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GM JV breaks ground for new $1.1B manufacturing plant in China

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Shanghai GM (Shenyang) Norsom Motors, GM China’s joint venture with SAIC and Shanghai GM in Shenyang, broke ground for its new manufacturing facility. Its products will be sold by Shanghai GM. Like Shanghai GM, it will be lean, agile, flexible and modular. GM China and SAIC each hold 25% stakes.

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Junkyard Find: 2001 Oldsmobile Alero Sedan With Manual Transmission

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General Motors built cars on the N Platform and its derivatives from the 1985 through 2005 model years, and five-speed manual transmissions were available on various N-based machines throughout that time. You could get a new Alero with a Getrag five-on-the-floor all the way through the demise of Oldsmobile in 2004.

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GM outlines plans for China with 17 launches this year; developing advanced propulsion and electrification tech in China

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General Motors discussed its future plans in China during a press conference in conjunction with the start of Auto Shanghai 2013. GM is also in the process of bringing Cadillac’s entire global portfolio to China, adding one locally produced model per year through 2016. —Gary Smyth.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. If we look at the fine print, GM actually introduced a sort-of-a-hybrid vehicle as a 2004 model , though the 2004 Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid/GMC Sierra Hybrid didn't have regenerative braking.

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GM’ Tony Posawatz Named Co-Chairman of the Electric Drive Transportation Association

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The Board of Directors of the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA) has elected General Motors’ Tony Posawatz, Vehicle Line Director for the Chevy Volt, as Co-Chairman of the Board. He has served as a GM Vehicle Line Director for the past eleven years. He has served as a GM Vehicle Line Director for the past eleven years.

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The New General Motors Launches; Lutz Unretiring

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The new, downsized General Motors Company emerged from bankruptcy Friday morning. Created from the old GM’s strongest operations in an asset sale approved by the Federal bankruptcy court on 5 July ( earlier post ), the new GM is built on four core brands: Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC. The old GM: 10%.

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Mahindra Mahindra Takes Majority Stake in REVA Electric Car Co.

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Its REVA electric vehicle was first commercially available in Bangalore in 2001 and in London in 2004, under the G-Wiz brand. REVA launched two new electric cars at the 63 rd Frankfurt Motor Show in September 2009; the NXR and the NXG along with the REVive remote emergency charge system. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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