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Volt chief engineer takes first drive in integration prototype [w/VIDEO]

The technicians and engineers at GM's Pre-Production operations center at the Warren, MI tech center have been hard at work for the last several weeks trying to finish up the first of about 75 integration prototypes of the Chevy Volt. They worked so hard, in fact, that the first car was completed a week ahead of schedule. These are the first actual running prototypes and include pretty much all of the production-intent hardware in a production body shell. As is typical of these integration prototypes, items like the light clusters aren't ... Read more →

GM asks Detroit and Michigan for tax breaks for Volt production Sam Abuelsamid

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GM asks Detroit and Michigan for tax breaks for Volt production 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

No major manufacturer ever builds a new factory without getting lots of tax breaks from state and local governments. In fact, what happens is they announce plans to build a factory without specifying a location and then sit back and wait while the offers flood in. It should come as no surprise that ...

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