General Motors and LG (Lucky Goldstar) Chem will open a new plant in Lordstown, Ohio to make batteries, creating over 1,100 jobs (some of which will likely go to former GM Lordstown employees). The investment is estimated at $2.3 billion, and will go to a greenfield site.<\/p>\n
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GM sold its Lordstown plant to Lordstown Motors, which plans to make battery-electric trucks\u2014a business which is getting rather crowded, with Rivian set to be the biggest player<\/a>, followed by Tesla<\/a>, Cummins (for larger trucks), Bollinger<\/a> (specialty vehicles), and many others. The plant will be used by GM, with the first battery-electric truck set to arrive in fall 2021, but the timing will be awfully close, with groundbreaking slated for mid-2020.<\/p>\n Newer plants tend to use less energy and create less pollution when making batteries; GM and LG Chem claim that their processes will be state of the art. GM also announced a $28 million investment in its existing Warren (Michigan) battery laboratory, and $700 million in investments in three Ohio cities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" General Motors and LG (Lucky Goldstar) Chem will open a new plant in Lordstown, Ohio to make batteries, creating over 1,100 jobs (some of which will likely go to former GM Lordstown employees). The investment is estimated at $2.3 billion, and will go to a greenfield site. GM sold its Lordstown plant to Lordstown […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[70,4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":915,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914\/revisions\/915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.autobison.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}