Manufacturing is now set to start on the former Detroit-Hamtramck meeting plant, lower than two years after GM introduced the huge $2.2 billion funding to completely renovate the power to construct a wide range of all-electric vehicles and SUVs.
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DETROIT – General Motors on Tuesday introduced a pilot program with Pacific Gas and Electric Co. in California that might make its electrical autos able to powering a house within the occasion of an influence outage or grid failure.
“That is actually vital as a result of it is one other good thing about proudly owning an electrical car,” GM CEO Mary Barra stated Tuesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.”
The transfer matches related capabilities by different automakers, together with Ford Motor with its upcoming electrical F-150 Lightning pickup that is due out this spring. Ford has partnered with photo voltaic firm Sunrun. EV start-up Lucid Group additionally has introduced related capabilities for its $169,000 Air sedan.
Choose PG&E utility clients will participate within the pilot this summer season, Barra stated.
