On April 8, according to the National Defense Production Act promulgated by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the federal government will pay GM $489.4 million (about RMB 3.45 billion) to manufacture ventilators for treating COVID-19 patients.
At present, GM has cooperated with Ventec, a ventilator company headquartered in Washington. Life? Systems is cooperating to produce ventilators in a general parts factory in Indiana, and the production plan is to start next week. According to the contract requirements, GM needs to deliver 6 1 32 ventilators to the national strategic material reserve before June1,and the total number of ventilators delivered before the end of August is 30,000.
Both General Motors and Ventec said that they would produce at cost without profit. Under normal circumstances, the contract price of the ventilator is $654.38 +0.8 million, while the current price is $654.38 +0.63 million.
GM spokesman Jim? Kane (Jim? Cain) said that the contract includes the cost of ventilation equipment, materials, engineering and tools and other auxiliary supplies, so that GM can prepare the production line for manufacturing these components.
"General Motors and Ventec are rapidly and urgently equipping first-line medical professionals with intensive care ventilators to meet their needs of treating seriously ill patients," General Motors said in a statement.
In addition to ventilators, last week, GM began trial production of Level? 1 mask. On April 6, about 24 paid volunteers from the American Automobile Federation came to the mask production line for production. GM had expected to produce 20,000 masks by April 8. After the production line reaches its peak, the daily output of masks will reach 50,000, and the monthly output will be 654.38+500,000.
In fact, not only General Motors, but also European and American automakers such as Ford, BMW, FCA and Tesla have also announced the emergency switch to medical equipment during the epidemic.
On March 25th, Fiat Chrysler Automobile Company (FCA) announced that it would start to produce masks in a joint venture factory in China, and provide them free of charge to police, emergency personnel, firefighters and staff in hospitals and medical clinics in the United States, Canada and Mexico, with a monthly production capacity of 6,543,800+000 masks.
On March 30th, Ford said that it would produce 50,000 protective masks in factories in Brazil and Argentina, and cooperate with medical departments to produce 50,000 ventilators in the next 65,438+000 days.
On April 6, Tesla CEO Elon? Musk announced the use of Model? 3 parts constitute a ventilator.
On April 8, BMW CEO Oliver? Zipse) said that the company will start to produce masks and will soon reach the scale of100000 masks per day. The company has delivered 654.38+million masks to the government from the existing inventory, and delivered 50,000 masks and 1 10,000 medical gloves on Wednesday, and another 1 10,000 masks will be delivered in the next two weeks.
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