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General Motors Announce a $2.3 Billion EV Battery Plant in Tennessee
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:45 am
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:45 am
This one is going south of Nashville; not far from where Nissan's USA headquarters are located. The plant will make the GM Ultium Battery systems for both General Motors and Honda vehicles. Honda is outsourcing their battery and EV chassis production to GM.
These EV batteries use a lot of materials that are sourced from South America. Louisiana should be an ideal place for a battery plant given that deep water access is available to numerous undeveloped sites between New Orleans and Baton Rouge - all with rail access and a large workforce in the chemical industry. The state has been targeting chemical and automotive sectors in particular with many locations ideal for plants that require deep water access. This plant hits both of those. Despite that, Louisiana has lost out on this to Tennessee.
Louisiana should have a shot at plants like this. But both GM and Tesla have avoided the state so far.
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Reuters
General Motors Co and South Korean joint-venture partner LG Chem Ltd will announce a second U.S. battery cell manufacturing plant on Friday, revealing plans for a $2.3 billion factory in Spring Hill, Tennessee, three people familiar with the matter said.
The plant will use a different, more cost-effective battery chemistry than the one the companies will offer from the joint-venture plant they are building in Lordstown, Ohio, the sources said on Wednesday.
The battery will be for the Cadillac Lyriq electric crossover vehicle that GM will begin building at its nearby Spring Hill assembly plant next year, the sources said.
The timing of the Tennessee battery plant’s opening is unclear, but there will be a period when the battery is supplied for the Lyriq by another LG facility until the Tennessee plant opens and it will not come from Lordstown, one of the sources said.
These EV batteries use a lot of materials that are sourced from South America. Louisiana should be an ideal place for a battery plant given that deep water access is available to numerous undeveloped sites between New Orleans and Baton Rouge - all with rail access and a large workforce in the chemical industry. The state has been targeting chemical and automotive sectors in particular with many locations ideal for plants that require deep water access. This plant hits both of those. Despite that, Louisiana has lost out on this to Tennessee.
Louisiana should have a shot at plants like this. But both GM and Tesla have avoided the state so far.
This post was edited on 4/15/21 at 10:48 am
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Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:46 am to dewster
The waste from these batteries will be far greater than any issues you have with normal cars
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:47 am to dewster
Tennessee is pretty close to Arkansas....
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:47 am to dewster
Do they have voter id in tenn?
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:48 am to dewster
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But both GM and Tesla have avoided the state so far.
shite hole.
Hell Shreveport has a former GM facility sitting empty but the Caddo Commission let Elio motors pick it apart and sell off all the equipment inside.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:48 am to dewster
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Louisiana should have a shot at plants like this. But both GM and Tesla have avoided the state so far.
From the looks of it more than GM and Tesla has avoided Louisiana.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:48 am to dewster
Tennessee keeps winning. One of the top states in The South and getting better by the year.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:49 am to dewster
How are TN’s Union laws?
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:51 am to nicholastiger
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The waste from these batteries will be far greater than any issues you have with normal cars
That may be true, but it doesn't change the fact that nearly every developed country is encouraging and even mandating the use of EVs. I'd like to see Louisiana and Mississippi benefit more from it rather than production going to other states (or to China in some cases).
The actual assembly of these battery systems, like most automobile plants, is a process that emits very little air pollution and requires a lot of labor. It's an ideal manufacturing sector to target, especially if the mining of the battery materials and their eventual disposal occurs elsewhere.
Something like this would have ameliorated the economic blow of losing the Shell refinery last year.
This post was edited on 4/15/21 at 11:10 am
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:53 am to nicholastiger
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The waste from these batteries will be far greater than any issues you have with normal cars
You assume they will always use current battery materials.
However next generation batteries are on the horizon which will require far less rare earth elements.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:54 am to jlovel7
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How are TN’s Union laws?
General Motors has an assembly center in Spring Hill that is a union plant. It used to build Saturns, but it will be manufacturing EV's for General Motors and Honda. This new facility will be close to that plant. I imagine that helped attract General Motors to the area.
I'd be shocked if there wasn't union representation for the non-engineering jobs at the new battery plant.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:56 am to Tigeralum2008
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You assume they will always use current battery materials.
However next generation batteries are on the horizon which will require far less rare earth elements.
Will they be recyclable?
I'm a proponent of electric vehicles although they don't work for my needs at this time
This post was edited on 4/15/21 at 10:57 am
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:56 am to nicholastiger
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The waste from these batteries will be far greater than any issues you have with normal cars
Do you have a (reputable) source for that?
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:57 am to dewster
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These EV batteries use a lot of materials that are sourced from South America. Louisiana should be an ideal place for a battery plant given that deep water access is available to numerous undeveloped sites between New Orleans and Baton Rouge - all with rail access and a large workforce in the chemical industry. The state has been targeting chemical and automotive sectors in particular with many locations ideal for plants that require deep water access. This plant hits both of those. Despite that, Louisiana has lost out on this to Tennessee.
Louisiana should have a shot at plants like this. But both GM and Tesla have avoided the state so far.
Louisiana can't compete with the TVA region
Posted on 4/15/21 at 10:58 am to dewster
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These EV batteries use a lot of materials that are sourced from South America.
Where are they refined?
Posted on 4/15/21 at 11:01 am to lsu13lsu
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From the looks of it more than GM and Tesla has avoided Louisiana.
South Louisiana has a thousands of very lucrative manufacturing jobs in the petrochemical sector. Tens of billions of dollars have been invested in the state by numerous corporations. More so than neighboring states like Mississippi and Alabama.
Where it fails miserably is diversifying its industrial base and attracting white collar jobs. The education system is too shitty to really compete with Atlanta or Houston on that front. The state's method of taxation is also pretty antiquated.
On the flip side, infrastructure could be a net positive. The state's highway network leaves much to be desired, but the Mississippi River is a highly efficient method of moving bulk or containerized goods. But if they can't improve their highway and rail network, they are not going to be successful in diversifying their industrial base beyond employers that must have ocean or river port access.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 11:03 am to dewster
Yesterday, a new 8500 employee Oracle plant, today a new 2.3 billion dollar GM plant.
Volunteer state doing work.
Volunteer state doing work.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 11:06 am to dewster
Unions are not the issue. Educated workforce, quality of life (education system, crime, roads,etc), business friendly government and fairly ethical politicians are the driving force behind the selection of Tennessee.
Posted on 4/15/21 at 11:08 am to nicholastiger
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The waste from these batteries will be far greater than any issues you have with normal cars
new record for how quickly you can show someone you dont know what you are talking about
Posted on 4/15/21 at 11:14 am to dewster
We will never mine like China. Cost would be way too high.
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