Electrek

JUNE 20, 2023

General Motors (GM) is wasting no time as it looks to keep up in a rapidly evolving Chinese EV market. Buick , GM’s mid-level luxury brand, is embracing the wave of innovation with its second EV based on GM’s Ultium platform, the E4 electric SUV. Yet, in the US, we are stuck with Buick’s ICE vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2012

In its landfill-free efforts, GM first reduces waste and then focuses on recycling and reuse. GM began tracking its waste 15 years ago, and, armed with this insight, improves its recycling each year. Since 1997, the company has reduced total waste by at least 43%. In 2011, it recycled or reused 2.6

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Given its drive to zero waste, all of GM’s global facilities recycle their water bottles. GM pursued this project after analyzing its impacts from a holistic business case: Sourcing recycled material costs the same while saving energy and reducing waste. GM uses recycled content in many of its vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

General Motors said that 52% of its worldwide facilities are now landfill-free; i.e., all waste generated from normal operations is reused, recycled or converted to energy. GM employees focus first on decreasing the amount of waste generated, and then work to recycle the unavoidable waste.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2012

will receive $5 million to develop, build and test a pilot facility to demonstrate an innovative gasification process to produce renewable biomass diesel from local municipal solid waste, including green refuse, railroad ties, construction and demolition waste, and plastics that typically wind up in landfills. SacPort Biofuels Corp.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2013

GM’s electrified vehicles today include the extended-range electric Chevrolet Volt, Spark EV and Buick LaCrosse, Regal, Chevrolet Malibu and Impala with eAssist. By recycling and reusing 90% of its manufacturing waste worldwide, the company generates about $1 billion in revenue annually.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2015

Buick introduced the 2016 Encore Sport Touring crossover, a more sporty take on the brand’s popular crossover. The crankshaft-driven oil pump matches oil supply to engine load, changing its capacity based on the engine’s demand for oil, eliminating energy wasted to pump unneeded oil.

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