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SAIC-GM Connectivity Strategy 2025 lays out roadmap to cloud-based connectivity, autonomy

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SAIC-GM, GM’s Chinese joint venture with SAIC, announced its Connectivity Strategy 2025, which lays out a roadmap for its connectivity development from 2017 through 2025. It offers 22 services along with built-in 4G LTE to owners of Buick, Cadillac and Chevrolet products from SAIC-GM. In 2016, GM delivered more than 3.8

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GM employs Tesla-esque direct-to-consumer sales strategy in China

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With Durant Guild, GM hopes to revitalize Chinese consumers’ interest in its brand and increase sales in the country. The head of GM China, Julian Blissett, noted that the OEM’s goal with Durant Guild isn’t to sell volume but instead change the perception Chinese consumers have about General Motors.

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OnStar Service to Launch in China in December

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SGM will eventually make this telematics service available on its full portfolio of products, beginning with Cadillac, then Buick and finally Chevrolet. The service will be available throughout mainland China and will be first launched in Mandarin Chinese.

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BYD slashes price on its best-selling SUV to $16K to compete with gas cars

Baua Electric

The Atto-3 SUV / Source: BYD Europe After recently reducing prices of its refreshed Han and Tang models , Build Your Dreams (BYD) just launched a new version of its top-selling EV Yuan Plus – known as the Atto 3 in overseas markets – to $16,644 in China, making it one of the lowest-priced EVs out there. Get started here.

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2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV: Chevy’s lowest-priced electric car gets a big brother

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But the EUV first went into production last year in China—as a Buick. If it were a person, you might almost feel sorry for the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, which was launched in February. Two BEV2 variants: Buick Velite 7, Bolt EUV. It’s a brand-new vehicle, sharing no body panels with its smaller sibling the Bolt EV, so it’s new!

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GM China Sales Rise 38.0% in 1H09 to 814,442 Units

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The market benefited from stimulus policies adopted by the Chinese government as well as growing demand for personal transportation in tier-three and tier-four cities and rural areas. —GM Led by record demand for its Buick lineup of passenger cars, Shanghai GM also continued to see its sales rise.

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Tesla Inside: The Ultimate Vintage Land Rover Retrofit

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That’s three times the output of the Buick-based Rover V-8 that first powered these trucks in 1979, and nine times that of the anemic 50-hp gasoline engine the Rover boasted at its birth, in 1948. The rest are sourced new from Chinese suppliers such as. recently adopted for standard-range Teslas in the United States). Each of E.C.D.’s