Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2020

General Motors will invest $2.2 GM’s first all-electric truck will be a pickup with production scheduled to begin in late 2021. This will be followed soon after by the Cruise Origin, a shared, electric, self-driving vehicle unveiled by Cruise in San Francisco last week.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 6, 2024

Waymo is pulling ahead with its expansion plans at a time when its key rival Cruise, owned by General Motors, has suspended US operations in the wake of a pedestrian-dragging accident. Alphabet’s Waymo said on Tuesday it will begin driverless passenger services for its employees in Austin, Texas starting Wednesday.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2017

General Motors has completed production of 130 Chevrolet Bolt EV test vehicles equipped with its next generation of self-driving technology at its Orion Assembly Plant located in Orion Township, Michigan. To achieve what we want from self-driving cars, we must deploy them at scale.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

General Motors will build production versions of its Cruise AV ( earlier post ) at its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan. Roof module production has already begun and production of the fourth generation Cruise AV is expected to begin in 2019.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

The locations of the closures are at Shell stations scattered throughout Northern California, located in San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose and Sacramento. In September, Shell said it had “discontinued its plan to build and operate additional light-duty vehicle fueling stations in California,” in a statement to Hydrogen Insight.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2010

cutter to remove the roof off of a pre-production Chevrolet Volt. Using a pre-production example of the Chevrolet Volt as a teaching tool, General Motors launched a nationwide electric vehicle training tour and outreach project for emergency personnel this week at the 2010 Fire-Rescue International Conference in Chicago.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2017

Maven, General Motors’ personal mobility brand, has expanded its offerings to include a new monthly service, Maven Reserve. Maven Reserve is available now in Los Angeles and San Francisco with plans to expand to other cities. In 13 months, Maven has launched three products and has grown to 17 cities in the U.S.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 19, 2023

Last week, General Motors published an advertisement for its Cruise autonomous vehicle company in The New York Times. But Claybrook and the Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety are accusing GM of being overzealous with an untested product in addition to exercising some bad taste with its marketing materials.&

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “If every vehicle drives off the production line equipped with teledriving… you can have an on-demand tele-valet that parks your car for you,” said von der Ohe, “and then teledrives you home in your own car if you have a few glasses to drink.”

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

General Motors (GM) self-driving unit Cruise faces yet another executive departure, which is the latest in a series of resignations and staff cuts after one of the company’s driverless vehicles hit a pedestrian last year. “I wish everyone my sincere thank you and best wishes.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 7, 2024

After a Cruise self-driving vehicle hit and dragged a pedestrian in October, the General Motors (GM) subsidiary has offered to pay $75,000 to help resolve an ongoing investigation from California regulators. GM suing San Francisco to refund over $108 million in Cruise taxes What are your thoughts?

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2020

Similar to the previously released thermal imaging datasets for San Francisco, Calif. —Mike Walters, Vice President of Product Management Thermal and Machine Vision Cameras at FLIR Systems. The images were taken in a variety of driving environments in each city, including various lighting and weather conditions.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

General Motors announced that battery production for the Chevy Bolt EV is once again underway. Battery production resumed on Monday, the automaker said, and outlined a course of action to “ensure that customers can safely and confidently drive, charge, and park the Chevy Bolt EV and EUV.”

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

. “If every vehicle drives off the production line equipped with teledriving… you can have an on-demand tele-valet that parks your car for you,” said von der Ohe, “and then teledrives you home in your own car if you have a few glasses to drink.”

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

General Motors’ Cadillac brand is set to eliminate around 40% of its U.S. While the number of locations will dwindle to just 560, Cadillac will open new showrooms in well-established areas and cities like New York City, Beverly Hills, Atlanta, and San Francisco.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

General Motors said earlier this month that is finally ramping up production of its Cadillac all-electric Lyriq SUV this year. Photo credit: General Motors/Cadillac If you’re an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels. Cruise is facing a potential $1.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

General Motors is acquiring three-year-old start-up Cruise Automation to add Cruise’s deep software talent and rapid development capability to further accelerate GM’s development of autonomous vehicle technology. —Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

General Motors (GM) is expected to announce significant spending cuts on its self-driving unit Cruise this week, following a series of bad news for the subsidiary after an incident with one of its robotaxis last month.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 8, 2012

If the Chevy Volt is a sales failure, you'd never know it from the guy who runs General Motors. At a meeting of Volt owners in San Francisco yesterday, GM's CEO Dan Akerson said unequivocally that the company was standing behind its halo plug-in electric car. "We

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2017

At a press conference in Shanghai, General Motors Chairman and CEO Mary Barra said that the company will introduce at least 10 new energy vehicles (NEVs) in China. In June, GM began using mass-production methods for autonomous vehicles. According to Barra, customers do not just appreciate connected vehicles, they demand them.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

General Motors’ OnStar subscribers can now rent out their idle vehicles through the RelayRides marketplace, leveraging OnStar connectivity already active in their vehicles ( Earlier post ), and with no need to hand over their keys. RelayRides reservation app. Click to enlarge. Challenges with access-based consumption.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Recently, reports emerged stating that General Motors’ self-driving unit, Cruise LLC, was dismissing nine top executives amid an ongoing probe. In August, Cruise received approval to deploy its self-driving robotaxis 24/7 in San Francisco. The pedestrian was taken to SF General Hospital with serious injuries.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2016

Honda expects limited volumes in the early stages of production. Deliveries will begin through certified fuel cell vehicle dealers in Los Angeles and Orange counties as well as the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. —John Mendel, executive vice president, Automobile Division, American Honda Motor.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Honda will begin deliveries of the Clarity Fuel Cell to customers in late 2016 through select fuel cell dealers in select California markets starting in Los Angeles and Orange Counties, the San Francisco Bay Area and Sacramento. The platform underpinning the Clarity Fuel Cell also serves as the foundation for the next-generation PHEV.

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Electric Auto Association

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Early EV1 adopter While at graduate school in electrical engineering at Cornell University in Ithica, New York, Cox heard about the GM Impact , an electric vehicle (EV) program that General Motors had with Hughes Aircraft, a firm it had recently purchased. “I I kept asking GM people when the car was going into production.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. No word yet on which EVs will take part.

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Get Electric Vehicle

JULY 13, 2021

Honda and General Motors have agreed to collaborate on the development of two all-new electric cars based on GM’s extremely flexible global EV platform and proprietary Ultium batteries. GM has already declared its plans for the future and both of them can reinforce their product line through technology sharing.

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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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Cars That Think

AUGUST 3, 2021

Pixar's story doesn't even start with the creation of Lucasfilm's Computer Graphics Group, which developed the Pixar Image Computer, the company's first product. But we almost closed a joint deal with two vast corporations, General Motors and Philips. And we thought we had an exciting product in the Pixar Image Computer.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

In the most recent study, the prototype battery was replaced with a production-model battery. SDG&E announced the findings as state regulators and utilities met in San Francisco to discuss the role of utilities in advancing the electric and natural gas vehicle marketplace and fueling infrastructure.

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Teslarati

APRIL 8, 2023

General Motors’ (GM) self-driving taxi unit, Cruise, has “recalled” its fleet of vehicles following a viral crash with a bus earlier this week. For GM, that comes in the form of its level 3 autonomous taxis serving the San Francisco area under the brand name Cruise.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Car Companies Standardize Plug for Electric Vehicles Written by Jerry James Stone Published on April 19th, 2009 34 Comments Posted in Electric Cars (EVs) , Plug-in hybrid EVs Just a few hours after General Motors called for a standardized EV plug , one has been created! This is a major step froward in EV mass production.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 4, 2023

General Motors (GM) is expecting to reach profitability on electric vehicles (EVs) by 2025 as higher margin models hit the market, according to a statement from one executive last week. Cruise announces reduced operations, further delays to Origin production What are your thoughts?

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

We will work together to overcome strategic, political, and technical barriers, accelerate the production of zero emission vehicles and increase economies of scale, to make the transition faster, lower cost, and easier for everyone. —COP 26 Declaration. Unilever; Vattenfall; Zenith; Zurich.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

As the United Auto Workers (UAW) union continues attempts to ratify new contract agreements with Big Three automakers General Motors (GM), Ford and Stellantis, one GM plant in Michigan has narrowly voted against the recently proposed deal following a historic six-week strike.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 5, 2009

Production of nickel-cobalt-metal battery cells and packs, as well as production of battery separators (by partner Entek) for hybrid and electric vehicles. Production of manganese oxide cathode / graphite lithium-ion batteries for hybrid and electric vehicles. General Motors Corporation. DOE Award ($mil.).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

Paine was one of the first to lease a General Motors EV1 in 1997 — only to get the car wrenched away from him five years later when he took it in simply to get a brake light fixed. I also have a gas-guzzler for when I want to go up to San Francisco or drive up to Colorado. In Who Killed the Electric Car?,

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