Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2010

General Motors India recently launched the CNG version of its Chevrolet Aveo mid-size sedan. The running cost of the CNG Aveo is approximately 54% lower than a similar vehicle powered by gasoline and 25% lower than a similar vehicle powered by diesel, according to GM. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

General Motors will invest approximately $246 million in the Baltimore Transmission plant to construct a high volume electric drive manufacturing facility that will in 2013 produce US designed and manufactured global rear-drive electric motors, a core technology for hybrids and electric vehicles. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2010

General Motors Co. is testing its production-intent second-hydrogen fuel cell system—which includes its fifth generation fuel cell stack—( earlier post ) that can be packaged in the space of a traditional four-cylinder engine and be ready for commercial production in 2015. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

MAY 29, 2009

General Motors plans to build a future small car in the United States utilizing an idled UAW-GM facility. This vehicle will adds to GM’s growing portfolio of US-built, highly fuel efficient cars including the Chevrolet Cruze and Volt. Fritz Henderson, General Motors President and CEO. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

SAIC Motor Corp., SAIC) and General Motors Co. (GM) GM) signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding (MoU) on strategic cooperation. In the first ten months of 2010, SAIC and GM’s Shanghai GM (SGM) joint venture sold about 843,000 vehicles in China. It has already reached this mark in 2010.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Ending what had extended into a longer-than-expected process of deliberation and negotiations, the Board of General Motors announced its support for a bid from the consortium of Magna International Inc. All parties will work hard to close the deal as soon as possible —John Smith, GM Group Vice President Business Development.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2009

General Motors and Politecnico di Torino formed the GM-Politecnico Institute of Automotive Research and Education. The Institute will bring together existing GM-Politecnico research and education programs as well as establish new initiatives. Tags: Brief. Earlier post.). million kilometers (750,000 miles).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Fisker Automotive has selected the GM Wilmington Assembly plant in Wilmington, Delaware for production for Project NINA, the development and build of a family-oriented plug-in hybrid sedan costing about $39,900 after federal tax credits. Fisker Automotive has signed a letter of intent with Motors Liquidation Co. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

General Motors announced a demonstration project ( earlier post ) to explore market needs and customer acceptance of battery electric vehicles in Korea. The Cruze EV is equipped with a 31 kWh battery that generates maximum power of 150 kW. GM currently markets the vehicle under the local brand in South Korea.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2010

The ultimate goal is to provide cost-effective, innovative solutions that will improve the efficiency of the country’s electrical grid. Earlier this month, Nissan Motor Co., Tags: Batteries Plug-ins Smart Grid. Earlier post.). Bly announced the partnership Tuesday at the EV Battery Tech conference in Troy, Michigan.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 7, 2009

General Motors will invest $336 million in the Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant to begin production of the Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle in 2010. This brings GM’s combined Volt-related investments in Michigan to $700 million, covering eight facilities. engine-generator from Flint. Tags: Brief.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 26, 2010

Researchers from the General Motors Global Research and Development, Chemical Sciences and Materials Systems Lab have developed and demonstrated the use of strontium-doped perovskite oxides as efficient platinum substitutes in diesel oxidation (DOC) and lean NO x trap (LNT) catalysts. Click to enlarge. Science Vol.

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Teslarati

MARCH 29, 2022

. “As consumer interest for EVs grows due to rising gas prices and other current events, we know shoppers have questions about what EV options are available, how much they cost, what the ownership experience is like, and more. As the average price of an EV costs $60,000 in today’s market, the Volkswagen ID.4

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2010

General Motors and Hawaii’s The Gas Company (TGC), the state’s major gas energy provider, are collaborating on a hydrogen infrastructure project. Charles Freese, executive director of GM Global Fuel Cell Activities. Electricity costs are the highest in the US. GM, which has invested more than $1.5 Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2009

General Motors Corp. reached agreements with the US Treasury and the governments of Canada and Ontario for the creation of a smaller, self-sustaining “New GM”. Pending approvals, the New GM is expected to launch in about 60 to 90 days as a separate and independent company from the current GM. Orion, Mich.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2009

The hydrogen storage system Sandia designed for GM. The system, developed through a multiyear project funded by General Motors Corp., For GM, the enduring value of this project can be found in the design concepts, computational tools, and control strategies that Sandia developed. Tags: Hydrogen Storage.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 27, 2009

As it bids to break even at a US total industry sales volume of approximately 10 million vehicles, General Motors has updated its Viability Plan which will deepen the cuts in its operations. If the bond exchange fails, it will result in GM entering bankruptcy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

GM’s second-generation fuel-cell system (engineer included for scale.) The first generation fuel cell system (with fourth-generation stack technology) used in the Equinox. The new second-generation system is to the left. In addition to the system-level work, GM has made advances with its stack technology.

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Green Cars News

JULY 6, 2009

The sale of substantially all of General Motors Corporation’s assets to NGMCO Inc, an entity funded by the US Department of the Treasury, has been approved by US Bankruptcy Court. Now, NGMCO Inc will change its name to General Motors Company and continue to operate under the company’s historic brands.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2009

GM, Politecnico di Torino and Regione Piemonte, have entered into a framework agreement on the development of sustainable mobility, research and education projects in the Turin, Italy region. The announcement was made at the GM Symposium Diesel Fuels the Future.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

General Motors Corp. Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), GM and Segway are developing an electrically powered, two-seat prototype urban vehicle that has only two wheels. Larry Burns, GM vice president of research and development, and strategic planning. Tags: Electric (Battery) Personal Transit.

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EV Central

JULY 22, 2022

It will also have an appropriately stratospheric price tag. US media is reporting the production version of the Celestiq that is due in dealerships by 2024 will cost around US$300,000, which is about the same price as a Rolls-Royce Ghost, a car that sells in Australia for about $650,000. Cadillac Celestiq show car.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

General Motors presented an updated Viability Plan that accelerates and deepens the cuts in US brands and nameplates, dealers, manufacturing operations and employees intended to enable GM North America to breakeven (on an adjusted EBIT basis) at a US total industry sales volume of approximately 10 million vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Purcell, best known for his leadership at the General Motors Corporation with the GM EV-1, moves into this role after serving as a board director and strategic advisor to the company. Protean Electric designs, develops and manufactures the Protean Drive, a fully integrated, in-wheel motor, direct-drive solution.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

SAIC Motor Corporation, Limited announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary SAIC Motor HK Investment Limited acquired 15,151,515 ordinary shares from General Motors (GM), which accounts around 0.97% of GM’s total equity, at a price of US$33 dollars per share, totaling US$499,999,995 dollars.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 31, 2009

Following the short address on Monday during which President Barack Obama outlined the next steps for GM and Chrysler ( earlier post ), the White House posted summaries of the Presidential Auto Task Force’s assessment of the business plans provided by the two struggling automakers, which led to the terms that are currently unfolding.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2010

Once physical feasibility is established, commercialization is ultimately determined by cost. Packaging and high volume cost analyses of projected technologies are outside of the scope of this Perspective. geometric loadings of commercially optimized Pt/carbon black cathode catalysts, costing several thousands of dollars per vehicle.

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Green Cars News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Lowered costs, improved performance, quality, and reliability: those are the advantages General Motors is suggesting it will enjoy by expanding its in-house electric vehicle development capabilities to become the first US car manufacturer to design and manufacture electric motors.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 4, 2009

With General Motors in dire straits just a few months ago, it looked like the Opel/Vauxhall brand would be sacrificed as part of the company’s efforts to create a sound business model for the future. However, now GM has committed to the long term future of its European brands.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 2, 2009

After months of speculation about its future, General Motors Corporation has reached agreements with the US Treasury and the governments of Canada and Ontario for the creation of a new smaller and self-sustaining GM. Tags: Chevrolet Green cars Latest news general motors GM New GM.

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Green Cars News

MARCH 18, 2010

General Motors (GM) has sufficiently reduced the size, weight and cost of its hydrogen fuel cell system to allow the carmaker to plan commercial production for 2015, it has been revealed. Tags: Chevrolet general motors cell Equinox fuel cell fuel hydrogen Project Driveway.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2009

The vehicles cost an extra €2,200 (US$3,100) compared to the gasoline variants—lower than for retrofit solutions. Opel offers a two-year manufacturer’s warranty; Inspection intervals and costs are comparable to those of conventionally-powered models. John Smith, GM’s chief negotiator for the sale of Opel. LPG ecoFLEX.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2010

Fisker, a startup based in southern California, expects to manufacture the Karma and Project NINA lines at a recently shuttered General Motors factory in Wilmington, Delaware. Tags: Brief. The DOE had awarded a conditional $528.7-million million loan to Fisker in September 2009.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2009

The talented engineers at General Motors’ research and development centre are hard at work developing a new low-cost concept for nitrogen oxide control. By contrast, GM’s passive ammonia SCR places a three-way catalyst upstream of an SCR catalyst.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

The resulting cells are to incorporate safe operation, low cost, long cycle life and high power performance. Runkle also was part of the GM management team that formed parts supplier Delphi, serving as Vice Chairman and CTO. Tags: Batteries.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 28, 2009

Those who thought that US auto manufacturers would turn their back on fuel cell developments after Steven Chu limited their funding earlier this year, should take a look at General Motors, which has just unveiled its second generation hydrogen fuel cell system.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Construction of the fueling station cost approximately $2.2 Additionally, the New York State alternative fuel vehicle fueling infrastructure tax credit will contribute 50% of the total cost of the refueling station. Tags: Brief. NYSERDA provided $900,000 in funding for the project, and National Grid contributed $55,000.

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