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GM restructuring; changing product development, production; 5 NA & 2 international plants shutting next year; staff reduction

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General Motors on Monday outlined a series of major restructuring steps that it said would accelerate its transformation for the future, building on the strategy it laid out in 2015 to strengthen its core business, to capitalize on the future of personal mobility and to drive significant cost efficiencies. Optimizing product portfolio.

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GM’s Maven car-sharing reaches 1M miles driven in <4 months; Boston, Chicago, and DC joining lineup

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In less than four months, Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand ( earlier post ), has grown to five markets: New York City, Ann Arbor, Mich., Launched in March with Lyft—in which GM has invested $500 million ( earlier post )—the Chicago Express Drive short-term rental program leverages the Maven platform.

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Update: 10 Best Car Sharing Programs

Clean Fleet Report

For her car sharing had subcategories of: Car sharing is expanding our mobility Roundtrip One-Way Personal Vehicle Sharing (which can include fractional ownership models) Then there’s scooter sharing and bike sharing (also with subcategories of public, closed campus and peer-to-peer [P2P]). trillion in 2026.” In the U.S.

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Summer Update

Plug In Partners

They join Founding Members from these cities: Arlington, TX, Baltimore, Boulder, Dallas, Denver, Fort Worth, Irvine, CA, Los Angeles, Memphis, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Wenatchee, WA. The list of supporters/partners now includes links to the members’ web sites along with a contact person. Keene, N.H., Santa Barbara, CA.,

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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

Cars That Think

Think Globally. In 1981, GM held exploratory conversations with Digital Equipment Corp. These discussions culminated in the release of GM’s Manufacturing Automation Protocol (MAP) version 1.0 The advances in global computer networking that have come since then all rest on that initial foundation.

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