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APRIL 17, 2012

GM’s Holden signed an agreement with Shanghai General Motors (SGM) and the Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) to develop new vehicles for SGM and its affiliates in the growing China market. The Holden designers and engineers working on the program will be based in Holden’s Technical Centre in Port Melbourne.

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JUNE 16, 2022

General Motors will invest more than $81 million into the company’s Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, to prepare the campus to build the Cadillac CELESTIQ ( earlier post ). —Mark Reuss, president, General Motors. Cadillac CELESTIQ show car. Cadillac CELESTIQ show car.

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APRIL 23, 2012

SAE’s 2012 High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium in Detroit—the second as an immediate precursor to the SAE World Congress—opened on Sunday with a consideration of several alternative engine designs: opposed piston 2-stroke (Achates Power); variable compression ratio (MCE-5); split cycle (Scuderi); and advanced rotary (Liquid Piston).

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JANUARY 30, 2020

General Motors is resurrecting the HUMMER as an electric truck in the GMC family. The GMC HUMMER EV truck will showcase the GMC brand’s design and engineering and will feature 1,000 horsepower; 11,500 lb-ft (15,592 N·m) of torque; and acceleration from 0 to 60 mph in 3 seconds. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

General Motors developed its Two-Mode Hybrid powertrain control system using Model-Based Design software from The Mathworks. Using math and simulation-based tools, GM designed the powertrain prototype within 9 months, shaving 24 months off the expected development time. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 7, 2015

General Motors and its joint ventures sold a record 3,539,970 vehicles in China in 2014, an average of one vehicle every 9 seconds and almost 9,700 vehicles each day. Electric Networked-Vehicle) concept—designed, engineered and built in Shanghai—at the Society of Automotive Engineers in China last year.

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APRIL 15, 2011

A multinational team led by GM’s Torino Engineering Center and supported by engineers from GM India announced that production of a new 1.0-liter liter three-cylinder diesel engine will start in June 2011. GM Torino and GM India Engineering collaborated closely to design in specific regional features and content requirements.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

At the opening of Auto Guangzhou 2012, Shanghai General Motors launched its first localized new energy vehicle, the Sail SPRINGO EV. Its newly designed front and rear anti-collision beams made from ultra-high strength steel and its body structure protect the battery pack in the event of a collision. The Sail SPRINGO EV.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Scott Damman, a senior manager at General Motors, has testified at Nikola founder Trevor Milton’s fraud trial. The GM engineer provided some insights about the ill-fated Nikola Badger pickup truck, particularly with the parts that would be used had the vehicle entered production. .

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

Magna has secured new business from General Motors (GM) to supply battery enclosures on the all-new 2024 Chevrolet Silverado EV. Magna is making two versions of the steel battery enclosure for the HUMMER EV, designed to fit the short- and long-wheelbase versions of the truck. F150 Lightning battery enclosure.

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MAY 21, 2020

On the opening day of the Frankfurt International Motor Show (IAA), the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a Notice of Violation: VW diesel engines with 1.6 liters displacement (type code EA 189) contained illegal software designed to manipulate emissions. For commercial vehicles with EA 189 engines—i.e.

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MAY 28, 2023

The Ohio State (OSU) & Wilberforce University Team has been named the winner of Year One of the EcoCAR Electric Vehicle (EV) Challenge, taking the lead in the four-year collegiate engineering competition. The Team’s complex embedded system designs were impressive. Overall, the team earned a total of 850 points out of 1000.

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MARCH 13, 2014

EcoMotors (EM), the developer of opposed-piston opposed-cylinder (opoc) engine technology, purchased Katech, Inc., a manufacturing company known for developing advanced engines and powertrains. The opoc engine architecture is smaller and lighter than conventional engines, with 50% fewer components. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 24, 2012

During the Winter/Spring 2012 semester, students at the two colleges will create vehicle designs enabled by the packaging flexibility of the clean, efficient, and lightweight opoc. We looked at each other and said, “opoc can literally reshape the future of automotive design”—and the concept was born. Earlier post. ).

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OCTOBER 23, 2014

Nat G CNG Solutions has delivered the first natural gas half-ton pickup trucks with General Motors’ 5.3-liter liter direct injection engine. The DuraDrive DI system is a completely redesigned system using Tier 1 OEM tested components engineered to accommodate the unique operating characteristics of the direct injection engine.

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MAY 13, 2021

Available Terrain Mode, part of the GMC HUMMER EV’s Drive Mode Control, will offer two braking calibrations, with a mild braking option for two-foot driving and a purpose-designed One-Pedal Driving control in low-speed off-road driving. —Aaron Pfau, GMC HUMMER EV lead development engineer.

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OCTOBER 3, 2018

Cruise and General Motors have joined forces with Honda to pursue the shared goal of transforming mobility through the large-scale deployment of autonomous vehicle technology. In addition, Cruise, General Motors and Honda will explore global opportunities for commercial deployment of the Cruise network.

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JUNE 2, 2022

With a sleek, dynamic and expressive appearance, the Buick Electra-X concept SUV unveiled in China brings Buick's all-new design language to life and projects the brand’s vision for an electric and intelligent future.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

General Motors will invest $300 million in China-based Momenta to accelerate the development of next-generation self-driving technologies for future GM vehicles in China. —Julian Blissett, executive vice president of General Motors and president of GM China. —Xudong Cao, CEO of Momenta.

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AUGUST 23, 2017

HRL Laboratories has received an award as part of NASA’s Space Technology Research, Development, Demonstration, and Infusion program to develop additive manufactured (3D-printed) ceramic rocket engine components. This will enable new designs, lower costs and reduced lead time. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 29, 2014

Pinnacle Engines, developer of a highly efficient 4-stroke, spark-ignited (SI), opposed-piston, sleeve-valve architecture engine ( earlier post ), named Phil Murtaugh as the newest member of its board of directors. —Ron Hoge, Chairman and CEO of Pinnacle Engines.

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AUGUST 6, 2014

As part of its 2014 ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge ( ALCC ) awards of processor time (totaling more than 3 billion processor hours), the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Science has awarded 15 million hours on Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) Titan supercomputer to a project led by General Motors, and 17.5

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

billion transaction provides Lordstown Motors with $675 million of gross proceeds. In November 2019, the Lodstown Motors acquired the Lordstown Complex, formerly a General Motors Corporation (GM) factory. The design significantly increases reliability, maximizes performance, and reduces total cost of ownership.

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MAY 24, 2022

Teams also gave five scored presentations to more than 65 judges from government and industry, detailing vehicle designs and subsystems, team management and communications activities, and demonstrating the multidisciplinary aspect of their EcoCAR team.

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JANUARY 29, 2014

BorgWarner’s next-generation 6.35 mm inverted tooth silent engine timing chains are launching on engines from Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Hyundai, General Motors Korea and one Chinese automaker. The new timing chain is designed to reduce friction, resulting in as much as 0.3

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APRIL 23, 2022

The challenge will span four years and after each year, teams will be evaluated on their vehicle design and process. More than 27,000 students from 93 unique educational institutions have participated to date, seeding the industry with engineers who have helped redefine the automobile over the last three decades.

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MAY 11, 2022

General Motors and Red Hat Inc., GM engineer demonstrates Ultifi test bench to Red Hat executive. General Motors is now a platform company and working with Red Hat is a critical element in advancing our Ultifi software development.

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MARCH 5, 2020

At an event in the GM Tech Center campus in Warren, Michigan, General Motors unveiled the core of its new strategy to grow the company’s EV sales quickly, efficiently and profitably. Photo by Steve Fecht for General Motors). Ultium-powered EVs are designed for Level 2 and DC fast charging.

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APRIL 17, 2021

Ultium Cells LLC, a joint venture of LG Energy Solution and General Motors, will invest more than $2.3 This partnership with General Motors will transform Tennessee into another key location for electric vehicle and battery production. GM’s future Ultium-powered EVs are designed for Level 2 and DC fast charging.

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APRIL 3, 2020

General Motors and Honda have agreed to develop jointly two all-new electric vehicles for Honda, based on GM’s highly flexible global EV platform powered by proprietary Ultium batteries. General Motors’ all-new modular platform and battery system, Ultium. GM unveiled the platform and batteries in early March.

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JULY 19, 2021

Selected projects will use HPC to address complex challenges, from improving additive manufacturing processes to increasing the lifecycle energy efficiency of jet-engine components to improving the performance of materials used to convert CO 2 into high-value chemicals and products. General Motors LLC. Polyceed Inc. 3M Company.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

Ecotec small gasoline engine. General Motors will develop an all-new global family of small-displacement Ecotec gasoline engines over the next several years that will deliver improved fuel economy, higher quality, better performance and reduced CO 2 emissions. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Pierburg (Rheinmetall Automotive), Swoboda, BASF and General Motors (GM) have developed the first all-plastic fuel vapor pump assembly in series production. The design is a major achievement for emissions reduction as it enables a leak-proof seal for gasoline vapors. This design is a major achievement for emission reduction.

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JUNE 28, 2020

The US Army Contracting Command–Detroit Arsenal announced that GM Defense LLC , a subsidiary of General Motors, has been awarded the production contract to build, field and sustain the Army’s new Infantry Squad Vehicle (ISV). Duramax turbo-diesel engine, and six-speed automatic transmission.

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JUNE 29, 2012

At its Powertrain Engineering Center in Torino, Italy, GM is harvesting the 300 kWh of energy from its test benches—equipment that tests various measures of a running engine—to power all of the facility’s computers. —Pierpaolo Antonioli, managing director of the General Motors Powertrain Engineering Center.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2016

General Motors will rename GM Powertrain to GM Global Propulsion Systems. GM’s Global Propulsion Systems is collectively the group of more than 8,600 people that design, develop and engineer all propulsion related products and controls for GM worldwide. I believe this will establish an industry trend. The Pontiac, Mich.

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JANUARY 21, 2023

General Motors (GM) avoided producing an all-electric Chevrolet Corvette for its most recent model year, instead opting for a hybrid drivetrain due to performance, cost, pedigree, and more concerns. Designing a next-generation model of a long-lasting nameplate vehicle is not easy.

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