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GMC Hummer EV Production To Be Idled In November For Plant Upgrades

Production of the GMC Hummer EV pickup will be idled next month at the GM Factory Zero plant in Michigan as General Motors makes upgrades to the facility.

According to a report by Reuters, assembly of the Hummer EV pickup will be paused for a few weeks in late November, allowing GM to make upgrades necessary to facilitate increased EV production. GM is moving up its planned body shop upgrades at Factory Zero – née GM Detroit-Hamtramck plant – for production of the Chevrolet Silverado EV in 2023. The upgrades will require the plant to be temporarily taken offline.

Last month, GM revealed that it currently has 90,000 reservations for the GMC Hummer EV SUV and Hummer EV Pickup combined – enough to prompt the automaker to stop taking new reservations for the battery electric pickup and SUV. GMC says that new units of the Hummer EV pickup are being built and shipped daily, with reservations filled in the order in which they were received. As of July, GM has produced 1,700 examples of the GMC Hummer EV Pickup.

While GM says that it will considerably ramp up Hummer EV production in the second half of 2022 – likely to coincide with the opening of its Ultium Cells battery plants – idling its assembly at Factory Zero suggests that GM is willing to sacrifice at least a few weeks of output to set up for its other EVs that will be made at the plant.

Meanwhile, GM favored Cadillac Lyriq production over that of the Hummer EV over the summer, having built 50 units of the GMC and 250 units of the Cadillac in July. The restriction is likely directly linked to the amount of batteries the automaker can currently procure.

The temporary halt in vehicle assembly operations at Factory Zero isn’t the first time the plant has been taken offline to accommodate upgrades. In fact, production at the plant was idled from June 27th through July 22nd, 2022 for the installation of new tooling, machinery and equipment to support production of the Hummer EV Pickup.

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Alexandra is a Colorado-based journalist with a passion for all things involving horsepower, be it automotive or equestrian.

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  1. Selling 411 Hummer EVs and 36 (!!!) Lyriqs in Q3 was pathetic. Who cares about the Bolt.

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    1. I care. Great car. Best I’ve ever driven.

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  2. “Meanwhile, GM favored Cadillac Lyriq production over that of the Hummer EV over the summer, having built 50 units of the GMC and 250 units of the Cadillac in July. The restriction is likely directly linked to the amount of batteries the automaker can currently procure.”

    I find this quote to be the most interesting. The Lyriq has roughly half of the battery capacity (100kw) and is roughly half the price (62k) of the GMC Hummer (200kw and 110ish-k respectively). That means in terms of battery procurement and overall cost, gm is not really losing anything by prioritizing the Lyriq over the Hummer.

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  3. Oh man….you mean I got to wait even longer to get my reasonably priced $120K dollar and 10K pounds of Green Clean future?

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  4. Do I have this right, or is this all a mis-placed April Fool’s Joke?

    They eliminate the CT6/Impala in 2020
    Re-tool plant for EV’s in 2021.
    Builds 500 Hummer’s & idle plant in July 2022 to re-tool?
    Builds 500 Hummer’s & idle plant in Nov 2022, to re-tool?

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  5. Well GM should also roll out software upgrades after what happened to TFLtruck’s brand spanking new Hummer on the highway. Totally unacceptable!

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    1. Saw this… how embarrassing. I don’t understand the draw of electric trucks/big suvs to begin with, especially when you have reliability issues at 250 miles. TFL also tried to tow a moderate weight trailer with the f150 lightning and it could only go 90 miles on a full charge. It took several hours to charge back up. The tech is just not there yet.

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  6. Whatever, just keep cranking out what people really want, ICE vehicles, instead of virtue signaling novelties. We need more Silverados now!

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  7. Are they really focused on a few hundred Hummers instead of a couple hundred thousand backlogged Silverados? How ridiculous is that logic?

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  8. GM better start building waaaay more BEV’s than they are currently building.
    It is borderline embarrassing the amount of BEV’s they have been able to build so far.
    Lets go GM!!!!

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  9. A truck EV is worthless if you use a truck to haul and tow. If all you do is use it like a car then being a truck does not matter because you just like the style of a truck. So buy a real truck and not this crap from s toy box. Good luck charging this junk with a solar panel. Wait until Morgan & Morgan start the law suites for radiation damage and entropy kicks your battery packs @ss. Plant Zero is a measurement of the efficacy of EVs long term. I cannot believe you guys are falling for this BS.

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