The Indiana facility was announced in 2023 with planned investment of approximately $3.5 billion. Rather than immediately supplying GM electric vehicles, Samsung SDI now intends to use the facility initially for energy storage system batteries. GM Reduces Exposure to Battery ManufacturingThe transaction is the latest indication that GM is reassessing how much battery manufacturing capacity it needs to control directly. GM and Samsung SDI had originally planned to manufacture nickel rich prismatic battery cells at the Indiana facility. Energy storage systems generally place less emphasis on weight and volumetric energy density than electric vehicles.