Common Motors has paused manufacturing at a plant in Ontario, Canada, attributable to a scarcity of batteries, in line with the native London Free Press.

The Cami Meeting plant in Ingersoll, Ontario, builds BrightDrop electrical vans, however has been closed for a month attributable to a reported battery scarcity. A union consultant advised the London Free Press that the manufacturing facility has 4 years of orders on the books, however that top demand for GM’s Ultium battery {hardware} compelled the shutdown. The plant is scheduled to reopen July 31.

GM plans 4 battery crops beneath its Ultium Cells LLC three way partnership with LG, however just one, in Ohio, is at the moment operational. And a current fireplace could have slowed manufacturing there, the report famous.

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It might not simply be a brief provide of battery cells for one plant, although. The Detroit Free Press not too long ago reported that EV manufacturing at GM’s Manufacturing facility Zero, positioned on the border of Detroit and the suburb of Hamtramck, has slowed to a near-stop. Within the first half of the 12 months, GM delivered simply 49 GMC Hummer EV pickup vans—down from 371 within the first half of 2022—and a couple of,316 Cadillac Lyriq SUVs, the Free Press reported.

GM claimed to be accelerating momentum in second-quarter 2023 gross sales, with deliveries up 19% year-over-year, however that’s largely attributable to elevated gross sales of internal-combustion autos. And whereas GM claimed 15,652 EV gross sales, most of these (13,900) had been the soon-to-be-discontinued Chevrolet Bolt EV and EUV, gross sales of which had been up 101% year-over-year as manufacturing and deliveries absolutely recovered from a drawn-out battery recall.

2022 GMC Hummer EV pre-production at Manufacturing facility Zero plant in Detroit, Michigan

GM had initially deliberate to provide 400,000 EVs by the top of 2023. Now it is delayed that focus on to mid-2024. However with these poor numbers for Ultium EVs, even that’s now wanting like a stretch.

GM CEO Marry Barra underscored earlier this 12 months that the corporate is versatile on battery cells, although, and shortly after that assertion GM signed a $3 billion three way partnership with Samsung to complement its provide with cells in an alternate cylindrical format. So the corporate could have an out if the Ultium tech cannot scale as anticipated.