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JANUARY 7, 2021

General Motors and its joint ventures delivered 2.9 million vehicles in 2019, 3.65 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. from a year earlier.

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MAY 24, 2022

The final year of the four-year competition challenged teams to test, prove, and refine their work from the previous three years, mimicking a real-world automotive product development cycle.

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JUNE 28, 2020

The US Army Contracting Command–Detroit Arsenal announced that GM Defense LLC , a subsidiary of General Motors, has been awarded the production contract to build, field and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). The total production ISV contract award value is $214.3

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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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MARCH 16, 2018

General Motors will build production versions of its Cruise AV ( earlier post ) at its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan. We’re continuing to make great progress on our plans to commercialize in 2019. Roof modules for GM’s self-driving vehicles will be assembled at its Brownstown plant.

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MARCH 9, 2023

In 2019, ABTC detailed the operations of this integrated battery recycling system in a global competition hosted by BASF, and was subsequently selected as the sole winner of the battery recycling portion of the Circularity Challenge.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Pierburg (Rheinmetall Automotive), Swoboda, BASF and General Motors (GM) have developed the first all-plastic fuel vapor pump assembly in series production. It is currently produced at Pierburg’s facility in Fountain Inn, South Carolina and placed on the 2019 Cadillac XT4.

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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. 2019 GMC Sierra Denali CarbonPro Edition.

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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. In 2019, GM became a founding member of what is now known as the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA)—the largest group of corporate renewable energy buyers in the US.

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MARCH 23, 2024

General Motors no longer invests in Lordstown Motors Burns founded the automaker in 2019, later stepping down as Lordstown’s CEO and board chair in 2021. In addition to paying $175,000, Burns has been banned from being an executive officer or director of any public companies for two years. What are your thoughts?

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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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MARCH 16, 2021

business to expand its battery production capacity. In addition to the Green Field Project, LG Energy Solution and GM are currently discussing plans to build a second joint venture plant in the US, which will even further increase its cell production capacity. LG Energy Solution will invest more than $4.5

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

billion transaction provides Lordstown Motors with $675 million of gross proceeds. In November 2019, the Lodstown Motors acquired the Lordstown Complex, formerly a General Motors Corporation (GM) factory. The combined entity will trade on the NASDAQ exchange under the ticker symbol “RIDE.”.

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OCTOBER 10, 2020

HYZON Motors is a global supplier of zero-emissions hydrogen fuel cell powered commercial vehicles, including heavy-duty trucks, buses and coaches. The Horizon Fuel Cell group had already deployed around 400 fuel cells in commercial vehicles in 2019 before spinning off HYZON Motors in early 2020.

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JULY 7, 2021

The Group is considering various ways to procure renewable energy such as self-production through solar panels, power purchase agreements (PPA) with wind and solar energy producers, as well as purchase through Korea Electric Power Corporation’s (KEPCO) ‘Green Premium’ program. General Motors and the BMW Group are also RE100 members.

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APRIL 6, 2023

The publication’s sources also noted that Toyota recognizes that it needs to match Tesla’s design and manufacturing innovations if it wants to drive down production costs and develop a high-margin electric vehicle business. Toyota has caught quite a bit of flak for its slow adoption of battery electric cars.

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JANUARY 12, 2018

General Motors has filed a Safety Petition with the US Department of Transportation (USDOT) for GM’s fourth-generation self-driving Cruise AV—the first production-ready vehicle built from the start to operate safely on its own, with no driver, steering wheel, pedals or manual controls. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Current EV business models are doomed unless manufacturers that have bet their futures on them, such as General Motors and VW, invest in or coordinate on a robust supercharger network. Other automakers are still playing a product game. Tesla has played the platform game. This advantage that Tesla has is not permanent.

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APRIL 5, 2022

In February 2020, Mercedes Benz issued a recall in one 2019 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive vehicle. In late 2020, Hyundai and General Motors both issued recalls for the 2019-2020 Kona and 2017-2019 Bolt EV. In 2021, Hyundai issued another recall for the Kona and one for the Ioniq.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Pyun will be instrumental as LGES ramps efforts to improve its battery production facilities by converting them into smart factories with data-centric operations. From 2016 to 2019, Dr. Pyun was a Principal Solutions Architect at Nvidia. . In 2021, LG agreed to reimburse General Motors Co. Both companies invested $2.6

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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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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Developed by General Motors and built in partnership with the pioneering electric drag racing team Hancock and Lane Racing, the concept race car—based on the 2019 COPO Camaro —is driven by an electric motor providing the equivalent of more than 700 horsepower and 600 lb-ft (813 N·m) of torque.

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JANUARY 12, 2018

How comfortable would you be in a taxi or car-service vehicle that had no steering wheel, accelerator or brake pedals? That's the question prompted by a photo that has already produced some subconscious anxiety among at least auto writers.

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OCTOBER 22, 2020

General Motors Co. In addition, the company is confirming investments in five Michigan plants, including the Lansing Delta Township Assembly and Flint Assembly for future crossover and full-size pickup production. Production of the Cadillac XT6 and XT5 will continue at Spring Hill.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Presently, Farasis has two production bases in China: Ganzhou and Zhenjiang. With rapidly increasing demand from their customers and the strong support of their shareholders, Farasis expects to announce additional global expansion projects throughout 2018 and 2019.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group has formed New Horizons Studio, a new unit focused on the development of Ultimate Mobility Vehicles (UMVs), including the concept Hyundai Elevate walking car introduced at CES 2019 ( earlier post ). The Hyundai Elevate in drive mode.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

The feds are telling Wolfsburg to recall about 47,000 Jetta sedans in this country, all from the 2019 and 2020 model years, thanks to an issue in cars with the old-school ignition switch. While affected model years are 2019 and 2020, documents suggest production dates range from September 2018 to December of the next year.

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During the General Motors (GM) 2023 earnings call held this week, CEO Mary Barra said the company will be bringing plugin hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) to North America—despite still being committed to going all-electric by 2035. GM-Honda to start hydrogen fuel cell commercial production in MI What are your thoughts?

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Chevrolet this week recalled two months worth of production Bolt EVs and Volt plug-in hybrids over a potential brake issue that could increase stopping distances of the small vehicles. The recall affects 2018-2019 Chevrolet Bolt EV and 2018-2019 Volt models sold in the U.S. and Canada.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Honda said that it will take a proactive approach to increase the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier and strive to expand its hydrogen business, in addition to continuing to electrify its products. As the core of its hydrogen business, Honda will further advance its fuel cell system.

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DECEMBER 13, 2019

Led by Alexander Hitzinger, Volkswagen AG senior vice president for autonomous driving and member of the Volkswagen Brand Board of Management responsible for technical development at Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles, the VWAT subsidiary will be responsible for integrating autonomous systems into future VW vehicles and industrializing their production.

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OCTOBER 24, 2023

Just one day after the UAW went on strike at Stellantis’ pickup factory in Sterling Heights , roughly 5,000 union members walked off the line at General Motors’ plant in Arlington, Texas. Arlington Assembly is responsible for profitable models like the Chevrolet Tahoe, Chevy Suburban, GMC Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade.

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OCTOBER 27, 2021

General Motors CEO Mary Barra says the Detroit automaker is “absolutely” capable of catching Tesla’s EV market share in the United States by 2025. While battery production for the Bolt has resumed , GM has not indicated if the Bolt itself has resumed production. GM has had a tumultuous 2021 so far.

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DECEMBER 15, 2023

It was a timely turn of events for General Motors after the Orlando area TravTek experiment of 1992 proved either too costly to scale, or alternatively not valuable enough in the eyes of consumers. EDS was founded in 1962 by former IBM man, billionaire, and future independent presidential candidate Ross Perot (1930-2019).&

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Compared with the same period in 2019 ($5.50 The lesson is to not focus so much on Tesla and more on its own products. For example, during the During Super Bowl LVI, Polestar paid for an advertisement that focused more on Tesla, Mars, and Elon Musk than it did on its own products. billion spent. Graph credit: Visual Capitalist.

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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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JULY 28, 2015

General Motors and SAIC Motor are enhancing their partnership through an agreement jointly to develop the core architecture and engine of a new vehicle family targeting global growth markets. The program is expected to grow to more than 2 million vehicles annually with the first entry planned for the 2019 model year.

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