Recently, when GM disclosed the highlights of the third quarter of sales, since the launch of the Ultium battery platform in March 2020, General Motors and the company's suppliers and joint ventures have been promoting the tolerance and popular all -electric future strategy. By 2025, 2025 The production capacity of North American electric vehicles is expanded to more than 1 million vehicles.
Specifically, GM plans to build four battery factories. In addition to the Ultium Cells factory in Walren, Ohio, Ultium Cells will open a factory in Tennessee next year and open a factory in Michigan in 2024. Details on the fourth factories will be announced soon.
GM signed a binding agreement to ensure all the necessary battery raw materials to support its annual electric vehicle production capacity target in North America in 2025, including lithium, nickel, cobalt, and general cathode active materials.
In addition to the Spring Hill Assembly of Tennessee and Factory Zero in Michigan's Factory Zero, they have produced vehicles on the Ultium platform. Cami Assembly, Ontario, Canada, and Orion Assembly in Michigan. The person will produce pure electric trucks. When the output of the Zero factory and the Orion factory is fully increased, GM will have the ability to produce 600,000 electric trucks per year.
In order to meet the growing demand, GM is promoting the upgrade of the body workshop of the Silverado electric vehicle zero factory, and take other measures to prepare to expand the production scale of electric vehicles in 2023.
