General Motors Corp - Alternatives - electric vehicle donations
That’s because the tooling that’s going into the Craft Centre (where the low-volume Buick Reatta and EV1 had been built) is largely manual, which, Cowger notes, means that the plant has comparative flexibility. Cowger suggests that it is possible that there could be niche GM vehicles produced there that would have an entire run of just 50,000 units, manufactured at a rate of 10,000 to 11,000 per year.
Some will also be given away in New York, Vermont and Massachusetts, which have followed California’s lead in tightening environmental standards for the automotive industry GM contracted a Detroit company called ZevXchange to run distribution and marketing for the vehicles, which will be built and modified by Club Car of Augusta, Ga.