Normal Motors has a really bold electrification plan powered by its Ultium structure, which is designed to cowl just about each phase 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 that did are having a troublesome time reaching the specified manufacturing capacities.
Normal Motors’ head of finance mentioned the corporate remains to be struggling to ramp up manufacturing of electrical automobiles, based on Automotive Information. GM CFO Paul Jacobson mentioned at a J.P. Morgan investor convention on August 9 that the automaker’s 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 really needed to shut one in all its vegetation – CAMI Meeting in Ontario, Canada – for 2 weeks in July due to a reported scarcity of batteries.
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Jacobson mentioned GM had manufactured greater than 1,000 Lyriq SUVs in July, which remains to be nicely under 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 realize 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 GM 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 mentioned it began an enlargement to the ability that may allow on-site meeting of Ultium batteries by the second quarter of 2024.
The battery cells shall 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 Cells factories within the US along with three way partnership companion LG Vitality Resolution, however solely the one in Lordstown, Ohio is producing cells in the mean time. The opposite two battery cell vegetation in Spring Hill, Tennessee, and Lansing, Michigan, are anticipated to go surfing subsequent 12 months.
