General Motors temporarily places 200 workers at the All-EV factory in Detroit

General Motors A source for the company told Fox Business that he is setting 200 temporary workers at the company’s electrical factory in Detroit as it is modified with the market requirements.

The factory assembly factory will be placed on a temporary layoff and it may be qualified to obtain a dedicated and benefits according to the national contract of the GM-UAW. ”

The company has invested more than $ 2.5 billion in the factory, which employs about 4,537 workers.

This announcement comes a week after General Motors announced plans to add several hundreds of temporary workers to increase the production of light trucks in Fort Wayne, Indiana, the assembly factory, where the industry addresses the challenges related to the president Donald Trump The latest round of automatic definitions.

GM’s temporary demobilization operations are not related to Trump’s tariff, The source said. Instead, the factory, which is the first fully dedicated facility with a adjacent battery group, adjusts the “production of market dynamics”.

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The facility, which was opened in 1985, was described as “Launchpad for General Multi-Brand All-EV, according to the auto industry website.

It makes a number of Ultium vehicles, including Pickup Hummer EV from GMC as well as SUVs as well as Silverado EV WT in Chevrolet.

The factory is scheduled to be the GMC Sierra Denali Edition 1 and Cadillac Escalade IQ2 production site, as well as assembling Ultium battery cells in units and packages for a variety of vehicle designs, according to its website.

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In 2024, General Motors was among the car manufacturers that had alleviated some of its announcement. EV production goals And change some of their operational plans in response to the consumer request.

CEO Mary Barra He said in July that the company was declining the EV Assembly Assembly Ev truck factory for six months until mid -2016 and that it plans to provide hybrid vehicles in 2027.

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In July, General Motors, expected to 2024, reduced the upper projection from 300,000 units to 250,000 units. It also refused to emphasize the goal of one million units of EV production capacity in North America by the end of 2025.

Eric Rafeel in Fox Business contributed to this report.