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April 19, 2023 ~ As General Motors is charging ahead to manufacturing only electric vehicles, the company is set to complete its new design facility at the Warren Technical Center.
The 360,000-square-foot building is part of GM’s roughly $1 billion investment at the Warren campus that was announced in 2015, according to the Detroit News. After breaking ground in 2018 and a cost-saving break in between, the building is expected to open to employees at the end of the year.
The facility will be a space where vehicle designers can go from sketches, to digital renders, to clay models. The facility will have over 100 collaboration spaces and different lighting sources and viewing points to review designs.
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April 19, 2023 ~ WJR Senior News Analyst Chris Renwick talks with Paul W. about the new General Motors design center aiming to help speed into the company’s all-electric vehicle shift.
(CONTINUED) The new building is also expected to speed up GM’s transition to electric vehicles, featuring technology to support this transition, according to the Detroit News. This building will also bring the vehicle designers together into one building.
“They’ll be moving into the existing studio spaces and have more room and, frankly, more capability than they have today,” said GM Executive Director of Design Operations and Immersive Technology Mike McBride said in the Detroit News. “For example, our industrial design team today doesn’t have a place they could mill anything.”
A grand opening ceremony is set for the end of 2023.
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