Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

General Motors (GM) has shut down a manufacturing plant in Kansas and laid off the site’s roughly 2,000 workers after the automaker stated plans to do so last week. The news comes as the latest amidst strikes from the United Auto Workers (UAW) union targeting Ford, GM and Stellantis. We have delivered a record offer.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 16, 2012

GM China Advanced Technical Center’s Cell Fabrication Lab in Shanghai recently produced its first batch of battery cells. These systems are expected to be more affordable for GM customers around the world and help GM expand vehicle electrification. —John Du, Director of GM China’s China Science Lab.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 2, 2022

Broadly, the investments announced focus on the development of production facilities, technology, EV batteries, new product and securing future raw material supply (primarily semiconductors and battery materials). Automakers need to be tech-efficient to combat technology rivals invading the auto industry.

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CleanTechnica EVs

APRIL 25, 2023

The Mexican auto industry has grown sevenfold since the 1960s and doubled its output since the 1990s, when it was granted full access to the US market. […] Giant amongst developing nations, Mexico stands currently as the seventh-largest automobile producer in the world (in number of units).

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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

MAY 30, 2024

US President Biden pats GM CEO’s back: “You electrified the entire auto industry. Biden has also pledged allegiance to unions, especially the United Auto Workers (UAW), which Musk has been extremely vocal about his distaste for. EVs have become so mainstream because of Tesla’s disruption of the automotive industry.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Honda and its partner LG Energy Solutions have broken ground on their first joint venture battery production location in the United States. That has started with investments into electric drivetrain production, and now, its first battery production facility, which it has started construction on today.

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Teslarati

MAY 3, 2022

billion at two of its Canadian vehicle production plants as part of a dedicated EV and software push. We’re building a world-class Canadian auto industry, an innovative economy and a clean, strong future for everyone. in Canada to boost electric vehicle production appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2009

The Agile is the first model of the Viva family; Project Viva represents a US$400 million investment by GM un Brazil and Argentina. GM began doing business in Brazil in 1925. GM was the first company in the Brazilian auto industry to provide 100% of its spark-ignited vehicles as flex-fuel.

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Teslarati

JUNE 9, 2023

General Motors’ (GM) support for Tesla’s North American Charging Standard (NACS) might be trouble for Electrify America. Support from Ford and GM are steps in the right direction for Tesla’s NACS goal. General Motors and Ford hold a significant market share of the United States auto industry.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2014

In conjunction with the start of Auto China 2014 in Beijing, GM China President Matt Tsien announced that GM’s China joint ventures will make capital expenditures of about $12 billion between 2014 and 2017. That investment will help GM step up its pace by funding facility and capacity expansion and new product programs.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 18, 2022

Starting this year, thousands of battery-powered electric drive Volkswagen vehicles capable of both loading and offloading current—bidirectional charging, as industry calls it—have been rolling off production lines in eastern Germany. GM produces the Chevy Volt and GMC Hummer EV and is preparing its 2023 launch of the Silverado EV.)

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Duplicitous doublespeak has become de rigueur dialect in the auto industry. “We We remain committed to an all-electric future,” says GM as it announces a rollback of its electrification plans. “We We strongly believe in EVs,” say auto dealers as they support efforts to slow the EV transition.

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Setec Powerr

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As more consumers purchase electric vehicles in the coming decades, a huge question is plaguing governments and the auto industry: Can the grid keep up with the dramatic increase in demand for electricity? V2G charging may become the industry standard if the industry can do this.

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Charged EVs

APRIL 6, 2023

The Austin-based company has been launching new products and making strategic acquisitions to build complete solution-level capabilities for EV battery testing and validation, led by its automotive customers who don’t have time to build up the technology themselves. There is also a growing sense that a few EV winners could take all.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Ford CEO Jim Farley stated that the automaker has now doubled its electric vehicle production goals to 600,000 units by 2023. CEO Jim Farley said yesterday that Ford would be increasing its EV production goal from 300,000 to 600,000 over the next two years, aiming to solidify the manufacturer’s position as #2 in the U.S.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Former General Motors product czar Bob Lutz, now retired for a few years, is largely respected within the auto industry. He stopped flying his MIG fighter jet when he turned 80, as the story goes, but he remains a larger-than-life persona in an industry with fewer and fewer of them.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

As required by the loan agreements signed in December 2008, GM and Chrysler submitted their updated restructuring plans showing a pathway to achieve financial viability to Congress on Tuesday. The plans, updated in the context of a worsening sales outlook for the entire auto industry, outline a need for up to an additional $16.6

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Toyota has the worst climate lobbying score of any automaker, and the third-worst 2030 EV production plans, according to InfluenceMap’s annual report on climate lobbying. InfluenceMap routinely ranks automakers and auto industry associations based on how much they lobby to stop climate policy goals.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

Ethanol blends are created in two ways: by adding more ethanol to a product approved for commercial use, such as E10 (“splash blending”); or by adjusting the gasoline blendstock first to match certain selected parameters (“match blending”).

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 23, 2023

UAW-represented workers walked off the job at the Sterling Heights, Michigan plant on Monday, with the UAW saying that Stellantis had the “worst proposal” on the table compared to fellow “Big Three” automakers General Motors (GM) and Ford (via Reuters ). Additional layoffs have faced adjacent auto parts suppliers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 6, 2009

The approval marks a necessary step toward the emergence of GM from bankruptcy; the US Treasury has said it would halt funding to GM if the asset sale was not concluded by 10 July. will change its name to General Motors Company and continue to operate under GM’s historic corporate and sub brands. The old GM: 10%.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The Detroit News reported that GM has decided to produce the Cadillac Converj, an extended range electric vehicle derived from the Voltec platform. Cadillac included the Converj concept car at the 2009 North American International Auto Show. A production date has not been set, according to the report. Earlier post.)

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 30, 2024

GM released its annual forecast with fresh clarity, it says, about labor costs after the ink has dried on new union contracts in North America. Last November, GM said that it expected to reach nearly $10 billion, despite the $1.1 EV sales were rough last year: In 2023, GM delivered 75,883 BEVs in the US, about 2.9%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2013

Within his talk about the need for a US energy policy at the IHS CERAWeek 2013 energy conference in Houston, GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson outlined some highlights of the company’s fuel economy plan through the 2016 model year. GM, said Akerson, is doing a much better job optimizing mass efficiency. Clean diesel. Earlier post.).

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Teslarati

APRIL 25, 2023

Honda appears ready to go full electric and dive into the increasing competition in the EV industry. With the popularity of electric vehicles continuously rising, legacy automakers like Honda are reevaluating their place in the general auto industry. The Japanese automaker aims to produce 2 million EVs annually by 2030.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

announced that former GM executive Robert C. From 1994 to 2002, Purcell led the GM Advanced Technology Vehicles Group (GM ATV). In addition to his responsibilities at GM ATV, he also served as chairman of the GM-Ovonic Advanced Battery Joint Venture. Click to enlarge. Li-ion manufacturer Boston-Power, Inc.,

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers.

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Teslarati

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

After delivering just under 500,000 vehicles in 2020, Tesla planned to increase its production and delivery targets toward the one million unit mark but never explicitly implied that it would set that figure as an official goal. Tesla Model 3 production line in Gigafactory 3, Shanghai, China. Credit: Tesla).

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Teslarati

AUGUST 2, 2022

Other major OEMs such as Ford, GM, and Stellantis announcing and marketing their own EVs have also helped. In May 2022, Elon Musk pointed out that Tesla’s actual rival is much larger than the auto industry itself. However, Tesla has been the most vocal advocate for EVs and is continuing to achieve its goals. The Research.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 5, 2015

The announcement that the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt electric car will go into production within 18 months seemingly sent shockwaves through the auto industry. GM''s crosstown rival Ford, which has sold hybrids for more than 10 years but shown little love for battery-electric cars, now seems to feel the need to respond.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 9, 2011

The pair of auto-industry stars is Bob Lutz, former product czar at General Motors and still a part-time behind-the-scenes advisor to newly minted CEO Dan Akerson, and Elon Musk.

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Plugs and Cars

MARCH 23, 2007

"GM tries to unplug Volt hype" is not the headline I've been hoping to see out of Motor City this spring. But there it is in a Detroit News Autos Insider piece today. Just weeks after announcing production, perhaps, in 2010, the industry's hometown paper lets us know this is no done deal. And little came of a $1.5

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 10, 2024

As artificial intelligence becomes the new horsepower for car buyers, established automakers are redoubling efforts to match the digital features that set Tesla, BYD and other new rivals apart, industry executives and analysts said at the CES technology show in Las Vegas. As of Wednesday, GM still had not delivered a fix.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

GM technical fellow and USAMP’s technical program leader on the project. Although early generations of AHSS are being used in numerous automotive applications today, the 3GAHSS project goal is to create a product that is high strength, ductile and uses existing conventional steel infrastructures, helping reduce costs.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 6, 2023

Other automakers, including Ford and GM, have seen massive falls in stock value over the same timeframe. This is despite the near-constant supply shortages that have plagued (and continue to plague) the auto industry, notably in Europe.

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Baua Electric

MAY 14, 2024

Jeremiads lamenting China’s takeover of the global auto industry are everywhere these days. Retreating behind tariff walls or outright bans will further isolate America’s auto industry into a Galapagos market of ridiculous trucks sold at nosebleed prices.” Three recent accounts stand out from the pack.

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