More than $4.3 billion has flowed into General Motors' legacy campus in Spring Hill since 2021, as GM geared up to make the all-electric Cadillac Lyriq SUV and partnered with South Korea’s LG Energy Solution to build a 2.8 million-square-foot battery plant. That battery joint venture, named Ultium Cells, now will make a second kind of EV battery.

Ultium states that the Lordstown plant's continued focus on NCMA cells underscores its role in supporting GM's current lineup of long-range electric vehicles.

GM is preparing to begin converting production lines at its battery plant in Tennessee later this year for low-cost