GM’s Plans for Electric Cars Announced

GM Pushes for Electric Motor Revolution

A huge investment boost will make this a breakthrough year for electric vehicles, according to one company.

General Motors (GM) announced plans for a $246 million investment into the manufacture of electrically powered transport.

It will prop up the currently floundering US production sector, as the motors will be built there though it is not clear yet in what part of the US production will be.

GM's vice-president Tom Stephens said: "In the future, electric motors might become as important to GM as engines are now."

He added that the investment would support national initiatives to lead in global electric motor production.

"The new GM is about speed and we are delivering quickly on the government's desire to grow domestic expertise in electric vehicle technologies, such as batteries and electric motors."

Mr Stephens said that this new wave of 'innovation' recalled the beginnings of the motor industry at the start of the last century.

He attributed the first automotive revolution to the electric starter device which made the hand crank obsolete.

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