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General Motors will create two new plants for the development and manufacture of batteries for electric vehicles . The company made the announcement in its latest Q2 earnings report, Roadshow reports. The plants will be located in the United States and will join two other similar projects already underway in Lordstown, Ohio – the same town that hosts Lordstown. Motors, the emerging auto company that has had serious problems with the production of its Endurance – and in Spring Hill, Tennessee.
The creation of these four plants will allow General Motors to guarantee the supply of this technology for each of the 30 vehicles you plan to launch in the near future and that will be part of its offering of fully electric vehicles. According to Roadshow, the company would not operate these plants alone, it would do so in conjunction with the Korean company Ultium Cells and, despite the few details that are available in this regard, it is known that this decision is part of the participation of General Motors in the plan promoted by President Joe Biden, which seeks, among other things, that at least one 50% of the sector’s sales are electric cars for 2030.
Being one of the most important automotive companies in the United States, General Motors knows that this investment is necessary to prepare the future of its operations , especially now that its production of trucks was affected by the shortage of chips , a problem that also affected the production of the Ford Bronco 2021, one of the most anticipated vehicles of the year that, despite this incon Upcoming, it reported a good number of sales over the past month, beating the Mustang Mach-E and nearly catching up with Ford’s Edge SUV .
This will also allow General Motors to maintain its place as America’s leading sales company, a position it has held forever and only lost twice in the past 23 years: first before Ford, in one of the quarters of 1998 and then against Toyota, during the second quarter of this year, a direct consequence of said problem with the global supply chain, which has been really affected after the COVID pandemic – 19.
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