General Motors has announced it will idle its Spring Hill Assembly plant in Tennessee until August 9th. The facility currently produces the Cadillac XT5 crossover, along with the closely related Cadillac XT6 and GMC Acadia.
GM temporarily shut the Spring Hill Assembly plant down on July 19th due to a shortage of semiconductor chips and had originally planned to reopen the facility on August 2nd. It announced this week it will implement another week of downtime at the plant, however, with the facility now expected to reopen on August 9th.
GM has been grappling with a shortage of semiconductor chips throughout 2021, which has hampered the automaker’s production output and forced it to temporarily idle several of its North American plants. The automaker is prioritizing its chips for its most popular and profitable vehicles, which include full-size trucks like the Chevy Silverado and GMC Sierra, as well as its line of full-size SUVs.
The GM Spring Hill plant is a 7.9 million square foot facility sitting on 2,000 acres of land located just south of Nashville. The plant employs 2,764 hourly workers and 411 salaried workers for a total workforce size of 3,175. Employees at Spring Hill are represented by UAW Local 1853.
The Spring Hill plant will be an important part of GM’s future electrification strategy, with the facility set to undergo a $2 billion renovation in order to produce EVs. The first GM EV to be produced at the plant will be the Cadillac Lyriq, which will enter production early next year. GM will also build an electric Acura crossover on behalf of technology partner Honda at the facility, which will utilize the automaker’s Ultium battery pack design and Ultium Drive electric motors.
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CT6, really??
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Just as I predicted.
have been waiting several months to buy NEW 2022 GMC 1500–reading every thing i could find only to now learn there is no 2022 1500–only a re-make of 2021-untill mid year (maybe)–very disappoined—
Refresh trucks are coming early 2022, if we get past the chip shortage, just a 4-6 month delay, Don’t be a whiner, there is a lot of real suffering going on around the world, too bad you cannot get your precious new truck on time… Maybe time to look with a different perspective?
That’s a spoiled entitled American for you.
Whine about the silliest crap when there is real issues going on in the world.
One of many reasons the world looks down upon America today.
Disappointed that you can’t get a 2022 MY truck in July 2021? Come on, man.
Now they will have totally destroyed the Saturn plant going electric! Saturn’s didn’t break enough to satisfy gm corporate. May the spirit of Saturn forever dog electric vehicles
It would be just like Cadillac to bring back the CT6, stop production, then discontinue it again before any are made. Instead the four people in the country who want a XT6 will need to wait a few more weeks.
gm continues to trend backwards. Remember the rep that said six months ago the chip issue is improving? So donovan statement is flawed.
As has been pointed out, too bad they can’t get the headline correct.
GM Sales Person here, Funny how vehicles made in China are just flowing right in per usual but the ones made here are impossible to get. There is no shortage of 2022 Buick Encores or 2022 Buick Envisions. (both made in China). Makes me absolutely sick.