Fairfax, KS—General Motors (GM) recently announced plans to lay off 1,695 workers at its Fairfax Assembly plant in Kansas, as outlined in a Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) notice in mid-September.

ARLINGTON, TX—General Motors’ assembly plant here celebrated its 70th anniversary last week and assembled its 13 millionth vehicle. The milestone vehicle is a 2024 Cadillac Escalade-V powered by a 682-horsepower supercharged V8 engine.

LANSING, MI—General Motors plans to convert its 22-year-old Lansing Grand River assembly plant to mass-produce electric vehicles.

DETROIT—General Motors has created a new position and named Kurt Kelty vice president of batteries.

BROWNSTOWN, MI—Fuel Cell System Manufacturing LLC has begun assembling products at its 70,000-square-foot facility here.

Magna currently has five factories worldwide that produce battery structures for startup and legacy OEMs, with several other facilities in the pipeline.

MINNEAPOLIS—General Motors and Niron Magnetics have formed a strategic partnership to develop sustainable electric motor magnets.