DETROIT – 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.