GM has sent a Cadillac SUV driven by gas to the grassland while re -organizing these factory floors.
The movement includes the great bet of GM. The company speeds up its shift to electrification by freeing production capacity, even when combustion vehicles still generate meaningful sales.
The Cadillac XT4, the smallest SUV in the line-up of the luxury brand, ended production in January after a seven-year-old run.
Cadillac moved a respectable amount of XT4S in the last quarter and sold 6,717 units in the last part of 2024. That was a jump of 37 percent compared to the last quarter of 2023.
Only the Escalade, Lyriq and XT5 models have surpassed the XT4.
GM has started the beloved SUV of the production facility – the Fairfax – Assemblage factory in Kansas City, Kansas. The plant is now being returned for the rebirth of the Chevy bolt.
The bolt is also a popular car and fits on a niche that has been emptied almost every car maker: a cheap electric vehicle.
American EVs that do not require serious decisions of gas cars are exceptionally expensive. The Lucid Air starts at $ 69,900, the basic price of the Rivian R1's is $ 75,900 and the model Y of Tesla starts to praise for $ 44,990.
The XT4 was the fourth best -selling car from Cadillac in 2024
For years, the shrinking electric SUV was the cheapest new EV -American drivers who could buy. Bolts at entry level are sold for $ 33,000.
But in April 2023, GM -CEO Mary Barra announced the discontinuation of the bolt of Chevy's Line -Up. Immediately after the announcement, customers shot to dealers and Chevy took knowledge of the Blitz of Sales.
“Our customers love today's bolt,” Barra said after the notification of stopping. “It has delivered record sales and some of the highest customer satisfaction and loyalty scores in the industry.”
So, GM said it would bring it back.
The company announced plans to return the small SUV in 2026 with a better battery technology and an updated outside.
GM has said that the coming bolt will retain its small footprint and a reasonable price, although details for the coming model will remain scarce.
The fact that GM devotes a production facility to the new bolt suggests that they expect a considerable question, especially if the company is willing to kill a Cadillac model.
GM quickly became the second best American EV manufacturer and is only short of Tesla.
GM said it restarted the bolt after manufacturers ignored the cheap EV room
GM has seen a boost in the EV sales, so that the automaker is catapulted to second place in 2024 to second place in the battery -electric sale
CEO Mary Barra has led the company by a seismic shift to new electric vehicles
Last year the company expanded its EV line-up with two new pickups, two more medium-sized SUVs and an electrified escalade.
The company sold 43,982 EV units in the last three months of 2024.
For Cadillac -Loyalists who are concerned about the shrinking SUV -Line -Up, the compact XT5 will now serve as the access point for traditional Cadillac -Crossovers, in addition to the new electric optiq.
Both occupy the compact luxury SUV segment, which means that Cadillac is left for the first time in almost a decade without a sub -compact offer.
The company did not immediately respond to Daily Mail for comment.
In the meantime, the sale of new vehicles reached huge numbers at the end of 2024 – but not for every car manufacturer.
Nissan has struggled with sucking sales numbers despite billions of dollars in global production investments.
Managers in the company said in November that the brand had only 12 to 14 months of cash to stay alive at the time, and it has investigated a potential merger with Honda.
Stellantis, which owns other American major brands such as Dodge, Ram, Chrysler and Jeep, has also seen the question.
The company reported a decrease in profit by 70 percent after launching various expensive new vehicles with sloppy reliability records.
Tesla's sale is also on the recession, especially in Europe.
The EV -maker is still the most dominant producer of battery vehicle in the US. But the proximity of CEO Elon Musk with President Trump and approval of the extreme right-wing European political parties is left and the center-left consumers who are more likely to buy EVs.
In the meantime, other manufacturers are touching their groove.
Toyota announced enormous revenue growth in his hybrids. Kia, Hyundai and GM have all announced enormous jumps in their EV sales.
Even Rivian and Lucid, two American EV producers, announced better than expected deliveries of their vehicles in 2024.
