The final steel beam has been placed at the Ultium Cells LLC plant in Lansing, the company said Friday.
The Michigan plant is the third U.S. location for Ultium, a joint-venture battery company between General Motors Co. and LG Energy Solution. Ultium’s plant in northeast Ohio is already making battery cells for GM electric vehicles. The company is expanding a second facility in Spring Hill, Tennessee, to increase cell production when that plant opens in late 2023.
The 2.8 million-square-foot plant in Lansing will open in late 2024. GM and LGES are investing $2.6 billion in the facility. Once fully operational, the facility will create 1,700 jobs.
GM and LG ended plans last month to jointly build a fourth U.S. battery plant, though the automaker still intends on adding such a facility.
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