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General Motors investing in gasoline-powered trucks to fund the all-new electric fleet

General Motor Assembly Line
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General Motor Assembly Line

General Motors – which plans an all-electric vehicle lineup in about a dozen years – is continuing a series of investments in gasoline-powered trucks.

Officials with G-M say the automaker is investing more than 600 million dollars in its Fort Wayne…Indiana assembly plant…to build gas-powered light-duty pickup trucks.

   Experts say the highly-profitable vehicles are key for G-M to earn enough money to fund the automaker's transition to an all-electric fleet of models by 2035. The Indiana plant upgrade is G-M’s fourth recent investment in the internal combustion engine.

   The automaker is also putting significant dollars into re-tooling facilities in Flint… Canada…and Texas.

Quinn Klinefelter is a host and Senior News Editor for 101.9 WDET, anchoring midday newscasts and preparing reports for WDET, NPR and the BBC.