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Chevrolet will NOT buy out Chevy dealerships if they don’t sell EVs

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Chevrolet Global Vice President Scott Bell has said that he will not offer dealerships a buyout if they don’t sell electric vehicles. In recent years, General Motors brands Buick and Cadillac have announced that they will give dealers a buyout option if they are unwilling to sell electric vehicles.

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A Brief History of the World’s First Planetarium

Cars That Think

According to the Zeiss Archive, a large sphere held all of the projectors for the fixed stars as well as a “planet cage” that held projectors for the sun, the moon, and the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. Today more than 4,000 planetariums are in operation globally. My hometown of Richmond, Va.,

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SAE International selects GM’s Larry Nitz for Edward N. Cole Award for Automotive Engineering Innovation

Green Car Congress

Nitz, GM Executive Director, Global Propulsion Systems, is the winner of the Edward N. Nitz leads GM’s Global Transmission and Electrification team, with engineering operations in North America, Europe, South America and Asia. SAE International announced that Larry T. Cole Award for Automotive Engineering Innovation.

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GM and Honda to establish industry-first $85M joint fuel cell system manufacturing operation in Michigan

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General Motors and Honda are establishing the auto industry’s first manufacturing joint venture—Fuel Cell System Manufacturing, LLC, FCSM)—to mass-produce an advanced hydrogen fuel cell system that will be used in future products from each company. —Charlie Freese, GM executive director of Global Fuel Cell Business.

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GM Releases New Viability Plan, Launches Bond Exchange; Phasing Out Pontiac

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

Clean Fleet Report

LiveWire motorcycles are not really Harleys, the thought goes, although they will share engineering, production facilities, a supply chain and global logistics. The Chevrolet Volt was a purpose-built plug-in hybrid, with an electric motor driving the car and a small gas engine that charged the small battery when it was depleted.

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2022 GMC Hummer EV: the biggest, baddest, butchest EV to hit the market?

Charged EVs

The news that General Motors would relaunch the infamous Hummer name—as an all-electric truck no less—broke a few days before the high-dollar, high-visibility 2020 Super Bowl ad that introduced that vehicle to the world. That will allow it to deliver a total of 750 kW (1,000 hp) to the three motors powering the wheels.

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