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2023 Cadillac Lyriq electric crossover will be made in Tennessee, GM confirms

Green Car Reports

General Motors confirmed Tuesday morning that its Spring Hill, Tennessee, plant, which once served as the launch point for Saturn, will build the upcoming Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV starting late next year. As GM clarified in August, the Lyriq might be available for sale in another market—like China—before the U.S.,

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

I’ve always wondered how Harley would market its silent motorcycles. But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. Five Ways To Market EVs. market; many other options await in Europe and Asia. Not an H or D in sight.

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GM's CEO Waggoner Announces Saturn Plug-in Hybrid; Bio-fuel Hummer

Plugs and Cars

Wagoner said GM is using the Saturn Vue hybrid sport utility vehicle to develop a plug-in hybrid, which can be re-charged from a standard electrical outlet, and will offer biofuel-capable Hummer SUVs. He didn't give a time frame for the plug-in, but said it will take "several years" to bring one to market.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

After a succession of carefully staged events for media and the public, we now know that the 2022 GMC Hummer EV will include at least two models: a sport utility truck (or SUT), with four doors and a short pickup bed, and a more conventional SUV. Everything old is new again. The 34-month project.

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US Hybrid Sales in February Drop 29%; Lower Decline Than General LDV Market

Green Car Congress

The decline in hybrids was less than the 41% decline in the overall light-duty vehicle market for the month. of the new vehicle market, essentially flat with the January 2009 results. Monthly new vehicle market share for reported hybrids. The Saturn VUE hybrid posted 188 units, for 6.4% New hybrid sales represented 2.3%

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US Hybrid Sales in March 2009 Down 44% Year-on-Year; Monthly New Vehicle Market Share of 2.5%

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US sales of hybrids in March 2009 as reported by the automakers dropped 44% by volume year-on-year to 21,433 units; that performance was worse than the total light duty vehicle market, which posted a 36.8% new vehicle market share for hybrids in March—down from 2.82% in March 2008, but the highest mark so far in 2009.

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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

More knowledgeable shoppers may even be able to name some upcoming EVs from GM: the Chevrolet Silverado EV pickup , the Cadillac Lyriq luxury SUV, or the EV versions of Chevy’s Equinox and Blazer compact crossover utilities. That would give the radically slimmed-down GM a mass-market brand and a luxury brand.