The Ultium Cells plant in Spring Hill, Tennessee successfully shipped its first battery cells to its customer, General Motors. This milestone represents the culmination of two and a half years of work.
The facility, which spans a half mile along Highway 31 between Spring Hill and Columbia, will continue to produce millions of battery cells for General Motors’ Ultium Platform electric vehicles, including the Cadillac Lyriq produced at GM’s neighboring Spring Hill Assembly plant.
Shipments to other General Motors plants will increase in volume and frequency as the plant commissions additional production lines.
“This moment has been years in the making, and I’m grateful to the thousands of contractors, community partners, and team members who have worked tirelessly to make this moment a reality. We’ve built a great team here in Spring Hill, and we’re proud of this world-class facility.” – Chris Desautels, Plant Director.
“Ultium Cells – Tennessee creates incredible synergies by combining the operational expertise of GM and the validated, state of the art battery processes and equipment technology of LG Energy Solution to make benchmark battery cells for our customer General Motors.” – Youngduk Kim, Regional Director Dispatched from LG Energy Solution.
[source: Electrive, Ultium Cells]
