General Motors Announces Factory Zero Dedicated Electric Vehicle Plant
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General Motors has renamed its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly plant in Michigan ‘Factory Zero’ as it transforms the site into its first dedicated electric vehicle plant.
“General Motors today announced its Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center will be known as Factory Zero, reconfigured to an all-electric vehicle assembly plant,” the automaker said in a prepared statement. “The name Factory Zero reflects the significance of this facility in advancing GM’s zero-crashes, zero-emissions and zero-congestion future”
GM is investing a massive $2.2 billion into Factory Zero for retooling and various other upgrades – the single largest investment the company has ever made into a manufacturing facility at one time. Both the GMC Hummer EV SUT and SUV will be built at Factory Zero, along with the new Cruise Origin robotaxi. Other GM EVs will also be built at the plant, the automaker said, but it has not confirmed any beyond the Hummer EV and Origin.
“Factory ZERO is the next battleground in the EV race and will be GM’s flagship assembly plant in our journey to an all-electric future,” said GM’s executive vice president of Global Manufacturing, Gerald Johnson. “The electric trucks and SUVs that will be built here will help transform GM and the automotive industry.”
Some of the upgrades being performed at Factory Zero include a new employee entryway, a complete renovation/retooling of the general assembly area, paint shop and body shop and the addition of a battery assembly area and fully automated storage center.
Production of the GMC Hummer EV at Factory Zero will commence in late 2021. The Cruise Origin is expected to enter production sometime in 2022, likely later in the year, though GM has not made an official announcement as to when it will start building the innovative, driverless shared vehicle.
GM’s new lithium-ion battery plant in Ohio, which it is building through a new joint venture with battery supplier LG Chem, will support production at Factory Zero. The Lordstown, Ohio-area plant will handle the production of the Ultium battery cells that will power the vast majority of future GM EVs, including both the GMC Hummer EV and Cruise Origin.
Additionally, Factory Zero will run off 100% renewable energy by 2023 – in line with GM’s goal of power all of its U.S. manufacturing centers with renewables by 2030. The automaker also hopes to power all of its facilities worldwide with green energy by as early as 2040.
“This manufacturing plant will be the epitome of GM’s vision by sustainably manufacturing electric and shared autonomous vehicles that can help reduce crashes, emissions and congestion,” concluded GM’s chief sustainability officer, Dane Parker.
When fully operational, Factory Zero will create more than 2,200 good-paying American jobs, GM says. It’s currently not clear how many people it will employ while production is still ramping up in late 2021/early 2022.
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That is nice! Now lets hope we can avoid Zero sales.
This environmental stuff is all PR stuff to attract younger buyers. Kids today are programmed to be green thought their years at School and they often will look to low carbon foot print companies.
It is like Subaru has the kill cancer and save the Cats donation if you buy a Car. Buy a WRX and save a Kitten.
Even Apple took a profit move on the new I phone 12 and made it an Environmental move. They killed the ear phones and charger to put the phone in a smaller box. This they claim is a smaller Carbon Foot print. The truth is they will save money on boxes and each pallet will carry more phones. They fly them to America on Russian cargo jets and not they can carry twice as many.
GM is using this all for PR but they also can claim the changes for green plants as write off’s on taxes. If BIden wins and increases the corporate tax rates more companies will look for more deductions like this. Not a political statement here just what companies do. What dose not get written off will get passed on to the consumer.
Automakers in Europe are doing similar. Ferrari has had tons of PR on what they are doing in plant to save the environment as they build V12 engines LOL! You can’t make stuff like this up. It helps keep the protesters away.
Thats how much market share they will have after Mary “your frumpled Aunt” gets through with the company/.
Do people like you actually enjoying being misogynist garbage? I don’t understand the point of making disparaging remarks about a woman who is significantly more successful than yourself strictly because of her gender.
If ‘frumpled aunt’ is the best you’ve got against her I think that’s a sign she’s doing pretty damn good
Mary Barra lacks only one thing for respect on this site.
A p***s.
I think she will go down as a visionary that had the guts to make the hard or unpopular choices in order to prepare gm for the future.
i agree.
They said the same thing about a certain German leader in the 1930s.
LOL at how threatened you are by a woman in power.
He is afraid of his own mother.
bubbaq is one our resident trolls.
This could be just another Amazon building if it has air conditioning or is GM allowing workers air now?
I don’t know but to me at least you got to give them credit for want to have a leg up if and when the industry does go fully electric.