Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

For several years, the automobile industry has grappled with a straightforward question: Is it possible to produce a powerful, efficient, and mass-producible synchronous motor that contains no rare-earth elements at all?

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GM Motor Motors Motoring 101

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is different from anything Ive ever seen in my 40 years in the automobile industry." ( Detroit Free Press ). August 9, 2007 (Multiple reports on speech and press conference by GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz) Lutz said his goal is for GM to develop a plug in hybrid on sale by 2010. This is unusual. as well as Honda Motor Co.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 21, 2022

It’s one of the great stories of corporate intrigue: General Motors in the US and Sumitomo in Japan independently conceived the technology, and then worked in secret, racing to commercialize the technology, and without even being aware of the other’s efforts. Did you talk to each other at that conference? Masato, what do you remember?

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General Motors North America Motor Motors 144