- General Motors is temporarily stopping two production shifts for the GMC Hummer EV and Cadillac Escalade.
- The partial shutdown will impact 160 employees and comes on the heels of another temporary layoff that affected 200 employees.
- Output will be reduced for a little over a month, until October 6.
Some of General Motors’ biggest, heaviest and most expensive electric vehicles will be affected by a partial and temporary production shutdown at the Factory Zero plant in Detroit-Hamtramck.
The automaker will shut down first- and second-shift production of the GMC Hummer EV and Cadillac Escalade IQ between Labor Day and October 6, as the Detroit Free Press first reported.
2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 pickup on the Factory ZERO assembly line
A GM spokesperson said the move, which is temporary, will help the company align production to match demand. “Factory Zero is making temporary adjustments to production to align to market dynamics,” the spokesperson said.. “General Motors updates schedules as part of our standard process of aligning production to manage vehicle inventory.”
The production pause affects 160 employees, but it comes on top of another temporary staff cutback that was announced in April and affects a further 200 employees. The previous layoffs were the result of slowing sales for the GMC Hummer EV pickup and SUV, GMC Sierra EV, Chevrolet Silverado EV and Cadillac Escalade IQ.
According to GM, the impacted workers will be placed on a temporary layoff and may be eligible for subpay and benefits.
Despite being supremely comfortable and extremely powerful, all of the big EVs are slowly losing ground as more affordable options are gaining traction. In GM’s case, the entry-level Chevrolet Equinox EV and Blazer EV are topping the sales charts, while the huge GMC Hummer EV and GMC Sierra EV are firmly toward the bottom of the list.
But it’s not just GM that has this problem. Ford and Tesla are seeing more of the same, with interest in the battery-powered F-150 Lightning and Cybertruck being far from what was envisioned a few years ago. Collectively, all automakers sold about 35,000 electric pickups in the United States in the first half of 2025, according to market research firm AutoForecast Solutions. That’s 4% less year-over-year, and a far cry from the 1.6 million gas-powered full-size pickups that found new owners during the same period.
Despite their advantages, electric pickups have yet to find their footing in a country where gas-powered pickups have long ruled the sales charts.
