General Motors Has Big Plans For Your Old EV Battery
InsideEVs
JULY 16, 2025
Redwood will use recycled GM battery packs alongside new ones to build giant power bricks that will help stabilize the grid.
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InsideEVs
JULY 16, 2025
Redwood will use recycled GM battery packs alongside new ones to build giant power bricks that will help stabilize the grid.
EV Central
JUNE 30, 2025
General Motors has revealed how it is challenging the might of China when it comes to EV battery technology. We don’t think anybody’s building a lower-cost cell in North America than we are.” A full-size prototype General Motors LMR battery cell. The post General Motors versus China!
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EV Central
JUNE 19, 2025
GM’s top EV battery guru, Andy Oury, believes we could switch to a hydrogen-based economy in the future, if we could build enough renewable energy to run it. But typically when people talk about rare Earths, they’re talking about the magnet material, which is in the motors, not in the batteries. “So
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 29, 2025
Reports have alleged that the Orion Assembly Plant, which General Motors had previously earmarked for EV manufacturing, isnt just being retooled to produce all-electric vehicles anymore. However, the site is currently undergoing a $4-billion revamp so that it can build GMs all-electric pickups.
The Truth About Cars
JULY 14, 2025
General Motors’ Silao, Mexico plant is set to shut down the first two weeks of August, a move that follows a similar pause in July. The automaker builds the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra at the facility, two of its most popular and profitable models. Images: General Motors] Become a TTAC insider.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 22, 2025
Like its Detroit-based rivals Stellantis and Ford, General Motors operates a significant manufacturing business in Canada and Mexico, putting all three at substantial risk of disruption from tariffs. The automaker employs thousands at the plant in Ramos Arizpe, where it builds the Equinox EV and Honda Prologue, among others.
Electric Cars Report
JUNE 11, 2025
General Motors announced plans to invest about $4 billion over the next two years in its domestic manufacturing plants to increase U.S. The post GM to Build Next-Gen Affordable EV In Kansas appeared first on Electric Cars Report. production of both gas and electric vehicles.
The Truth About Cars
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Cadillac’s V brand has given us some of the most exciting General Motors vehicles in decades, and it’s not slowing down as the automaker heads into the electric age. While the standard Lyriq was already one of the better-looking options in its class, the V builds on that with a more aggressive stance and bodywork.
The Truth About Cars
FEBRUARY 7, 2025
The companys mounting losses would be disappointing in a typical business climate, but they stand out compared to Fords closest rival, General Motors. Images: Ford] Become aTTAC insider.
The Truth About Cars
JULY 11, 2025
While we were aware that Jeep’s domestic competition was performing better, we didn’t realize just how much distance General Motors and Ford were putting between themselves and Stellantis’ Jeep until The Drive laid it out for us. liter V6, General Motors continues to offer a 5.3-liter liter V8 or 6.2-liter liter and 6.4-liter
The Truth About Cars
JULY 16, 2025
In a major switcheroo, the facility will now build trucks and the mighty Escalade. Don’t look now, but General Motors is pulling the plug on building EVs at its Orion facility in Michigan. Reuters estimates General Motors paid about $128 million in penalties for 2016 and 2017.
Charged EVs
OCTOBER 27, 2024
The secret to this remarkable debut lies in a deal announced back in 2020 between Honda and General Motors. GM would build the car for Honda alongside the Chevy in its Ramos Arizpe plant. In the all-wheel-drive version with two motors, Honda quotes power of up to 212 kW (288 hp) and 333 lb-ft of torque.
Baua Electric
MARCH 18, 2025
BYD also said it would build over 4,000 chargers in China compatible with what BYD is terming the Super E-Platform charging hardware. The big dual-layer General Motors electric trucks can handle 350 kw, while the Porsche Taycan and Lucid Air (and Gravity) top out above 300 kw. There’s nothing on the U.S.
The Truth About Cars
MARCH 24, 2025
Lithium-ion batteries power the vast majority of todays EVs, but they dont contain the most efficient formulation, and there are many legitimate environmental concerns around extracting the raw materials needed to build them. Images: Theion, General Motors] Become aTTAC insider.
Electric Cars Report
JULY 14, 2025
Ultium Cells will upgrade its Spring Hill, Tennessee battery cell manufacturing facility to scale production of low-cost lithium iron phosphate battery cells, building on a $2.3 billion investment announced in 2021.
The Truth About Cars
MARCH 20, 2025
Nvidias chips provide processing power for vehicle safety systems, gaming computers, and many other high-intensity tasks, but General Motors will soon rely on them in its manufacturing and autonomous vehicle efforts. Nvidia has been in the news frequently in recent times.
EV Central
APRIL 30, 2025
The sheer size of the Shanghai motor show has to be seen to be appreciated. Sixteen halls, each substantially bigger than the entire Melbourne motor show, with around 100 auto brands on display hosting about the same number of global debuts almost all of them electrified in some way. GWM shocks the auto world at least its a PHEV!
Baua Electric
MARCH 8, 2025
” The team is owned by General Motors and TWG Motorsports, an arm of the larger TWG Global group owned by co-chairs Mark Walter and Thomas Tull. As we said in November, the commitment by General Motors to bring a Cadillac team to Formula 1 was an important and positive demonstration of the evolution of our sport.”
The Truth About Cars
DECEMBER 1, 0002
As for the next Bolt, Fairfax apparently remains on track to begin building the 2027 Chevrolet Bolt EV by the end of this year. Images: General Motors] Become a TTAC insider. All told, GM says its investments in its domestic manufacturing plants will total some $4 billion over the next two years.
The Truth About Cars
JUNE 25, 2025
Oversimplified, it just means that manufacturers want to start building automobiles where all functions are controlled via software, rather than being determined exclusively upon the mechanical hardware they came with — and I have a sinking feeling they are going to be just awful. Then again, I would be overjoyed to be wrong on everything.
The Truth About Cars
JUNE 24, 2025
The interview was part of a series conducted via The Car Guy Online Youtube channel and featured a former General Motors’ powertrain engineer going by the pseudonym “Chello.” Images: General Motors] Become a TTAC insider. And we were free to really — in the early days at least — kind of propose anything,” he said.
The Truth About Cars
FEBRUARY 11, 2025
It has also confirmed that it will be delaying the launch of the electric version of the Ram pickup, likely due to seeing the sales performance of rivals EVs introduced by Ford Motor Co and General Motors. But this really isnt all that surprising. But this may not mean theyll be readily available. It has already been doing that.
The Truth About Cars
JANUARY 28, 2025
While Ford is estimated to have lost billions on its EV business last year, General Motors recently announced that it actually made more than it spent on electric vehicles in 2024. The announcement means that the automakers revenue from EVs exceeds its fixed costs to build them, which include labor and materials.
The Truth About Cars
MARCH 14, 2025
That means Stellantis, General Motors, and Toyota are the most likely to comply. either because of the tariffs or because an automaker had already decided to build a certain model in the States but had yet to announce it. Given the complexity of supply chains, it's hard to say exactly which cars are compliant.
The Truth About Cars
NOVEMBER 29, 0002
In 1999 General Motors began its rollout of GMT800 platform vehicles, updated and more rounded designs arrived to replace the square-bodied GMT400 platform that was in production since 1988. The 4x4 version consumers wanted out of the SS concept experiment, Z71 was less restricted in its build specification.
The Truth About Cars
APRIL 14, 2025
GM's Ultium battery platform China is one of the worlds most prolific exporters of rare earth metals and raw materials needed to build everything from electric vehicles to fighter jets. Images: General Motors, Volkswagen, BMW Group] Become aTTAC insider.
Baua Electric
MARCH 21, 2025
Nvidia also announced some major collaborations at the event, including a tie-up with General Motors (GM). The companies will work together to build custom systems to train AI manufacturing models. The site will also soon produce high-performance electric axial-flux motors. Fresh-faced models MG revealed a redesigned MG4.
Cars That Think
FEBRUARY 9, 2025
The release also said that the facility, in Fort Worth, Texas, would supply magnets to General Motors and other U.S. They are used in motors for electric vehicles and for heating, ventilating, and cooling (HVAC) systems, in wind-turbine generators, in tools and appliances, and in audio speakers, among other gear.
The Truth About Cars
JUNE 2, 2025
We will say thats a big jump to make in assumption, since companies the size of GM routinely divest parts of business and seek to make a quick buck selling land or buildings it no longer uses.
Teslarati
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
” In a separate report from Reuters on Saturday, it was suggested that automakers such as General Motors (GM) and Toyota could, however, shift more production from overseas factories to those in the U.S., while major aluminum manufacturer Alcoa is considering re-routing plans that could potentially reduce tariffs.
The Truth About Cars
JULY 21, 2025
That is, while General Motors has more model-level awards—five—of that number, three are Chevys, and Cadillac and Buick have one each. But General Motors is a company, not a brand. And to compare those numbers with those of General Motors: · 2021: 289 · 2022: 287 · 2023: 297 · 2024: 299 · 2025: 310 Yes, GM is going north.
The Truth About Cars
JANUARY 29, 2025
General Motors has a plan to adjust to possible tariffs proposed by Donald Trump. I'd guess that other OEMs that build cars in Canada and Mexico have game plans ready to go, too. So, if you were the CEO of one of these companies, what would you do? Change production locations? Change the allotment of what gets sold where?
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 25, 2018
The US Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks launched the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the latest DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition ( AVTC ), revealed the 12 competing universities and named the Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform selected for the competition.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 3, 2020
General Motors and Honda today signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) following extensive preliminary discussions toward establishing a North American automotive alliance. —Mark Reuss, president of General Motors. —Seiji Kuraishi, executive vice president of Honda Motor Co.,
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 5, 2022
Cirba Solutions (previously Retriev Solutions, LLC) has extended a prior agreement with General Motors (GM) to recycle electric vehicle (EV) lithium-ion battery and cell scrap generated by manufacturing and research at select GM facilities through 2024.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
The competition continues the strong partnership between GM and SAE in STEM education and will build on the success of the original AutoDrive Challenge. Participating university teams will develop and demonstrate an autonomous vehicle (AV) that can navigate urban driving courses as described by SAE J3016 Standard Level 4 automation.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 1, 2020
General Motors Co. As part of that agreement, Nikola would utilize General Motors’ Ultium battery system and Hydrotec fuel cell technology, representing a key commercialization milestone for General Motors. The MoU replaces the previous agreement announced 8 September 2020. Earlier post.).
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 10, 2020
Hydrogen mobility and clean energy company, HYZON Motors, and Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures, the venture capital arm of European energy giant Total SE, announced a strategic investment led by Total and other specialist hydrogen investors. —Craig Knight, CEO and Co-Founder of HYZON Motors.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 17, 2024
General Motors (GM) announced a $10 million investment for battery development. General Motors subsidiary providing EV battery tech for military project With its Atomic Armor technology, Forge Nano hopes to develop thin-film coatings so General Motors can enhance its battery’s performance while reducing costs.
CleanTechnica EVs
MARCH 6, 2023
General Motors and Samsung SDI will announce this week the construction of new US battery factory, probably in Michigan.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 1, 2020
New Zealand’s Hiringa Energy and US-based HYZON Motors Inc. It comes on the back of over three years’ of detailed planning and analysis working together with heavy fleet operators, government and leading technology vendors such as HYZON Motors. —Craig Knight, Co-Founder of HYZON Motors.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
Lordstown Motors Corporation, a startup developing an all-electric pickup truck serving the commercial fleet market, merged with DiamondPeak Holdings Corporation, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). billion transaction provides Lordstown Motors with $675 million of gross proceeds.
Teslarati
MARCH 29, 2024
CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co Ltd) is negotiating with General Motors (GM) to license its LFP (lithium iron phosphate) battery technology. CATL and GM are also discussing the possibility of building a joint factory in North America. Last year, Ford announced plans to build a $3.5
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
General Motors (GM) will allegedly purchase LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries produced with technology from China-based CATL (Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.). People familiar with the matter hinted that General Motors will purchase TDK’s finished products.
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