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GM’s Volt Program = $700m

Revenge of the Electric Car

GM to invest $700m in Volt rechargeable electric car. “GM is spending $336m to upgrade the Hamtramck plant; $202m for a new plant in Flint, north of Detroit, that will build 1.4 GM to invest $700m in Volt rechargeable electric car. Tags: Production News Detroit GM Chevy Volt. Related Stories.

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University of Michigan Report Finds Focus on Fuel Economy Would Be Very Profitable for Detroit 3; Says Rapid, Wide-Reaching Change in Business Models Required for Turnaround

Green Car Congress

A new report released by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute ( UMTRI ) analyzes critical choices faced by automakers and finds that broad, deep, fast change is necessary for success in the context of the worst financial crisis in the history of the domestic automobile industry. Rob Kleinbaum. points).

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UAW President: Tesla workers are union “members of the future”

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I still believe in a bright future — one that we can build together. I still believe the automobile industry is a major force for good in our country. The UAW’s strike against Ford, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis has closed out its first month.

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Ford Executive Chair Bill Ford Asks UAW to End Strike

The Truth About Cars

From AP : The company, he said, builds more vehicles in America and has more United Auto Workers employees than any company, which has increased its costs in a highly competitive industry. Ford has 57,000 UAW workers compared with 46,000 at GM and 43,000 at Stellantis. GM and Stellantis are reportedly only offering 20 percent.

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Abandoned History: Tariffs, Toyota, and the 1984 Motor Industry Development Plan (Part I)

The Truth About Cars

Australia got itself into a troublesome situation by the 1980s with regard to its automobile industry. The countrys location, worker wages, and currency valuation meant it was not sensible to build cars within Australia for export to other parts of the globe. Images: Ford, GM-Holden, Toyota] Become a TTAC insider.

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Letting in the Light

Electric Auto Association

Later, in graduate school at Virginia Tech, he became part of a group of engineers who visited local schools to help enhance the STEM curriculum with hands-on building of solar electric and small motor project activities. “We It was like the early days of the automobile industry when everything was so scattered,” Smith explained.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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. The electrification of the automobile is inevitable." When Lutz first proposed creating an electric car in 2003, the idea "bombed" inside GM, he says. "I

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