Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2012

PSA Peugeot Citroën (PSA) and General Motors have signed definitive agreements related to three of initial vehicle projects as well as to the purchasing joint venture as part of the execution of their Global Strategic Alliance. Earlier post.).

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

I’m afraid the time has come to pull the plug on GM’s life support so we can plug into a whole new kind of Motors much better than General. I’m talking about electric motors. Here’s what I’m proposing: Seize and Nationalize the bankrupt General Motors Corporation. There you go.

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General Motors Motor Motors Motoring 170

Green Car Congress

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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Gasoline GM Global Engine 231

Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2020

The seven projects will leverage National Laboratory capabilities as part of the Co-Optimization of Fuels & Engines (Co-Optima) initiative. General Motors will work with Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to determine fuel property effects on abnormal combustion for biofuel-petroleum fuel blends.

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Electric Driver

MAY 11, 2023

Unlike internal combustion vehicles that use gasoline or diesel engines, electric cars, and trucks rely on electric motors powered by batteries or fuel cells.

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Electric Vehicles Vehicles General Motors Gasoline-Electric 98

Green Car Congress

JUNE 6, 2010

litre gasoline engine from the same facility, which will be introduced at the end of this year, [General Motors India Vice-President (Sales, Marketing & Services) Ankush Arora] said. This manufacturing plant at Talegaon has a capacity to produce 1,60,000 engines. “By The auto major will also manufacture its 1.2-litre

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India Gasoline GM Manufacturer 210

Green Car Congress

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. We worked with GM to get this part ready for the Cadillac XT4.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2013

General Motors will build a Chevrolet Impala sedan for retail and fleet customers that operates on either gasoline or compressed natural gas (CNG), GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson announced today. Engines Natural Gas' 2015 Chevrolet CNG-Capable, Bi-Fuel Impala. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

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. BorgWarner will produce the new low-friction engine timing chains for a variety of 0.66- to 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 18, 2010

General Motors Co. and SAIC Motor Corp. SAIC Motor) are expanding their partnership to develop a new small-displacement gasoline engine family and an advanced transmission. The new small gasoline engine will be offered in displacements from 1.0 Tags: Engines Transmissions. liters to 1.5

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GM Gasoline Engine Emissions 199

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

In a newly published SAE paper, a team from Ford, General Motors and AVL argues that the exclusive use of a match blending approach to prepare ethanol-gasoline blends for regulatory emissions testing “has fundamental flaws”. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Gasoline GM Ford Emissions 210

Green Car Congress

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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Engine GM Ford 2014 335

Green Car Congress

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. —Mark Reuss, executive vice president, Global Product Development.

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GM Global Engine Gasoline-Electric 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 28, 2011

has entered into an agreement with General Motors to help develop advanced natural gas engine technology for light-duty vehicles. Both General Motors and Westport will bring their expertise to developing natural gas engine controls, emissions and performance strategies. Westport Innovations Inc.

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Light Gas GM Engine 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

General Motors inaugurated its new flexi-engine facility in Talegaon, GM’s first powertrain plant that enables gasoline and diesel engines to be manufactured simultaneously. It has an initial annual production capacity of 160,000 engines and is designed to accommodate future expansion.

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India GM Engine Automobile Manufacturer 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2022

the cost is less than that of the gasoline ICEV. For the future technology case, HEV, PHEV, and BEV platforms offer the lowest modeled costs of avoided GHG emissions, with many options having a negative cost—i.e.,

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Fuel Vehicles PHEV Carbon 417

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Cole Award for Automotive Engineering Innovation. Nitz leads GM’s Global Transmission and Electrification team, with engineering operations in North America, Europe, South America and Asia. Nitz received a Bachelor’™s of Electrical Engineering from Kettering University and a Master’s degree from Stanford University.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

In separate presentations at the 2017 SAE High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium in Detroit, R&D executives from GM and Ford each stressed the importance of improved, advanced fuels—among other technology developments—for their future engine efficiency gains and for long-term CO 2 emissions goals. Low propensity to soot.

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GM Engine Future Fuel 150

Baua Electric

MAY 7, 2024

2025 Ram 1500 Ramcharger The Nikola Badger fuel-cell pickup might have been eventually sold by the hydrogen-focused company, though it reportedly would have depended heavily on General Motors. Once a leader in fuel cells, GM has backed away from their application in light-duty vehicles and instead is focusing on semi trucks.

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Hydrogen Fuel Poland General Motors 52

Green Car Congress

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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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2010

The Auto Alliance, the American Petroleum Institute and the Outdoor Power Equipment Institute jointly urged the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to delay action on allowing higher levels of ethanol in gasoline. This testing looks at the potential for vehicle engine and fuel system component damage when operating on higher blends.

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EPA Gasoline Industrial Industry 210

Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Discussions of Tesla Motors sometimes seem couched in the terms of a religious tale: Tesla as David vs General Motors in the Goliath role. One company is the plucky Silicon Valley electric-car startup that''s never built a vehicle with a gasoline engine. The other is the largest U.S.

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Tesla Motors Motor Motors Motoring 111

Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2015

General Motors and Isuzu Motors reached an agreement on a US commercial vehicle collaboration, allowing Isuzu to strengthen its product lineup and GM to expand its commercial vehicle portfolio. The Isuzu LCF N-Series in the US offers a choice of two diesel engines or a gasoline engine.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. liter engine and automatic).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 24, 2013

The new 2014 Chevrolet Impala offers as one of its three engine options a four-cylinder Ecotec 2.5L engine, featuring the debut of a new advanced variable valvetrain technology—Intake Valve Lift Control (IVLC, earlier post )—and improved fuel economy. engine is 21 mpg city and 31 mpg highway (11.2 Low-lift profile.

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2014 Engine Fuel Economy Chevrolet 191

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

CleanFUEL USA , a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems has introduced its latest Liquid Propane Injection (LPI) system for the General Motors (GM) 6.0-liter liter engine. When the 6.0L Systems are available through CleanFUEL USA Master Dealers and Preferred Installers.

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USA GM Engine Stimulus 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2014

The CDP CNG Cruze will certified to the cleanest emissions standard available for an internal combustion engine, according to CDP President Kevin Fern. A significant amount of engineering went into this vehicle to ensure a near OEM-level of integration, Fern said. Fern said that the 1.8L-equipped The tank will hold approximately 8.5

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 4, 2023

according to a 2023 study citing recent data from the National Transportation Safety Board and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics , gasoline-powered, internal-combustion engine (ICE) cars were involved in about 1,530 fires per every 100,000 sold. For cars running on gasoline or diesel fuel, the fire rate was 0.08

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Batteries Battery Gasoline-Electric Gasoline 136

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. AOI 04: Platinum Group Metals (PGM) Content Reduction to Enable Cost-Effective Aftertreatment for Gasoline and Diesel Engines. General Motors LLC. Stoichiometric Spark Ignition Propane Engine with Diesel Efficiency Parity.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2012

turbodiesel engine on Cruze—one of the top-selling gasoline-powered cars in the US in 2011 and General Motors’ best-selling model globally—will establish Chevrolet as the only domestic automaker offering an American-manufactured diesel-powered compact car with a European-American developed engine.

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Diesel GM Market 2013 290

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

General Motors will invest more than $494 million in three US plants to produce the next generation of its gasoline direct-injection Ecotec engines. The investment in Tonawanda, supported by the investments at Defiance and Bay City, will go toward producing two next-generation Ecotec engines.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. —Tucker Perkins.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

General Motors has released gas-mileage ratings for the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and 2015 GMC Canyon mid-size pickup trucks equipped with the base four-cylinder gasoline engine. liter engine and six-speed automatic transmission will return an EPA-estimated 22 mpg combined (20 mpg city, 27 mpg highway).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

When it comes to large luxury sedans and SUVs, many car buyers are now choosing to swap high-capacity gasoline engines for the latest generation of high-mileage, clean-diesel engines from German automakers like BMW, Audi and Mercedes-Benz.

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Cadillac Clean Cleaning Diesel 100

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

A 1966 article in ACS’ Chemical & Engineering News described a General Motors press conference at which the automaker outlined research work being done on non-gasoline-based automotive power sources, with a heavy emphasis on the electrical. Electrovan—a hydrogen-oxygen fuel cell-powered GMC van. 24, page 55).

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2014

General Motors Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant worker Tina Oaks attaches wiring harnesses on a Spark EV battery pack. Using our in-house engineering and manufacturing expertise enabled us to deliver a battery system that is more efficient and lighter than the 2014 Spark EV without sacrificing range. Click to enlarge.

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