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SAIC-GM-Wuling breaks ground for new R&D center and proving ground

Green Car Congress

SAIC-GM-Wuling broke ground for its new R&D center and proving ground in Liuzhou, Guangxi, on 12 July. Since its establishment in 2002, SAIC-GM-Wuling has been leveraging resources from China and abroad. SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. SAIC-GM-Wuling) was launched on November 18, 2002. Click to enlarge.

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SAIC-GM-Wuling starts production at new $1.1B base in Chongqing; initial capacity of 400K vehicles and 400K engines

Green Car Congress

SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) has started production at its new manufacturing base in Chongqing. The new base is taking advantage of learnings from the other bases as well as the resources of SGMW’s parent companies—GM China, SAIC and Wuling Motors. SAIC-GM-Wuling Automobile Co. stake, GM China a 44.0%

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Study of Sustainable Value in Automobile Manufacturing Finds Mixed Performance for Most OEMs, BMW and Toyota as the Clear Leaders

Green Car Congress

Volkswagen only managed to create significantly positive Sustainable Value in 2001, 2002 and 2007. GM has consistently produced only a negative Sustainable Value, and reveals a downside trend over the entire review period. GM achieved a sustainable value of -€9.87 GM achieved a sustainable value of -€9.87

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Editorial: Don’t forget about name for inexpensive fuel, EV fashions

Baua Electric

As shoppers pine for extra inexpensive cars, Normal Motors has introduced it’s nixing its maximum inexpensive electrical fashions via occasion finish. That specialize in higher-margin EVs will permit the automaker to deal lower-priced EVs longer term, GM says. Energy and LMC Automobile. Automobiles made up 21 p.c

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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

Friday November 14th, 2008 - GM Training Center - Burbank, CA. City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. It’s a dishonest act on the part of General Motors.” said Holden.

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Ford and Sollers sign MoU to establish a JV in Russia

Green Car Congress

Ford Motor Company and Russian automobile company Sollers OJSC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) under which the parties intend to launch a new 50:50-owned joint venture called Ford Sollers for the production and distribution of Ford vehicles in Russia. Ford began producing cars in Russia in 2002. Earlier post.).

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

Around the same time, however, General Motors and other automakers were in the process of decommissioning their battery EV fleets, the key component of V2G. Photo-illustration: Max-o-matic; photo source: Alec Brooks The AC Propulsion experiment thus became an obscure footnote in the tortuous saga of the green automobile.

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