GM plans to have Chevy Volt to produced in China

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Initially, GM will export some U.S.-built Volts in 2010, but will also gradually shift its production line and facility to China in 2011, where it will begin production of the car, as well as other vehicles that use the Volt’s powertrain technology around the world.The decision for GM to move a production facility across the Pacific hardly comes as surprising considering that China has been one country that has relentlessly and aggressively promoted both hybrid and electric vehicles, mostly because the government wants to reduce the country’s oil consumption and lessen the amount of pollution prevalent in most of its more-populated cities.

 

The move also makes sense for GM because China is on the initial phase of their project in emphasizing the use of alternate-fuel vehicles. The county has said that it wants at the very least 60,000 alternate-fuel cars out on the streets by 2012, and with the GM move to China coming in 2011, the car manufacturer hopes that a lot of those 60,000 cars will be Chevy Volts.