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General Motors Factory Zero Plant To Celebrate Grand Opening Next Month

General Motors is revamping the GM Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center to mass-produce new all-electric GM vehicles, renaming the facility Factory Zero. Now, The General has announced that it will celebrate the grand opening of the GM Factory Zero facility next month.

Per a recent report from Detroit Free Press, General Motors CEO Mary Barra addressed the automaker’s progress towards launching a bevy of new battery-powered vehicles, as well as prospects going forward with regard to GM’s EV product offerings.

“I see a strong EV landscape in 2022, but in 2023 it really turns on,” Barra said during a call with Wall Street analysts earlier this week.

General Motors reiterated that the grand opening of the new Factory Zero facility is further indication that it is “on target” to launch 30 new electric vehicle models by the 2025 calendar year, a goal which it had previously established in 2020.

First on the list of EVs produced at the GM Factory Zero facility will be the 2022 GMC Hummer EV Pickup, scheduled to start rolling off the line this fall. The automaker currently holds roughly 10,000 pre-orders for the new Hummer EV Pickup, with the range-topping Edition 1 being the first out the door. Lower trim levels are slated to drop next year.

The opening of the General Motors Factory Zero assembly facility follows a somewhat contentious backstory, with GM previously listing the Detroit Hamtramck facility as one of several North American facilities slated for a permanent shutdown. However, during a labor strike and negotiations with the UAW in 2019, GM changed course to retool the facility for electric vehicle production, committing $2.2 billion to the project.

Now, it is expected that some 2,200 workers will be employed at the revamped Factory Zero facility by the time it is running at full capacity, roughly double the employees employed at the Detroit-Hamtramck facility when it was shuttered for retooling.

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  1. Anything more concrete than “next month”? I’m assuming this announcement will coincide with start of serial production?

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    1. I believe the date is November 3. I think they may announce their new battery plant at that time.

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      1. Really? Next week? That would be news to me.

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        1. Barra said the announcement will come real soon. Do you know where they will be built?

          She also said they will add another EV truck plant. Don’t know if it is a new plant or existing one.

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          1. I predict the next battery plant and truck plant will be in close proximity in the south. Most likely TX, as that is great for distribution to the lower half of the country, and has the workforce in place.

            The new BT1 truck plant will likely be new as GM does not own any more plants that could be converted without hurting current production, unless maybe Farifax? but I do not think that is a good fit. I was also thinking GM might repurchase a former site they gave up in the bankruptcy? Even if the plant was derelict, tear it down to the slab, fix the slab and rebuild, because a big part of the cost of developing a new factory is the site work, and utility access, and if an old factory was on site, utilities are already there, and site is flat.

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            1. Unfortunately most of the factories on the sites that gm gave up in bankruptcy are demolished. Although Buick City is open and has been ripped down to the slab. Ruess kind of hinted a battery plant may be in Michigan to be in proximity to Orion and Hamtramck. Whitmer has has a lot of egg on her face after blowing the Ford deal and may be throwing the kitchen sink in to get one of these plants.

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              1. You could be right, and GM has a large site in Flint that could support another factory.

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                1. No they don’t. That site is owned by the bankruptcy holding company.

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                  1. But it can be bought back by anyone including GM.

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              2. GM in collaboration with LG is building a billion dollar battery plant two miles from my home in Lordstown, Ohio. It’s name is Ultium.

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            2. GM Wil not be building any new assembly plants. One of the underutilized shops will get an electric. The Detroit News stated in an article that Oshawa would build an electric Silverado, I don’t think GM announced that. I guess we will see, I would bet money that any electric vehicle production goes to existing shops. Fairfax Kansas has the production capacity., so…

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              1. Mary Barra stated clearly at the investor event, and on the Q3 earnings call, We will be announcing a factory soon for trucks. I assume GM did some math and figured out with 8 products, Factory Zero is going to be overwhelmed and they will need another factory. Here is her quote from the earnings call;

                “We also have plans to build EV motors and another EV truck facility here in the US”

                Oshawa has gotten a new body shop, paint shop updated, and a new final assembly system currently, scheduled to start building T1 HD pickups by the end of the year, you might want to re-read your Detroit news article. The new EV truck plant will have to be in the USA to qualify for tax subsidies coming soon.

                CAMI is also getting worked over to build BrightDrop vans, Starting production in 2022 Barra also stated on CNBC that Bright Drop Vans are being built now, I assume these are part of the first 500 that KUKA is building for GM

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  2. gm should quit bragging about what their going to do to raise their stock price and show us results, enough of this garbage!

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    1. Their bragging for stock prices has not been working, and Ford is literally kicking GM’s fanny on stock price setting new 52 week highs daily last week. Lucid is also up 45% this week (I tried to tell people that was a winner)

      Meanwhile GM is 18% off their all time highs, and struggling. GM is doing a very poor job delivering their message to the market, GM management is far too conservative in their style during this time the market is flooded with cash looking for a place to go. Lucid trading volume was 500 million shares the last 2 trading days, that is incredibly Hot “Mucho Caliente” Sorry, my Spanish sucks.

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  3. Are they going to celebrate by producing Zero automobiles?

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    1. HummerEV’s have been being built in small batches at Factory Zero for a while. I have seen pictures from the paint shop, and framing line, its all working. I also saw a picture of the station that installs the battery pack, it’s a monster.

      What I am curious to see the battery pack assembly building on the East end of the plant where the test track used to be, last I saw that was not finished yet.

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      1. All of these batch built vehicles are pre-production to validate the build process. Unfortunately they don’t get sold to the public.

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        1. Incorrect, Mary Barra stated on CNBC that customer production of the Hummer EV has begun…

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      2. I was behind a new hummer ev today in Troy, it was not hard to miss, pretty cool to see

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  4. People here can bash on Gm all they want, but I am impressed with how fast GM brought HummerEv from just a Concept, to an in production vehicle. 1 year ago today GM did not have a single fully functional Hummer Prototype, and to get it from the first hand built prototype, through the testing program and into production in a year is simply amazing, nobody else has pushed an all new EV program through that fast, not even Tesla.

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    1. Just wait till they have to recall them for battery fires. Exciting times.

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      1. Tesla stocks makes money GM makes almost no money take your pick.

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  5. The question is how will GM’s batteries hold up in a crash; how often will the battery have to be replaced and what will be the cost?

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    1. Word is GMs Ultium battery will carry a million-mile warranty.

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  6. They wont answer that question until after you buy it. GM is doing a very good job delivering their message. Everybody know’s it’s BS. The stock went up 19 cents. Tesla skyrockets.

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    1. Tesla stock is purely a glamour mover. The shorts took it in a gut punch. The quants play it on a trade direction – volume basis. It’s a dangerous stock. To play it long you gotta have a cast iron stomach.

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  7. What a bunch of jacka$$es as usual!!! WTF is the stupid a$$ solar panel farm sitting out there on its own creating yet another MASSIVE impervious surface that water can’t drain through & carbon sucking green space can’t thrive??????? You “global warming” alarmists are a bunch of complete MORONs!!! WHY aren’t the solar panels built on top of that monster paved over parking lot??? OR on the friggin roof!!! It’s just laughable to see shi&&y “design” that defies climate change 101 while we are being forced into EVs at break neck speed by the woke supremacists running these collosal companies. The age of hypocrisy is epidemic!!!

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    1. Look closer. There is plenty of space for rain to fall between the panels. GM has a solar array at the former GM plant near me and everything works just fine there. Get your news from someplace other than Faux News.

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      1. There’s ALWAYs a “David”. In fact, there is an epidemic of “David’s” these days. Especially on social media. And that was my point. No matter what you see with your own eyes, a “David” will show up & tell you that’s not what you saw. In this case, the “David”, is refusing to recognize the obvious we see in the photograph. This “David” is a good “Progressive” communist, doing his part as a self proclaimed member of the “thought police” to explain away the obvious and do his small part in the massive globalist effort to control every aspect of our future lives through “climate change mandates”. This “David” commenting here, is a good little indoctrinated sheep. Unlike the Master Globalist in Chief, sleepy Joe Brandon, who after arriving in an 85 car fossil fuel burning parade of clowns, just today gave a terrifying speech in Scotland guaranteeing the demise of all of US & life on earth IF we don’t obey the opressive rules NOW!! Then, Dimentia Joe, who “David” voted for, promptly fell asleep during more bloviating about such an “alarming” issue like “disastrous life ending climate change”. Yeah, he’s so concerned about the “terrifying” issue, he couldn’t miss nappy time. On camera, that “David” will tell you didn’t happen. Again, the hypocrisy of the “Davids” & the DC Swamp is epidemic. Let’s Go Brandon!!

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        1. Wow. I can’t thank you enough for the shout out. You are one verbose motherf****r.

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        2. MossmanMike:

          Again your comment is stellar.

          I apologize for my fellow namesake, David.

          Unfortunately for this David, and folks in his class of thinking, they have a very limited knowledge of science. Their comments are laughable.

          Wonder if they will all ban together and plug the natural oil and gas seeps from the ocean floors? Also plug the methane vent stacks for sewer gas on the world’s homes, buildings, and waste water treatment plants. Also ban meat type livestock and dairy cattle from digestive methane discharge. Lastly eliminate volcanic activity.

          I’m in Sin City, aka Las Vegas this week. Going to enjoy the SEMA show and the legacy of man’s greatest and most productive invention to date, THE INTERNAL COMBUSTION ENGINE. Also enjoy a Porterhouse steak at the Circus Circus Steakhouse.

          Wonder how many electric motors will be on display at SEMA ?

          Have a great week everybody.

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          1. Please point anything I said even close to what your accusing me of saying or implying. All I said to Mike was that at the solar array at the GM plant near me the panels were spaced far enough apart to allow rain to reach the ground. I am NOT one of those electric car aficionados you’ve portrayed in your post. Actually, I have a Camaro LT1 on order at the present time and I look to enjoying gasoline powered cars in the future. I can only guess that you both were set off by my Fox News comment. Calm down boys.

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            1. OK David. Postion corrected and apology made. Glad that you are a Buckeye and buying American. Our son has an LT 1. BTW: Some parts of rural Ohio are stellar and represent what America was like when it was great. Sadly Cleveland and Cincinnati, once great industrial cities in their heyday have gone down the toilet.

              Am enjoying the SEMA Show in Sin City. Chevrolet has a super exhibit in the Central Hall of the Las Vegas Convention Center. A+ to Chevy. Grab a flight and come on out. Super show this year.

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          2. Sorry “David”AM. Didn’t mean to lump you in with the test of the “David’s”!! Enjoy Vegas. Been there once for a Pizza Convention with a client I was designing a restaurant for here in NJ. And they weren’t even open yet but won 1st place in their category. Stayed at the Wynn. Amazing place. Enjoy the show.

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  8. MossmanMike: RIGHT ON! Well stated !!! Your comment makes total sense. A+

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  9. Thanks MossmanMike:

    You’re a good guy. You’re philosophy, thought and comments are stellar. You should be a guest commentator for Steve Forbes in the Fact and Comment section of Forbes Magazine, and Wall Street Journal.

    Am enjoying the SEMA Show in Sin City. Exhibits and sessions are awesome. Weather spectacular. Disappointed that Ford is not doing drifting this year.

    Have not seen any electric motors or battery chassis on display. They will save this for the Geeks at CES where Mary will be keynote speaker.

    Enjoy that New Jersey pizza. The best in North America. Especially from the maw and paw hole in the wall Italian restaurants and pizza shops.

    Keep on keeping on. We need more Americans like you.

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