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U.S. Regulator Proposes Updated Rules for Autonomous Vehicles in Exchange for Data

The Truth About Cars

In 2021, the San Francisco Police Department reportedly asked Waymo and General Motors' Cruise to hand over footage obtained by autonomous test vehicles in the hope that they’d help solve crimes. The advent of AV STEP could be a big help to General Motors, in particular.

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USCAR helps to develop charging-readiness tools for plug-in & electric vehicles through US DRIVE

Green Car Congress

Founded in 1992, USCAR is the collaborative automotive technology company for Chrysler Group LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors. The goal of USCAR is to further strengthen the technology base of the domestic auto industry through cooperative research and development.

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Rivian IPO: What you need to know

Teslarati

Such a valuation is ambitious , as it would make Rivian’s market cap just a bit lower than veterans such as General Motors ($84.82 billion) and Ford Motor Company ($79.65 According to the document, the company expects to fill its pre-order backlog of approximately 55,400 R1 vehicles by the end of 2023.

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Bring Back the EV1 Press Conference

Revenge of the Electric Car

City Council Member, held a press conference demanding General Motors apologize to the American people for destroying the automaker’s EV1 plug-in electric vehicle. General Motors compounded their financial woes by destroying the EV1 and continued to work with the oil companies to gouge the public. said Holden.

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2022 Rivian R1T: a real pickup truck makes an impressive debut

Charged EVs

The documents the company filed for its IPO say it hopes to have delivered 1,000 pickup trucks and 15 of its R1S sport-utility vehicles by the end of 2021. Opening at $80 billion-plus, Rivian blew past all that—making it worth more than General Motors. Rivian is launching production slowly and carefully. The next Tesla?

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UAW officially launches union drive at Tesla, other automakers

Teslarati

Following a successful six-week strike against Ford, General Motors (GM) and Stellantis, the United Auto Workers (UAW) union has announced a campaign to organize 13 non-unionized automakers in the U.S. manufacturing plants in the industry. including Tesla.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Newsweek ). This is unusual.

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