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...Thus, GM's $230 million investment in four factories around Flint, to prepare for the start of production for the innovative Chevrolet Volt, represents an important ray of hope for the hard-pressed Flint community. "These four GM manufacturing plants have a key role in GM's production of the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles, the Chevrolet Volt and Cruze," says Larry Zahner, GM manufacturing manager. (Read a brief history of the electric...
...There was a lot of uncertainty as we went through the bankruptcy," notes James Scrimger, an employee in GM's Flint Die Center, which is one of the locations in Flint where GM is spending money on the Volt and other projects. The Flint Die Center, for example, has also been assigned a role in the new GM, building tools for GM's stamping plants. "Thing are starting to look up," adds another employee at the center...
...Most of the GM money - $202 million - is being spent at the company's Flint South engine plant, which is being renovated for production of a 1.4-liter, four-cylinder engine generator for the Chevrolet Volt and a 1.4-liter, turbocharged, four-cylinder engine for the 2011 Chevrolet Cruze. The project will bring an additional 240 employees to the Flint plant. Almost all of the added staff will come from the Flint North engine and component plant that GM plans to close next year...
...Volt is scheduled to start production in late 2010 as GM's first extended-range electric vehicle, which can travel up to 40 miles on electricity from a single battery charge, while the Flint-built engine will serve as a backup generator that extends the car's range to about 300 miles. (See 10 milestones on the road to GM's bankruptcy...
...Duane Zuckschwerdt, UAW Region 1C director and a member of the union's top executive board, readily acknowledges that Flint is often held up as a symbol of crippling labor-management strife, but he sees the Volt investment as a significant milestone for the city. "I know you go just 50 miles west of here and they think the town is dead," Zuckschwerdt says. "But it's not. GM knows they have a very talented workforce here," he says...