Teslarati

MAY 3, 2022

Ford will begin shipping units of the new, all-electric F-150 Lightning to dealers in the coming days after the pickup received an “Ok-To-Buy” status on all trims. The first batches of F-150 Lightnings are rolling off assembly lines and have been since April 24, when Ford had its official production launch event for the pickup.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

General Motors announced that Chevrolet Bolt EV production will last through March and will extend until early April. Following several delays in the recall process, GM eventually shared that it would halt production lines of the Bolt at the Orion Assembly Plant in Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2018

In response, GM is increasing fourth quarter production by more than 20% compared to the average of the first three quarters. Demand for the Chevrolet Bolt EV, especially in the United States, Canada and South Korea, has outstripped production. However, in the US, Bolt EV deliveries in the second quarter dropped 22.6%

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2024

Hyundai’s IONIQ 5 is already a top seller at some dealers. Hyundai’s IONIQ 5 is a top-selling EV “If I had to describe Hyundai right now in two words, it would be growth and investment,” Kevin Reilly, chairman of the Hyundai National Dealer Council, explained (via Automotive News ). What do you guys think?

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 26, 2023

The automaker is telling dealers to pause sales so it can address problems with charging and the infotainment system. But General Motors is already putting these vehicles on the road and reviewers have noticed Ultium products suffering more than usual. Three days later,] we took it to the dealer.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A few Ultium-based models have already gone on sale without too many issues, including the GMC Hummer EV and Cadillac Lyriq, but the most recent release hasn’t gone so smoothly. The publication sent its SUV to the dealer, where it’s been for more than two weeks so far, requiring support from a GM technician and surrounding stores.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

The company said all other EVs under the price cap would qualify, leaving only the Chevy Bolt EV , which is scheduled to end production. GM’s other electric models, including the GMC Hummer EV, start well over the $80K threshold for SUVs and pickups. Until then, GM will fill in the gap for buyers.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

The fully integrated and dedicated Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) option, available this fall for Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size vans ( earlier post ), will be priced at $15,910 MSRP, according to GM. Joyce Mattman, director of Commercial Product and Specialty Vehicles. Powered by a Vortec 6.0L

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Teslarati

AUGUST 2, 2022

General Motors has announced that vehicles sold too quickly after their initial sale will have their warranties stripped ahead of multiple hotly anticipated product releases. In the continued battle of many automakers to limit price gouging by dealers and private resellers alike , legacy brands have very few options.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Despite early struggles with production, the Ford F-150 Lightning has finally gained a foothold on dealers’ lots, and soon, the Chevy Silverado EV and GMC Sierra EV will hit the streets. The R1T was the first electric truck to hit the market, but the EV pickup space is about to get a whole lot more crowded.

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2023

With today’s earnings, the General may be poised to enter the EV segment guns-a-blazing , but the challenge of EV production remains daunting. Despite this incredible earnings beat, GM profits did fall as the business continues to invest in production, pushing profit down 18% year over year, despite earnings rising 11.1%

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 8, 2022

GM has launched the “Dealer Community Charging Program” ahead of the launches of numerous EVs from its brands. General Motors (GM) dealers aren’t the most popular crowd. The Dealer Community Charging Program is a relatively simple one. Furthermore, the chargers will be open to all EVs, not just GM products.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 30, 2024

The assumption being that profits will come once the company has built more high-margin examples and battery production reaches a point where costs begin to come down. Dealers have likewise expressed the need for more hybrids and fewer battery electric models based on consumer research efforts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

GM is targeting annual global EV sales of more than 1 million by 2025, and we are increasing our investment to scale faster because we see momentum building in the United States for electrification, along with customer demand for our product portfolio. —GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 10, 2023

Cadillac isn’t new to electric vehicles as the 2023 Lyriq is in dealers now, and has shown the concept for the 2025 Celestiq , which is scheduled to start its bespoke production soon. The Escalade IQ settles one frequent question we get at Clean Fleet Report of when a full-size, three row electric SUV will be available.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2010

General Motors has finalized the production process for its Compressed Natural Gas (CNG)-powered Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana full-size vans, allowing the company to deliver fleet customers complete vehicles with a fully integrated and dedicated CNG fuel system starting this fall. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

billion in Federal support for GM and $2 billion for Chrysler; deeper job and brand cuts; as well as product plans for the surviving versions of the automakers. In the US, GM will focus on its core brands; Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC. Pontiac will serve as a focused brand with fewer entries, within the Buick-Pontiac-GMC channel.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

GM and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration are recalling 265 units of the 2024 Chevy Equinox, 2024 Chevy Blazer, 2024 Chevy Blazer EV, and 2024 GMC Terrain due to defective door strikers that were installed incorrectly by a faulty heat treatment during the assembly. So the company has definitely seen better days.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2014

As a result of new CEO Mary Barra’s request for a comprehensive internal safety review following the ignition switch recall, General Motors announced three separate recalls involving US production and sales of approximately: 303,000 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana from the 2009-2014 model years with gross vehicle weight under 10,000 pounds.

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Teslarati

JUNE 16, 2021

The car ultimately never made it to mass production, and it was listed on TIME’s “50 Worst Cars of All-Time” list, which is harsh considering it was one of the first attempts at a battery-powered vehicle in the modern age. The Detroit-based GM entered the EV sector with the EV1 in 1996, which used a 16.5-18.7

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Teslarati

MARCH 7, 2022

GM has spent allocated a massive portion of capital toward its EV plan, which includes a million units of annual production capacity by 2025 in the United States. It also has a plant in Ingersoll, Ontario that will launch EV production later in 2022, Scott Bell, GM’s Managing Director and President in Canada, said in the presentation.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 4, 2022

As Chevrolet—and the other General Motors divisions Cadillac, GMC and Buick—launch additional electric models , it becomes an overall marketing and sales positioning strategy so these electric vehicles don’t get in each other’s way. In August 2021 Chevrolet stopped production of both models as there was a battery recall.

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Plug in America

MAY 18, 2021

We hope they will rapidly scale up production so it can be available in every Ford dealer in all 50 states. The F-150 Lightning is among the new electric truck options that will soon become available, including the Tesla Cybertruck , the Rivian R1T , and the GMC Hummer EV.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

BMW is losing its touchscreen for some models like the X5, X6, and X7; GM is losing heated seats for popular pickups like the Silverado and GMC Sierra; and Mercedes-Benz is eliminating features such as wireless charging, hands-free rear access systems, LED headlights, and some audio systems. Pretty appalling for a $60k+ product @elonmusk.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Molly Peck, chief marketing officer at Buick and GMC Global, said, “After bringing the Wildcat EV’s design language into production on the 2024 Encore GX and all-new Envista, we’ve found that beautiful design and quiet luxury sets Buick apart from the competition.” When exactly is still unclear.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 29, 2024

His goal is to integrate all the systems to “make the Optiq a wonderful product.” So far the GMC Hummer , Chevrolet Blazer and Equinox , Cadillac Lyriq and Chevrolet Silverado are currently on the road, and the Cadillac Escalade IQ and GMC Sierra EV Denali hitting dealers in late 2024.

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Teslarati

MARCH 15, 2022

As per Dobrinski’s LinkedIn page , he was the Owner/Dealer of Dobrinski Chevrolet, Inc. until March 2017, and he was the Dealer/Owner of Dobrinski of Kingfisher, Inc., a Chevrolet-Buick-GMC dealership, until October 2018. . Dobrinski explained that HB 3994 is a request bill from the Oklahoma Auto Dealer Association. .

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 8, 2023

They just began production on the Lightyear 0, a limited production proof-of-concept that costs about $265,000. Production begins sometime in 2025. No price or dealer structure was announced. The ID7 dash looks ready for production. A Ram EV in XXL. Ram 1500 Revolution EV Concept. Still several years away.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Production of the 2013 Chevrolet Silverado HD and GMC Sierra 2500 HD bi-fuel pickup trucks is underway in Fort Wayne, Ind., and the pickups are available for order by fleet and retail customers through Chevrolet and GMC dealers. The Silverado HD and Sierra 2500 HD Vortec 6.0L —Nate Pumphrey, Chesapeake Energy Corp.

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EV Adoption

JANUARY 8, 2022

4 was only beginning to reach US dealers. Ford has announced plans to increase production of the Mach-E at its Mexico plant 3X over the next two years which suggests sales could reach at least 40,000 in 2022. The Bolt, which is expected to resume production in early March , was on pace until the recall to sell 40,000 units in 2021.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 4, 2022

Two years into 2022, while stories of the expected new EVs for the year were being published, Tesla announced it has delivered 308,600 vehicles worldwide in the fourth quarter, besting its own record for quarterly EV production. Virtually every car dealer—and a growing number of used car lots—will have full EV or plug-in hybrid offerings.

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Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

Eli has now boosted its production capacity to 4,000 vehicles per year and will use a dealership model to sell and distribute its ZERO vehicles in the US. The length of the ZERO is just 88 inches, which is actually shorter than the width of a GMC HUMMER EV. In other words, most roads in most cities.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

LiveWire motorcycles are not really Harleys, the thought goes, although they will share engineering, production facilities, a supply chain and global logistics. All of this made me think about of the differences in the way companies are introducing EVs into their product portfolios. The LiveWire at launch was a Harley. Fine with me.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

General Motors presented an updated Viability Plan that accelerates and deepens the cuts in US brands and nameplates, dealers, manufacturing operations and employees intended to enable GM North America to breakeven (on an adjusted EBIT basis) at a US total industry sales volume of approximately 10 million vehicles. billion in 2008 to $23.2

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The dealer was overwhelmed with the number of cars it was fixing that day, and tempers among owners were flaring by the hour — all for a simple fuel pump replacement. There was no dealer visit, no forms to fill out, and no staff to argue with. I certainly count myself among drivers who look at vehicle recalls with trepidation.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

previously announced The New GM will: Focus on four core brands in the US—Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC—with fewer nameplates and a more competitive level of marketing support per brand. Reduce its dealers to approximately 3,600 from the current 5,969. Jacksonville, Fla. Close: 31 Dec 2009. Columbus, Ohio Close: 31 Dec 2009.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 27, 2009

The significant changes outlined in the plan include: - A focus on four core brands in the US - Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC. A restructure of GM’s dealer organisation with the number of dealers to drop to 3,605 by the end of 2010 - that’s down from 6,246 in 2008. -

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