Green Car Congress

JANUARY 10, 2013

The Nikkei reports that Isuzu Motors Ltd. and General Motors Co. The partnership reportedly will include joint development of next-generation models, and use common diesel engines. The alliance also opens the door to utilization of each other’s production bases. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2011

Delphi announced that its OE quality fuel products are compatible with the new E15 measure approved last Friday by the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to increase the amount of ethanol currently blended in fuel from 10% to 15% for all light-duty vehicles built in the last decade.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Nitz leads GM’s Global Transmission and Electrification team, with engineering operations in North America, Europe, South America and Asia. He will receive the award during the SAE 2016 World Congress in April. His team is responsible for all of GM’s automatic and manual transmissions and electrified propulsion systems.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2015

Asia now consumes more than 30 million barrels of oil per day—roughly the same as all of the Americas—but its oil production stands at roughly 9 million barrels per day, the report notes, leaving the region dependent on external sources for more than 70% of its petroleum—triple the import level of the Americas.

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Teslarati

APRIL 11, 2023

General Motors (GM) has secured a next-generation lithium extraction deal with Puerto Rico-based startup, EnergyX. The business plans to construct five demonstration facilities that will show off its capabilities to lithium extractors, notably within the “lithium triangle” of South America.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

General Motors opened a new diesel engine plant in Rayong, Thailand. GM expects to source US$94 million worth of Thai-built components for the production of engines at its Rayong facility by 2012. The four-cylinder Duramax engines were tested in extreme conditions in Africa, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 12, 2023

A battery will be the high-voltage heart of each of those 77 million electric vehicles, and by far their most expensive component, setting off a worldwide race to ethically source their materials and crank up production to meet exploding demand. EVs may have seized a record 5.8 percent of the United States market in 2022 , according to J.D.

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Batteries Battery Supplies GM 93

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 18, 2016

General Motors and its joint ventures in China delivered a September record 343,773 vehicles, up 16% year over year. Reinforcing our customers’ trust in our products remains our top priority. Volkswagen Group deliveries in the North America region rose to 75,700 units in September, a slight increase of 1.3%.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Ford and General Motors (GM) announced plans to scale down EV production this year. Ford pauses all F-150 Lightning shipments as gas deliveries begin Some theorized that GM and Ford scaled back EV production plans because there was not enough demand for electric vehicles in the United States.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Since then Daimler , Ford Motor Company , General Motors , Stellantis and Volkswagen Group, have committed an additional $152 billion in investments, a sum four times their combined 2019 operating profits. An additional $60 billion plus in investments have also been made in more than 70 EV start-ups wanting in on the game.

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Electric Cars Electric Electrical Cars 111

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"When I first visited the BYD factory, I was shocked," says Daniel Kim, a Merrill Lynch technology analyst based in Hong Kong, who has been to the fully automated production lines in Japan and Korea. Deploying the armies of laborers at BYD is an officer corps of managers and engineers who invent and design the products.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

China currently hosts 75% of all battery cell manufacturing capacity and 90% of anode and electrolyte production. A solid foundation on domestically realized resource wealth, bolstered by responsible and ethical production, is the main theme of the rankings this year as countries and the industry strive for a sustainable supply chain.

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