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MARCH 21, 2023

Ford F-150 Lightning units were recalled as part of a battery manufacturing defect that halted production for several weeks. “Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2023 F-150 Lightning pickup trucks,” the NHTSA said. Ford resumed production of the F-150 Lightning after a few weeks of stoppages and stop-shipments.

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MAY 3, 2022

Nearly half of the 2017-2019 Chevrolet Bolt EV vehicles that were recalled due to potential battery pack fires have been remedied, according to NHTSA documents. General Motors has fixed over 18,000 vehicles in Q1 2022, after initially beginning battery pack replacements in Q4 2021.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Super Cruise, GM’s semi-automated driving technology, will come to market in a new 2017 Cadillac vehicle. It will warn drivers and can supplement active safety features, such as forward collision warning, already available on many production cars. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 11, 2013

General Motors announced it will transition to a national sales company in Australia and New Zealand. The company will discontinue vehicle and engine manufacturing and significantly reduce its engineering operations in Australia by the end of 2017. —GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson.

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JULY 19, 2016

General Motors has followed an aggressive schedule for the launch of its 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car. After unveiling the production version of the 200-mile electric car at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show back in January, GM said the Bolt EV would begin rolling off assembly lines before the end of the year.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2024

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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MAY 8, 2019

Teijin Limited announced that its Sereebo carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) has been selected by General Motors (GM) for use in select pickup box applications. This is the first use of CFRTP for structural parts in a high-volume production vehicle.

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MARCH 16, 2018

General Motors will build production versions of its Cruise AV ( earlier post ) at its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan. Roof module production has already begun and production of the fourth generation Cruise AV is expected to begin in 2019. —GM President Dan Ammann.

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

General Motors has finalized energy sourcing agreements required to secure 100% of the energy needed to power all its US facilities by 2025. Since 2017, the portfolio has also produced over $75 million of positive cash flows. Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2022

General Motors announced that Chevrolet Bolt EV production will last through March and will extend until early April. In July, GM issued a warning to 2017-2019 model year Chevrolet Bolt EV owners, stating a potential risk of fires had been reported after some owners had reported their vehicles had spontaneously blazed.

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JANUARY 16, 2017

General Motors will launch 18 new and refreshed models this year to achieve continued growth in the company’s largest retail market. Half of the models to be introduced in 2017 under the Buick, Chevrolet, Cadillac, Baojun and Wuling brands will be SUVs or MPVs. The products are expected to build on GM’s 2016 sales record of 3.87

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JULY 24, 2021

General Motors will introduce new Super Cruise capabilities on six model year 2022 vehicles in the first quarter of 2022. GM launched Super Cruise in 2017 with the Cadillac brand and has added capabilities, expanded Super Cruise-enabled routes and availability on more products since then.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Beginning next month, buyers will be able to order the 2017 Ford F-150 full-size pickup truck with a new 10-speed automatic transmission. The transmission—co-developed with General Motors—is the first of its kind in a production vehicle. In the F-150, it will be paired with an upgraded 3.5-liter

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JULY 15, 2013

General Motors (GM) has outlined its product goals and progress towards its ambitions for 2020 as part of a newly released sustainability report: and has revealed an ambitious target for fuel economy. It has outlined three commitments for 2017 relating to its sustainability strategy. These are: - [.].

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NOVEMBER 22, 2019

General Motors and Isuzu announced a $175-million investment through their DMAX joint venture to build an all-new, diesel engine components plant in Brookville, Ohio. 2017 Duramax 6.6L The company is sharply increasing production of crew cab and diesel models to meet growing customer demand. liter V-8 turbo-diesel.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Later this year, Buick will become the first brand in China officially to roll out the market-ready technology on a production vehicle, a Buick GL8. It is also an initial demonstration following China’s first V2X application layer industry standard that was co-authored by GM and published in 2017. Past work on V2X in China.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Presently, Farasis has two production bases in China: Ganzhou and Zhenjiang. Since 2017 Farasis has regularly ranked first in terms of shipments of NCM-based Li-ion pouch cells to the Chinese automotive market. In July, Farasis established a new manufacturing base in Zhenjiang with a planned annual capacity of 20 GWh.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2016

Today, California reportedly finds a new emissions "defeat device" in Audi transmissions, General Motors ramps up production of the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car, and Volkswagen creates controversy when it ends the contract of a historian. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Dr. Burns is the former Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning at General Motors ( earlier post ). in Mechanical Engineering from General Motors Institute (now Kettering University), an M.S. He has also advised numerous companies—including Google Self-Driving Cars/Waymo for over a decade.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Back in January at the Detroit Auto Show, General Motors unveiled the Chevrolet Bolt EV concept, an audacious and largely unexpected 200-mile electric car. It quickly followed that up with confirmation of production plans, likely late next year.

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JULY 29, 2016

General Motors has always had an aggressive schedule for launching its 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, the industry's first mass-priced electric car with 200 miles or more of range. It was revealed as a concept just 18 months ago at the 2015 Detroit Auto Show, with a production version unveiled at this year's Detroit show.

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JULY 26, 2016

The 200-mile 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV electric car is expected to start production before the end of the year. General Motors has said that it will not take pre-orders for the car, which has drawn comparisons to the Tesla Model 3 that has racked up around 400,000 reservations.

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MARCH 20, 2020

Joining BMW, Ford and FCA in suspension of production in the US due to COVID-19 ( earlier post ) are: Toyota is temporarily suspending production at all of its automobile and components plants in North America, including Canada, Mexico and the US, through 3 April. Tesla will suspend production at its Fremont plant on 23 March.

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JUNE 7, 2017

Fuel Cell System Manufacturing LLC (FCSM), the joint venture company established by General Motors and Honda for the production of advanced hydrogen fuel cell systems ( earlier post ), revealed its company logo at an event recognizing local elected officials for helping bring the operation to metro Detroit.

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OCTOBER 21, 2015

When General Motors CEO Mary Barra unveiled the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV concept last January at the Detroit Auto Show, the 200-mile electric car was a shock to the industry. But equally startling was the launch schedule that emerged over the following months: The Bolt EV is to go into production before the end of 2016.

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APRIL 8, 2024

Though getting that vehicle, and other upcoming electric models, into production are one of the primary reasons for its crash burn. Despite corners of the world asserting forthcoming bans on combustion vehicles, EVs remain niche products catering to a very specific clientele. The brand has long struggled to remain profitable.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Cadillac unveiled the first 2017 Crossover Touring 5 (XT5), a comprehensively upgraded luxury crossover and the cornerstone of a new series of crossovers. The XT5 premieres this month at the Dubai and Los Angeles auto shows and begins production in the US and China in spring 2016. Cadillac crossovers will wear the “XT” designation.

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JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. This data includes data from some GM JVs.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

The workshop was immediately followed by an evaluation of a military fuel cell-powered vehicle (Chevrolet Colorado ZH2) developed by General Motors and sponsored by Army TARDEC. TARDEC and General Motors tested the Chevrolet Colorado ZH2 at Fort Carson, Colorado, 27-30 June 2017. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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APRIL 21, 2014

In conjunction with the start of Auto China 2014 in Beijing, GM China President Matt Tsien announced that GM’s China joint ventures will make capital expenditures of about $12 billion between 2014 and 2017. That investment will help GM step up its pace by funding facility and capacity expansion and new product programs.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2024

But we’re only interested in the forced labor claims, which date back to roughly 2017 when the first modern reduction and detainment centers were established. Concerns have revolved around aluminum, steel, and copper sourcing, tire manufacturing, battery production, and a slew of parts suppliers said to be employing people against their will.

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JUNE 13, 2017

General Motors has completed production of 130 Chevrolet Bolt EV test vehicles equipped with its next generation of self-driving technology at its Orion Assembly Plant located in Orion Township, Michigan.

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APRIL 5, 2022

In late 2020, Hyundai and General Motors both issued recalls for the 2019-2020 Kona and 2017-2019 Bolt EV. Perhaps the most public case of LGES battery defects was with the Chevrolet Bolt, which stopped production in mid-2021. In February 2020, Mercedes Benz issued a recall in one 2019 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive vehicle.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Scott Jorgensen, a former General Motors Technical Fellow and principle at Hyrax Intercontinental LLC, recently joined Skeleton Technologies as an advisor to the Board to support the company in gaining market share for curved graphene ultracapacitors in the hybrid and electric vehicle market.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

General Motors and its joint ventures delivered 2.9 million in 2017, for a three-year decrease of 28%. The brand continued to optimize its product mix and solidify its foothold in the SUV segment through the launch of the Blazer with multiple seating choices. million vehicles in China in 2020. from a year earlier.

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DECEMBER 12, 2013

The Phase II awards were launched to utilize $150 million in tax credits that were not used by the previous awardees and support projects that must be placed in service by 2017. Ford Motor Company. General Motors Company. million through 2017 in equipment and tooling at its Kokomo Power Electronics facility in Indiana.

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APRIL 16, 2024

Stellantis CEO Carlos Tavares’ pay increase has annoyed a subset of shareholders as the automaker positions itself for more layoffs and attempts to shift the production of electric vehicles to countries where labor is cheaper. In the U.S.,

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