General Motors is opening the new GM Factory Zero plant, the automaker’s first production facility devoted exclusively towards the production of all-electric vehicles. To celebrate, GM is live-streaming the grand opening ceremony over the Internet, which you can watch right here.
The GM Factory Zero plant, previously known as GM Detroit-Hamtramck, will launch production of the new 2022 GMC Hummer EV Pickup, with further all-electric products like the new Cruise Origin autonomous ride sharing vehicle and upcoming Chevy Silverado EV also slated to roll off the line in the future. All vehicles built at Factory Zero will incorporate GM’s Ultium Platform, including vehicle architecture, Ultium Drive motors, and Ultium battery cells.
The GM Factory Zero facility was updated following a $2.2 billion investment from General Motors to retool the facility for the mass production of all-electric vehicles, making for the single largest production facility investment in GM history. Prior to retooling and a rename as Factory Zero, the facility was slated for permanent closure. However, after negotiations between GM and the United Auto Workers labor union during the UAW labor strike in 2019, GM decided to renovate the facility for EV production.
Looking ahead, the GM Factory Zero plant will employ around 2,200 employees when running at full capacity, roughly double the number of workers prior to the renovations.
The Factory Zero name is a nod to GM’s goal of reaching zero emissions with its light-duty vehicle line over the next several decades. General Motors has stated that it plans to launch 30 new EV models globally by 2025. GM has also indicated that it will work towards achieving carbon neutrality by 2040.
President Biden will visit the GM Factory Zero plant during its grand opening today. The Biden Administration has voiced support for the mass-adoption of all-electric vehicles as a means of reducing the effects of anthropogenic climate change.
Check out the grand opening ceremony:
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… we were watching in meanwhile the technology Mandalorian has… well, none Boeing, Airbus, Comac, Embraer, Mitsubishi, Bombardier etc. could do wonderful Spaceships or Aircraft like Razor Crest… neither the landing or take off way, it is still primitive… evtol is still experiences, but it is military.. imagined a yacht cruiser with saloon and bedroom with bath all elegant and nice white behind… then you see those tremendous impressive speeder or speedy bikes or podracers… none of them… this is my point,,, is all electric… in opposite or ion neutrinos combustion energy used or rotatory combustion chambers … … … because the worst… we are still using 4 wheels
seen that … are we not in wrong way with those all electric things mean vehicles ?
MK
A pessimist complains about the wind
An optimist expects it to change
A realist adjusts their sails accordingly
……..William Arthur Ward
…. ok we are realists skeptic dreamers …
Sad day for the environment. They could have done something real instead of this make-believe effort. The Hummer EV is about nothing but making money.
At least they put some effort into making the hummer ev, engineering new innovative tech like crab-walk isn’t easy and requires a ton of additional development. The Hummer Ev is a flagship for GMC not just a cash grabber. If they wanted to, Gm could’ve just slapped some batteries on a GMC sierra and called it a day but they went the extra mile. The Hummer EV was made to make a statement not a cash grabber. Their effort into making the Hummer EV proves that they didn’t do it just for money. If they made the Hummer EV for money, the Hummer EV wouldn’t have been as groundbreaking as this one, gm could’ve rushed it and made it much more simple and basic. I disagree with you brother.
That video was a waste of my life. Thank god I could FF it.
… indeed Dennis… there is none video in this thread.. but we know the video is over there
the video is ridiculous… some guys applauding … mean many of them ‘polish apples’ or ‘Tonguing the Barra Shoe’
Well then why the F##K did you watch it?
HAHA! I don’t care if they renamed this ‘old plant’ Factory Kumquat’.
Although it is based on the DELUSION that CO2 is an important ‘Green House Gas’, this will ultimately pass out of public consciousness since People in General cannot be that DUMB eternally…
But I will buy plenty of their products since I currently drive 3 of their plug-ins.
The GOOD THING is that they are hiring 1,100 presumably mostly American Workers.
Where is the video?
Where is the video? It’s not in this article.