Just now, General Motors disclosed in a document that the company plans to lay off about 1300 employees in Michigan starting early next year due to the imminent shutdown of their cars. This includes 945 workers from the Orion assembly plant that produces Chevrolet Bolt models, which will be discontinued after this year. In addition, an additional 350 workers at the Lansing Grand River factory will be laid off and the factory will cease production of Chevron Camaro. General Motors stated that the affected hourly workers will obtain positions in other factories.

The scale of this layoff is expected. The final production date is set for the week of December 18th. However, layoffs will not begin until January 1st next year. General Motors will renovate the Orion factory to produce electric trucks. The factory is expected to be put back into operation by the end of 2025. According to the WARN notification document, the layoffs at the Lansing Grand River factory will begin on January 2nd and continue until March.

Meanwhile, according to CNBC, General Motors' autonomous driving division Cruise has announced that the company will lay off 24% of its workforce and will strive to restructure its business.

The report stated that the layoffs involved 900 employees, mainly from business operations and related corporate functional departments. Cruise stated, "This reflects our new future and a more cautious path towards marketization, which means we have reduced the immediate demand for on-site, commercial operations, and enterprise personnel."