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GM To Announce Fourth U.S. Ultium Cells Battery Plant Location In The First Half Of 2022

General Motors is gearing up to release a bevy of new all-electric vehicles, with 30 new EVs slated for release globally by 2025. To that end, GM is increasing its EV production capacity, including for its new EV batteries. Now, The General has announced it will reveal the location of its fourth U.S. Ultium Cells battery plant in the first half of 2022.

General Motors made the announcement with its recent Q4 2021 earnings report. In the report, GM confirms that it expects to have an EV capacity in North America over 1 million units by the end of 2025.

The three U.S. Ultium Cells battery plants announced thus far include a facility in Lordstown, Ohio (opening mid-2022), a facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee (opening mid-2023), and a facility Lansing, Michigan (opening late 2024).

Some of the strategic partners that will supply parts and materials for the new Ultium batteries and EV components include MP Materials (rare earth magnets), VAC (magnet factory), POSCO (cathode active material), General Electric (rare earth and other materials), Wolfspeed (silicon carbide), and Controlled Thermal Resources (lithium).

General Motors is investing billions into ramping up its electric vehicle production capacity, with the recent Ultium Cells battery plant in Lansing representing a $2.8 billion investment in collaboration with GM’s battery manufacturing partner, LG Energy Solution.

A further $4 billion will be invested in GM’s Orion Assembly plant in Michigan, which will be converted for production of GM’s future Ultium-based electric truck models. The conversion is expected to result in the creation of more than 2,350 new GM jobs, while retaining a further 1,000 jobs already in place at the facility.

General Motors’ EV offerings will cover a wide variety of models and segments, including the GMC Hummer EV, Cadillac Lyriq, Chevrolet Equinox EV, and Chevrolet Silverado EV.

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Jonathan is an automotive journalist based out of Southern California. He loves anything and everything on four wheels.

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  1. Just as I predicted!

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  2. My bet on general location for the fourth plant is either Arkansas, Missouri, Oklahoma, or Texas. That can eventually serve Arlington, Fairfax, Ramos Arizpe, and Wentzville as they transition to EVs.

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    1. My bet is Fairfax.

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  3. Is GM going to supply batteries to other OEM’s?

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    1. Supposedly Honda.

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    2. And you know who isn’t included….Tesa…because they can barely deliver tape.

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  4. It’s nice to see jobs in the USA again I am glad these four plants will employee union workers. And maybe in five or ten years EV’s will be as reliable as an ICE vehicle and have the infastructure to support EV vehicles.

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  5. @JT: my bet is this will be in a lower overhead state that has large plots of undeveloped land. Fairfax is, I believe in a non RTW state, so has one strike against it for green field construction. If Arlinton has open land near the site, it would be a strong bet, since SUVs are such profit generators. GM has already chosen two sites in the north, and one is in RTW Michigan.

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