Common Motors has a really bold electrification plan powered by its Ultium structure, which is designed to cowl just about each section of the market, from the next-generation Chevrolet Bolt EV to the $340,000+ Cadillac Celestiq ultra-luxury flagship.
However whereas GM has many Ultium-based EVs within the pipeline, most of them have not entered manufacturing but. And those who did are having a troublesome time reaching the specified manufacturing capacities.
Common Motors’ head of finance stated the corporate continues to be struggling to ramp up manufacturing of electrical automobiles, in keeping with Reuters. GM CFO Paul Jacobson stated at a J.P. Morgan investor convention on August 9 that the automaker’s output of EVs, from the Cadillac Lyriq to the Brightdrop Zevo 600 van, had been affected by a difficulty with assembling battery modules.
The issue was first famous final week by CEO Mary Barra on the second-quarter earnings name. GM truly needed to shut one in every of its vegetation – CAMI Meeting in Ontario, Canada – for 2 weeks in July due to a reported scarcity of batteries.
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Jacobson stated GM had manufactured greater than 1,000 Lyriq SUVs in July, which continues to be effectively beneath the automaker’s preliminary expectations. The corporate had a manufacturing goal of 25,000 models for the Lyriq final 12 months, however the Spring Hill, Tennessee plant failed to attain that concentrate on, constructing solely 8,195 models.
Issues did not enhance this 12 months, fairly the opposite. GM delivered fewer than 2,400 Lyriq SUVs within the first six months of 2023 due to battery and different provide points. Issues aren’t wanting higher for the GMC Hummer EV Pickup and SUV both because the carmaker solely delivered 49 models within the first half of 2023.
GM resumed manufacturing of the BrightDrop Zevo 600 van on July 31 at its plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, and stated it began an growth to the power that may allow on-site meeting of Ultium batteries by the second quarter of 2024.
The battery cells will likely be sourced from GM’s Ultium Cells vegetation, assembled into battery packs at CAMI, and both utilized in BrightDrop vans or shipped to different EV vegetation.
GM has three Ultium Cell factories within the US along with three way partnership associate LG Vitality Answer, however solely the one in Lordstown, Ohio is producing cells in the intervening time. The opposite two battery cell vegetation in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and Lansing, Michigan, are anticipated to go surfing subsequent 12 months.