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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

General Motors and Amazon plan to introduce the OnStar Guardian skill for Amazon Alexa, a new feature that will provide a voice-enabled connection to Emergency-Certified OnStar Advisors at home through compatible Alexa-enabled devices. —Pam Fletcher, vice president, GM Global Innovation.

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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. 3D Printer at GM Additive Industrialization Center. Cadillac CELESTIQ show car.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 5, 2022

General Motors (GM) recently welcomed former Tesla executive Jon McNeill to its Board of Directors. Based on McNeill’s comments after the announcement, he will play a significant role in GM’s efforts to increase its presence in the EV market. General Motors and Mary Barra are marching towards an electric future.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2023

General Motors plans to invest $632 million in Fort Wayne Assembly to prepare the plant for production of the next-generation internal combustion engine (ICE) full-size light-duty trucks. This investment will support new conveyors, tooling and equipment in the plant’s body and general assembly areas.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 11, 2023

General Motors signed a joint development agreement with Autocar Industries, LLC, to produce zero-emission commercial vehicles. The new commercial vehicle will use GM’s HYDROTEC power cubes. As hinted by the name HYDROTEC, General Motors and Autocar’s partnership will utilize hydrogen fuel cells to produce commercial vehicles.

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MAY 29, 2023

General Motors (GM) and POSCO Chemical will receive funds for a battery materials facility in Quebec, Canada. The federal government of Canada and the Quebec province plan to provide around $110 million each for about $220 million to GM-POSCO’s battery materials facility.

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Electric Cars Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

billion) deal with General Motors to supply cathode materials over the next ten years. LG Chem aims to bolster cooperation with GM in the North American market by utilizing its cathode plant in Tennessee, U.S. as a production hub for the global battery material market. LG Chem has secured KRW 25 trillion ($18.8

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2022

GM Defense, a subsidiary of General Motors, was selected by the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) to develop a battery pack prototype for testing and analysis on Department of Defense platforms. GM’s HUMMER EV Ultium battery pack. —Steve duMont, president of GM Defense.

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Teslarati

JUNE 16, 2021

General Motors has increased its electric vehicle investment by 75%, from $20 billion to $35 billion through 2025, the company announced on Wednesday. ” GM announced a while back in March 2020 that it would commit $20 billion to EV and AV programs from 2020 to 2025. kWh lead-acid battery in its earliest versions.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 18, 2021

General Motors has begun deliveries of its first next-generation electric vehicles, the GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 Pickup and BrightDrop EV600 light commercial vehicle, both built on the Ultium Platform. Photo by Jeffrey Sauger for General Motors). GMC HUMMER EV. million to benefit the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.

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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. GM’s all-new modular platform and battery system, Ultium. GM’s all-new modular platform and battery system, Ultium.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 5, 2021

General Motors (GM) announced an agreement with semiconductor company Wolfspeed Inc., Wolfspeed will develop and provide silicon carbide (SiC) power solutions for GM’s electric vehicles. GM plans to use Wolfspeed chips in its new Ultium Drive units , which will power the OEM’s electric vehicle lineup.

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APRIL 12, 2022

General Motors has inked a new cobalt supply deal with Glencore PLC, a mining company that has dealt with EV leader Tesla in the past, as electric vehicle material availability becomes more unpredictable. GM has chosen to stock up on cobalt, evident in its new deal with Glencore.

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Electric Vehicles India

JULY 6, 2021

General Motors partners Salton Sea lithium production for EVs . General Motors has announced that it will partner with a renewable energy company’s lithium and power development in the Salton Sea Geothermal Field near Imperial for batteries for electric vehicles. GM to develop electric lunar rover for NASA.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2022

General Motors has opened Canada’s first full-scale electric-vehicle manufacturing plant in Ontario. With investment support from both the Canadian and Ontario governments, GM has completely retooled the CAMI Assembly plant as the new global manufacturing home of BrightDrop’s fully electric delivery vans.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

General Motors has invested nearly a half billion dollars into stamping and new press lines for electric vehicle manufacturing at its Marion, Indiana, metal stamping operations plant. GM’s expanding plans for electrification have been announced on numerous occasions. Tesla (@Tesla) January 24, 2021.

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Teslarati

JULY 26, 2022

Just recently, GM CEO Mary Barra stated that the veteran automaker can still outsell Tesla in the United States’ electric vehicle market by the middle of the decade. As noted by GM in a press release , LG Chem will be providing the veteran American automaker with more than 950,000 tons of Cathode Active Material (CAM) over eight years.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 6, 2021

General Motors has long talked about its plans to expand its lineup of electric vehicles, with plans to be fully electric by 2035. While GM already has plans to invest $35 billion in electric cars in the next four years by 2025, it has to begin planning for a more broad game plan to compete with industry leaders, including Tesla.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 29, 2022

POSCO Chemical and General Motors Co. recently announced a binding agreement for a large-scale supply of Cathode Active Material (CAM) to help GM meet its fast-growing EV production needs. The high-nickel CAM will be produced at POSCO Chemical’s Gwayngyang facility in Korea.

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MARCH 12, 2021

At a Washington Post Live virtual conference, General Motors President Mark Reuss provided more details about GM’s next-generation Ultium lithium metal battery and announced a joint development agreement with lithium metal battery innovator SES (formerly known as SolidEnergy Systems) ( earlier post ).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM plans to become carbon-neutral in its global products and operations by 2040 and has committed to setting science-based targets to achieve carbon neutrality. C, an urgent call to action from a global coalition of UN agencies, business and industry leaders. The company has also signed the Business Ambition Pledge for 1.5?C,

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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Nel Hydrogen US, a subsidiary of Nel ASA, has entered into a joint development agreement with General Motors to help accelerate the industrialization of Nel’s proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer platform. General Motors is one of the global leaders in hydrogen fuel cell propulsion with more than 50 years of experience.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

LG Chem is signing a nearly $19 billion deal with General Motors that will see the battery company supply the automaker with battery materials over the course of ten years. LG Chem announced today that it would supply 500,000 tonnes of cathode material to GM through 2035. 1 automaker in the U.S.,”

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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. GM unveiled the platform and batteries in early March. General Motors’ all-new modular platform and battery system, Ultium.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2021

General Motors will offer EV technology beyond its own portfolio and automotive applications more broadly, one component at a time. GM has an established strategy, network of integrators and co-development agreements to apply an extensive array of components and solutions to a broad range of customers and use cases.

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Electric Cars Report

DECEMBER 13, 2023

General Motors and Komatsu will co-develop a hydrogen fuel cell power module for Komatsu’s 930E electric drive mining truck, the world’s best-selling ultra-class haul truck. Lightweight and quick to refuel, […] The post GM and Komatsu Collaborate on Hydrogen Fuel Cell-Powered Mining Truck appeared first on Electric Cars Report.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Chevrolet won't follow sibling General Motors brands Buick and Cadillac in offering buyouts to dealerships that don't want to sell electric vehicles, a GM executive said in a recent interview with The Verge.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 4, 2023

General Motors’ Chevrolet brand reported US deliveries of 19,700 units of the Bolt EV/EUV in Q1 2023. Combined with Cadillac LYRIQ deliveries of 968 units—and the delivery of 2 units of the HUMMER EV Pickup—General Motors delivered 20,670 battery-electric vehicles in Q1. GM gained an estimated 1.5

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MARCH 19, 2024

General Motors’ (GM) battery plant in Michigan, named Factory Zero, is leaving production hell. General Motors has been experiencing its own version of production hell with Factory Zero. Batteries and software are a mainstay in new vehicles as the global car market transitions to electric vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

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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JANUARY 20, 2022

GM announced new commercial applications of its HYDROTEC fuel cell technology. HYDROTEC projects, which are currently in development, from heavy-duty trucks to aerospace and locomotives, are being planned for use beyond vehicles for power generation. —Charlie Freese, GM executive director of the global HYDROTEC business.

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MAY 21, 2019

General Motors President Mark Reuss unveiled the company’s all-new electronic platform necessary for its next-generation of vehicles, EVs, active safety, infotainment and connectivity features, and the evolution of the Super Cruise driver assistance feature.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Nikola Corporation and General Motors Co. As part of the agreement, Nikola will utilize General Motors’ Ultium battery system and Hydrotec fuel cell technology, representing a key commercialization milestone for General Motors. GM fuel cell system. —General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

Chevrolet will reveal the all-electric Silverado at CES 2022 during the opening keynote delivered by General Motors Chair and CEO Mary Barra on Wednesday, 5 January 2022. This will be the first application of an available fixed-glass roof on a GM pickup in the full-size truck segment. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

General Motors today shared its progress toward its global vision of zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion at GM China Tech Day 2022 in Shanghai. Its portfolio ranges from the Cruise Origin AV and BrightDrop.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

General Motors will invest $760 million at its Toledo, Ohio propulsion manufacturing operations to prepare the facility for production of drive units that will be used in future Ultium-based battery electric trucks, including the Chevrolet Silverado EV, GMC Sierra EV and GMC HUMMER EVs. billion at Toledo since 2011.

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

General Motors has reached an agreement under which LG Electronics Inc. will reimburse GM for costs and expenses associated with the recall of Chevrolet Bolt EVs and EUVs due to manufacturing defects in battery modules supplied by LG. LG is a valued and respected supplier to GM, and we are pleased to reach this agreement.

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