It s remarkable that a local area Lansing man will be retiring soon from General Motors after working there for five decades. Talk about putting in your time and then some.
His name is Steve Delaney and he is officially retiring from GM on June 1st, 2021. We certainly hope his family, friends, and co-workers throw Steve a huge retirement party when the time is right.
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Delaney first crawled into an Oldsmobile Toronado in the 1970s, when he worked the line manually installing dashboards in the luxury coupes. A graduate of Waverly High school, he studied business for a year at Central Michigan University, but moved home and started at the plant to save up money for school.
GM s New Battery Plant With LG Energy Will Make Large Pouch-Style Cells
General Motors continues its investments in electric vehicles with the recently announced Spring Hill, TN, battery cell manufacturing facility.
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You can’t have electric cars without batteries. General Motors is smart enough to know this and is already in the process of building a battery cell manufacturing facility in Lordstown, OH. General Motors is also smart enough to realize that one battery plant, despite sitting on a 158-acre plot of land according to GM Authority, is not going to be enough to sustain their vision for a future of millions of electric vehicles. They have therefore announced a second battery manufacturing facility that will be built in Spring Hill, TN.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
This report helps automotive suppliers inform their legal and operational decisions to help address challenges and opportunities.
Key developments
LMC Automotive raised its forecast for U.S. light vehicle sales to
16.6 million units for full year 2021, while noting an increased risk of production disruptions stemming from parts shortages.
Due to the semiconductor shortage,
GM and
traditional two-week summer shutdown has been
canceled for the majority of Ford’s U.S. plants.
U.S. fleet sales were down by 28% for Q1 2021 compared to the same period last year, according to Cox Automotive.
New-vehicle inventories fell to 2.4 million units industrywide for the U.S. in March, representing a decline of 37% from March 2020.
Chicago Assembly Plant; and the Transit van side of
Kansas City Assembly in Missouri; the automaker will also reduce output at its Ohio Assembly plant. Ford’s
Dearborn Truck Plant produces the
highly profitable F-150 pickup truck.
GM will roll out a new navigation system, Maps+, beginning April 30 through over-the-air updates available on approximately 900,000 vehicles as an upgrade from GM’s OnStar navigation product. Maps+ will have Alexa Built-in1 voice control. The automaker first announced in 2019 that it would partner with Amazon to make the Alexa voice assistant available for download in select 2018 model year vehicles.
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