Industry and Yukon

GM investing $500M+ in Arlington Assembly for future ICE SUVs

Green Car Congress

JUNE 9, 2023

GM said that this investment will enable the company to strengthen its industry-leading full-size SUV business. The GMC Yukon, the brand’s flagship nameplate, continues to see growth in the mainstream full-size SUV segment, significantly outperforming the segment average. The Yukon Denali Ultimate trim also tied for first in the J.D.

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Arlington Yukon SUV Escalade

Kelley Blue Book: average new-vehicle prices in US up 5.4% in May y-o-y; average EV price down 10.8%

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2021

The third and fourth highest-priced models within the segment include the GMC Yukon XL ($79,695) and Yukon ($77,031), both priced substantially above the industry and segment average. Standard full-size SUVs and pickup trucks contributed to the growth among non-luxury segments. Subcompact Car. Subcompact SUV/Crossover.

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Price Yukon SUV Vehicles

Rio Tinto completes acquisition of Turquoise Hill for $3.1B

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2022

The transaction closed following approval from the Yukon court in Canada and the majority of TRQ minority shareholders supporting the deal. Open pit mining began at Oyu Tolgoi in 2011 and the copper concentrator, the largest industrial complex ever built in Mongolia, began processing mined ore into copper concentrate in 2013.

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Mongolia Yukon Canada 2013

Chevy, GMC struggle for EV/ICE candy spot

Baua Electric

JULY 22, 2023

Specific/Savana: Manufacturing of the interior combustion-powered Chevy Specific and GMC Savana full-size industrial vehicles is predicted to finish in 2026. Tahoe/Suburban/Yukon/Yukon XL: The Chevy Tahoe and Suburban and the GMC Yukon full-size SUVs are anticipated to be freshened in 2024 and may well be redesigned in 2027.

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GMC Yukon Sierra Silverado

GM to use wind power for more than 50% of annual vehicle output from Arlington Assembly plant

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2015

Arlington Assembly produces more than 1,200 vehicles daily, including the Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe; GMC Yukon and Yukon XL; and Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV. General Motors’ Arlington, Texas, Assembly plant will soon be able to build up to 125,000 trucks a year using wind power.

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Arlington Wind GM Yukon

GM’s Texas plant to get $500M for upcoming full-size SUVs

Baua Electric

JUNE 8, 2023

“Today we are announcing plans for a significant investment in Arlington to strengthen our industry-leading full-size SUV business,” Gerald Johnson, GM’s government vp of worldwide production and sustainability, mentioned in a remark. The Yukon and Yukon XL have been 2nd, with gross sales of 82,304 utmost date.

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Arlington Texas SUV Yukon

UAW Expands Strike Again, Targeting GM's Largest Plant

The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The UAW is now targeting automaker’s most-profitable facilities, with Tuesday’s walkout suggesting that the industrial game of chicken could be nearing its final act. Arlington Assembly is responsible for profitable models like the Chevrolet Tahoe, Chevy Suburban, GMC Yukon, and Cadillac Escalade.

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GM Arlington General Motors Yukon

GM investing $385M in Romulus Engine plant to prepare for production of new fuel-efficient engine program

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The plant, which currently has about 840 employees on two shifts, produces a variety of V6 and V8 engines that power GM full-size vans, SUVs and pickups, including the Chevrolet Express, Silverado, Tahoe, Suburban and Colorado, GMC Savana, Sierra, Yukon, Canyon, and Cadillac Escalade.

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Engine Yukon GM Tahoe

J.D. Power study finds ACEN technology woes affecting vehicle reliability for consumers

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

ACEN is now the most problematic area on most vehicles and is the cause of the industry’s 3% year-over-year decline in vehicle dependability. Key findings of the study included: The overall industry average is 152 problems per 100 vehicles (PP100) this year, compared with 147 PP100 last year.

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Buick Lexus Power Powered

CleanFUEL USA Expands Propane Engine Products With IMPCO

Green Car Congress

JUNE 4, 2009

The US propane industry has historically been viewed to have infrastructure and accessibility challenges.’Partnerships Partnerships like this make it feasible to address the industry’s distribution, installation and service/support gap for propane engines, broadening the potential for propane to become a widely utilized domestic fleet fuel.

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USA Engine GMC Sierra

FPX Nickel establishes subsidiary to pursue large-scale, low-cost and permanent carbon capture and storage

Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2022

Since 2016, FPX has led research on technologies that maximize the reaction between CO 2 and brucite (a highly CO 2 -reactive mineral form of magnesium hydroxide) present in the host rock at the company’s Decar Nickel District, and at its secondary properties in British Columbia and the Yukon. Decar Nickel District.

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Low Cost Carbon Yukon 2010

Sales of hybrid cars increase in US

Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

After months of doom and gloom for the auto industry in the USA, there is finally a ray of hope courtesy of hybrid cars. GM hybrids currently include the Chevrolet Malibu, Saturn Aura and Saturn VUE BAS; as well as the Tahoe, Silverado, Sierra, Yukon and Cadillac Escalade two-mode hybrids. per cent year on year.

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Sale Hybrid Camry Hybrid Saturn

LA show displays green car ‘glimpse into the future’

Green Cars News

DECEMBER 4, 2009

As optimism creeps back into the car industry, the show’s organisers are positive that this year’s show will be a great one. “As GMC Yukon Hybrid. As consumers start to show a renewed interested in buying vehicles, the auto show is. Chevrolet Volt. Fisker Karma. Ford Expedition E85. Ford Fusion Hybrid. Ford Fusion SE/SEL E85.

Green Cars

Green Cars Los Angeles HS 250h LS 600H

Details on GM’s new efficient top-end 8-speed automatic

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2014

The 8L90, the replacement for the venerable 6L80 six-speed in GM’s lineup, is offered as well as standard on 2015 Chevrolet Silverado, GMC Sierra and GMC Yukon Denali/Yukon XL Denali models equipped with the 6.2L EcoTec3 V-8 (L86) ( earlier post ), and on the Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV.

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GM Yukon Oil Convert

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GM investing $500M+ in Arlington Assembly for future ICE SUVs

Kelley Blue Book: average new-vehicle prices in US up 5.4% in May y-o-y; average EV price down 10.8%

Rio Tinto completes acquisition of Turquoise Hill for $3.1B

Chevy, GMC struggle for EV/ICE candy spot

GM to use wind power for more than 50% of annual vehicle output from Arlington Assembly plant

GM’s Texas plant to get $500M for upcoming full-size SUVs

UAW Expands Strike Again, Targeting GM's Largest Plant

GM investing $385M in Romulus Engine plant to prepare for production of new fuel-efficient engine program

J.D. Power study finds ACEN technology woes affecting vehicle reliability for consumers

CleanFUEL USA Expands Propane Engine Products With IMPCO

FPX Nickel establishes subsidiary to pursue large-scale, low-cost and permanent carbon capture and storage

Sales of hybrid cars increase in US

LA show displays green car ‘glimpse into the future’

Details on GM’s new efficient top-end 8-speed automatic

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