Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2012

Shanghai GM’s domestic sales rose 7.1% SAIC-GM-Wuling sold 127,749 vehicles in China, an increase of 35.9% FAW-GM sold 3,756 vehicles in the domestic market last month, down 0.7% Demand rose for its entire minivan lineup. Shanghai GM’s sales in China rose 6.4% Shanghai GM’s sales in China rose 6.4%

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2011

SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) completed the expansion of the second phase capacity expansion of its manufacturing facility in Qingdao, Shandong. Among the products manufactured in Qingdao are the Wuling Rong Guang, Wuling Xingwang and Wuling PN-Series minivans. —GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

During the first 10 months of 2012, GM and its joint ventures sold 2,333,624 vehicles in China, an increase of 10.5% Shanghai GM’s domestic sales grew 7.4% SAIC-GM-Wuling’s domestic sales grew 13.9% FAW-GM’s domestic sales decreased 0.5% SAIC-GM-Wuling’s domestic sales rose 15.9% to 1,084,443 units.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2012

from February 2011 and were the third highest for any month in GM’s history in China. All three of GM’s primary manufacturing joint ventures set February records as well. Shanghai GM’s domestic sales rose 31.8% year on year to 103,097 units; SAIC-GM-Wuling’s sales in China increased 28.7% In 2011, GM sold more than 2.5

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 27, 2020

A new report underscores that Ford and GM knew about climate change a half-century ago. And we drive Toyota’s hybrid minivan. A report that reaches back to former executives and the archives of GM and Ford finds that the two Detroit automakers “were deeply and actively. Lordstown goes public.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2011

GM plans to launch a new hatchback and a multi-purpose vehicle—essentially a small minivan—likely in 2012 and 2013, Akerson told reporters.The automaker also will likely launch a plug-in hybrid version of the Cadillac SRX crossover, he said.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 19, 2011

On October 14, SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW) became the first vehicle manufacturer in China to sell 1 million units in the domestic market this year. It is also expanding its exports of complete knockdown (CKD) kits for assembly at other GM facilities around the globe. SGMW’s sales in the first nine months of 2011 were up 6.6%

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2010

Buoyed by strong demand for the Chevrolet brand and ongoing positive demand for its other brands, GM sales totaled 196,004 units. GM’s sales in the first five months of the year in China reached 1,032,665 units, a 53.9% On May 28, GM celebrated the sale of its 1 millionth vehicle in 2010. SAIC-GM-Wuling sales in May rose 5.2%

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

GM both topped 200,000 unit sales for the first time and set a new sales mark for the month of January in China. Sales of vehicles by Shanghai GM jumped 150.1% SAIC-GM-Wuling had record January sales of 119,969 units, which represented a year-on-year increase of 59.6%. Sales were up 97.0% from the first month of 2009.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Five other vehicles were involved, including a minivan with seven people inside. Following its investigation into the crash, the NTSB asked 17 automakers, including BMW, Ford, GM, Honda, and VW, to equip new vehicles with speed-assistance features. The crash was caused by a driver traveling 103 mph in a 2018 Dodge Challenger.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2009

GM’s SAIC-GM-Wuling joint venture signed a framework agreement with GM’s former Latin America, Africa and Middle East operations and distribution agreements with individual countries to export and distribute two of its most popular mini-commercial vehicles from China to markets in South America, the Middle East and North Africa.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2010

Those dimensions create unique proportions that depart from conventional minivan, SUV or crossover designs, GM says. turbocharged engine that is part of GM’s new family of small-displacement four-cylinder engines. The Granite’s comparatively short body length is complemented by a wide, 70.3-inch inch (1,536 mm) height.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2010

As a comparison, in the US GM sold 195,380 units in June, up 10.7% GM China sales for 1H2010 thus outpaced US sales by almost 12%. Shanghai GM’s sales in June rose 18.9% Shanghai GM’s sales in June rose 18.9% Sales of SAIC-GM-Wuling’s family of mini-vehicles grew 19.7% For the first half, sales were up 48.5%

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

May Mobility plans to begin demonstration tests in 2024 using self-driving vehicles based on the Sienna minivan, according to the report. The vehicles are expected to include buses to start, before later including taxis and other automobiles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Shanghai GM sales in the first 10 months rose 46.5% Shanghai GM finished the month number one in sales among domestic passenger car manufacturers. In the first 10 months, SAIC-GM-Wuling, GM’s mini-commercial vehicle joint venture, registered domestic sales of 891,285 units, representing an increase of 65.9%

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Green Car Reports

MAY 6, 2016

This week Google and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles announced that the Silicon Valley giant would use the Detroit automaker's 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans for its self-driving car research. It's the season of autonomous-car announcements, apparently.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 16, 2016

And, what did GM CEO Mary Barra say flat-out the company won't do? Which new and startling function has Tesla added to its electric cars? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, January 15, 2016.

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The Truth About Cars

JANUARY 16, 2024

For the 1980s, GM created the X-Cars , Ford offered Fox sedans and American Motors had the Concord. After a decade of fuel shortages and general malaise , Detroit (and Kenosha) knew that American car buyers still loved soft-riding, roomy sedans with comfy bench seats but needed them to be more efficient.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2018

ft 2 (2.4%); cars increased 1 ft 2 (2.1%); minivans/vans increased 1.0 Since MY 2008, market share has shifted towards car SUVs and truck SUVs, and away from cars, pickups, and minivans/vans. Mercedes and BMW are the leading manufacturers for non-hybrid stop/start, and GM and Honda are utilizing cylinder deactivation the most.

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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 Reports

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

This morning, the company's Opel unit announced that it would test a fleet of Opel Meriva small minivans converted to electric power in Germany. Last summer, Karl Stracke, the vice president of global vehicle engineering of General Motors, said the company planned to test three battery-electric vehicles in different global regions.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Chrysler debuts all-electric minivan Alisa PriddleThe Detroit News April 22, 2009 12:00 PM Chrysler LLC is celebrating Earth Day with the presentation of four all-electric minivans to the United States Postal Service in Washington today.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2020

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak, GM shifted its primary focus to supporting control and prevention of the coronavirus while also ensuring the safety of its employees as well as company and dealer operations. The minivan has a range of 300 kilometers on a single charge and supports DC fast charging. Wuling Rong Guang EV.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2018

While the Chrysler 300 improves to “Average,” the Pacifica minivan falls to “Below-Average.” Other GM brands saw their place in the rankings fall from last year. Cadillac is again the worst-performing of the GM brands, dropping one spot to 28. Ram was the worst-charting FCA brand at 26.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2014

The Trends report has been published annually since 1975 and covers all passenger cars, sport utility vehicles, minivans, and all but the largest pickup trucks and vans. Of the major manufacturers (production above 100,000 vehicles), Nissan had the highest concentration of AFV production at 2.0%, followed by GM at 1.2%.

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Get Electric Vehicle

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Waymo began their operations and testing with Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivans, but in 2018 the I-Pace was added to the fleet. It takes only 4.6 seconds to reach 0-60 MPH. I- Pace said to have a range of 470 km from its 90 kWh 388 V lithium-ion battery. .

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

GM is bringing back the Hummer brand as an EV within the GMC brand. GM, shifting focus to pure EVs, built the last Volt on February 19, 2019. GM’s signature EV now is the Chevrolet Bolt EV , another new name, which arrived as a 2017 model and promptly won Motor Trend ’s Car of the Year award. I’m hoping for the latter.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2010

The RVR is the second fender from the Mitsubishi/SABIC Innovative Plastics relationship, which first gave consumers the Delica D:5 minivan in 2007, also sporting front fenders molded from Noryl GTX resin.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

Mr. Ghosn said Nissan envisioned a broad range of electric vehicles , starting with small cars, and adding: “It’s not only about a small city car or a small minivan. Here is what GM and its main rivals have in the pipeline. The Chevrolet Volt is the sexiest green car in GM's arsenal. They will use technology similar to GM's.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2011

Its manufacturing joint ventures and major brands all set new annual sales marks, enabling GM to remain the leader among global automakers in its largest market (US sales crested 2.2 GM became the first global automaker to sell more than 2 million vehicles in China in a single year earlier in 2010. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The Trends report has been published annually since 1975 and covers all passenger cars, sport utility vehicles, minivans, and all but the largest pickup trucks and vans. Chrysler-Fiat had the highest CO2 emissions and lowest fuel economy, followed by GM. Adjusted fuel economy distribution by model year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 19, 2010

SAIC-GM-Wuling (SGMW), GM’s mini-commercial vehicle joint venture with SAIC and Wuling Motors, is launching the Baojun brand (Boajun is the Chinese word for “treasured horse”). The vehicle has been developed with help of GM and SAIC’s Pan Asia Technical Automotive Center (PATAC) joint venture in Shanghai. stake, GM China a 34.0%

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

It was a first half record for both GM China and global automakers in China. GM China Group President and Managing Director Kevin Wale. —GM GM China Group President and Managing Director Kevin Wale. GM and its joint ventures exceeded domestic sales of 100,000 vehicles in each of the first six months of the year.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

GM and its joint ventures benefited from record August domestic sales, which increased 112.7% We expect GM sales for the year as a whole to rise by more than 40 percent from 2008. —GM GM China Group President and Managing Director Kevin Wale. SAIC-GM-Wuling more than doubled its domestic sales, with growth of 122.6

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

The comments come as several automakers, like Ford and GM, have scaled back EV investments. It even launched its first electric minivan in China (EM90). Volvo’s leader explained, “We have much more pricing power, and people have got more disposable income, so they can afford it if they want to drive an EV.”

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

In China, Volvo is also launching its first electric minivan , the EM90. The EV minivan features a “Scandinavian living room” and up to 450 mi CLTC range. GM already stopped building the low-cost Bolt at the end of 2023 (although you can still get it for under $20K while in stock).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2009

GM’s domestic sales of the automaker and its joint ventures in China jumped to 144,593 units—an increase of 77.7 This was GM China’s best July ever, extending an uninterrupted series of single month sales records that started in January 2009. Shanghai GM registered year-on-year sales growth of 60.6% in July to 56,489 units.

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