General Motors’ (GM) battery factory “Factory Zero” in Michigan is emerging from production hell.
General Motors is experiencing its own production hell with Factory Zero. The term “production hell” was first coined several years ago when Tesla was struggling to ramp up production of the Model 3. Factory Zero specializes in the production of electric vehicles (EVs). Traditional car manufacturers Struggling with EV production At Factory Zero.
As the global car market transitions to electric vehicles, batteries and software are the mainstays of new cars. Legacy automakers like General Motors will need to learn new skills and processes to produce EVs with the right batteries and software to compete with upstarts like Tesla, Rivian, and Chinese automakers. there is.
GM has set a goal of producing 200,000 to 300,000 EVs equipped with Ultium battery packs in 2024. To reach that goal, General Motors’ battery production needs to stay on track. In all of 2023, General Motors sold 14,000 of his Ultium EVs. In comparison, Rivian sold 13,972 units in the fourth quarter of 2023 alone.Tesla is 484,507 electric vehicles delivered In the fourth quarter of last year.
“There were some challenges with expansion. [ultium production]. I think most of that is behind us,” said Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson.
according to bloomberg, General Motors attempted to fully automate Factory Zero’s battery assembly line using pouch-type cells. However, full automation has some problems.
The Detroit Fire Department said it has been called out to Factory Zero nine times since August 2023. The last incident was in December 2023. Fire breaks out after forklift A hole was made in a container containing battery materials.
However, GM pushed through and announced that it had doubled battery production at Factory Zero. General Motors hopes to apply the lessons learned at Factory Zero to a new battery factory in Tennessee.
As for software, this is another problem that General Motors has yet to solve.
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