COVID-19: US Auto Giant General Motors Wants To Make Ventilators, Trump Says; Ford And Tesla Also Express Interest

 
• By Shawn M. Schmitt

President Trump said on 20 March that GM wants to manufacture ventilators, a medical device that’s in high demand as the US health care system prepares for an onslaught of patients infected by the novel coronavirus. Fellow auto manufacturers Ford Motor Co. and Tesla Inc. also say they’re willing to make the complex products.

Trucks come off the assembly line at GM's Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickup truck plant in Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S., July 25, 2018. Picture taken on July 25, 2018.
Trucks roll off an assembly line at GM's Fort Wayne, IN, manufacturing plant

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