Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2021

We are investing aggressively in a comprehensive and highly-integrated plan to make sure that GM leads in all aspects of the transformation to a more sustainable future. —GM Chair and CEO Mary Barra. These investments are enabled by GM’s strong underlying business, including record EBIT-adjusted in the last three quarters.

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Teslarati

MAY 10, 2023

The General Motors (GM) robotaxi unit, Cruise, has announced that it will expand to two Texas metro areas in the coming weeks. GM’s autonomous driving unit, Cruise, not only operates as an in-house testing lab for its upcoming technology but also as a standalone robotaxi operator, which hopes to take the ride-hailing sector by storm.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2018

On World Environment Day, General Motors mapped out its electrification path in China. GM is on track to deliver 10 new energy vehicle models in China between 2016 and 2020. From 2021 through 2023, GM will maintain momentum by doubling the number of new energy vehicles available. GM China battery R&D lab.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Pierburg (Rheinmetall Automotive), Swoboda, BASF and General Motors (GM) have developed the first all-plastic fuel vapor pump assembly in series production. We worked with GM to get this part ready for the Cadillac XT4. This allows the system to function in a corrosive environment.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2018

The combustion process is central to engine design, but studying the intricacies of combustion in a laboratory is difficult and significant computational resources are required to simulate it in a virtual environment. Grover and the GM team turned to DOE for assistance. In a model of a 1.6 Image courtesy of Ronald Grover.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2020

We have been taking extraordinary precautions around the world to keep our plant environments safe and recent developments in North America make it clear this is the right thing to do now. —GM Chairman and CEO Mary Barra. Production status will be reevaluated week-to-week after that.

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Teslarati

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Specifically, the ARK Invest founder pointed out Tesla’s notable increase in US car sales and GM’s decrease in the third quarter, despite the ongoing chip shortage. “Meanwhile, $ GM blamed the ~33% YoY decline in its US sales on chip shortages. # EVs require 3-5x more chips per car produced!”

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EV Box

MAY 13, 2022

Many car manufacturers have also pledged to transition completely to EVs in the next five to ten years ; including Jaguar, Audi, GM, and Mercedes. As a result, the global EV stock is expected to increase from 11 million in 2020 to over 145 million by 2030.

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Teslarati

JULY 19, 2021

As revealed by GM on Monday, it would be offering at least three large all-electric pickup trucks in the future. GM’s third full-size all-electric pickup truck is part of the veteran automaker’s $27 billion investment in electric vehicles and self-driving cars, which is designed to help the company release 30 EVs globally by 2025.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2017

vehicle sharing pilot program ( earlier post ) launched by General Motors and Shanghai Jiao Tong University (SJTU) recently concluded after two years’ operation in a real-world environment. The learnings will also support GM’s continued exploration of China’s sharing market. The Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 The fleet of 16 EN-V 2.0 The EN-V 2.0

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

General Motors earned a 2017 EPA ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence award for continued leadership in protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency. In the US, GM reduced energy use at its manufacturing facilities by 10% on a per-vehicle basis in 2016 compared to the previous year.

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Teslarati

JULY 22, 2022

Ford and GM want to deploy up to 2,500 self-driving vehicles per year which is the maximum allowed under the law. ” GM’s Petition. GM and Cruise petitioned the NHTSA for approval to deploy self-driving vehicles without steering wheels, mirrors, turn signals, or windshield wipers. appeared first on TESLARATI.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

The fuel-cell version of the mid-size pickup is being developed under an agreement between TARDEC and GM signed in 2015 ( earlier post ). The collaboration enables TARDEC to access consumer-driven automotive technology for use in military applications while providing GM with feedback on non-standard fuel cell technology applications.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Specifically, GM scored a 100 A this year, up from 100 A- last year. Featured in the CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report 2014 , GM ranks among the world’s largest companies acting in response to a changing climate. —GM CEO Mary Barra. For the second time, GM ranks in the top 10% of companies for its disclosure scores.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 16, 2018

—GM President Dan Ammann. GM will invest more than $100 million to upgrade both facilities. Since January 2017, UAW Local 5960 workers at the Orion plant have assembled three generations of Cruise self-driving test vehicles for use in the most challenging urban environments, including downtown San Francisco.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

The acquisition of Cruise is GM’s latest step toward its goal of redefining the future of personal mobility. Founded in 2013, Cruise has moved quickly to develop and test autonomous vehicle technology in San Francisco’s challenging city environment. —Kyle Vogt, founder of Cruise Automation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

Wuling deliveries continued to grow last month, despite the challenging market environment for the mini-commercial vehicle segment. In the first eight months of 2016, GM and its joint ventures’ deliveries in China increased 8.1% As a point of comparison, GM sold 1,962,602 units in the US over the same time period.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

GM’s resistance spot welding process uses a patented multi-ring domed electrode that does what smooth electrodes are unreliable at doing—welding aluminum to aluminum. By using this process GM expects to eliminate nearly two pounds of rivets from aluminum body parts such as hoods, liftgates and doors.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

Fuel cell propulsion has very high low-end torque capability useful in off-road environments. What’s more, fuel cells generate water as a by-product, something extremely valuable in austere environments. —Charlie Freese, executive director of GM’s Global Fuel Cell Engineering activities. —TARDEC Director Paul Rogers.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 14, 2015

Under current plans, the investment will create approximately 2,600 new GM salaried jobs in core areas such as product engineering, IT and design, all areas critical to support future business growth. GM’s Warren Technical Center is currently home to more than 19,000 employees. In addition, GM previously announced $139.5

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2011

WirtschaftsWoche (WiWo) reports that BMW and GM will announce a cooperation agreement on hydrogen fuel cell technology in mid-January. According to the report, BMW will receive fuel cell technology from GM in return for investment in the research. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 26, 2021

Venti’s proprietary algorithms create powerful processing and fast reaction times, delivering practical advantages: Handling 30 – 40% change in the environment (compared to 5% for other leading industry players). The vehicles adapt to complex route conditions and can operate in unstructured and structured road environments.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2015

GM will focus on the premium segment of the Russian market with Cadillac and US-built iconic Chevrolet products such as the Corvette, Camaro and Tahoe. —GM President Dan Ammann. The GM Auto plant in St. GM is planning to idle the plant. GM is planning to idle the plant.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2017

SAIC General Motors Corporation Limited (SAIC-GM), a joint venture between General Motors Company and SAIC Motor, has upgraded its car coating line at its Jinqiao South plant, which opened in 2003. The plant used to employ a traditional zinc phosphating pretreatment process to handle 300,000 units of passenger vehicles annually.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2016

Three emerging and converging factors—connectivity, autonomy and transport-as-a-service—will fundamentally change the automotive industry over the next few decades, according to Mike Abelson, GM’s VP of Strategy and Global Portfolio Planning. US ridesharing company Lyft had 85 million rides in 2015; China’s DiDi had 1.5

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2013

Reflecting the rapid evolution of the automobile as an application development platform, both Ford and GM announced programs to support third-party development of in-vehicle applications at CES in Las Vegas. GM application framework. GM will offer developers an SDK through an online portal at [link]. Ford Developer Program.

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The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Before we get to GuideStar, we need to cover much context around why GM was so keen on high-tech things in the Nineties, and the massive amounts of money it spent in its pursuit. For that context we turn to GM CEO Roger Smith (pictured at left)(1925-2007), who was chairman of the company from 1981 to 1990. and gave Perot pull at GM.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2011

GM is committed to reducing emissions throughout its manufacturing operations and supply chain, so it manages traditional solvents through recycling, conversion to energy and superheating the gases to break them down. Flame treatment of components has for years always been troublesome in a high-volume production environment.

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Baua Electric

MAY 29, 2023

These days, it’s generally a mix of lithium, nickel, manganese and cobalt, and makes up about 40 in keeping with cent of overall battery prices, in line with GM. It’s going to make use of about 200 community as soon as operational, and the web site may have the “opportunity to grow,” mentioned GM Canada President Marissa West. “We

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2023

Over time, GM expects that customers will be able to travel truly hands-free with Ultra Cruise across nearly every paved public road in the US and Canada, including city streets, subdivision streets and rural roads, in addition to highways. GM is developing Ultra Cruise software in-house.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Given an improving business environment for GM over the past few months, and the importance of Opel/Vauxhall to GM’s global strategy, the GM Board of Directors has decided to retain Opel and will initiate a restructuring of its European operations in earnest. Fritz Henderson, president and CEO.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2016

Wuling deliveries experienced year-over-year growth for a second consecutive month, increasing 6% in July to 97,728 units despite the challenging market environment of the mini-commercial vehicle segment. In the first seven months of 2016, GM and its joint ventures’ deliveries in China increased 6.8%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2012

Source: GM. The 2013 Cadillac XTS will feature GM’s first application of a Driver Assistance Package using sensor fusion, which combines the information of several, generally heterogeneous sensors and positioning technologies to alert drivers more accurately of road hazards and help them avoid crashes. GM and V2X.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

SAIC-GM-Wuling will build a third manufacturing base in Chongqing Municipality to keep pace with the rising demand for its vehicles. The joint venture between GM China, SAIC and Wuling Motors will begin construction of its new facility early next year, pending relevant government approvals.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 11, 2011

GM and DTE Energy will install a 516 kW solar array at Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly—the home of the Chevrolet Volt. Making sustainable choices is good for both the environment and our bottom line. Obviously cost savings is critical for GM, and the ability to save $15,000 per year while being environmental serves us well.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2010

GM now has 76 landfill-free facilities, achieving a global operations commitment established in 2008 to convert 50% of its 145 plants to landfill-free status by the end of 2010. 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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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2016

Advanced autonomy and sensing will enable operation in the cluttered littoral environment. The Naval Research Laboratory recently concluded an evaluation of a prototype UUV equipped with a GM fuel cell at the heart of the vehicle powertrain.

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