GM Hires 1,000 Engineers to Expand Electric Offerings
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General Motors Co., the maker of the Chevrolet Volt gasoline-electric car, will hire 1,000 engineers in Michigan to help expand the automakers’ lineup of electric-drive vehicles.
The hiring will increase GM’s workforce of electric-vehicle engineers to about 3,000, Rob Peterson, a company spokesman, said today at an event to mark the start of production of the $41,000 car. Detroit-based GM plans to sell 10,000 Volts next year and 45,000 in 2012.