DETROIT—GM has restarted production of the low-emission Chevrolet Volt electric car. The company had briefly stopped production to add an emissions system fan and make some software changes.
DETROIT—Just two years after it was rescued and reconstituted through bankruptcy and a government bailout, GM has posted the biggest profit in its history.
ARLINGTON, TX—GM will start building a $200 million stamping factory here next week, a move that will save the automaker about $40 million a year in logistics costs and add 180 jobs.
FAIRFAX, KS—A UAW local at GM’s assembly plant here will hold a strike authorization vote Thursday after workers rejected a local labor contract last Friday. About 66 percent of production workers and 58 percent of skilled-trades workers voted against the proposed contract.
A plain-looking warehouse near Detroit is being transformed into a state-of-the-art lithium-ion battery assembly plant. General Motors Co. (GM) is investing $43 million in the facility to mass-produce battery packs for the Chevrolet Volt and other extended-range electric vehicles. When the 160,000-square-foot facility opens next year, it will be the first lithium-ion battery manufacturing plant in the U.S. operated by a major automaker.
Last year, more than 50 percent of the vehicles that General Motors assembled were sold outside North America. The company's operations in China are among the most profitable in the company's vast production portfolio, which includes assembly plants on six continents.
