General Motors has started the production of lithium-ion batteries for the Chevrolet Volt. The first series production after the batteries go in the Brownstone Battery Pack Assembly Plant to the laboratory in Warren, Michigan, where they are tested.
In spring, the first copies shipped to the Hamtramck plant in Detroit, where does the production of the Volt for mass-start. In the fourth quarter, the production of the Volt for consumer launch.
The Brown-Stone plant in five months transformed from an empty site to a plant that should herald the future of GM. The plug-in hyrbide Volt is the first on the Voltec platform is built. Then also 'our' Opel Ampera that technique. The production of this European version of the Volt is probably in England instead. In the U.S., the Cadillac brand to a second plug-in hybrid in the range given. The production version of the concept Converj will Voltec-technique.
via:autoweek.nl