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 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
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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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
CleanTechnica EVs
MARCH 6, 2023
General Motors and Samsung SDI will announce this week the construction of new US battery factory, probably in Michigan.
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.
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.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 18, 2021
General Motors has begun deliveries of its first next-generation electric vehicles, the GMC HUMMER EV Edition 1 Pickup and BrightDrop EV600 light commercial vehicle, both built on the Ultium Platform. Photo by Jeffrey Sauger for General Motors). million to benefit the Tunnel to Towers Foundation.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2022
General Motors will invest more than $81 million into the company’s Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, to prepare the campus to build the Cadillac CELESTIQ ( earlier post ). The investment will be used to purchase and install related equipment to hand-build the CELESTIQ and campus renovation work has already begun.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 22, 2022
General Motors plans to invest nearly $154 million in its Western New York Lockport Components plant. The investment will be used to renovate the facility and purchase and install new machinery and equipment used in the production of the stator module, a key component in an electric motor. Ultium Drive stator.
The Truth About Cars
JANUARY 30, 2024
Despite previously having committed itself toward a future where it builds all-electric vehicles, General Motors has made plans to bring plug-in hybrids back to our market. General Motors already delivered the Chevrolet Bolt, with the model becoming one of the first affordable EVs offering real utility to customers.
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
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 1, 2018
Developed by General Motors and built in partnership with the pioneering electric drag racing team Hancock and Lane Racing, the concept race car—based on the 2019 COPO Camaro —is driven by an electric motor providing the equivalent of more than 700 horsepower and 600 lb-ft (813 N·m) of torque.
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.
Teslarati
JULY 31, 2024
Former General Motors (GM) executive James Taylor is the new CEO of Bollinger Motors. “I I am grateful and excited for this opportunity to continue moving Bollinger Motors toward a leadership role in the electric vehicle industry, ” commented Taylor. Bollinger Motors Inc.
InsideEVs
MARCH 18, 2025
The automaker is teaming up with the chip giant to build next-generation vehicles, factories and robots.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 29, 2021
GM’s focus will be offering zero-emissions vehicles across a range of price points and working with all stakeholders, including EDF, to build out the necessary charging infrastructure and promote consumer acceptance while maintaining high quality jobs, which will all be needed to meet these ambitious goals.
Green Car Congress
MAY 15, 2020
General Motors expects its Spring Hill Manufacturing plant will be powered by 100% solar energy beginning in late 2022. The plant builds the GMC Acadia and the Cadillac XT5 and XT6, as well as several engines. The wildlife area has received Gold recognition and certification from the Wildlife Habitat Council.
Green Car Congress
MARCH 12, 2021
At a Washington Post Live virtual conference, General Motors President Mark Reuss provided more details about GM’s next-generation Ultium lithium metal battery and announced a joint development agreement with lithium metal battery innovator SES (formerly known as SolidEnergy Systems) ( earlier post ).
Green Car Congress
APRIL 4, 2023
General Motors’ Chevrolet brand reported US deliveries of 19,700 units of the Bolt EV/EUV in Q1 2023. Combined with Cadillac LYRIQ deliveries of 968 units—and the delivery of 2 units of the HUMMER EV Pickup—General Motors delivered 20,670 battery-electric vehicles in Q1. This represented 3.4%
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