Green Car Reports

JANUARY 26, 2022

General Motors on Tuesday issued an update on its EV plans, including confirmation of two Michigan sites for EV manufacturing and battery production. Confirming an earlier report, GM said in a press release that will spend $4 billion to convert its Orion Assembly plant in Orion Township, Michigan, to build electric pickup trucks.

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JANUARY 25, 2022

Today, General Motors made its $7 billion plan to expand electric vehicle and EV parts manufacturing in Michigan official. Additionally, it will build a new battery factory and convert an existing factory into a hub for manufacturing its electric pickup trucks. Last week, we reported that GM was planning to invest at least $6.5

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JUNE 15, 2023

Powered by General Motors’ (GM) Ultium Platform, the AWD Zevo 600 is designed for last-mile deliveries, with an estimated range of up to 400 kilometers (249 miles) on a full charge. BrightDrop is manufacturing the Zevo 600s at GM’s CAMI Assembly plant in Ontario. Supported payload is 1,460 lbs, and cargo volume is 615 ft 3.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

This rare General Motors EV1 has been hiding in plain sight, parked outside behind Howard University's school of engineering in Washington, D.C., You never know where an interesting car might turn up. but was recently spotted by Twitter user Pepe Lucho (via DCist).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

General Motors and Detroit Renewable Energy are partnering on a renewable energy project to turn solid municipal waste from Metro Detroit into process steam that will be used to heat and cool portions of GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant. We have a long history of working with GM in providing energy to its assembly plants.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

General Motors ( NYSE: GM ) is gearing up for a major shift in 2022 thanks to its evolving electric vehicle program, planning for record profit levels that could surge the company into a more well-rounded placement in an increasingly competitive sector. For Q4, GM had a weaker quarter than it did in the same period in 2020.

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MARCH 30, 2022

General Motors (GM) is expediting Hummer EV production after receiving more than 65,000 reservations. He also stated that GM Hummer EV reservations had exceeded expectations. Aldred believes that about 95% of people are converting their Hummer EV reservations into orders, a much higher number than GM expected.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2018

liter engine cylinder, liquid fuel (shown in red and orange) is converted to fuel vapor under high temperatures during ignition. Grover and the GM team turned to DOE for assistance. ORNL’s goal was to help the GM team improve the accuracy of the combustion model, an exercise that could benefit other combustion research down the road.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2017

General Motors said it will rapidly and extensively deploy its new nine-speed automatic transmission in China, which is debuting in a high-volume SUV later this year. For precise and smooth shifts, a specific strategy is used in the selection of the gearsets, clutches and torque converter.

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MARCH 11, 2016

General Motors is acquiring three-year-old start-up Cruise Automation to add Cruise’s deep software talent and rapid development capability to further accelerate GM’s development of autonomous vehicle technology. The acquisition of Cruise is GM’s latest step toward its goal of redefining the future of personal mobility.

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AUGUST 27, 2014

General Motors will invest $185 million to make small-displacement gasoline engines at its Spring Hill, Tennessee manufacturing complex. GM Spring Hill currently manufactures the award-winning Ecotec 2.0L Bedford currently produces transmission casings, converter housings and small gasoline engine blocks. An additional $48.4-million

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JULY 30, 2013

General Motors’ Rayong engine plant in Thailand and Cheongna proving ground in Korea are now landfill-free , bringing the company’s total to 33 sites throughout Asia that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all of their daily waste. GM’s landfill-free facility count in Asia compares to 45 in North America and 22 in Europe.

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OCTOBER 19, 2015

General Motors is partnering with DTE Energy to build a new 800-kilowatt solar array at its Warren Transmission plant that will be GM’s largest solar installation in Michigan. acres of land leased from GM. The facility is also landfill-free, meaning it reuses, recycles or converts to energy all waste from daily operations.

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DECEMBER 3, 2013

After four years of effort, including seven attempts to recycle an oily filter sludge generated from a machining operation, a 75-year-old General Motors manufacturing facility in Rochester, N.Y. The plant and its nearly 1,100 employees now reuse, recycle or convert to energy all waste from daily operations.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2014

General Motors will build its new generation midsize diesel engine family at the GM Manufacturing Poland plant in Tychy. The GM Manufacturing Poland plants in Gliwice and Tychy employ 3,500 people. The current portfolio includes the Opel Astra, the Cascada convertible and the 1.7-liter liter diesel engine. billion).

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OCTOBER 17, 2014

Eleven more General Motors facilities have achieved landfill-free status. The running total is 122 manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations spanning Asia, Europe, and South and North America that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. GM’s new landfill-free facilities include: CAMI Assembly (Canada).

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MARCH 6, 2017

General Motors and PSA Group announced an agreement under which PSA Group will acquire GM’s Opel/Vauxhall subsidiary and GM Financial’s European operations in a transaction valuing these activities at €1.3 GM will also own warrants to purchase shares of PSA. Barra, GM chairman and CEO. billion (US$1.38

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APRIL 18, 2016

At the 2016 SAE World Congress, GM engineers presented a paper describing the development of the new hybrid powertrain for the popular mid-size sedan. GM chose the displacement as a result of system balancing of engine vs. battery size and power to meet packaging constraints and the performance and fuel economy targets for the vehicle.

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Teslarati

JUNE 15, 2023

FedEx Express Canada aims to convert its entire parcel pickup and delivery (PUD) fleet to zero-emissions cars by 2040. General Motors announced it started delivering the BrightDrop Zevo 600 in April 2023. General Motors aims to produce 50,000 BrightDrop Zevo 600 delivery vans annually by 2025.

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AUGUST 8, 2012

The new certifications cover approximately 200 2010-2012 General Motors Chevrolet- and GMC-brand light-duty trucks and SUV platforms with 4.8- The EPA certifications allow Icom to convert these popular fleet vehicles in the US market for propane/autogas bi-fuel use. liter engines.

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JULY 8, 2011

General Motors’ efforts to eliminate the shipment of plant waste to landfills is spreading to its non-manufacturing sites, 10 of which now reuse, recycle or convert to energy all waste from normal operations. GM engineers work to create designs with recyclable attributes intended for disassembly.

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JULY 12, 2013

Describing its product goals and tracking progress toward its 2020 manufacturing priorities in its 2012 Sustainability Report , General Motors reaffirmed its commitment to further reduce the energy used and the environmental impacts of building and operating an automobile. In 2012, GM invested more than $7.3 Earlier post.).

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APRIL 14, 2016

General Motors is turning its employees’ recycled water bottles into a noise-reducing fabric insulation that covers the Chevrolet Equinox engine. Given its drive to zero waste, all of GM’s global facilities recycle their water bottles. washes the bottles and converts them to flake. Clean Tech Inc. Unifi, Inc. Burnett & Co.

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JANUARY 1, 2011

A 1966 article in ACS’ Chemical & Engineering News described a General Motors press conference at which the automaker outlined research work being done on non-gasoline-based automotive power sources, with a heavy emphasis on the electrical. For good measure, GM also described work on gas turbines and the Stirling thermal engine.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In its recently released Q4 2021 Shareholders Letter , General Motors (GM) reported that the Chevrolet Silverado EV has garnered more than 110,000 reservations, including orders from more than 240 fleet operators. . GM unveiled the Chevrolet Silverado EV last month. Credit: General Motors). Credit: General Motors).

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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. GM has generated more than $2.5

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Electric Cars Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

SAIC-GM-Wuling has officially launched China’s first convertible EV – the Wuling Hong Guang MINIEV Cabrio. It followed the MINIEV Gameboy’s launch this April and the MINIEV Macaron’s launch and MINIEV Cabrio’s reveal last April. The Hong Guang MINIEV Cabrio features a folding soft top.

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JANUARY 28, 2016

SDCmaterials, a developer of advanced catalyst products based on a novel materials fabrication and integration platform, announced a partnership and formalized a supply agreement with Car Sound, a leading manufacturer of catalysts and catalytic converters for the automotive aftermarket.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 9, 2023

As Common Motors ramps up electrical car manufacturing over the upcoming a number of years, the automaker is operating to turn staff that they’ve a task within the EV hour, its supremacy production govt stated. GM plans in order Orion again on-line within the first quarter of 2025, he stated. FLINT, Mich. — Completely.

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MAY 13, 2010

One of GM’s innovations involves the creation of a shape memory alloy (SMA) heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. Source: GM. More than half of the 1,300 patents filed by General Motors Co. in 2009 are green innovations, evidence of the rapid development by GM researchers and engineers. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 15, 2009

We Must Destroy GM In Order To Save GM. I’m afraid the time has come to pull the plug on GM’s life support so we can plug into a whole new kind of Motors much better than General. I’m talking about electric motors. And I’m talking about killing GM the way GM killed the electric car.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

This dedicated EV propulsion architecture combines a 111-kWh battery pack and a two-motor, all-wheel-drive propulsion system to offer a GM-estimated 600 horsepower and 640 lb-ft (868 N·m) of torque, along with a GM-estimated driving range of 300 miles (483 km) on a full charge. 1 front and 11.63:1

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JUNE 23, 2016

General Motors, the Office of Naval Research and the US Naval Research Laboratory are cooperating to incorporate automotive hydrogen fuel cell systems into the next generation of Navy unmanned undersea vehicles, or UUVs. Once converted to electricity, water vapor is the only emission. Refueling takes only minutes.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2010

AMP ), a company engaged in the conversion of new vehicles to full battery-electric drive, unveiled its latest all-electric conversion platform, the GM Chevrolet Equinox. signed a letter of intent for a potential long-term electric motor supply agreement. AMP receives unhoused motors from Remy. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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FEBRUARY 16, 2010

An HVH250 motor. AMP ) have signed a letter of intent for a potential long-term electric motor supply agreement. AMP will use the Remy HVH250 electric motors in their custom electric vehicle conversions. The first two vehicles available for AMP conversions are the GM Saturn Sky and the GM Pontiac Solstice.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2015

BorgWarner supplies Eco-Launch stop/start accumulator technology and multi-segment wet friction plates for the new 8-speed rear-wheel drive automatic transmission (8L45) from General Motors. The exceptionally low-noise, high-flow, low-leak solenoid valve opens against large accumulator pressures and stays closed against high line pressures.

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JULY 14, 2011

General Motors Powertrain plants in Ohio and Indiana that make transmissions for Buick and Chevrolet models with eAssist fuel-saving technology will get the bulk of a new $129-million investment. eAssist is GM’ light electrification technology ( earlier post ). Bedford’s employment of 405 is unchanged by the new investment.

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