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GM announces $4B investment in US production plants

Written by Ethan Bernard

June 11, 2025

General Motors plans to invest approximately $4 billion over the next two years at its US manufacturing plants.

The Detroit-based automaker said this week that it’s aiming to increase domestic production of both gas and electric vehicles. And the investment will allow GM to make more than 2 million vehicles per year in the US.

Facilities in Michigan, Kansas, and Tennessee will expand their finished vehicle production of several of the automaker’s most popular vehicles, GM said.

“We believe the future of transportation will be driven by American innovation and manufacturing expertise,” GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra said in a statement. “Today’s announcement demonstrates our ongoing commitment to build vehicles in the US and to support American jobs.”

Among the facilities named was the Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Mich.

GM is set to start production of gas-powered full-size SUVs and light-duty pickup trucks there in early 2027.

Also named was the Fairfax Assembly facility in Kansas City, Kan.

The operation will support production of the gas-powered compact crossover SUV Chevrolet Equinox starting in mid-2027, according to GM.

And in the South, GM named the Spring Hill Manufacturing facility in Spring Hill, Tenn. 

There the automaker will add production of the gas-powered SUV Chevrolet Blazer beginning in 2027. This is alongside the Cadillac LYRIQ and VISTIQ EVs, and the Cadillac XT5.

The company noted the announcement follows a recently disclosed plan to invest $888 million in the Tonawanda Propulsion plant near Buffalo, N.Y. This is to support GM’s next-generation V-8 engine.

GM said its 2025 capital spending guidance remains unchanged at between $10 billion to $11 billion.

Ethan Bernard

Ethan Bernard is managing editor for Steel Market Update. He previously worked for American Metal Market as a copy editor in the New York office for two years, starting in 2008. Later, he copy edited AMM’s monthly magazine on a freelance basis from 2015 until 2017. With experience in financial copywriting and textbook publishing, he holds a BA in Comparative Literature from UC Berkeley, and an MFA. in Creative Writing from New York University. He can be reached at ethan@steelmarketupdate.com or 724-759-7871.

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