The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 22, 2024

General Motors’ Cruise has had a rough few months, ending with it pulling back on autonomous testing efforts across the country. Waymo plans to expand to Austin, TX, at some point soon. Waymo already has a large operational footprint in San Francisco and is testing rides in Los Angeles, but they’re only by invitation.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

in Fremont, California and Austin, Texas. The production milestone also comes as a historic strike was launched by the United Auto Workers (UAW) union against automakers Ford, General Motors (GM) and Stellantis this week, putting significant financial and production pressure on the so-called “Big 3” of Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

General Motors has made its largest renewable energy procurement to date, purchasing enough wind power to equal the electricity needs of 16 of its US facilities, including business offices in Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, a major assembly and stamping complex in Arlington, Texas, and 13 parts warehouses east of the Mississippi River.

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MAY 9, 2023

We assume General Motors (GM) splits the tax credit 50%/50% with LGES, and Ford (F) 50%/50% with SK On,” the analyst wrote.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

As such, Austin, Texas, and Sparks, Nevada, are receiving the lowest pay in Tesla’s new payment scheme. Last year, the UAW successfully struck negotiations with the big Detroit 3: Ford, General Motors, and Stellantis. Meanwhile, Tesla workers in Fremont and Palo Alto, California, receive the highest pay.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

But it remains competitive for an all-electric pickup truck if compared to alternatives from Ford and General Motors. Tesla is planning a huge event at the Gigafactory in Austin, Texas, on November 30th to celebrate the first Cybertruck deliveries. This is about 3,000 pounds less than the brand had originally claimed.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 9, 2024

General Motors Co.’s When the October incident occurred, Cruise was charging fares in San Francisco, Austin and Phoenix. The robotaxi business was supposed to be a key part of her goal to double revenue to USD280 billion by 2030. With Cruise’s problems and a slowdown in EV sales growth, that target looks tougher to reach.

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Teslarati

MAY 10, 2023

The General Motors (GM) robotaxi unit, Cruise, has announced that it will expand to two Texas metro areas in the coming weeks. Autonomous driving technology is quickly becoming a top development priority for many automakers, especially as Tesla continues to widen its lead in the sector.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2018

MOBI and partners, including, BMW, Bosch, Ford, General Motors, Groupe Renault, ZF, Aioi Nissay Dowa Insurance Services USA and others seek to foster an ecosystem where businesses and consumers have security and sovereignty over their driving data, manage ride-share and car-share transactions, and store vehicle identity and usage information.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 21, 2024

The company also aims to operate in Austin, Texas. General Motors’ Cruise driverless car unit paused all supervised and manual car trips in the U.S. last year after an accident led to the suspension of driverless vehicle operations.

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Teslarati

MAY 5, 2022

General Motors CEO Mary Barra has plans to catch Tesla by mid-decade, and she plans to lean on cheaper electric vehicles that are more comparable in price to gas cars to do it. Ultimately, Barra plans to be out-manufacturing and out-selling everyone, including Tesla, by the mid-2020s.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

Goodenough, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Texas at Austin , authored more than 800 technical papers during his career. Goodenough moved back to the United States in 1986 and joined the University of Texas at Austin as a professor of mechanical engineering. Stanley Whittingham.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

Coulomb’s ChargePoint America program will provide nearly 5,000 charging stations in nine regions in the United States: Austin, Texas, Detroit, Los Angeles, New York, Orlando, Fla., The program is a strategic partnership between Coulomb and Ford, General Motors and smart USA. Sacramento, Calif., and Washington DC.

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

As per observations from the electric vehicle community, for example, it would seem that numerous new production line robots have arrived at the Austin, Texas facility recently. . It appears that Tesla is hard at work in its efforts to prepare Gigafactory Texas for the production of the Cybertruck.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2010

Austin, Texas; and the New York City metropolitan area later this year. General Motors Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre separately announced that Chevrolet will add five Texas electric utilities and five Northeast utilities to a Department of Energy development and demonstration program that provides Volts and charging stations to key utilities.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

ActaCell, a Li-ion battery spin-off from the University of Texas at Austin, was selected by the state of Texas, through the Austin Chamber of Commerce and the Central Texas Regional Center of Innovation and Commercialization (CenTex RCIC), to be awarded investment by the Texas Emerging Technology Fund (ETF). ActaCell, Inc.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

RELATED: General Motors’ Cruise taxis to expand to Phoenix and Austin. The same survey showed 24 percent of consumers believed fully-autonomous vehicles are available to buy and drive right now, which simply is not true.

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JULY 12, 2022

.: one in Fremont, California, and another in Austin, Texas. Despite the biggest names in automotive production, like Ford, General Motors, and Volkswagen bringing highly attractive EV models to their lineups, they haven’t been able to catch up to Tesla on a global scale.

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JULY 29, 2014

Some examples of recent work by automakers on this include: General Motors is developing OnStar-enabled Smart Grid solutions, and in 2012 announced it would open up its APIs to third-party developers. Participating auto manufacturers are American Honda Motor Co.; Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Pecan Street also offered a limited number of rebates for the Nissan Leaf and Prius PHV.

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JULY 17, 2020

General Motors LLC. Ford Motor Company. General Motors LLC. The University of Texas at Austin. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2010

The United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), an advanced research collaboration among Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors Company, announced approximately $5.43 million in advanced battery development and technology assessment contracts to five firms. Quallion LLC of Los Angeles, Calif.,

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Green Cars News

JULY 25, 2012

Smart grid research in Austin, Texas, has picked up some serious backing – thanks to the involvement of General Motors (GM) and OnStar.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 3, 2010

The first nine communities to participate are: Sacramento, Los Angeles the San Francisco Bay-San Jose area, New York City, Orlando, Austin, Detroit, Washington and Redmond, Wash. Ford, General Motors and Smart are partners. Ford, General Motors and Smart are partners. A $2,000 value!). A $2,000 value!).

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The department said that the manufacturer (which is owned by General Motors) was fielding vehicles that are not safe for public operation and “may lack the ability to respond in a safe and appropriate manner during incidents involving a pedestrian.” Those states also didn’t seem to share the problems the company has seen in California.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2011

Coulomb Technologies, ECOtality, General Motors and others have been moving forward to install the charging stations as part of the Administration’s investments in US electric vehicle manufacturing and alternative vehicle infrastructure. New York, NY; Orlando, Fla.; Redmond, Wash.; Sacramento, Calif.; San Francisco, Calif.;

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 9, 2022

Today’s headline news is trucks, highlighted by General Motors CEO Mary Barra’s keynote unveiling the coming Chevrolet Silverado EV, announcing it was available for online reservations. At Clean Fleet Report , we’ll try to give you some of the highlights of the show, packaged thematically.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 1, 2008

July 22, 2008; The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) announced today a research and development collaboration with General Motors and 34 top utilities to facilitate integration of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles ( PHEVs ) into the grid, a key step in providing the nation’s drivers an alternative to petroleum fuels.

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JUNE 19, 2014

million project that includes Lawrence Berkeley and Oak Ridge National Laboratories and General Motors. Penn State/University of Texas at Austin. identified a material composition with reduced irreversible capacity; the team is also examining other compositions. Envia is leading a $3.8-million

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Being built at a new Gigafactory in Austin Texas, first US Cybertruck deliveries are scheduled for production late in 2023, having been delayed on multiple occasions. Parent company General Motors has revealed all-electric versions of the Silverado – and it will be available in fleet and retail trim levels.

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2008

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2008

The company’s first hybrid products , the Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen two-mode hybrids, use technology developed jointly by their former parent company Daimler, along with General Motors and BMW. Chrysler is the last of the six largest car companies to put a hybrid on the market."

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Other automakers with over 20% price increase rates included Mitsubishi (23.8%), and General Motors (21.6%). The Cybertruck will be built at Tesla’s Gigafactory Texas in Austin. The industry average was 12.1%, mainly driven up by Daimler, which saw 25.8% price increases in the same time period. Credit: Kelley Blue Book.

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Clean Fleet Report

MARCH 31, 2023

Lyft Lyft offers rides on two wheels or four and tells you transit options as well If there was any question about the changing landscape, General Motors’ $500 million investment in the ride sharing company Lyft. The company was purchased by Avis in 2013 and operates as a subsidiary of the traditional car rental company.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

A group of companies including Aptiv, BMW, Continental, Ford, General Motors, Hevo, Honda, Hyundai, IHI, KAIST, Lear, Qualcomm, Toyota, and WiTricity, under SAE leadership, created a Cooperative Research Project (CRP) with industry-committed funds for additional vehicle and emissions testing.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Pandjaitan also said Musk was “very frank” in statements regarding new factories, adding that the automaker wanted to avoid going bankrupt like General Motors (GM) and Chrysler did back in 2009. Tesla currently produces EVs at Gigafactories in Fremont, California and Austin, Texas, and outside the U.S.

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Clean Fleet Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Bolstered by production in China for that key market, soon to be augmented by new plants in Austin, Texas, and Germany, Tesla does not appear to be looking back, but if it did would continue to see other automakers in its rearview mirror. Tesla found the volume (after some initial stumbles) that has moved the company toward fiscal stability.

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