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JANUARY 9, 2016

General Motors is exploring a new mapping technology from Mobileye that could use crowd-sourced real-time data (swarm intelligence) collected by OnStar for precise localization and high-definition lane data that supports fully autonomous driving. GM, which sold about 3.3

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MAY 7, 2014

General Motors’ fleet of fuel cell vehicles recently passed 3 million miles (4.8 This specially equipped fleet of Chevrolet Equinox Fuel Cell vehicles are part of GM’s 119-vehicle Project Driveway program, which launched in 2007. million km) of hydrogen-powered, real-world driving. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 20, 2015

General Motors and the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development &. What’s more, fuel cells generate water as a by-product, something extremely valuable in austere environments. Fuel cell propulsion has very high low-end torque capability useful in off-road environments. —TARDEC Director Paul Rogers.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 10, 2009

The future is green for General Motors and it has further established its commitment to forward-thinking technology with the opening of what has been dubbed the largest and most technologically advanced battery lab in the USA. Planning for the lab began in December 2007 with construction beginning in August 2008.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

General Motors and the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development & Engineering Center (TARDEC) are expanding their collaboration in the development of hydrogen fuel cell technology. GM’s Project Driveway program, launched in 2007, has accumulated nearly 3 million miles (4.8 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

The effects of the chip crisis are substantial, with fellow American automaker General Motors laying the blame for its 33% year-on-year drop in sales to “semiconductor supply chain disruptions and historically low inventories.” ” Tesla’s strategy to weather the semiconductor shortage is no secret.

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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. Chevy Volt Powermat.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

a global provider of automotive safety systems, is developing its next generation of advanced, modular brake systems. The technology is vacuum independent and can simplify the brake system while enhancing functionality. TRW Automotive Holdings Corp., —Josef Pickenhahn, vice president, braking engineering for TRW.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2009

Canada-based international auto supplier and contract assembler Magna International, now with a Memorandum of Understanding for the acquisition of Opel from General Motors ( earlier post ), sees vehicle electrification as one of its key strategic initiatives. In 2007, Magna Steyr brought its HySUV hybrid concept to EVS-23 in Anaheim.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

General Motors will invest $336 million in the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to begin production of the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle in 2010. engine-generator from Flint. “We This competition will expedite the development of electric vehicle technology and infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

The 2013 Cadillac XTS will feature GM’s first application of a Driver Assistance Package using sensor fusion, which combines the information of several, generally heterogeneous sensors and positioning technologies to alert drivers more accurately of road hazards and help them avoid crashes. GM and V2X. Earlier post.). Boss” Kettering.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We are focusing in particular on the technological changes that impact the future of mobility—from electrification to the digital transformation. He moved to Saab as Executive Director Design in 2000 and was also given responsibility for Advanced Design at General Motors Europe in 2003.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2009

The report, which covers the period between 1999 and 2007, applies the Sustainable Value approach developed by Prof. The research project was undertaken by researchers working at Euromed Management School Marseille, Queen’s University Belfast and IZT—Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment in Berlin.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2015

UPS has previously announced a goal of driving one billion miles with our alternative fuel and advanced technology vehicles by the end of 2017. Bio-based feedstocks from fats, plant oils and waste residues are converted to renewable diesel using advanced refining technologies. In 2014, we achieved a 14.1% trillion.

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OCTOBER 17, 2011

Vehicles that partially drive themselves will be available by the middle of the decade with more sophisticated self-driving systems by the end of the decade, General Motors Vice President of Global Research and Development Alan Taub told the Intelligent Transport Systems World Congress in Orlando on Sunday. —Alan Taub.

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APRIL 16, 2014

Trax is named after a 2007 concept vehicle. GM expects the emerging small SUV market to grow more than 80% by 2016, said Alan Batey, General Motors senior vice president, Global Chevrolet. Trax incorporates technologies that help avoid crashes and protect occupants in case one occurs. Fuel Efficiency'

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Get Electric Vehicle

JANUARY 23, 2024

However, Tesla has already discussed automating the process to prepare for the development of self-driving technologies. Benefits & Scope of Wireless EV Chargers For over 15 years, wireless charging technology has been put under the test for electronic gadgets.

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DECEMBER 16, 2012

To create the largest impact, the researchers concluded, emphasis should be placed on the largest producers of vehicles; the five largest producers of automotive vehicles in the United States are General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Chrysler, and Honda. General Motors. Cost to manufacture is one of the main considerations.

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AUGUST 27, 2015

In January 2015, Seeo was awarded a contract for technology assessment from the United States Advanced Battery Consortium LLC (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors. These modules are based on Seeo’s current cell technology, which provides an energy density of 220 Wh/kg.

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JUNE 25, 2014

Scheduled over two days, the demonstration will show how autonomous technology will eventually be fully integrated into vehicles that are currently on the market. However, top-of-the-line radar, cameras, sensors and other technologies are built into the body of the vehicle. The car’s computers are tucked away under the floor.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 28, 2009

General Motors last week again highlighted the progress it is making with advanced HCCI (homogeneous charge compression ignition) gasoline engines by showcasing a demonstrator unit. The big thing there was to incorporate these technologies [in the SAE papers] to push the HCCI down to very light loads. Adapted from Yun et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Estimates of potential for gasoline consumption reduction in the US light duty fleet in 2020 and 2035 relative to 2007. Technologies to improve vehicle efficiency are available for deployment now, and new technologies continue to emerge. Developing technologies for the conversion of biomass and coal-to-liquid fuels.

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JUNE 4, 2009

has signed a distribution agreement with IMPCO Technologies, Inc. Under the agreement, CleanFUEL will distribute IMPCO’s bi-fuel Sequent system, a dual-propane and gasoline fuel system certified by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for conversions of light duty General Motors and Ford vehicles to run on propane.

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OCTOBER 1, 2015

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. GM’s autonomous technology will bring the vehicle to its destination and park it.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 16, 2010

CleanFUEL USA, a leading supplier of alternative fuel infrastructure and propane engine systems, will build and certify a multi-purpose 8-liter General Motors (GM) propane engine in partnership with Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America. medium-duty engine, as well as a 6.0L

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2009

General Motors further expanded its battery research and development capabilities by opening what it called the largest and most technologically advanced battery lab in the US on its Technical Center campus in Warren, MI. Planning began in December 2007 and construction started in August 2008.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

General Motors and Hawaii’s The Gas Company (TGC), the state’s major gas energy provider, are collaborating on a hydrogen infrastructure project. PSA technology. PSA technology is based on the different properties of two the gases (methane and hydrogen) under pressure. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. The best year for a full three-model Hummer lineup was 2007, when it sold 72,000 units.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

GM’s second-generation fuel-cell system (engineer included for scale.) The first generation fuel cell system (with fourth-generation stack technology) used in the Equinox. The new second-generation system is to the left. In addition to the system-level work, GM has made advances with its stack technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

SDG&E tested the performance of two 2007-model Prius hybrids and then converted them into plug-in hybrids, using a Hymotion 5 kWh lithium-ion battery conversion kit. US Department of Energy, Vehicle Technologies Program, Advanced Vehicle Testing Activity (AVTA) Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEVs) Overview (May 2009).

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MAY 22, 2009

Generic electric traction drive components. Benchmarking work done by the DOE estimates that PEEM represents 54% of the cost distribution of the MY 2007 Camry electric traction drive system, with the battery accounting for 33% and the generator accounting for 13%. Tags: Motors Power Electronics Research. Source: DOE.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 23, 2007

President Bush is committed to developing alternative fuels and energy-saving innovations for an improved and diversified array of vehicle technologies,” Energy Secretary Samuel W. Other considerations include the potential to commercialize proposed battery technologies and bring them to market quickly. Bodman said. “

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MAY 23, 2007

F or those who think that GM is not serious about its new PHEV , the Volt , here is a piece that makes you think they are: The Volt To Be Lutz's Legacy May 21, 2007 So, I heard General Motors’ Bob Lutz on National Public Radio’s “Wait. Good, sexy cars and a great price. But the Volt could be in a class by itself. Estimates vary.

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AUGUST 30, 2007

23, 2007 -- General Motors Corp. If they were able to get 30,000 to 60,000 on the road in a year, it would be a huge leap in technology ," Brett Smith, an alternative-fuel analyst at the Center for Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, Michigan, told Bloomberg. "It

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Green Cars News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

However the finding also suggest that the economic downturn may have played its part in poor performance in the US, as car giant, General Motors’ poor financial performance is accompanied by the worst sustainability performance recorded. billion from 1999 to 2007. The survey attempts to close this gap.”.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

General Motors Corp. This rate is substantially below the 15 to 17 million annual vehicle sales rates recorded from 1995 through 2007. reached agreements with the US Treasury and the governments of Canada and Ontario for the creation of a smaller, self-sustaining “New GM”.

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MARCH 21, 2009

Three key General Motors executives involved with the Chevrolet Volt this week held a media briefing on the state of GM’s battery pack strategy for the Chevrolet Volt and its current Gen 1 pack as well as subsequent generations (Gen 2 and Gen 3) of battery packs destined for the underlying Voltec platform. Click to enlarge.

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