General Motors has reportedly chosen a spot north of Detroit as the location where it will build the Chevrolet Bolt electric car.
Two unnamed supply sources said production for the $30,000 vehicle will begin in October 2016 at an underused car plant, and that the Detroit-based automaker will develop the car as part of its Gamma global small-car platform, according to Reuters. They added that the car's components will be used as the base for building the next-generation Sonic, which is also slated for a late-2016 release.
The Bolt will be the latest electric car to come out of GM, following the debut of the Chevrolet Volt hybrid plug-in electric vehicle. GM sold 18,800 units of the Volt last year, pricing it at around $35,000.
The report follows a month after GM introduced a prototype of the Bolt at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit, where it said owners would be able to drive the car for 200 miles on a single charge, USA Today reported.
"This is no stripped-down science experiment," Mary Barra, CEO of GM, said during the Bolt's unveiling.
GM plans on making the Bolt available to drivers sometime in early 2017, Reuters reported, which will put the vehicle in competition with other electric cars like the Tesla Model 3 and the Nissan Leaf.
