Friday, July 17, 2009 GM picks Downriver for battery factory Brownstown plant to make power packs for electric vehicles Robert Snell and David Shepardson / The Detroit News General Motors Co. is expected to open a $43 million lithium-ion battery plant in a Brownstown Township industrial park that will supply a key component of the [...]

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Lawmakers seek tax exemptions for Fremont auto plant By Steven Harmon MediaNews Sacramento Bureau Updated: 07/17/2009 06:38:30 AM PDT   var requestedWidth = 0; if(requestedWidth > 0){ document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.width = requestedWidth + “px”; document.getElementById(‘articleViewerGroup’).style.margin = “0px 0px 10px 10px”; } SACRAMENTO — With as many as 20,000 jobs — as well as the health of a number [...]

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July 17th, 2009 Read my lips: the Pontiac G8 is dead, again   Posted by: David Bailey General Motors Co promised it would make decisions much faster following its failure and rebirth in bankruptcy and its on-again, off-again revival of the Pontiac G8 is dead again after just three days. The sporty G8 — flagship [...]

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GM’s ‘Garage Sale’ Automaker Set to Unload Golf Course, Shuttered Plants and Other Less Profitable Assets By CHRIS BURY BEDFORD, Ind., July 16, 2009 —   On its speedy exit from bankruptcy, the new General Motors left behind another company containing all the stuff it no longer wants. The bankrupt old GM is now Motors [...]

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