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GM on Track to Build Electric Components Plant in Maryland

On Tuesday, a crowd of GM executives, adorned with Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley, were on site near Baltimore, where the biggest automotive producer in America is constructing an electric motor plant to support its electrification endeavors.

All those high-ranking officials gathered in one place for a photo shoot as the car maker broke ground to the expansion that will be the home of the two-mode hybrid and heavy duty transmission operations.

Called General Motors Baltimore Operations, the White Marsh facility will soon be in charge with manufacturing critical components for vehicle electrification starting 2013. The plant will be one of the greenest around, as it will draw some of its power from a solar array that will provide 9 percent of power for the existing two-mode hybrid and heavy-duty transmission building. GM will invest a total of $23.5 million into the conversion of the plant.

The array will be installed by Constellation Energy, with all the power to be generated by it to be purchased by GM for its own use.

The facility will become the first of its kind operated by an established manufacturer dedicated to creating components for electric and hybrid vehicles.

“We believe the future of sustainable transportation is electrically driven vehicles and this facility will help us maintain a leadership position within this category,” said Mike Robinson, GM vice president, Energy, Environment and Safety Policy.

“It’s fitting that green ‘motors of the future’ are being built at a facility well recognized for ongoing efforts to reduce its environmental impact.” 
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About the author: Daniel Patrascu
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Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies.
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