General Motors files Canadian restructuring plan, will build hybrid car
General Motors of Canada Ltd has followed its corporate parent in Detroit in filing a viability plan with the Canadian government. It contains the usual array of ideas about working with the Canadian Auto Workers union and cutting executive and salaried pay to cut costs. The plan also includes some upcoming product details. The Oshawa Ontario car assembly plant currently has two assembly lines. The so-called consolidated line will continue building the Impala out through 2013. The other line was recently re-tooled for flexible production to build the new Camaro, with Job 1 coming in March. Two years from now, the line is scheduled to add the convertible version. Later in 2011, that same flex line is scheduled to add a new short wheelbase mid-sized sedan followed by a long wheelbase model at the beginning of 2013. There has been no indication of which brand will get this car or what the model designation will be. A few months after launch a hybrid variant of that car will be launched, the first hybrid car produced in Canada. The short wheelbase mid-size model is likely to be the new Buick Regal, a re-grilled and badged version of the Opel Insignia that was recently unveiled in China. Since Buick has been announced as one of the core brands that GM will focus on in North America, the Regal is a likely choice. As for the hybrid, this will probably be an application of GM’s next generation mild hybrid that is expected to go into production in 2010. The press release is after the jump and the full plan can be found here. Gallery: Opel Insignia ecoFlex [Source: General Motors] Continue reading General Motors files Canadian restructuring plan, will build hybrid car Auto Blog: Hybrid , GM General Motors files Canadian restructuring plan, will build hybrid car originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Sat, 21 Feb 2009 15:25:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green | Car Blog Green
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Auto Blog: Hybrid , Legislation and Policy , USA Photo by Dru Bloomfield – At Home in Scottsdale . Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. Who’s going to be pushing the hardest for cleaner cars in the U.S. – hybrids, PHEVs and CNG vehicles , specifically – in the coming years? According to HybridCars , it will not be Plug In America or AutoblogGreen readers; instead, it could be President Obama’s White House chief of staff: Rahm Emanuel. HybridCars suggesets that Emanuel, “a devout Jew,” might use his personal desire to see America extract itself from Middle East oil as a reason to push for more fuel efficient vehicles. Emanuel’s legislation history includes introducing the American Hybrid Tax Credit Act in 2005 and sponsoring legislation that would have created an NGV mandate for automakers . Emanuel also wrote a book in 2006 called The Plan that includes a chapter on getting off of gas that was very bullish on plug-in hybrids – and ways that the government could support purchases of these vehicles. There’s a lengthy excerpt from that chapter over at HybridCars . Now that he’s as close as anyone to the man in charge, there’s a good chance Emanuel’s words are a heard in a different way than before. [Source: HybridCars ] Rahm Emanuel – Obama’s fighter for hybrid cars in the White House originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Fri, 23 Jan 2009 08:01:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds . Car Blog Green|Car Blog Green|Car Blog Green|Car Blog Green
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