AUTOS

GM Electric Car Project Hits Snag: General Motors Corp.’s electric car project may face delays after Rockwell International Corp. pulled out, apparently angry over the cost-cutting tactics of the auto maker’s new global supply procurement executive. Rockwell was to be the lone source for plastic body panels for GM’s electric car, called the Impact, the trade journal Automotive News reported. Rockwell withdrew because it was asked to rebid on the work, which included engineering and tooling expense as well as making the parts, the News said. The electric car project, scheduled to debut in the mid-1990s, is critical to GM and other auto makers because California, the biggest single market for cars in the nation, requires that 2% of any maker’s autos sold there by 1998 be pollution-free.