General Motors' engineers are working overtime to shift the company's combustion-based vehicle fleet to electric drive as quickly as possible. They are also working on many other advances, such as electronic driver assistance systems, lightweight materials, additive manufacturing, and more. Click through our gallery to see General Motors' impressive array of accomplishments for the year and consider whether it might be time to be one of the 3,000 new hires the company is making for its EV research.