Articles Tagged with ''General Motors''

DETROIT, MI—Initially, GM planned to produce both the XT4 and the Bolt EV on the same assembly line starting in 2025. However, the automaker now says the Kansas plant will exclusively produce Bolt vehicles.

INGERSOLL, Canada—General Motors Co. and Unifor, the union representing autoworkers in Canada, reached a deal Sept. 23 on a new contract for workers at GM’s CAMI Assembly plant here. 

Fairfax, KS—General Motors (GM) recently announced plans to lay off 1,695 workers at its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas, as outlined in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice in mid-September.

NEWPORT, AR— NorthStar Clean Energy’s solar farm here will support the electricity needs of three General Motors assembly plants.

ARLINGTON, TX—General Motors’ assembly plant here celebrated its 70th anniversary last week and assembled its 13 millionth vehicle. The milestone vehicle is a 2024 Cadillac Escalade-V powered by a 682-horsepower supercharged V8 engine.

LANSING, MI—General Motors plans to convert its 22-year-old Lansing Grand River assembly plant to mass-produce electric vehicles.

DETROIT—General Motors has created a new position and named Kurt Kelty vice president of batteries.

BROWNSTOWN, MI—Fuel Cell System Manufacturing LLC has begun assembling products at its 70,000-square-foot facility here.

VIDEO | In the debut episode of Assembly News Now, chief editor John Sprovieri talks about the new contract and how the UAW hopes to use that momentum to once again organize nonunion auto plants in the Southeast.

Magna currently has five factories worldwide that produce battery structures for startup and legacy OEMs, with several other facilities in the pipeline.