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couple of recent non-authoritative articles about electric car manufacturer Aurica trying to take over NUMMI and use it's facilities and workforce to build electric carshttp://auto.freedomblogging.co...29923/Quote »Another fledgling electric car maker is proposing a plan to make zero-emission cars at the New United Motor Manufacturing Inc. plant, aka, NUMMI, in Fremont.NUMMI is a joint venture between General Motors and Toyota that opened in 1984 and is set to close March 31. About 4,700 people work at the plant.Aurica Motors LLC, a Santa Clara start-up with less than a dozen employees, aims to start making electric vehicles at the plant within two years, according to several media reports.Aurica GM Matt Pitagora told Automotive News, “We want to keep the plant open, and we believe we have a very viable plan to do so by manufacturing electric cars. It’s all about keeping the lights on.”The electric carmaker says it has been negotiating with NUMMI for the past three months. GM pulled out of the venture with Toyota last year amid GM’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy....http://gas2.org/2010/03/11/aur...-cars/Quote »...But when GM announced it was shuttering the Pontiac brand, it also pulled out of the NUMMI plant, leaving Toyota holding the reigns. Toyota announced it too would pull out of the plant, and it looked like another manufacturing center and hundreds of jobs would be lost. Enter Aurica Motors, maker of electric cars. They have a plan to save the plant, and many of the jobs, by retooling the plant to build electric cars.Aurica Motors is one of the many under-the-radar electric car startups with big dreams… and apparently big capital. The NUMMI plant is the only car plant west of the Mississippi and the entire facility covers about 88 football fields worth of land. Idling such a massive plant, and its 4,700 workers, would not do the economy any good. Aurica thinks it can save the plant and those jobs by retooling the plant for its all-wheel drive electric E-Car, though it has yet to produce or sell a single example....Hope so, for our NUMMI-worker friends's sake