General Motors is spending $2.2 billion to refurbish an underused Detroit factory so it can build a series of electric and self-driving vehicles, eventually employing 2,000 people.

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"Through this investment, GM is taking a big step forward in making our vision of an all-electric future a reality," GM President Mark Reuss said in a statement. “When the plant is fully operational, this investment will create more than 2,200 good-paying U.S. manufacturing jobs”

General Motors Co. President Mark Reuss discusses the automaker's plans to build electric pickups and SUVs at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant, progress on autonomous vehicle development, and the impact of coronavirus crisis in China on production and sales. He speaks with Bloomberg's David Westin on "Bloomberg Markets."

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