GM says it will spend $202 million to ready its Flint Engine South site to build the 1.4-liter four-cylinder engines that will be used as on-board generators in the Chevrolet Volt extended-range hybrid . The company originally had planned to spend $359 million t o build a new factory on a nearby site at its Flint campus, but its reduced financial circumstances have led it to settle for renovation of an existing plant there. As has always been the plan, the factory also will build the engines for use in a conventionally-powered small car, the Chevrolet Cruze, which
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GM’s Flint Factory for Volt Engine-Generator Gets Post-Bankruptcy Go-Ahead