Looks like General Motors is ready to make a sizable investment in its electric future. The company's announced it'll be sinking $246 million into a high volume motor production facility for designing and manufacturing electric motors -- the first U.S.-based automaker to do so, according to the press release. It's gonna be awhile until we see any results, however: the fruits of the labor won't be shown until 2013 with two-mode hybrid engines. Let's hope no one beats them to that "first" claim before then.General Motors to manufacture electric motors, with first coming in 2013 originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.


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