General Motors announced this week it will invest some $920 million in an expansion of operations at its Ohio diesel engine plant for production of future internal combustion engine heavy-duty truck powertrain products.
That brings announced investments in June to more than $3.2 billion for the largest U.S. automaker to support next-generation ICE production, even as it vows to stop the sale of new gasoline- and diesel-powered vehicles by 2035 in favor of electric vehicles, Reuter reported.
GM said it will build a 1.1-million-square-foot expansion of its diesel engine facility in Brookville Ohio, and install new technology and equipment, more than quadrupling the current size of the facility, which produces Duramax diesel engines for the Chevrolet Silverado HD and the GMC Sierra HD.
GM declined to release “product details and timing related to its “future HD truck powertrain products,” according to Reuters.
GM also announced this month that it plans to invest more than $1 billion to re-tool two manufacturing sites in Flint to prepare for a new generation of its ICE heavy-duty trucks and more than $500 million in its Arlington, Texas, assembly plant to prepare it for production of next-generation ICE full-size SUVs.
