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Submitted photo / Nathan Hayes, Barton Malow
This aerial photo taken Thursday of the Ultium Cells LLC plant in Lordstown shows the massive scope of the facility that will mass produce battery cells for General Motorsâ electric vehicles. The company wants to have 400 employees on board by the end of the year and plans to ramp up to 1,100 through 2022, the expected production start date. To the east is the natural gas-fired power plant Lordstown Energy Center.
LORDSTOWN Ultium Cells LLC an electric vehicle battery-cell manufacturing plant jointly backed by General Motors and South Korea’s LG Chem plans to have 400 employees on board by the end of the year.
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This aerial photo taken Thursday of the Ultium Cells LLC plant in Lordstown shows the massive scope of the facility that will mass produce battery cells for General Motorsâ electric vehicles. The company wants to have 400 employees on board by the end of the year and plans to ramp up to 1,100 through 2022, the expected production start date. To the east is the natural gas-fired power plant Lordstown Energy Center. (Photo by Nathan Hayes, Barton Malow)
LORDSTOWN Ultium Cells LLC an electric vehicle battery-cell manufacturing plant jointly backed by General Motors and South Korea’s LG Chem plans to have 400 employees on board by the end of the year.
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This aerial photo taken Thursday of the Ultium Cells LLC plant in Lordstown shows the massive scope of the facility that will mass produce battery cells for General Motorsâ electric vehicles. The company wants to have 400 employees on board by the end of the year and plans to ramp up to 1,100 through 2022, the expected production start date. (Submitted photo / Nathan Hayes, Barton Malow)
LORDSTOWN Ultium Cells LLC an electric vehicle battery-cell manufacturing plant jointly backed by General Motors and South Korea’s LG Chem plans to have 400 employees on board by the end of the year.
The company has started with three so far with human resources, training and workplace safety assignments.
“Ultium Cells has just started employee hiring to begin employee training for initial leaders that will serve as key resources as we begin to install process equipment, set-up production areas, validate equipment and launch production equipment,” said Dan Flores, GM spokesman.
Ultium’s timeline is to ramp up to about 1,100 employees by the end of 2022. Also during that time will be phased equipment installation at the $2.3 billion facility on Tod Avenue, immediately east of GM’s former automaking plant.
The plans, however, according to Flores are “rather fluid as we learn how long it will take to train the workforce for these new high -tech jobs in battery cell manufacturing.”
It s a Hummer, GM, but not as we know it
Well, that was 2020, a year none of us will forget in a hurry. Editor Dave Leggett takes a look back month-by-month through the prism of just-auto s industry coverage. Safe to say, things didn t quite go quite as expected for anyone in 2020. This second part covers the second half of the year.
July
Ineos Automotive reveals the exterior design of the Grenadier, its upcoming, no-nonsense 4×4 vehicle for the world . (There s a bit of controversy later in the year on the manufacturing plans though.)
August
Ford announced that Jim Hackett is to pass on the CEO reins to COO Jim Farley. The consensus reaction seems to be that Hackett has laid the groundwork to put Ford on a better platform - with a number of significant steps taken, in terms of internal organisation and also product offerings - to address the major auto industry challenges ahead, but that it was unspectacular as far as investors were concerned. The Ford share price stubbornly