GM’s Baltimore Transmission the First High Volume U.S. Electric Drive Manufacturing Site

January 26, 2010 – Vol.14 No.45

GM’s Baltimore Transmission the First High Volume U.S. Electric Drive Manufacturing Site.

General Motors will invest approximately $246 million in electric motor and electric drive manufacturing including construction of a high volume electric drive production facility at the Baltimore Transmission plant that will begin to manufacture in 2013 electric motors for GM's Two-mode Hybrid system.

The plant will be the first electric motor manufacturing facility in the U.S. operated by a major automaker.

By bringing this capability to the U.S., GM will create approximately 200 jobs. Local and state incentives, along with the Recovery Act funding announced in August 2009 by the U.S. Department of Energy, are helping to make this facility expansion and job creation possible.

Through job retention and creation, Baltimore Transmission, which opened in 2000, will employ a total of close to 400 people.

Nationally, including immediate project jobs, manufacturing jobs and the impact on suppliers and local communities, the investment is estimated to retain or create about 1700 jobs. (1/26/10)

Links:

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Disclaimer, Forward-Looking or Safe Harbor Statement on original press release: No