General Motors will invest $2.2 billion to overhaul its Detroit-Hamtramck facility to be the automaker’s first fully dedicated assembly plant for electric vehicles, which will be powered by battery cells manufactured in Lordstown.
The automaker Monday announced the investment plus plans for its first all-electric pickup truck to begin production in late 2021 followed by the Cruise Origin, an electric self-driving vehicle.
It was announced in December that GM and South Korea’s LG Chem plan to partner in a joint venture to spend $2.3 billion to build the local facility to develop and mass produce the battery cells as GM continues toward becoming all electric.
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