Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

SAIC-GM-Wuling will build a third manufacturing base in Chongqing Municipality to keep pace with the rising demand for its vehicles. The joint venture between GM China, SAIC and Wuling Motors will begin construction of its new facility early next year, pending relevant government approvals.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2011

General Motors and Powermat, a provider of wireless charging technology for mobile personal devices, announced a commercial agreement that will eliminate the need for charging cords for personal electronic devices in many future Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac products beginning mid-2012. We first developed the Volt concept car in 2006.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

On 11 August, GM invited approximately 75 journalists and auto analysts to spend a day learning about the new GM. The day was split between a morning session at the GM tech center in Warren and an afternoon session at the GM proving grounds in Milford, MI. GM’s identify in the US starts with its four core brands.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

In 2005 and 2006, it received investments of about US$480 million, resulting in the launch of the Chevrolet Prism in October 2006 and the expansion of its production capacity to 230,000 vehicles per year. Brazil is one of five major GM global centers of development. This will be the second expansion to Gravataí.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2009

Based on detailed model-level data for US light-duty vehicles from 1980 to 2006, a recent analysis by a UC Davis researcher found that if weight, horsepower and torque had been held at their 1980 levels, fuel economy for both passenger cars and light trucks could have increased by nearly 50% from 1980 to 2006. Knittel, 2009.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2012

Posawatz has consistently been recognized as an industry leader in product innovation and electrified vehicles and served as Chairman of the Board for the Electric Drive Transportation Association (EDTA). He is a real product guy for a product driven company. Tony is the perfect CEO for Fisker. —outgoing CEO Tom LaSorda.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

since 2006, will leave GM on Friday, 5 March to take a senior. The first Volt pack built on production tooling was completed on 7. Gray's tenure has seen GM’s battery lab facilities have. Denise Gray, Director of Global Battery Engineering for General Motors. battery start-up company based in California.

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Baua Electric

AUGUST 17, 2023

The union needs to finish what it yelps an “abuse” of temps, whom automakers worth to scale down prices and assure towards absenteeism by way of full-time staff or to aid all through busy product launches. Ford employs about 1,700 temps, era Stellantis has round 5,160 and GM has between 2,300 and four,600.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2009

But not a single production plug-in electric vehicle sold to date, from GM’s early EV1 to today’s Tesla, has had a warranty of more than five years, noted Plug In America advisory board member Chelsea Sexton. Sexton, a former GM employee on the EV1 project, featured prominently in Chris Paine’s 2006 film, “Who Killed the Electric Car?”

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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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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2009

The two companies said that they complement each other in terms of product portfolio, global distribution and manufacturing capacities. Suzuki had established a strategic alliance with General Motors in 1981, which ultimately resulted in GM holding 20% of the company. In 2006, that began to unwind, with GM reducing its holding to 3%.

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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. We dealt with the GM division that had formerly been a separate company, Electronic Data Systems, headed by H. GM-Philips had been our last hope. Ross Perot.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Suffice to say, all of GM’s development programs including the Volt are threatened. For all of GM’s industrial successes and environmental failures, many elements of the American economy including the advertising-dependent entertainment industry — rise and fall with its fortunes. Cash Is Its Best Hope. In July, G.M.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 19, 2010

And car companies often play nice with him to get their products onto his show. While GM worked with Leno on his EcoJet green sports car in 2006, the company is hardly a patsy. Talk-show host and comedian Jay Leno has long been known as a car fan and collector.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 15, 2010

The LCA study compared the environmental performance of the current steel design for the front end parts of a GM-Cadillac CTS with new magnesium and aluminum designs. This LCA study was done in compliance with international standards ISO 14040:2006 and ISO 14044:2006 [ 2 ].

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Green Car Congress

JULY 18, 2012

The NREL report said that baseline data from the demonstration teams in 2006 showed a range of net system efficiency from 51% to 58% for first-generation (Gen 1) systems, which was very close to the target. Daimler and BP; GM and Shell; Chevron, UTC Power and Hyundai-Kia; and Ford and BP.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2009

Inductive charging with a paddle-type connector was used in a number of earlier EVs, notably GM’s EV1, the Nissan Hypermini EV, and the Toyota RAV4. Subsequently, GM suspended production of its Gen2+ MagneCharge units in 2002. Nissan Hypermini Urban Electric Vehicle Testing (US DOE, January 2006). Science Vol. 1143254.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

LiveWire motorcycles are not really Harleys, the thought goes, although they will share engineering, production facilities, a supply chain and global logistics. All of this made me think about of the differences in the way companies are introducing EVs into their product portfolios. The LiveWire at launch was a Harley. Fine with me.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

And after three days and some 700 miles behind the wheel of a 2023 example, your author has a few observations and a strong overall opinion on the very last domestic midsize sedan in production. Add the destination charge, subtract GM Cash, and we arrive at $28,990. Let’s hop in and journey east, through the Appalachian Plateau.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2013

First up is a quick look at the two advanced neutron-scattering facilities at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) in Tennessee, which Green Car Congress recently had the opportunity to tour: the newer (2006) $1.4-billion billion Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) and the older (1965) High Flux Isotope Reactor (HFIR). Images of GDI injector.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2012

did in 2009, resulting in a significant decline in vehicle production, Fitch could switch the rating to Negative. million units, will remain well below the industry annual sales level of approximately 17 million units seen from 1999 through 2006. other to offer new products. than was seen in 2010 and 2011. Suppliers, in.

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Electric Auto Association

JANUARY 5, 2023

Straubel ’s August 2006 preview of the company’s Roadster at a chapter meeting. “We Lobbying EV1 style Pohorsky leased his first EV, a GM EV1 , in 1999. Freund recalled that Plug In America started when GM was engaged in taking back and crushing the EV1s. “And that entrepreneurship persists here in the valley. Then we disbanded.

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Plug In Partners

AUGUST 30, 2007

I f there is any doubt that GM is serious about PHEVs, here is one more story that indicates that they are indeed very serious. GM Could Reportedly Produce 60,000 Plug-in Hybrids in 2010 Source: GreenBiz.com by Jeff Green at Bloomberg OAKLAND, Calif., Selling 60,000 hybrids would be a coup for GM, which lost nearly $2 billion in 2006.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2009

The Center will be based at the Livonia production facility and work in collaboration with the University of Michigan and Michigan State University on joint research, system design and performance measurement projects. A123Systems first invested in Michigan when it acquired Ann Arbor-based T/J Technologies in 2006. Earlier post.).

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2008

As stated at the opening press conference by Austin's Mayor Will Wynn in January, 2006, “ Plug-in hybrids represent a real near-term solution to America’s over-reliance on foreign oil imports and energy prices that escalate the cost of everything and threaten the very economic life of our nation,” “The technology exists today ,” Wynn says.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 21, 2009

and its forthcoming sequel, talks to us about the fate of GM, the downfall of hydrogen and why electric cars truly are making a comeback By Siel. 2006), and you’ll learn that those once-dead electric vehicles (EVs) are now exacting a shocking revenge. With the promise of GM’s Chevy Volt and other EVs, are you more hopeful now?

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

The newly introduced GMC Terrain ( earlier post ) became the latest GM North American model that will feature a fuel-efficient gasoline direct injection (DI) engine in 2010. For MY 2009, GM is offering 6 engine variants with direct injection in 10 models in North America, 18 worldwide. The new GM 3.0L 2010 GM 3.0L

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 17, 2009

From there she went on to author and spearhead AB 32 our Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. Click on this photo to see Stefano Paris' video production of the event. You’d think the batteries couldn’t even get you out of the driveway the way Rick Wagoner at GM keeps making excuses and dragging his feet.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

OCTOBER 25, 2008

The biggest obstacle for those who would prefer an alternative has been lack of purchasable plug-in electric vehicles since 2003 when auto manufacturers ceased production of plug-in EVs like the GM EV1, Honda EV Plus, and Toyota RAV4-EV. Below is a video of the AC Propulsion eBox First Peek debut from August 18th, 2006.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 28, 2009

Batteries Included $142,000 Grant 2006 Archive GM Plug-in Series Hybrid? Plug In America makes no representations as to the workmanship, creditworthiness, or any other attributes of the companies listed or of their products or services. New 100K Club Member RAV4EV in Japan Newsletter Vol. 100K Mile Club Newsletter Vol.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JANUARY 22, 2009

The new proposed rules also appear to contradict the board’s own recent attempts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in the wake of a groundbreaking global warming law signed by the governor in 2006. The award-winning 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? “It’s Who Killed the Electric Car 2.0.&#.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Extended-range electric vehicles — such as the Chevy Volt, which GM says will recharge in three hours — offer another route, adding a small gas engine to keep drivers from feeling stranded without access to fuel. For on-the-go juice ups, the idea is to exchange your dead battery for a fresh one owned by Better Place.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

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