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Tesla outpaces Volkswagen, Subaru, BMW in 2023 U.S. market share

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This morning, Kelley Blue Book published its figures for vehicle sales per manufacturer for 2023. General Motors was still the best-selling car company in the United States, selling 2,577,648 vehicles for the year, a 14.1 percent increase from the year before. percent, with 654,888 sales in the U.S. in 2024.

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Autonomous driving visionary Dr. Lawrence Burns joining Neural Propulsion Systems as Executive Advisor; L4/L5 autonomous driving

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Dr. Burns is the former Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning at General Motors ( earlier post ). He coined the phrase “age of automobility” to describe this future in his book, Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car And How It Will Reshape Our World (2018). He received a B.S.

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Safety at Scale: GM’s Ankur Ganguli

Cars That Think

This is the responsibility shouldered by Ankur Ganguli , executive director of Vehicle Motion Embedded Controls at General Motors Co. "My engines, transmissions, electric batteries and motors, brakes, steering and suspensions) for our full portfolio of cars and trucks—millions of vehicles every year," says Ganguli.

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Vaclav Smil: Cars weigh too much

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metric tons, General Motors’ Volt is more than 1.7 Smil has spent his career working on energy and its interactions with the environment, economy and food production and its impact on the quality of life and political and strategic matters. He has published 35 books and more than 400 papers on these topics. metric tons.

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Electric Vehicle sales peaked in Q4 2021, Tesla dominates market share with 72%: KBB

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A new report from Kelley Blue Book indicates electric vehicle sales peaked in the United States in Q4 2021, accounting for 4.5 percent of all automobile sales in the final three months of the year. “Electrified vehicle sales accounted for 9.7% of all sales in 2021, and in the fourth quarter, 11.8%

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Rare Rides Icons: The Cadillac Eldorado, Distinctly Luxurious (Part II)

The Truth About Cars

At a time when each of General Motors’ divisions maintained their own separate engine lines, the Cadillac used the company’s overhead valve 331 cubic inch (5.4L) V8. It debuted with a new feature destined to appear on many cars in the Fifties and was the first production Cadillac to have a wraparound windshield.

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GM and IBM bring OnStar and Watson together for new cognitive mobility platform: OnStar Go

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General Motors and IBM are partnering to bring the power of OnStar and IBM Watson together to create OnStar Go, the auto industry’s first cognitive mobility platform. —Phil Abram, Executive Director, GM Connected Products and Strategy. Drivers find, reserve and pay for parking all at the click of a button.

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