Teslarati

MARCH 21, 2023

Ford F-150 Lightning units were recalled as part of a battery manufacturing defect that halted production for several weeks. “Ford Motor Company (Ford) is recalling certain 2023 F-150 Lightning pickup trucks,” the NHTSA said. ” The cells were manufactured by SK On at their facility in Georgia. .”

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2021

business to expand its battery production capacity. In addition to the Green Field Project, LG Energy Solution and GM are currently discussing plans to build a second joint venture plant in the US, which will even further increase its cell production capacity. LG Energy Solution will invest more than $4.5

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2019

Teijin Limited announced that its Sereebo carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) has been selected by General Motors (GM) for use in select pickup box applications. This is the first use of CFRTP for structural parts in a high-volume production vehicle. 2019 GMC Sierra Denali CarbonPro Edition.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2021

General Motors and its joint ventures delivered 2.9 million vehicles in 2019, 3.65 The brand continued to optimize its product mix and solidify its foothold in the SUV segment through the launch of the Blazer with multiple seating choices. million vehicles in China in 2020. from a year earlier. from a year earlier.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2020

General Motors Co. announced today that its Spring Hill, Tennessee assembly plant will begin the transition to become the company’s third vehicle manufacturing site to produce electric vehicles, joining Factory ZERO in Detroit and Hamtramck, Michigan, and Orion Assembly in Orion Township, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2020

Joining BMW, Ford and FCA in suspension of production in the US due to COVID-19 ( earlier post ) are: Toyota is temporarily suspending production at all of its automobile and components plants in North America, including Canada, Mexico and the US, through 3 April. Tesla will suspend production at its Fremont plant on 23 March.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

General Motors announced that Chevrolet Bolt EV production will last through March and will extend until early April. In July, GM issued a warning to 2017-2019 model year Chevrolet Bolt EV owners, stating a potential risk of fires had been reported after some owners had reported their vehicles had spontaneously blazed.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2022

General Motors has finalized energy sourcing agreements required to secure 100% of the energy needed to power all its US facilities by 2025. In 2019, GM became a founding member of what is now known as the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA)—the largest group of corporate renewable energy buyers in the US.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Current EV business models are doomed unless manufacturers that have bet their futures on them, such as General Motors and VW, invest in or coordinate on a robust supercharger network. Other automakers are still playing a product game. Tesla has played the platform game. This advantage that Tesla has is not permanent.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

In 2014 when Narendra Modi officially became Prime Minister of India, his first message to people around the world was that, under his leadership, Indian manufacturing operations would become one of the world’s most robust. Five years after the initiative began, India’s manufacturing GDP was the lowest it had been in twenty years.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Pyun will be instrumental as LGES ramps efforts to improve its battery production facilities by converting them into smart factories with data-centric operations. From 2016 to 2019, Dr. Pyun was a Principal Solutions Architect at Nvidia. In 2021, LG agreed to reimburse General Motors Co. Both companies invested $2.6

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2021

The Group is considering various ways to procure renewable energy such as self-production through solar panels, power purchase agreements (PPA) with wind and solar energy producers, as well as purchase through Korea Electric Power Corporation’s (KEPCO) ‘Green Premium’ program. General Motors and the BMW Group are also RE100 members.

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Teslarati

APRIL 6, 2023

The vehicle, after all, may look understated and unassuming on the surface, but underneath the hood, the Model Y is a tour-de-force of technology and disruptive manufacturing processes. Such a system is not ineffective, but it lacks the cost savings Tesla was able to achieve through its manufacturing innovations.

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Teslarati

APRIL 5, 2022

In February 2020, Mercedes Benz issued a recall in one 2019 Smart Fortwo Electric Drive vehicle. In late 2020, Hyundai and General Motors both issued recalls for the 2019-2020 Kona and 2017-2019 Bolt EV. In 2021, Hyundai issued another recall for the Kona and one for the Ioniq.

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Baua Electric

JULY 11, 2024

Apart from an all-new product onslaught that’ll include a new Bayon-based crossover and an Inster-based EV, Hyundai will also be updating key models such as the Venue and Grand i10 Nios by 2027. The next-generation Venue is expected to arrive first by late 2025, followed by a new Grand i10 Nios by late 2027.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

Hyundai Motor Group has formed New Horizons Studio, a new unit focused on the development of Ultimate Mobility Vehicles (UMVs), including the concept Hyundai Elevate walking car introduced at CES 2019 ( earlier post ). The Hyundai Elevate in drive mode.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Honda said that it will take a proactive approach to increase the use of hydrogen as an energy carrier and strive to expand its hydrogen business, in addition to continuing to electrify its products. As the core of its hydrogen business, Honda will further advance its fuel cell system.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 27, 2021

General Motors CEO Mary Barra says the Detroit automaker is “absolutely” capable of catching Tesla’s EV market share in the United States by 2025. While battery production for the Bolt has resumed , GM has not indicated if the Bolt itself has resumed production. GM has had a tumultuous 2021 so far.

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Baua Electric

MAY 17, 2024

General Motors and Honda are two of those and both have a track record, Honda since the early 1990s and GM since the Electrovan FCEV in 1966. In February, Honda unveiled the production version of its CR-V e:FCEV plug-in, which goes on lease sale to customers in Japan and the US later this year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2018

Maxwell Technologies, a leading developer and manufacturer of capacitive energy storage and power delivery solutions, announced a technology partnership with Zhejiang Geely Holding Group (Geely), the parent company of leading brands such as Volvo and Geely Auto. million automobiles using its ultracapacitor technology.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2015

General Motors and SAIC Motor are enhancing their partnership through an agreement jointly to develop the core architecture and engine of a new vehicle family targeting global growth markets. The program is expected to grow to more than 2 million vehicles annually with the first entry planned for the 2019 model year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

SAIC Mobility Europe, a division of China’s largest vehicle manufacturer, SAIC, is introducing the Maxus light commercial vehicle brand. The Maxus EV80 van has become the first fully electric large panel van on European roads, ahead of the brand’s full launch in 2019. SAIC Motor sold 6.49 billion in revenues.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 15, 2023

It was a timely turn of events for General Motors after the Orlando area TravTek experiment of 1992 proved either too costly to scale, or alternatively not valuable enough in the eyes of consumers. EDS was founded in 1962 by former IBM man, billionaire, and future independent presidential candidate Ross Perot (1930-2019).&

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EV Central

MARCH 26, 2023

Ceer Motors It might seem weird that a petrol-chemical kingdom like Saudi Arabia would want to get into EV manufacturing but that’s exactly what is happening with Ceer Motors. A Mexican solar manufacturer, SEV has expanded into BEVs and announced its first model, the E-WAN. Sono Motors 2023 Sono Sion.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

According to a report from Automotive News , suppliers have been under intense financial pressure from the automakers prioritizing just-in-time manufacturing, rolling component shortages, a lopsided labor market, and increasingly high material costs. The rest seems to be down to what happened after 2019.

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Teslarati

JUNE 1, 2022

General Motors-owned Chevrolet rolled back prices of the new model year versions of the Bolt EV and EUV by $5,900 and $6,300, respectively, despite electric vehicle costs increasing due to materials and parts shortages. Production is expected to begin in the Summer.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

The high-level timeline is: 2017: Adopt new-generation connected systems, promote cloud-based vehicle applications and service, and extend free basic OnStar service to five years. 2019: Introduce Super Cruise technology, enabling hands-free driving. Between 2019 and 2020, SAIC-GM’s telematics system will be upgraded.

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Teslarati

JUNE 9, 2021

Lordstown Motors is based in Lordstown, Ohio, and the company purchased a 6.2 million square foot factory from General Motors in 2019. Lordstown Motors wants to join the electric pickup truck market too. ” It plans to begin manufacturing the Endurance pickup in September. million in cash on hand.

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Cars That Think

JULY 13, 2023

For that, he won a 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry , sharing the award with M. Starting in the 1990s, his lithium cobalt oxide cathode was used in many electronic products including camcorders, laptop computers, and mobile phones. Goodenough [left] shared the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Akira Yoshino [middle] and M.

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EV Adoption

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But that jump had little to nothing to do with the tax credit, but was a result of Tesla scaling up production and sales of its popular Model 3. The overall EU EV (BEV and PHEV) sales share ended up around 10 percent, versus the 3 percent for 2019. Chart Source: EV Volumes. At that point the credit expires completely.

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EV Central

OCTOBER 27, 2023

In fact, we reckon there are almost 20 load-haulers either confirmed or said to be on the way to production. Tesla Cybertruck Tesla Cybertruck The top of the pile when it comes to attention, the Cybertruck just about broke the internet when Tesla design chief Franz von Holzhausen broke two of its windows during the global unveil late in 2019.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 24, 2021

Story by Michael Coates; photos from manufacturers or Clean Fleet Report archives. ” Honda’s signed up with General Motors to cooperate of future ZEVs and will have volume production of battery electric cars from that joint venture on the market in 2024. BMW & JLR Jump on Board. BMW’s fuel cell SUV.

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Get Electric Vehicle

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

As a result, companies have been able to streamline their production increasing competition. The expiration of tax benefits offered to the manufacturer played a significant role in the price drop as well. Consumer Reports pointed out that General Motors lost these EV tax benefits. The Expiration of Tax Benefits.

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Clean Fleet Report

AUGUST 24, 2021

Then in 2017 along came the CT6 PHEV , an electrified version of Cadillac’s full-size, flagship sedan, but 2019 saw the end of this car. General Motors, the parent company of Cadillac, announced by the year 2035 they will only be selling zero-emission vehicles. Cadillac is considered the only luxury brand at General Motors.

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EV Sales

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

While BEVs were a hot item last month, jumping 81%, to a record 407.000 units, PHEVs were even hooter, shooting 205% in December, allowing them to end the year with 31% of plugin sales, up 5% from the 26% of 2019, giving credit to those that say that PHEVs will still be around for a while. BEV) of 2019. share (4.9% plugin share (1.9%

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Green Car Congress

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. Exclusive Mixed-Metal Manufacturing Techniques. —Mary Barra.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

We are nearing the end of manufacturing validation at Kato: field quality and yield are at viable levels and our focus is now on improving the 10% of manufacturing processes that currently bottleneck production output. It's basically a giant box without dividers," Munro says.

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