Sunday, May 29, 2011

GM Volt production to 60,000 per year to increase

DETROIT - General Motors is the plant reconfigure, the power of the Chevrolet Volt production will be extended to up to 60,000 electric cars per year.

The Detroit-area plant, which will shut down next month, can produce around 16,000 per year.

GM said electric cars short supply for the next three months because of the shutdown process four weeks will be starting in June. But by moving in new machines and overhead conveyor, the company able to increase the attachment the Volt and European counterpart, the Opel Ampera issue.

"We better be meets in the location of the enormous demand," said Landy Cristi, marketing director of the Volt in a statement on Wednesday.

The Volt runs on battery power for 35 kilometres before a combined starts engine to generate electricity. It can be charged via a home outlet. The car costs little more than $40,000 but is eligible to a tax credit of $7,500.

The Volt hit the US market late last year and slightly more than 1,700 to April have been sold. The car is now available in nine States and Washington, D.C. until the end of this year are sold throughout the country and in Europe, China and Canada Volt.

The Volt factory lies on the border between Detroit and the small town of Hamtramck between.

The company has distributors all volts, orders that the plant will produce GM this year spokeswoman Michelle bunkers said Wednesday.

The shutdown will be add equipment which 2013 medium-sized sedan Chevrolet Malibu build in the next year at the factory also GM. Stop GM the Cadillac produce two other large cars in the factory, DTS and Buick Lucerne, this year.

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