Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 9, 2021

GM has started establishing a franchise dealer network for its electric vans. Synthetic gasoline might not be cheaper or cleaner. And why did some of this year’s EVs and PHEVs not make the Best Car To Buy shortlist? This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 9, 2020

Air pollution is linked to mortality in this pandemic. And the company using a former GM plant in Ohio has released more about orders for its upcoming electric work truck. Electrify America cuts fast-charging prices for Kia Niro EV owners. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.

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Pollution Kia Ohio Charging 143

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

GM China Engineering is developing an advanced filtration system for global use that utilizes a combination of proven technologies. fine particulate matter air filter that traps and filters out more than 99% of pollutants ranging in size from 0.3 —GM China HVAC Engineering Manager Kevin Wang. μm to 10.0

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Green Car Reports

JULY 8, 2019

Combating global warming and air pollution is about more than electric cars, as General Motors has made clear in its annual sustainability report issued at the end of June. GM CEO Mary Barra has repeatedly proclaimed the company’s goal of “zero accidents, zero emissions, and zero congestion.”

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GM Cleaner General Motors Pollution 130

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2016

GM has been supporting the development of connected vehicle technologies for more than a decade in the US. GM looks forward to contributing. —GM Executive Vice President and GM China President Matt Tsien. This will be achieved through two major elements—a government-initiated strategy and global collaboration.

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Connect Connected GM Vehicles 150

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. Our customers expect us to help mitigate, if not eliminate, issues such as congestion and pollution.

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Climate Change Climate GM New York City 236

Green Car Reports

APRIL 9, 2019

London's new pollution charge on older vehicles makes it really expensive to drive older cars into the city. And our latest Twitter poll asks what GM should do with the Volt name now that it no longer produces the car. We had a first chance to drive the new 2020 Kia Soul EV. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Pollution Kia 2020 International 68

Baua Electric

JUNE 7, 2023

automobile emissions relief plan to occasion, requiring annual reasonable air pollution cuts of 13 in step with cent. The post GM to get renewably produced metal from ArcelorMittal in Hamilton, Ont. If finalized, this represents essentially the most competitive U.S. appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Renewable GM Automobile CO2 52

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2012

RelayRides is the first third-party developer to integrate with GM OnStar’s proprietary application program interface (API) that will be available to other developers later this summer. RelayRides is backed by more than $13 million in venture capital funding from investors including Google Ventures and GM Ventures.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 21, 2019

The EPA plans to stop counting potential lives saved from new pollution rules. GM reveals a platform that's connected to the future. Stanford scientists devise a way to use seawater to make hydrogen. And our latest Twitter poll asks what types of incentives work best to sell EVs. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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EPA GM Hydrogen Pollution 76

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2016

The automotive catalytic converter, developed in the early 1970s primarily by General Motors and BASF/Engelhard and first deployed in 1975, changes exhaust pollutants into CO 2 , water vapor and nitrogen. —Jon Lauckner, GM CTO and president of GM Ventures.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2011

At the press conference, GM demonstrated: A working laboratory model of a lithium-chlorine battery. For good measure, GM also described work on gas turbines and the Stirling thermal engine. GM is taking a hard look at high energy-density batteries, as are Ford Motor, General Dynamics, Gulton Industries, and others (C&EN, Oct.

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GM Power Powered Batteries 199

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. GM evaluated the new technology as a total business case. It’s being used on the Chevrolet Cruze, Sonic, and Volt.

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GM Waste Environment General Motors 199

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

Larry Burns, the head of R&D at GM for the last 11 years—the longest tenure since Charles Kettering—is retiring after 40 years of service on 1 October. At GM, he has personally championed the electrification of the vehicle, connected vehicle technology, fuel cells, and a series of innovative advanced technology concept vehicles.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

GM discussed electric vehicle barriers. And are Uber and Lyft adding to pollution issues in big cities? Rivian could make an upcoming Lincoln electric SUV. BMW and VW talk about how they’re focused on the details even though they’re not making battery cells. This and more, today at Green Car Reports.

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SUV Batteries Battery Pollution 88

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

GM 2 nd Gen BAS. In a presentation at the US Department of Energy’s 2010 Direction in Engine-Efficiency and Emissions Research Conference in Detroit (DEER), Cisternino described the results of an internal study that used both testbed experimental engine work as well as vehicle tests using an Opel Corsa equipped with a BAS-enhanced 1.3-liter

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Fuel Economy Diesel GM Emissions 225

The Truth About Cars

AUGUST 14, 2023

They emit particulates and other pollutants and obviously don’t jive with electrification targets. GM dropped diesels from the GMC Canyon and Chevy Colorado lines for 2023, leaving a turbo-four as the only choice. Jeep has shown its Recon EV concept, which is expected to go on sale by 2025.

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Jeep Diesel F-150 GMC 96

Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2009

Personal Urban Mobility and Accessibility), GM and Segway are developing an electrically powered, two-seat prototype urban vehicle that has only two wheels. Trends indicate that urbanization is growing, and with that comes increased congestion and pollution. General Motors Corp. Under “Project P.U.M.A.” Project P.U.M.A.

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Personal GM Electric Vehicles Lithium Ion 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 14, 2009

However, SIDI engines also have the potential for increased pollutant formation, and require either careful control of combustion for reduced engine-out emissions, or an exhaust after-treatment systems similar to those under development for diesel vehicles. GM found that at about 400 ° C, there is very little capacity left.

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GM Concept Engine Emissions 150

CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 24, 2022

The electric vehicle revolution is here, just in time to wipe noisy, smelly, polluting diesel and gasoline delivery vans and trucks off the e-commerce maps.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2018

The CNG PHEV features a technology collaboration between Efficient Drivetrains and A-1 Alternative Fuel Systems , integrating the EDI PowerDrive Plug-in Hybrid powertrain and the A-1 CNG Frame-Mount (FM) natural gas system into the Class-4 GM work truck commonly utilized by the agriculture industry.

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PHEV Alternative Fuels Cleaner Plug-in 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2019

FCA had the highest new vehicle average CO 2 emissions and lowest fuel economy of the large manufacturers, followed by GM and Ford. Mazda and Hyundai had the second and third lowest CO 2 emissions, respectively. Changes in estimated Real-World Fuel Economy and CO 2 for Large Manufacturers, 2012-2017. Source: EPA. Background.

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Fuel Economy 2017 Economy EPA 268

Electric Cars are for Girls

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Apparently, those treehugging Prius drivers have been inadvertently mowing down pedestrians in their path from Starbucks to Pilates, so GM is talking to the National Federation for the Blind about how they can add a level of noise pollution to electric cars. Apparently involves a non-birdly "automotive" chirping.

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Volt Prius Pollution GM 229

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

General Motors LLC (GM) - GM will partner with Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) to develop residual stress models for laser-welded dissimilar joints (HSLA/CE steel) for car light-weighting in a project titled “Simulation Tools for Characterizing Stress Distribution in Laser Welded Dissimilar Joints.”. Praxair Inc.,

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EV Obssesion

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Air Pollution, Climate Change One in five of the UK’s wildflowers face extinction due to emissions and pollution Fully Charged challenges global governments to Stop Burning Stuff and Electrify Almost Everything EVs Arcimoto and REEF Launch REEFDrive, New Zero-Emission Vehicle-Sharing Program in Santa Monica PEUGEOT e-208 joins the Hebden Bridge Pumpkin (..)

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Fleet Climate Change Pollution Charging 52

Electric Cars are for Girls

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Apparently, those treehugging Prius drivers have been inadvertently mowing down pedestrians in their path from Starbucks to Pilates, so GM is talking to the National Federation for the Blind about how they can add a level of noise pollution to electric cars. Apparently involves a non-birdly "automotive" chirping.

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Volt Prius Pollution GM 159

Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2014

This strategic alliance with Lishen to finance EVs in the international market for large scale deployment is being explored in other markets where large volume EV fleets are being deployed by governments and institutions to reduce fossil fuel dependency, fuel costs and reduce pollution in the densely populated cities.

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Conversion Li-ion Financing Lead Acid 225

Green Car Congress

MAY 17, 2015

Fifty years after the introduction of the first Chevrolet Camaro, GM unveiled the new sixth-generation. l/100 km) on the highway (GM-estimated), making it the most fuel-efficient Camaro yet. The Gen Six Camaro provides a faster, more nimble driving experience, enabled by an all-new, lighter architecture and a broader powertrain range.

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Engine EPA GM MPG 150

Green Cars News

AUGUST 16, 2009

However, they also have the potential for increased pollutant formant and therefore require careful control of combustion for reduced engine emissions. By contrast, GM’s passive ammonia SCR places a three-way catalyst upstream of an SCR catalyst. However, GM hopes to get around this by placing multiple SCR catalysts in line.

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GM Concept Emissions General Motors 36

Plug In India

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Video: Chinese EV less than 5 lakhs | Lesson for Indian car makers The car is called the Wuling Mini EV made by two large Chinese car makers SAIC (the company that owns MG Motors), Wuling and the American Giant GM. I have no idea how GM got into this JV! But I would say this is the best pro EV move I have seen GM make.

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Chinese Electric Cars Cars GM 52

Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Beginning in 2023, elimination of the cap on the number of vehicles that can be sold (previously 200,000 per automaker), meaning that Tesla, GM, and Toyota will all be eligible for the credit again, assuming their vehicles meet other IRA requirements. The excludes many Asian and European EVs. programs.

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Tax Credit North America Tax Kentucky 90

Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2017

FCA and Cummins allegedly knew about the washcoat defect for years—at least as early as 2014—but failed to take action to mitigate the drop in the trucks’ performance or prevent the illegally high levels of pollution emitted by affected RAM trucks.

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Fuel Economy Chrysler Diesel Emissions 170

Green Car Congress

MARCH 22, 2012

GM Canada, and Hydrogenics. However, the biggest impact fuel cells could have lies in the commercial automotive sector, which holds great potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. This project is led by Gillian Goward, McMaster University, in partnership with GM Canada, Bruker Ltd., and Heka Electronics.

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Canada Li-ion Fuel Batteries 262

Plug In India

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

They plan to leverage their partnership with GM and use GM’s Ultium drive platform. After 4-5 years of using GM’s platform, Honda will get serious in 2026 and will launch a series of new EV models which will use, “e:Architecture”, a completely new EV platform created by Honda. What a joke!

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Honda Electric Cars Cars Electric 52

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 20, 2012

They found that the level of emissions of regulated and unregulated pollutants in diesel exhaust depends on fuel, load, engine calibration, and exhaust aftertreatment technology. Unregulated pollutants also include ozone precursors and bioaccumulative and toxic compounds. For the study, they used a GM 2002 1.7 —Chin et al.

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Pollution Diesel Emissions Engine 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2017

While they offer a smoother ride, more passenger and storage space per square foot, and less noise and environmental pollution at a lower “cost of operation” (fuel and maintenance), in terms of “cost of ownership” EVs can yet compete with ICEVs.

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Oil Prices Oil Industrial Industry 170

Plug In Partners

MAY 20, 2008

Practically every automaker on the planet is being forced to make cars and trucks that pollute less and go farther on a tank of fuel. 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. Ford ( F ).

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Nissan Gasoline-Electric GM 2010 100