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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. In April 2012, the Nikkei had reported that GM would enter talks with Isuzu on a capital and business alliance aimed at launching joint projects for commercial vehicles in Central and South America.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

When an unknown automotive startup from Silicon Valley unveiled an all-electric sports car with supercar performance back in 2006, the shock was enough to make industry giant GM sit up and pay attention.

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GM is looking to acquire a stake of roughly 10% in Isuzu, according to the report. GM and Isuzu have had an alliance that has waxed and waned since 1971, when GM signed an initial capital agreement with the Japanese company. From 1999-2002, GM owned 49% of the company—a holding that subsequently was reduced.

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Source: GM. The 2013 Cadillac XTS will feature GM’s first application of a Driver Assistance Package using sensor fusion, which combines the information of several, generally heterogeneous sensors and positioning technologies to alert drivers more accurately of road hazards and help them avoid crashes. GM and V2X.

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GM is hosting a webchat with Chelsea Sexton tomorrow, 29 April, at 2 p.m. and what she thinks has been learned from the whole GM EV1 experience. She is one of the key individuals featured in the 2006 film, “ Who Killed the Electric Car? EDT to discuss the Chevy Volt, Who Killed the Electric Car?

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Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. If we look at the fine print, GM actually introduced a sort-of-a-hybrid vehicle as a 2004 model , though the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid/GMC Sierra Hybrid didn't have regenerative braking.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

SAIC-GM-Wuling will build a third manufacturing base in Chongqing Municipality to keep pace with the rising demand for its vehicles. The joint venture between GM China, SAIC and Wuling Motors will begin construction of its new facility early next year, pending relevant government approvals.

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JANUARY 6, 2011

GM Ventures, the company’s venture capital subsidiary headed by Jon Lauckner, who helped create the Volt concept, will invest $5 million in Powermat to accelerate the technology’s development and support efforts to grow Powermat’s business globally. We first developed the Volt concept car in 2006.

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JUNE 26, 2019

For those of us who remember what General Motors’ Hummer brand symbolized—especially around 2006, when sales peaked—it’s a little hard to fathom the idea that it might have any future as way for GM to green its reputation.

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In 2005 and 2006, it received investments of about US$480 million, resulting in the launch of the Chevrolet Prism in October 2006 and the expansion of its production capacity to 230,000 vehicles per year. Brazil is one of five major GM global centers of development. This will be the second expansion to Gravataí.

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AUGUST 30, 2009

On 11 August, GM invited approximately 75 journalists and auto analysts to spend a day learning about the new GM. The day was split between a morning session at the GM tech center in Warren and an afternoon session at the GM proving grounds in Milford, MI. GM’s identify in the US starts with its four core brands.

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MARCH 10, 2015

The topic of Tesla Motors and its direct-sales model continues to roil state legislatures, with bills for and against the practice under debate in several states. In May 2009, the U.S. Justice Department issued a paper that looked at the economic effects of state bans on such direct sales. Now it turns out that one example of direct sales.

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The LDVs also represent the first commercial vehicles produced in Oklahoma since a General Motors (GM) closed in 2006, as highlighted by state Governor J. According to the press release, the state purchased the Canoo LDVs at a total of $119,850, or $39,950 per vehicle. Kevin Stitt upon the recent delivery.

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MARCH 30, 2009

GM, Politecnico di Torino and Regione Piemonte, have entered into a framework agreement on the development of sustainable mobility, research and education projects in the Turin, Italy region. The announcement was made at the GM Symposium Diesel Fuels the Future.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

since 2006, will leave GM on Friday, 5 March to take a senior. Gray's tenure has seen GM’s battery lab facilities have. Denise Gray, Director of Global Battery Engineering for General Motors. leadership position with an unidentified venture capital-backed. battery start-up company based in California. Further details are.

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Ford employs about 1,700 temps, era Stellantis has round 5,160 and GM has between 2,300 and four,600. Schambers, leased in 2006, was once a short lived associate for 6 years prior to being leased complete generation. Temps continuously permit full-timers to snatch pleasure or scientific loose. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.

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Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I I kept asking GM people when the car was going into production.

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GM Concept Car T here has been a rumor that General Motors might have a plug-in to show at the North American International Car Show in Detroit this coming January. GM likely to launch new plug-in hybrid Reuters Nov 10, 2006 DETROIT (Reuters) - General Motors Corp. GM, which is trying to recover from a $10.6

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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%. What happened to GM was a surprise to US. We never expected what happened recently to happen.

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In addition he led GM’s initial efforts on hybrid programs and related technology development and was “employee number one” and founding member of the Chevrolet Volt program back in 2006. Tony is the perfect CEO for Fisker.

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Lots of ink on GM's plug-in hybrid announcement. With headlines like "GM Promises Plug-in Hybrid," Waggoner's statement in LA moves plug-in cars back into the public discussion of petroleum alternatives. Sources: www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/11/29/AR2006112901343.html Irony abounds.

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We dealt with the GM division that had formerly been a separate company, Electronic Data Systems, headed by H. GM saw our technology as a way to replace their expensive clay-modeling technique for new-car designs. We signed a letter of intent with GM, Philips, and Lucasfilm, dated November 7, 1985. Ross Perot.

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AUGUST 2, 2009

Based on detailed model-level data for US light-duty vehicles from 1980 to 2006, a recent analysis by a UC Davis researcher found that if weight, horsepower and torque had been held at their 1980 levels, fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks could have increased by nearly 50% from 1980 to 2006.

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EDI was co-founded by Professor Andy Frank from UC Davis—a key figure in the development of the PHEV concept and technology—in 2006. The effort combines EDI’s intelligent multi-mode PHEV powertrain (EDI-Drive) with Greenkraft’s CNG-powered 14,500-pound, Class-4 medium-duty truck, which is equipped with a 6.0L

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JULY 19, 2010

While GM worked with Leno on his EcoJet green sports car in 2006, the company is hardly a patsy. Talk-show host and comedian Jay Leno has long been known as a car fan and collector. And car companies often play nice with him to get their products onto his show.

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Read about her cautious optimism for GM’s new electric car in her recent blog post: “I first learned of the Chevrolet Volt while standing on a Minneapolis street corner on June 23, 2006.

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APRIL 15, 2010

The LCA study compared the environmental performance of the current steel design for the front end parts of a GM-Cadillac CTS with new magnesium and aluminum designs. This LCA study was done in compliance with international standards ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044:2006 [ 2 ].

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must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G.

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Add the destination charge, subtract GM Cash, and we arrive at $28,990. Like other GM cars (even high-end Yukon Denalis) the Malibu does not have touch-sensitive keyless entry, but relies on the 2006-era door Chiclet to lock and unlock. In this case, Mosaic Black Metallic paint pairs with a black interior.

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MAY 13, 2021

GM is bringing back the Hummer brand as an EV within the GMC brand. GM, shifting focus to pure EVs, built the last Volt on February 19, 2019. GM’s signature EV now is the Chevrolet Bolt EV , another new name, which arrived as a 2017 model and promptly won Motor Trend ’s Car of the Year award. I’m hoping for the latter.

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OCTOBER 19, 2011

New film ‘Revenge of the Electric Car’, the sequel to the 2006 film ‘Who Killed the Electric Car?’ Directed by Chris Paine, the documentary film focuses on the ambitions of four men; Bob Lutz, former chief executive of GM, Carlos Ghosn CEO [.]. opens in selected theatres in the US from this Friday (October 21, 2011).

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While there, he became interested in EVs when his son leased a GM EV-1 which he occasionally loaned to his parents. “It Eventually, GM pried our car away,” Cox continued, explaining that the next time he experienced an EV was at a Tesla event in 2006 in Santa Monica, California, where he rode in a prototype Tesla Roadster.

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NHTSA found that GM failed to report the safety defect to the federal government in a timely manner. The defect resulted in the non-deployment of airbags in certain Chevrolet Cobalt and other GM models. GM admits in the Consent Order that it did not do so.

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Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We Lobbying EV1 style Pohorsky leased his first EV, a GM EV1 , in 1999. Freund recalled that Plug In America started when GM was engaged in taking back and crushing the EV1s. “And that entrepreneurship persists here in the valley.

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Storytelling is definitely a filmmaker’s business, and telling the story of the crushing of EV1s in 2006′s Who Killed the Electric Car? His answer was storytelling: if people hear about their friends and neighbors having success with electric vehicles, it will put EV on their radar and spread the cause.

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I f there is any doubt that GM is serious about PHEVs, here is one more story that indicates that they are indeed very serious. GM Could Reportedly Produce 60,000 Plug-in Hybrids in 2010 Source: GreenBiz.com by Jeff Green at Bloomberg OAKLAND, Calif., Selling 60,000 hybrids would be a coup for GM, which lost nearly $2 billion in 2006.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2009

Mounting kits were developed for most models of GM, Ford and Chrysler vehicles. The company filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in June 2005 and emerged under a plan of reorganization on 1 February 2006. The original founders left in 2002 and from 2002 to 2005, Aura had a number of new management teams.

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