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GM may have found its solution to its Ultium bottlenecks

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General Motors may have found its solution to the trouble and bottlenecks it has had with the Ultium battery project. That solution lies within Kurt Kelty, a former Tesla battery technology senior director, who will join General Motors later this month as the company’s Vice President of Batteries.

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

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General Motors (GM) has announced its Q4 auto sales, showing that it has become the top automaker in the United States for 2022. According to GM’s press release, the auto group sold 16,108 Chevrolet Bolts/Bolt EUVs , 86 Cadillac Lyriqs, and 72 GMC Hummer EVs. Overall, GM brands sold a combined 2.2

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Report: Isuzu, GM to partner globally on pickup trucks, engines

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The Nikkei reports that Isuzu Motors Ltd. and General Motors Co. The partnership reportedly will include joint development of next-generation models, and use common diesel engines. The new tie-up will likely be formalized in a meeting in the US late this month between Isuzu President Susumu Hosoi and GM Chairman Daniel F.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here.

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GM enters commercial agreement with and invests in Powermat, a personal device inductive charging company

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General Motors and Powermat, a provider of wireless charging technology for mobile personal devices, announced a commercial agreement that will eliminate the need for charging cords for personal electronic devices in many future Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac products beginning mid-2012. Chevy Volt Powermat.

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GM Brazil to Invest R$2B in Expansion and New Line of Chevrolet Small Cars

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General Motors Brazil will invest R$2 billion (US$1.033 billion) to launch a new Chevrolet line of vehicles and to expand its plant in Gravataí, Rio Grande do Sul. Funds for the investment will partly come from the company’s cash flow and retained earnings in recent fiscal years—GM Brasil has been profitable since 2006.

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Denise Gray, GMs Director of Battery Engineering, Leaving For California Start-Up

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Denise Gray, Director of Global Battery Engineering for General Motors. since 2006, will leave GM on Friday, 5 March to take a senior. Although Gray has worked for General Motors for more than 30 years, she is best known for her work shepherding the 2011 Chevrolet Volt. Further details are.