General Motors will produce electric Cadillac in 2013

The automaker General Motors announced Tuesday that it will launch next year the production of an electric version of its luxury car Cadillac.

The American giant has specified that the Cadillac ELR will be assembled at the factory in Detroit or also produced the Chevrolet Volt.

Cadillac will be equipped with a petrol engine has four cylinders will take over when the electric batteries will be a flat. This version is based on the Cadillac Converj, a concept car presented at the auto show in Detroit in 2009.

GM will invest U.S. $ 35 million in the plant, which did not produce vehicles has two doors from the Cadillac Eldorado in 1999.