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Tennessee factory to become GM’s 3rd electric vehicle plant

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DETROIT (AP) — General Motors plans to spend $2 billion to convert its Spring Hill, Tennessee, assembly plant into a third U.S. site to build future electric vehicles.

The Detroit automaker also says it will spend another $153 million to upgrade five Michigan factories for future vehicles.

The company will build the Cadillac Lyriq, a small electric SUV at the Spring Hill factory. Gasoline-powered Cadillac SUVs will continue to be built at the plant, and it will also will get additional unspecified electric vehicles, GM said in prepared statement Tuesday.

The Lyriq is due in showrooms sometime late in 2022. GM also is expected to announce details of an all-electric GMC Hummer pickup truck this week. They’re among 20 electric models the company plans to sell globally by 2023.
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The first automobiles were electric until Standard Oil & Ford won the move to gasoline-powered cars. Now we seem to be coming back full circle.
 
https://apnews.com/article/technolo...ric-vehicles-d28dd426a7560d6395e7f8dea0dc23fe</div>

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors plans to spend $2 billion to convert its Spring Hill, Tennessee, assembly plant into a third U.S. site to build future electric vehicles.

The Detroit automaker also says it will spend another $153 million to upgrade five Michigan factories for future vehicles.

The company will build the Cadillac Lyriq, a small electric SUV at the Spring Hill factory. Gasoline-powered Cadillac SUVs will continue to be built at the plant, and it will also will get additional unspecified electric vehicles, GM said in prepared statement Tuesday.

The Lyriq is due in showrooms sometime late in 2022. GM also is expected to announce details of an all-electric GMC Hummer pickup truck this week. They’re among 20 electric models the company plans to sell globally by 2023.
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The first automobiles were electric until Standard Oil & Ford won the move to gasoline-powered cars. Now we seem to be coming back full circle.
I think it's more a function of advancing technology, but hey...this is great for the American worker, isn't it?
 
If they can make the cars more affordable it will make it easier for people to adopt the technology. Tesla seems to be more of a status symbol than a realistic option for most people.
 
https://apnews.com/article/technolo...ric-vehicles-d28dd426a7560d6395e7f8dea0dc23fe</div>

DETROIT (AP) — General Motors plans to spend $2 billion to convert its Spring Hill, Tennessee, assembly plant into a third U.S. site to build future electric vehicles.

The Detroit automaker also says it will spend another $153 million to upgrade five Michigan factories for future vehicles.

The company will build the Cadillac Lyriq, a small electric SUV at the Spring Hill factory. Gasoline-powered Cadillac SUVs will continue to be built at the plant, and it will also will get additional unspecified electric vehicles, GM said in prepared statement Tuesday.

The Lyriq is due in showrooms sometime late in 2022. GM also is expected to announce details of an all-electric GMC Hummer pickup truck this week. They’re among 20 electric models the company plans to sell globally by 2023.
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The first automobiles were electric until Standard Oil & Ford won the move to gasoline-powered cars. Now we seem to be coming back full circle.

Minor disagreement...the first automobiles...were a mixed bag.

Otto Cycle (the original 4-cycle engines) ran on "benzene" which was analogous to gasoline, then later on the "petrol" of the time, which was about what we would call 65 octane today. Electric, steam, alcohol, kerosene, even engines that "ran on things that grow by the side of the road" (quote from Rudolf Diesel) to include even peanut oil. Later on, peanut oil was replaced by diesel oil, of course.

The early automobile industry had to deal with all kinds of competition.
What really happened was that the oil moguls made decisive investments AND sought help from Uncle Sam for their fledgling refinery industries and Uncle Sam obliged in much the same way he is obliging now with credits for electric automakers.

Eventually the "children" Uncle Sam "helped to foster" became so powerful that they controlled 85 percent of global petroleum assets. Today much of that control now rests with OPEC instead. The how and why for that is something complicated enough that it deserves its own thread.
 
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