Fisker to Make Plug-in Hybrids at Former G.M. Plant

nytimes.com — Fisker Automotive, a small California-based manufacturer of luxury vehicles, on Tuesday is expected to reveal plans to build plug-in hybrid electric cars at a former General Motors plant in Delaware.

The White House said Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. is scheduled to visit the plant, near his hometown of Wilmington, for an announcement about its future. G.M. closed the plant, which was the last automotive factory on the East Coast, in July as part of its post-bankruptcy restructuring.

Fisker’s plans will mark the first major redevelopment of a piece of the old G.M., which is now a separate company charged with disposing of unwanted assets in order to repay G.M.’s creditors. It also will be among the rare instances in which an automotive plant has resumed building vehicles after being shuttered; most are eventually torn down or converted to other purposes.

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