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Webchat on Changing Chevrolet Volt Development Leadership: Today 4pm EST

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General Motors’ global electric vehicle development chief Frank Weber is moving back to Europe to join the Opel/Vauxhall senior leadership team. General Motors is making both of them available for a webchat today at 4 pm EST. Parks was the leader of the global compact car team—the same architecture on which the Volt is based.

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Senate Finance Committee Approves $12,500 EV Tax Credit Bill

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It’s good news for General Motors, which recently begged the government for just […]. Changes include raising the federal EV tax rebate ceiling to $12,500 and opening the door for automakers who already exhausted their production quotas.

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Ford Decides Against Dumping AM Radio

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He said Congress should still pass the bill to keep access to the band. We’ve already seen General Motors taking heat over vowing to eliminate Apple CarPlay from future products. The downsides of permanent vehicular connectivity are becoming known.

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Cruise Ad Insults Human Drivers, Gets Criticized

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Last week, General Motors published an advertisement for its Cruise autonomous vehicle company in The New York Times. But this is the same line they fed Congress in 2016, backed by assurances that the systems would be broadly available by the mid-2000s.&

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GM awarded two EPA ENERGY STAR Partner of Year awards

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named General Motors as one of its 2015 ENERGY STAR Partners of the Year award for Sustained Excellence in Energy Management. GM also received the ENERGY STAR Climate Communication s award.

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GM Pulls the Plug on New Buick Compact Crossover; Plug-in System to Be Applied to Another Vehicle

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In a post on GM’s FastLane blog, Tom Stephens, GM Vice Chairman, who announced the compact two weeks ago, said initial feedback from employees, potential customers, dealers, media, analysts and others on the proposed new compact was consistent and negative. Earlier post.).

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Tesla’s rapid crash analysis; will NHTSA come in?

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On Friday, Tesla Chairman, Product Architect & CEO Elon Musk posted a brief analysis of the accident and fire on the company blog. A video of the flaming wreck went Internet-viral (along with unwarranted EV fire hysteria), and Tesla stock shed up to $30 of its price per share at times during the next two days (about 15%). Earlier post.).

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