General Motors has partnered with South Korean chemical giant LG Chem to build a new battery cell production facility in Lordstown, Ohio. Built under a GM-LG Chem joint venture dubbed Ultium Cells LLC, construction of the new facility is progressing nicely, as evidenced in a new video recently posted online.
The video comes to us from YouTuber Ray Noneya, who visited the Ultium Cells facility with their drone to capture some fresh aerial shots of the construction progress. The video is a little under six minutes long, and shows the vast size of the facility, as well as the layout and some of the construction equipment used to build it.
The Ultium Cells facility will mass-produce new battery cells for a range of electric vehicles, with cell sizes ranging between 50 kWh and 200 kWh. Range per charge is expected to extend up to 400 miles. In addition to providing the juice for new General Motors electric vehicles, the cells will be used in future Honda electric vehicles as well. By the time it’s up and running at full capacity next year, the plant will have an annual capacity of more than 30 gigawatt-hours.
Construction of the Ultium Cells plant followed a $2.3 billion investment split between General Motors and LG Chem, and the facility spanning roughly 3 million square feet and employing some 1,100 workers. The facility sits on a 158-acre plot of land located off Tod Avenue. General Motors previously owned the plot, but sold it following its bankruptcy in 2009, then repurchased the land last year for $5.1 million. Construction started last April.
Some of the GM vehicles slated to equip the new Ultium Cells batteries include the Cadillac Lyriq crossover, the GMC Hummer EV pickup and SUV, the new all-electric Chevy Silverado, and the Cruise Origin self-driving autonomous taxi.
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Looks great, building is complete, utilities nearly complete, and now installing systems, can see water piping being hoisted inside in the video, and foundations for material storage tanks outside. Should be ready to ramp up production in early 2022.
GM delivering again, on time…
I don’t see any self generating power such as solar cells or solar roof. This place needs to generat it own power and be self sufficient.
The power plant is right across the street form this factory, its a combined cycle natural gas fired plant.
It’s hotter than Africa in half of the US this week, power grid can’t handle the demand, water supply is in danger of running out or so polluted it’s not safe so let’s add millions of EVs to the load on the grid. Rape the earth for the resources to build the batteries.
If LG batteries are anything like the Crappy LG appliances, GM and their customers are headed for trouble.
The LG cells in our E-Tron seems to be ok after 2 years, and no issues.
2 years ain’t 10 or 15 or 20 years.