GM takes on Tesla's Gigafactories with $2.3 billion facility in Ohio

Tesla's Gigafactories have a new challenger. General Motors teamed up with LG Chem to build an electric car battery factory in Lordstown, Ohio.

Ground will be broken on the new facility sometime next year. It will manufacture battery cells for GM's electric pickup trucks that will begin production in late 2021 at another plant, according to Reuters. 

The new factory will have an annual capacity of 30 gigawatt hours with the option for future expansion, which is a massive energy output. 

In comparison, Tesla's Gigafactory 1 in Nevada reached 35 gigawatt hours in March 2019. But even when it was at 20 gigawatt hours in 2018, per The Verge, that was enough to produce millions of battery cells a day. Read more...

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