General Motors to design develop and manufacture electric motors
When we think of American cars, we think of huge gas guzzlers that polluted environment and burn also our wallets as well with high fuel bills. But times are changing…
General Motors are now catching up. We knew that they are going to introduce a number of electric cars for the future and now news has comes that GM will design, develop and manufacture its own electric motors.
This will not be a small investment, GM are to spend $246 million to get a high volume motor production facility all set up for 2013. It is no secret that General Motors have some cash problems. Another way forward was the announcement of Ed Whitacre becoming the CEO; the U.S. automaker said that this would help bring stability to the company.
According to Autoblog, there was always two ways for carmakers to distinguish their products, this was with its styling and its powertrains. The former has taken a back seat often being outsourced to other companies. It is the latter that is taking priority as automakers look for more ways to cut emissions and the way to do this is by powertrain evolution.
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