Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

General Motors and its joint ventures sold an October-record 251,812 vehicles in China. Sales were up 14.3% on an annual basis, as GM’s major brands in China reached new highs for the month. During the first 10 months of 2012, GM and its joint ventures sold 2,333,624 vehicles in China, an increase of 10.5% year-on-year.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2010

General Motors and its joint ventures set new marks for unit sales in China in the month of June and for the first half of the year. Sales in June rose 23.2% For the first half, sales were up 48.5% As a comparison, in the US GM sold 195,380 units in June, up 10.7% Shanghai GM’s sales in June rose 18.9%

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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 10, 2009

On 10 November, General Motors and its joint ventures in China surpassed 1.5 million units in sales for 2009. For the first 10 months of 2009, GM’s domestic sales in China totaled 1,459,460 units. Shanghai GM sales in the first 10 months rose 46.5% FAW-GM Light Duty Commercial Vehicle Co.

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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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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. The Aries and Reliant sedans were the real sales heroes of the K family during the 1980s.

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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

APRIL 5, 2020

General Motors and its joint ventures delivered 461,716 vehicles in China in the first quarter, down 43.3% 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.

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Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. 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. I’m hoping for the latter.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2011

General Motors’ vehicle sales in China rose 28.8% 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 SAIC-GM-Wuling’s domestic sales grew 15.6% Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2009

General Motors China and its joint ventures sold 814,442 vehicles in China in the first half of 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. For the first six months as a whole, its sales totaled 524,598 units—an increase of 49.9%

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

General Motors sales in China in the first eight months of 2009 increased 49.6% GM and its joint ventures benefited from record August domestic sales, which increased 112.7% These results continued a series of single-month sales records for the automaker that began in January 2009. Buick sales were up 102.8%

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 17, 2024

The comments come as several automakers, like Ford and GM, have scaled back EV investments. Volvo’s EVs accounted for 16% of its total sales last year, higher than most rivals and up from 10.9% The electric SUV will be available in two versions: A single-motor extended range and a twin-motor performance model.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 8, 2024

Despite a slowdown in December, Volvo hit a new sales record in 2023. Volvo’s EV sales were up 70% last year, with over 113K purely electric vehicles sold. Volvo’s EVs accounted for 16% of total sales, up from 10.9% However, Volvo expects to turn things up this year with a full year of EX30 sales.

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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. SAIC has a 50.1%

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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%

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Baua Electric

MARCH 19, 2024

Volvo hit its highest-ever electrified vehicle sales share last month, primarily due to the new EX30 rolling out. Volvo set new global sales (+113,000 EVs) and revenue records last year. Electrek’s Take While several rivals, including Ford, GM, Mercedes-Benz, and others, are pushing back EV initiatives, Volvo is plowing ahead.

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Charged EVs

JUNE 2, 2023

The 2025 Volkswagen ID.Buzz electric minivan has been coming to North America for a long, long time. It’s been on sale in Europe for a year, as has the Cargo commercial-van variant. It’s longer than the one sold in Europe, has a genuine third row of seats, a larger battery and a more powerful motor, and available all-wheel drive.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 3, 2009

The emerging markets may hold the key to success for auto manufacturers going forward and so General Motors can take great heart in the news that its domestic sales in China leapt allowing it to record its best July ever. Total sales reached 144,593 units - that’s an increase of 77.7 per cent compared to last year.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 22, 2009

Subscribe Green News Events Manufacturers Region New Cars Used Cars Filed under: EV/Plug-in , Chrysler Chrysler unveils new electric minivan for the US Postal Service by Sam Abuelsamid on Apr 22nd 2009 at 10:05AM Chrysler U.S. Apr 22, 2009 - Chrysler invented the minivan 25 years ago. Postal Service. Postal Service for mail delivery.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

It would then be offered for public use in 2012, said Brian Carolin, senior vice president for sales and marketing at Nissan North America Inc. But it does have the same electric motor and lithium-ion battery system that will power the five-passenger compact car that Nissan plans to roll out. No gasoline. 16,000 miles.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform.

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Plug In Partners

OCTOBER 8, 2007

based minivan in Tokyo, followed by a plug-in hybrid sedan at Los Angeles. concept unveiled in Frankfurt is to give VW a low-cost, rear engine, affordable vehicle, both the minivan and plug-in hybrid should carry a meager price tag if they come to production. M eanwhile, in an unusual move, GM is already advertising its Volt. (

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

Still, the instant torque of the electric motor is a rush you get to experience all the time in city driving; each time you pull away from a red light and stop sign youre wondering why gasoline engines ever became popular. The car is noisy, with the hum of the electric motor omnipresent when youre not at a standstill.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

↓ ↑ report 10 Pixls 11:45PM (4/09/2009) well i think, in a perfect world there would be some level of uniformity to the batteries per car of course not all cars would have the same pack, that would be impossible, but perhaps, an SUV pack, a sport pack, minivan pack, and like regular car or something. Follow us on Twitter!

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