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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. —Kevin Cunningham, Pretreatment & Elpo Global Subject Matter Expert at General Motors.

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APRIL 15, 2011

Features of the engine include an iron block, aluminum DOHC cylinder head, lifetime maintenance-free timing chain, centrifugal blowby separator filter for lower oil consumption, low-noise timing gears, a balancer shaft for state-of-the-art NVH and a precisely sized waste-gated turbocharger.

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

—Reeshemah Howard, Sustainability Mission Leader, General Motors. Striving to eliminate waste and optimize use of sustainable materials in automotive operations and products is a key priority for our member companies.

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JULY 25, 2021

Eastman is collaborating with the United States Automotive Materials Partnership LLC ( USAMP ) and automotive recycler PADNOS for a concept feasibility study to demonstrate a closed-loop project to recycle automotive-industry mixed plastic waste in the automotive supply chain. That’s why this project is so exciting. —Steve Crawford.

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JANUARY 26, 2023

Numerous opportunities will create a stable financial runway for NBM America to construct additional commercial plants and value-add projects like silicon waste recycling in the US. Ultium Cells, a joint venture between LG Energy Solution and General Motors, has started production in its Ohio gigafactory battery plant (US$2.3-billion

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JULY 9, 2011

General Motors will extend its efforts to eliminate the shipment of plant waste to landfills, to its non-manufacturing sites.

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OCTOBER 18, 2014

Eleven more General Motors facilities have now achieved landfill-free status, bringing the total to 122 sites spanning Asia, Europe, South and North America. Each of these facilities recycles, reuses or converts to energy all waste produced from daily operations. For the newly landfill free si[.]. GM Editor Pick'

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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. Waste collection and separation systems also lead to improvements.

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OCTOBER 28, 2009

Concept diagram of an SMA heat engine for power generation from waste engine heat. As one of 37 projects selected by the US Department of Energy’s ARPA-E (earlier post), General Motors R&D will receive $2.7 Tags: ARPA-E Materials Waste Heat Recovery. Source: GM. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 27, 2016

General Motors is adding 2 million water bottles from Flint, Michigan residents into its Do Your Part water bottle recycling initiative. GM Global Manager of Waste Reduction John Bradburn demonstrates the Chevrolet Equinox engine insulation made from used water bottles from several GM facilities.

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JUNE 27, 2023

General Motors and Australia-based Element 25 Limited announced an agreement for Element 25 to supply up to 32,500 metric tons of manganese sulfate (MnSO 4 ) annually to support the annual production of more than 1 million GM EVs in North America.

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DECEMBER 6, 2019

General Motors and LG Chem are partnering to mass-produce battery cells for future battery-electric vehicles. The plant will use the most advanced manufacturing processes all under one roof to produce cells efficiently, with little waste, and will benefit from strong economies of scale throughout the value chain.

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APRIL 17, 2024

General Motors plans to put heat pumps in every one of its Ultium EVs , and Rivian plans to add them soon. That helps solve some of the issue of cold-weather range loss in EVs. 2024 Lucid Air Tesla insisted it didn’t need a heat pump and that its EVs might be less efficient with one—until it introduced one in 2023.

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DECEMBER 10, 2021

General Motors and MP Materials ( earlier post ) have formed a strategic collaboration to develop a fully integrated US supply chain for rare earth magnets. To optimize for efficiency and sustainability, waste generated during MP’s rare earth alloy and magnet manufacturing will be recycled back into the process.

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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. Colmotores Assembly (Colombia).

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

General Motors has joined the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA), adding another element to company programs that support the sustainability and human rights of the EV supply chain.

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JULY 19, 2021

and Sandia National Laboratories will use HPC to create an eco-system of HPC-enabled fiber manufacturing models to allow for defect-free production of solvent-free detergents with an accelerated timescale and reduced waste streams compared to traditional approaches such as build-test cycles. General Motors LLC.

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MAY 6, 2021

These include renewable domestic biomass, such as forestry and agricultural waste, which can be combined with petroleum-based fuels to improve vehicles’ carbon footprint and engine performance.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

” Ford was one of three large automakers , including General Motors and Stellantis, to feel the effects of the strike that the UAW performed in an effort to see wage increases and more flexibility with scheduling. We are also working flat out on our next generation of electric vehicles and software platforms,” Farley said.

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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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JANUARY 29, 2014

BorgWarner’s next-generation 6.35 mm inverted tooth silent engine timing chains are launching on engines from Mitsubishi, Suzuki, Hyundai, General Motors Korea and one Chinese automaker. The new timing chain is designed to reduce friction, resulting in as much as 0.3 improvement in fuel economy based on customer testing.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2023

During the company’s Investor Day event earlier this year, Tesla’s Vice President of Powertrain Engineering Colin Campbell announced that the company’s next-generation powertrain would include a permanent magnet motor with zero rare earth metals.

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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 17, 2020

General Motors LLC. Ford Motor Company. General Motors LLC. Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Pilot Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste Collection. Waste Not, Want Hot? Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

We are also working flat out on our next generation of electric vehicles and software platforms. It’s also imperative that we continue to attack cost and waste throughout our operations. All told, we are refreshing about half of our U.S. volume in 2024.

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MARCH 4, 2023

” Mercedes joins the likes of Tesla, General Motors, and many others , establishing battery recycling capabilities worldwide. General Motors has worked closely with Lithion to establish battery recycling as part of its planned introduction of numerous EVs in the near future. Late last month, the U.S.

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AUGUST 20, 2011

a developer of technology for the production of advanced biofuels and biochemicals from biomass and waste materials, announced a first close of its Series D round of financing. Coskata Inc.,

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JUNE 16, 2015

GM is using five used battery packs from Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric cars to help power the new General Motors Enterprise Data Center at the Milford Proving Ground. This secondary use application extends its life, while delivering waste reduction and economic benefits on an industrial scale.

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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. More than half of the 1,300 patents filed by General Motors Co. Source: GM. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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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.

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OCTOBER 13, 2009

General Motors Company is investing more than $230 million in four GM plants in the greater Flint, Michigan area to support the production of the fuel-efficient 2011 Chevrolet Cruze and Volt extended range electric vehicle. four-cylinder engine generator for the Volt and the 1.4L four-cylinder turbo engine for the Cruze.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

General Motors LLC, $1.4 General Motors will develop and demonstrate a novel technology that enables the use of high dilution in the combustion chamber significantly improving the fuel economy of vehicles compared to conventional engines. The initial focus will be on US heavy-duty vehicles. Eaton Corporation, $2.5

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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.

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DECEMBER 20, 2010

General Motors has developed a method to convert an estimated 100 miles of the oil-laden plastic boom material used to soak up oil from the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico earlier this year into parts for the Chevy Volt. Click to enlarge.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Department of Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm will discuss its $140 million demonstration project, funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) “to recover rare earth elements and critical minerals from coal ash and other mine waste, reducing the need for new mining.”

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

General Motors for the first time achieved perfect scores on both climate change data disclosure and performance submitted to CDP , the world’s only global environmental disclosure system. The CDP program enables management of greenhouse gas emissions and risks and opportunities associated with climate change.

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AUGUST 23, 2011

General Motors is introducing a flame-treatment technology developed by FTS Technologies that lets paint stick to plastic vehicle parts such as instrument and door panels without using primers that contain solvents. Eliminated landfill waste like paint sludge and painted scrap material from 25 tons to nearly zero.

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