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GM becomes top automaker in the US, but its EV sales lag competitors

Teslarati

General Motors (GM) has announced its Q4 auto sales, showing that it has become the top automaker in the United States for 2022. As General Motors has quickly fallen behind traditional and up-and-coming rivals alike regarding EV sales, specifically Tesla, Hyundai/Kia, and Ford, it has moved towards more electric models and production.

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Volkswagen and Suzuki to Establish Strategic Partnership; VW to Take 19.9% Stake in Suzuki, Suzuki to Invest in VW

Green Car Congress

We can’t afford to spend a lot of time on this, we want to be speedy. Suzuki had established a strategic alliance with General Motors in 1981, which ultimately resulted in GM holding 20% of the company. In 2006, that began to unwind, with GM reducing its holding to 3%. I think that will benfit both Suzuki and Volksawgen.

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The Real Story of Pixar

Cars That Think

That kind of computing power was not affordable in the mid-1970s. George has never really understood who we are, and he can no longer afford us. But we almost closed a joint deal with two vast corporations, General Motors and Philips. Disney bought the company in 2006 for more than $7 billion. Ross Perot.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

Electric cars everywhere you looked, quiet as a mouse and making a total mockery out of General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler who could have been making these cars for the last decade, but instead had to be pushed to the brink of bankruptcy and shame-filled failure before they would start even talking about making these cars.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It Then the students replaced the Explorer's big gasoline engine with a fuel-sipper taken from a General Motors Corp.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Ford Chairman and CEO Bill Ford at 2006 Shareholders Meeting ) GM top 12/31/07 [GM Vice Chairman Bob] Lutz, 75, is undergoing a green conversion in the twilight of his career. "I Newsweek ).

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The new proposed rules also appear to contradict the board’s own recent attempts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in the wake of a groundbreaking global warming law signed by the governor in 2006. The award-winning 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? But they say they still can’t afford the expensive testing.

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