GM adding two shifts, 2,500 Jobs to Detroit-Hamtramck Plant
25 May 2011
General Motors is adding two shifts and about 2,500 hourly and salaried jobs at the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to build the new Chevrolet Malibu mid-size sedan and the next-generation Impala large sedan alongside the Chevrolet Volt and Opel Ampera electric cars. Detroit-Hamtramck currently has 1,121 hourly and salaried employees.
GM also announced a $69 million investment in tooling and equipment to support the next-generation Impala. In April 2010, GM announced a $121 million investment to support Malibu production.
GM announced last week that after a four-week shutdown, the Detroit-Hamtramck plant will exclusively build Volt and Ampera electric cars with extended-range capability for the rest of the year. Exports of Volt and Ampera to Canada, Europe and China are included in the total 16,000 electric vehicles being built for the full 2011 calendar year. The Volt/Ampera production goal for 2012 is up to 60,000 with three-quarters of those to be sold in the United States.
The new Malibu—Chevrolet’s first global midsize sedan—will be built in Detroit and Fairfax, Kan., as well as China and Korea and will be sold in more than 100 countries on six continents.
This is a clear example of why Government Motors is a bad idea! If they had just let the company fail America could import its cars cheap from China and put Americans to work in jobs that have dignity like the service industry [Will that be fries with that?].
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Posted by: ai_vin | 25 May 2011 at 03:28 PM
They are restyling the Malibu for 2012 and it looks to me more like the new Taurus styling. They might even restyle the Impala, the 3.6L V6 is now FFV and will remain so, I hope.
Posted by: SJC | 25 May 2011 at 04:00 PM
A 3.6 liter V6 is ridiculously big. A 2.0 liter 4 with direct injection and turbocharging would deliver similar power with less weight and much better fuel economy.
Posted by: Engineer-Poet | 26 May 2011 at 07:41 PM
GM has the 2.0L DI turbo that gets 240 hp and 20 mpg. No reason that I know of that it could not be true OFS FFV. I tend to go with what we have and work with it. We need practical solution now.
Posted by: SJC | 27 May 2011 at 06:50 AM
We need to see MORE of this. Re-birthing manufacturing in the United States. Not only will economy and security expand - the level of product quality will improve.
If western manufacturing takes on the mantle of "highest quality" - at least in a few key industries (energy, enviro, EVs, LEED construction, IT, biotech, etc) - it will balance the import of toys, consumer electronics, clothes etc from low cost labor countries.
Congratulations to GM, GM assembly, UAW and those at Hamramck. The goal was to add ONE shift. You've doubled that.
Posted by: Reel$$ | 27 May 2011 at 09:07 AM
I figured adding IGCC with fuels to 100 coal power plants will employ almost 100,000 people for 10 years making and installing the equipment. We get electricity, transportation fuels, less mercury, sulfur and CO2 emissions.
Posted by: SJC | 27 May 2011 at 01:07 PM
E-P: That's what Hyundai has done and is giving very results on their Sonata 2011.Their small 4-cyls has enough power for the GM Impala and Malibu.
Reel$$...good ideas but it will not happen unless promoters could increase their profit margin. It's all a question of quick profits, not clean environment, oil import reduction, local production, employment etc.
Posted by: HarveyD | 27 May 2011 at 04:35 PM