LANSING, Mich. (Michigan News Source) — Reality just caught up to General Motors’ electric dream. The automaker is now cutting more than 3,400 jobs and scaling back EV production as the market—and the White House—change course.
GM’s Factory Zero plant in Detroit-Hamtramck will take the biggest hit, shedding 1,200 workers as production drops to a single shift. Hundreds more will be laid off at Ultium battery plants in Ohio and Tennessee, plus smaller cuts at Pontiac and Rochester, New York facilities.
GM Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said the move reflects “a quick adjustment to the reality around us,” after President Donald Trump’s rollback of EV incentives and weaker U.S. demand. Without government backing, GM says the math no longer works.
Analysts agree. “Without the federal incentives, the playing field has changed,” Sam Fiorani of AutoForecast Solutions said, warning that more layoffs across the EV industry are likely.
The cuts follow a string of rollbacks: GM scrapped its BrightDrop electric vans, revived gas-engine Cadillac production in Lansing, and wrote off $1.6 billion in unprofitable EV projects.
United Auto Workers (UAW) President Shawn Fain blasted the layoffs, noting GM just raised its profit forecast to $13 billion. “GM is a profitable company,” he said. “Our members remain ready to work.”
Factory Zero will remain dark until Nov. 24, reopen briefly through the holidays, and drop back to one shift in January.