GM is pausing Depart and Depart EUV production due to semiconductor shortage

The global silicon shortage has in some procedure reach for the Chevy Depart.

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Factual fancy the 2d-simplest song by the Carpenters, Authorized Motors has simplest appropriate begun producing the unique Depart and Depart EUV, however already it has to shut down production due to the worldwide semiconductor shortage, in maintaining with a myth Thursday by Car Recordsdata.

The Authorized has heretofore been in a place to preserve faraway from interruptions to EV production at its Orion plant, however now the Depart is struggling the same destiny as many completely different vehicles within the GM family, despite the truth that interestingly no longer the Hummer EV or the Cadillac Lyriq, with the frail place to launch later this year and the latter slated for an early 2022 launch.

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Essentially based on GM, the Orion plant shutdown will final appropriate a week — from Aug. 24 to Aug. 30– however that is probably sufficient to motive all forms of disruptions later down the dual carriageway. Essentially based on GM representatives, GM is scaling support production at a series of completely different services as well to the Orion plant:

Lansing Delta Township Meeting (Michigan), which builds the Chevrolet Traverse and the Buick Enclave, will all add an further two weeks of downtime for the length of the weeks of Aug. 23 and Aug. 30. This plant had been scheduled to resume production Monday, August 16th, and has been down since Monday, July 19th.

Spring Hill Meeting (Tennessee), which builds the Cadillac XT5, Cadillac XT6 and GMC Acadia, will take care of two weeks of downtime the weeks of August 23rd and August 30th. We ask Spring Hill to resume production the week of September sixth.

Ramos Meeting (Mexico) will take care of two weeks of downtime for Chevrolet Blazer production for the weeks of August 23rd and August 30th. In addition to, the plant will add an further two weeks of downtime for Chevrolet Equinox production the weeks of September sixth and September 13th. Equinox production has been down since August 16th.

CAMI Meeting (Canada) and San Luis Potosi Meeting (Mexico) will add an further two weeks of downtime for the weeks of September sixth and September 13th. San Luis Potosi builds the Chevrolet Equinox and GMC Terrain. CAMI builds the Chevrolet Equinox.

Lansing Great River Meeting (Michigan) will proceed to take care of downtime for Cadillac CT4 and CT5 production throughout the week of September 13th. CT4 and CT5 production has been down since Could additionally 10th and had been expected to resume production August 30th, however is now expected to proceed production within the week of September 20th.

The Depart production stoppage is a bummer, especially when mixed with GM’s completely different recent announcement that it would be changing the contaminated battery modules in quite lots of 2017-2022 Depart EVs on the price of over $1 billion.