General Motors can’t appear to catch a break. One week after the automaker introduced it was in any respect however 4 of its North American manufacturing amenities, it mentioned it plans to increase the shutdown of its Orion meeting plant by two weeks. The facility is the place the corporate makes its Chevy Bolt electrical automobiles. It was one of many meeting crops GM shut down final week — although it did so due to the latest Bolt , not the chip scarcity that affected its different factories.

Per , GM expects the shutdown to proceed till not less than September twenty fourth. The firm blamed battery pack shortages for the prolonged halt to manufacturing. GM added it received’t resume Bolt manufacturing or gross sales till it’s positive it has addressed the that pressured it to recall the automobile within the first place.

It’s the most recent setback in a sequence of setbacks for GM with regards to the Bolt. The automaker initially final November after 5 reviews of battery fires between 2017 and 2019. After two Bolt EVs included within the firm’s 2020 recall caught hearth lately, GM issued a second recall. It then widened that motion to incorporate greater than . It’s estimated your complete saga will price the corporate greater than $1.8 billion.