(Photo: Steve Fecht)
Mary Barra, GM chairman and chief executive (above), hosts President Biden tomorrow at GM's former Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center, now called "Factory Zero."
Joe Biden will speak at the East Grand Boulevard plant, retooled to make electric cars and trucks. (Its new name refers to zero emissions.) He'll talk about how the newly signed $1.2-trillion infrastructure deal will help the automotive industry and pay for charging stations nationwide, the White House says.
An electric hummer on the line at "Factory Zero." (Photo: GM)
The president is also expected to urge Congress to pass what he calls a Build Back Better bill with social spending and climate-change initiuatives -- including an expected consumer tax credit for buying electric vehicles.
The 1985 GM factory on the Detroit-Hamtramck border, where an EV version of the Hummer already is rolling off the line, is a symbol of the firm intent to build only electric vehicles by the year 2035.
The automaker uses the announcement of Biden's visit to boast: "Factory Zero is the culmination of GM’s multibillion-dollar U.S. investment in people, product and process. The electric trucks, SUVs and autonomous vehicles built at Factory Zero will transform GM and the automotive industry."
Three weeks ago, GM said that next year it'll start installing up to 40,000 Level 2 chargers across the U.S. and Canada "to expand access to charging in local communities including in underserved, rural and urban areas where EV charging access is often limited." They'll be placed at "workplaces, multi-unit dwellings, sports and entertainment venues and college and universities, among others. These charging stations will be available to all EV customers, not just those who purchase a GM EV."
