initial commitment announced prior to the pandemic. —GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra. GM expects the second half of 2021 will continue to be complex and fluid.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

General Motors (GM) has shut down a manufacturing plant in Kansas and laid off the site’s roughly 2,000 workers after the automaker stated plans to do so last week. The news comes as the latest amidst strikes from the United Auto Workers (UAW) union targeting Ford, GM and Stellantis. We have delivered a record offer.

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The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 8, 2023

General Motors has an exciting few years ahead of it, as the automaker plans several new EVs before the end of the decade. Starting in 2026 , GM’s electric vehicles will offer a clever bi-directional charging function that allows them to act as backup home generators or emergency EV chargers for other drivers.

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The Truth About Cars

JUNE 29, 2023

General Motors recently announced new home charging offerings for its EV customers, including solutions that enable vehicle-to-home (V2H) functionality.& & GM’s Ultium Home products come in three bundles. The system also works with solar-powered homes, and GM has partnered with SunPower to create the connections.

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Teslarati

APRIL 3, 2023

General Motors (GM) has reported its first-quarter sales results, as well as the number of EVs it sold as they look to electrify its offerings in the United States. In total, GM delivered 20,670 electric vehicles, including 19,700 Bolt/Bolt EUVs, 968 Cadillac Lyriqs, and 2 Hummer EVs. “GM is off to a great start in 2023.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 20, 2021

General Motors recently noted that the Chevy Bolt EV and EUV’s production shutdown at the GM Lake Orion Assembly Plant has now been extended to at least the end of February 2022. GM spokesman Dan Flores announced the update. . “GM The Bolt EV and EUV have proven quite troublesome for GM.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 3, 2022

GM and LG will invest an added $275 million into their Ultium battery production facility in Tennessee. Much like the rest of the automotive industry, General Motors is currently supply-constrained regarding battery cells that will go into electric vehicles. Perhaps most notably the Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV counterparts.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Foxconn previews more Foxtron EVs, and says it will build Indi One. And GM sees an energy business far beyond EVs. General Motors this morning confirmed that it aims to offer its first home energy system in the 2024. Californians support the 2035 gasoline vehicle ban, but it’s split along party lines.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

General Motors (GM) is reportedly in talks with battery giant CATL to license its cheaper LFP battery tech. After software glitches, freight delays, and other issues caused GM to miss its EV sales target in 2023, the company believes “production hell” is behind it. Ford announced a $3.5

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2023

General Motors (GM) has announced its Q4 auto sales, showing that it has become the top automaker in the United States for 2022. As General Motors has quickly fallen behind traditional and up-and-coming rivals alike regarding EV sales, specifically Tesla, Hyundai/Kia, and Ford, it has moved towards more electric models and production.

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Teslarati

JUNE 16, 2021

General Motors has increased its electric vehicle investment by 75%, from $20 billion to $35 billion through 2025, the company announced on Wednesday. ” GM announced a while back in March 2020 that it would commit $20 billion to EV and AV programs from 2020 to 2025. kWh lead-acid battery in its earliest versions.

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Teslarati

MARCH 7, 2022

General Motors is set to build a new $400 million battery materials plant in Canada with South Korean company POSCO Chemical, adding to the automaker’s already-massive spending plan for the transition to electric vehicles. The plant will produce cathode materials for GM’s Ultium battery platform.

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Teslarati

APRIL 12, 2022

General Motors has inked a new cobalt supply deal with Glencore PLC, a mining company that has dealt with EV leader Tesla in the past, as electric vehicle material availability becomes more unpredictable. GM has chosen to stock up on cobalt, evident in its new deal with Glencore.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 4, 2023

GM is reportedly considering expanding EV production to its existing Ramos Arizpe plant in northern Mexico. General Motors (GM) and other major American automakers have long had a presence South of the United States. de Economía, Raquel Buenrostro, se reunió con General Motors. pic.twitter.com/qatRlGLLwO.

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