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BrightDrop: GM’s silent push into electric commercial vehicles

Charged EVs

Upcoming electric passenger vehicles and light trucks from GM get most of the attention, but its new commercial EV brand is a quiet and very serious push too. Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. The Task Force ultimately agreed.

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GM and Chrysler Submit Updated Restructuring Plans; Up to $18.6B More Needed; Outlines for Product Plans

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In the US, GM will focus on its core brands; Chevrolet, Cadillac, Buick and GMC. Saturn will remain in operation for the next several years, through the end of the planned lifecycle for all Saturn products. If a spin-off or sale does not occur, GM plans to phase out the Saturn brand at the end of the current product lifecycle.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

Harley-Davidson Launches Stand-Alone Electric Bike Brand. Harley-Davidson, the legendary and revered American manufacturer of motorcycles, announced that it is establishing LiveWire as a separate electric motorcycle brand on July 8,2021, just in time for the first of nine outdoor International Motorcycle Shows. Not an H or D in sight.

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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

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The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. Cadillac conveys the philosophy of “ Art and Science ” globally, with “Art” representing an appeal to aesthetics while “Science” indicates advanced technology. The Cadillac Converj extended-range electric vehicle Concept uses the Voltec platform.

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Volt for Real?

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The Volt , provided GM can get the lithium battery right , will go about 40 miles on an electric charge. Even he recognizes that the Volt will make historians forget about the (in my opinion) entirely forgettable Dodge Viper he concocted at Chrysler, as well as the 1000 horsepower Cadillac Sixteen concept car of a few years ago.

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Wall Street Report

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. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It He yanked big engines out of American cars and replaced them with electric motors that worked in tandem with much smaller gasoline engines. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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GMs Expanding Gasoline Direct Injection Engine Portfolio

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The newly introduced GMC Terrain ( earlier post ) became the latest GM North American model that will feature a fuel-efficient gasoline direct injection (DI) engine in 2010. GM North America Gasoline Direct Injection Applications. Saturn Sky Red Line. Cadillac STS. Cadillac CTS. Saturn Outlook. Cadillac STS.

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