GM has just confirmed that the first fully electric Buick and Chevrolet vehicles based on Ultium Battery and Ultium Drive technology will soon debut in China, the world’s largest and fastest-growing EV market.
Following the official launch of the all-new Cadillac Lyriq in China in early June, as the first Ultium-based vehicle sold in the Asian country, the automaker is set to begin rolling out its EV technology in models from the local high-volume Buick brand, in addition to Chevrolet, which has a more modest presence in the Chinese market.
The plan is part of GM’s ambitious electrification strategy in the Asian country, including opening the new Ultium Center factory in Shanghai to support the mass production of next-generation electric vehicles. In addition, the company signed an investment agreement to build Buick and Chevrolet vehicles based on Ultium technology in the city of Wuhan.
During the official announcement of Buick’s plan to introduce 12 new vehicles in China by 2025, GM mentioned it would reveal Buick’s first two all-electric models based on Ultium technology later this year. One of them is expected to be the production version of the all-new Buick Electra-X Concept crossover, revealed a few days ago during the 2022 Buick China Brand Day.
The automaker has not revealed any clues about the first Ultium-based Chevrolet models it plans to build in China. However, one of the first will likely be the all-new Chevy Blazer EV that will make its worldwide debut in Detroit on July 18th.
The first Buick and Chevrolet Ultium-based electric vehicles will debut during the second half of this year and are expected to go on sale in 2023 in the Chinese market. These models are part of GM China´s strategy to launch more than ten locally manufactured zero-emission vehicles by 2025.
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Where is the press release?
When are you going to build our 2022 chevy blazer LT AWD WE ORDER IT ON JINE THE 3RD OF 2022 FROM THE CHEVY DEALERSHIP ON GORDON HWY IN AUGUSTA GA. THE COLOR IS BLUE ,HEATED SEATS, REMOTE START AND KEYLESS ENTRY. WITH LIFT GATE. WITH BLACK INSIDE WE ORDER AWD
Good luck with the heated seats. I bought a 2022 GMC in February. I’m still waiting on heat seat chip retrofit.
The ground clearance is poor on the blazer. If the bottom of the frame doesn’t meet or exceed the middle of the wheel, rural roads will damage the batteries.
This is why the US doesn’t have the have the proper foreign policy with China…too many of our gov’t & business leaders rubbing each other’s backs.
First thing we need to do is take away their most favored nation status and tariff the hell out of them…that was a mistake from the beginning and was a direct result of US CEOs lobbying for this all the way back since the 80’s…their greed was given priority over country.
Yeah, a change in our policy will hurt US businesses (along with our overall economy) that are already in bed with China, but it probably has to happen and it’s only going to get harder the longer we wait.
Wrong, let GM and Ford extract profits from China instead of Chinese domestic brands. JVs fo take half the net but, luckily, GM can design in China via these joint ventures and then sell globally reducing NA r&d cost.
China would still have a ton of cars without foriegn brands. China would simply steal the technology if GM and Telsa avoided the market so at least US firms make profit .
Human rights abuses are the only reason to leave China but the West must be ready with domestic factories and resources first
No, I’m not wrong. The CCP benefits directly from those JV arrangements, and benefits to a far greater extent than the US does.
Agreed regarding the human rights abuses.
And what about the CCP’s generally belligerent military behavior? It is enabled by our investment.
And what about the environment? They are among the worst (if not the worst) world polluters (and our manufacturing investment over there directly contributes to it).
There are many reasons to get out of China.
It has the ground clearance of a go-cart, just as the lyriq.
They are all low riding hatchbacks, NOT suv’s.
Wuhan!!! Wuhan!!! Really???
Since Mary Barra said that she can’t wait until the Blazer EV is “revealed to the world” on July 18th, I will hope that at least the first of two Buick EVs will be shown on the same date.
Wuhan? If that’s not a slap in the face to every American who lost their lives, every family member of those individuals, and everyone who lost their livelihoods to a pandemic that China was absolutely responsible for then I don’t know what is. This is just another example of how Mary Barra who would prostitute her own mother to turn a profit and doesn’t have a moral bone in her body should not be running this company. Every single decision that’s made by GM under her tenure has been as un-American and unpatriotic as could possibly be. At this point every American should boycott GM until Mary Barra is replaced and GM starts making decisions to advance America and NOT China. I’m so done with this company.
Delvis, when is the Buick(s) scheduled to be shown? Thank you.