• Detroit Free Press, Tuesday, December 1, 2009 10:47 AM

General Motors is pulling out all the stops to make an impression in California, where it is expected to announce the initial markets for the electric car when the Los Angeles Motor Show opens to the media tomorrow, Tim Higgins reports.

A giant Volt banner hangs outside the convention center where the auto show will be held, and the company has been driving models around the city. GM engineers talked with local schoolchildren about electricity and let slip the news that California will be one of the markets where the Volt will be available when production begins late next year.

"California is one of GM's biggest problem markets, and this vehicle and technology addresses some of the key concerns that California consumers have," says Rebecca Lindland, an analyst at IHS Global Insight.

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