Baltimore Gives EVs a Jolt As Chevy Spark Motors Enter Production

Baltimore Gives EVs a Jolt As Chevy Spark Motors Enter Production:

General Motors started production of Spark EV motors in Maryland.

For more than a year, EV fans have been eagerly awaiting the arrival of the 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV. An all-electric variant of the unusually popular gasoline subcompact, the 2014 Spark EV will be the first electric-only car to issue from General Motors since the ill-fated EV1.

Unlike its big brother, the Chevrolet Volt, which is built in the U.S. at G.M.’s Detroit Hamtramck facility, the Chevrolet Spark will be assembled by G.M. in South Korea. But while the limited number of Chevrolet Spark EVs going on sale (in California and Oregon) this summer will be foreign imports, G.M. wants you to know it has an American heart.
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