Just the Facts:
- \tGeneral Motors this week became the first domestic automaker to design and manufacture an electric vehicle drive motor in the United States.
- \tThe new electric motor, which generates 100 kilowatts (130 horsepower) and 400 pound-feet of torque, powers the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV.
- \tGM begins selling the 2014 Spark EV this summer in California and Oregon.
WHITE MARSH, Maryland — General Motors started production this week of what it says is the first electric-vehicle drive motor to be designed and manufactured in the United States by a domestic automaker. The electric motor sits under the hood of the battery-powered 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV.
Company executives on hand here at this Baltimore-area transmission plant that also produced GM's "Two-Mode" electric-motor-within-a-transmission hybrid system for full-size SUVs, said GM believes a strategy for future success with all-electric and hybrid-electric vehicles in part lies with developing and maintaining engineering competency for electric motors.
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