The new investment may help ease the rising tension between the UAW and GM.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nElectrifying<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
GM CEO Mary Barra has laid out plans to go completely battery-powered by 2035. In its news release, however, GM appeared to be trying\u00a0to retain the loyalty of traditional truck buyers, some of whom oppose the industry\u2019s ongoing shift to electric propulsion. Ford Motor Co. last year launched the Lightning, an all-electric version of its F-150 pickup, and GM will be rolling out a battery-powered version of the mainstream Chevrolet Silverado this year, with the GMC Sierra to follow in 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But it has not announced plans to electrify its heavy-duty model, with industry analysts like Sam Abuelsamid of Guidehouse Insights cautioning the high demand placed on HD models will make them among the last products to go fully electric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The investment in the two Flint plants, GM said in its statement, \u201chighlights the company\u2019s commitment to continue providing customers a strong portfolio of ICE (internal combustion engine) vehicles for years to come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even with the continuing use of gas and diesel technologies, the new GM trucks are expected to deliver better mileage than the current lines, translating into lower carbon emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Two of GM’s Michigan plants will receive a combined investment of more than $1 billion, as it prepares to roll out its next-generation heavy-duty pickups. Get the story at TheDetroitBureau.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243864,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3185,7,8,5,1164,2648,1347,9,914],"tags":[11106,11105,11104,348,11107],"make":[],"post-state":[],"category_old":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243859"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243859"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243859\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":243868,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243859\/revisions\/243868"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243859"},{"taxonomy":"make","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/make?post=243859"},{"taxonomy":"post-state","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post-state?post=243859"},{"taxonomy":"category_old","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedetroitbureau.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/category_old?post=243859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}