General Motors has idled production of some of its electric vehicles due to a battery shortage. BrightDrop—a GM startup brand that’s building last-mile delivery vans for companies like FedEx and Verizon—has stopped building EVs at its plant in Ingersoll, Canada, due to a lack of Ultium battery cells.
Currently, GM only has one operational Ultium factory, a joint venture with LG Energy Solutions in Lordstown, Ohio. But things at that plant have not been running entirely smoothly. At the end of June, it had to shut down production to fix an emissions problem, just as GM wanted to begin production of other Ultium-based EVs like the Chevrolet Silverado truck.