General Motors Co. and its battery partner, South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd., will jointly invest $2.3 billion in a new electric vehicle battery plant to be built in Lordstown, Ohio, the same city where the automaker controversially idled and then sold a 53-year-old compact-car factory.
December 5, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel
General Motors CEO Mary Barra. The new plant will not be at the site of the closed Chevrolet Cruze compact factory. That plant was sold to an electric pickup-truck startup called Lordstown Motors Corp. (Paul Sancya/Associated Press)
GM to Build $2.3 Billion Battery Plant in Lordstown, Ohio
General Motors CEO Mary Barra. The new plant will not be at the site of the closed Chevrolet Cruze compact factory. That plant was sold to an electric pickup-truck startup called Lordstown Motors Corp. (Paul Sancya/Associated Press)
Business, Equipment, TCA
2020 Chevy Silverado (Chevrolet)
GM Announces $175 Million Diesel Truck Engine Component Plant in Ohio
2020 Chevy Silverado (Chevrolet)
The Dayton, Ohio, area will soon be home to a new General Motors plant making components for Duramax diesel truck engines.
November 22, 2019
Business, Technology, Fuel
Mary Barra speaks at a past event. (Paul Sancya/Associated Press)
GM CEO Mary Barra Charges Ahead With Electric Cars but Shuns Hybrids
Mary Barra speaks at a past event. (Paul Sancya/Associated Press)
If General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra had her way, the auto industry would forget about selling hybrid electric models and instead concentrate on getting more battery-powered vehicles into showrooms.
November 21, 2019
Business
Paul Sancya/AP
GM Sues Fiat Chrysler, Alleging Union Bribes
Paul Sancya/AP
DETROIT — General Motors is suing Fiat Chrysler, alleging that its crosstown rival got an unfair business advantage by bribing officials of the United Auto Workers union.
November 20, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel
The GM plant in Lordstown. (Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg News)
GM Sells Shuttered Lordstown, Ohio, Assembly Plant to Electric Vehicle Startup
The GM plant in Lordstown. (Maddie McGarvey/Bloomberg News)
Lordstown Motors Corp., the electric-truck startup formed specifically to save a shuttered Ohio car factory, has acquired the highly politicized plant from General Motors Co.
November 7, 2019
Business
Matt Rourke/AP
GM Profit Falls 7% in Q3 as Strike Cuts Production
Matt Rourke/AP
GM reported Oct. 29 that its third-quarter net profit fell 7% as a strike by the United Auto Workers union brought its U.S. factories to a standstill.
October 29, 2019
Government, Business
Anthony Lanzilote/Bloomberg News
GM Strike May Shave Tens of Thousands From October Payrolls
Anthony Lanzilote/Bloomberg News
The October jobs report is poised to take a hit from the 46,000 striking General Motors Co. employees.
October 25, 2019
Business
Strikers outside a GM plant in Romulus, Mich., by Brittany Greeson/Bloomberg
GM Edges Toward Ending Strike as Key Factory Backs Labor Deal
Strikers outside a GM plant in Romulus, Mich., by Brittany Greeson/Bloomberg
General Motors Co. moved closer to ending a five-week strike when 61% of workers at an important truck plant in Flint, Mich., supported a tentative labor agreement.
October 24, 2019
Business
United Auto Workers members picket outside the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich., early Sept. 16. (Paul Sancya/AP)
GM Strike Vote Is Going Down to Wire
United Auto Workers members picket outside the General Motors Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant in Hamtramck, Mich., early Sept. 16. (Paul Sancya/AP)
General Motors Co. employees near Nashville, Tenn., narrowly rejected a proposed contract with the United Auto Workers, an early indication that the union’s vote to end a more than five-week strike could be a close call.
October 22, 2019
Government, Business, Equipment
Strike participants. (Brittany Greeson/Bloomberg News)
GM Has Tentative Deal With UAW, Though Strike May Continue
Strike participants. (Brittany Greeson/Bloomberg News)
General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers have reached a tentative agreement on a new contract, and the union will decide Oct. 17 whether to continue a more than monthlong strike while the deal is voted on by members.
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