General Motors will invest $2 billion in its Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee to transition the facility to build electric vehicles, including the new Cadillac Lyriq crossover.
With this investment, the GM Spring Hill plant will become the automaker’s third EV manufacturing plant, joining the GM Lake Orion Township and GM Factory Zero (formerly Detroit-Hamtramck) facilities in Michigan. The Lyriq will be built alongside the Cadillac XT5 and Cadillac XT6 crossovers at the plant, with Spring Hill set to remain a plant for both internal combustion engine and battery-electric Cadillac vehicles.
“Through this investment, Spring Hill’s paint and body shops will undergo major expansions and the general assembly will receive comprehensive upgrades, including new machines, conveyors, controls and tooling,” GM said in a statement. “The renovation work in Spring Hill will begin immediately.”
“These investments underscore the success of our vehicles today, and our vision of an all-electric future,” added GM CEO Mary Barra.
The Cadillac Lyriq won’t be the only battery-electric vehicle to be built at Spring Hill Assembly, with GM saying its future EV plans for the facility “include” the Lyriq, however the automaker refrained from naming any other products that could join it there. The rumored small Cadillac XT4-sized electric crossover, which would slot in underneath the Cadillac Lyriq in the automaker’s lineup, could be a potential candidate. There’s also a three-row electric Cadillac family crossover rumored to be in the works, as well.
The Cadillac Lyriq is expected to enter production in late 2022 as a 2023 model year vehicle. The crossover will ride on GM’s new BEV3 dedicated electric vehicle platform and will leverage its proprietary Ultium battery technology, as well. Pricing is expected to start at under $60,000 for the base model.
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“continue to build the Cadillac XT5 and CT6, as well.”
That’s bigger news than the Lyriq 😉
@GUESTT:
The line reads:
“Lyriq will be built alongside the Cadillac XT5 and Cadillac XT6 crossovers…”
Lol, I knew it was a misprint but loved if it was true.
$2Billion to build the Cadillac Lyriq, it might be cheaper for GM to contract the work out to Tesla.
Omegatalon strikes again.
If you read the artcle you’d realize that investment is so the plant can build electric vehicles, Lyric included, but not exclusively. The plant will be able to build such vehicles, of all brands and types, well into the future.
The 2 billion will be spread among multiple shops to build EVs and future products.
Still cant help thinking GM miss management will screw the whole thing up……
“These investments underscore the success of our vehicles today, and our vision of an all-electric future,” added GM CEO Mary Barra. What is it about this makes me say “YEAH RIGHT”…..
OK says current ICE cars are a success, BUT gona get rid of them! ????????????
What’s not included in this press release is that we will loss our better selling high output vehicle the GMC Acadia to have the XT5 and XT6 which our low output vehicles and the Lyriq which is amazing technology but won’t require as many workers and will take years for the market and infrastructure to become profitable. Its a losing proportion for the men and women in the UAW 1853
I think a Buick CUV is supposed to pick up where the current Acadia left at .
If Lyriq is to be built in Spring Hill, then what is the Zero plant in Hamtramck going to build? I can’t believe there are going to be enough GMC Hummer trucks sold and Cruise Origins to keep a plant as massive as D-Ham in operation. I thought the big Zero plant was going to be the plant for all the new EVs.
They are also going to be building two Honda vehicles based on the BEV3 platform in Plant Zero.
I think they are going to build pickups and large electric SUVs there as well.
Plant Zero will be focused on BT1 and BV1 vehicles. So we will see a number of EV trucks, large SUV’s and Vans built at Plant Zero.
they should add another factory to build the big SUV’s (Yukon ,Tahoe ,Suburban) so they could get some inventory already…..