Tag: General Motors

October 6, 2021

General Motors plans to cash in as the world switches from combustion engines to battery power, promising to double its annual revenue by 2030 with an array of new electric vehicles, profitable gas-powered cars and trucks, and services such as […]

April 13, 2021

The U.S. government’s highway safety agency is investigating complaints that the air bags may not inflate in a crash on thousands of General Motors vehicles. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the probe covers nearly 750,000 Chevrolet, Cadillac and […]

November 9, 2020

General Motors Co. is going on a hiring binge to accelerate its development of electric vehicles. The Detroit automaker said Nov. 9 it plans to hire 3,000 new employees across engineering, design and information technology to spur efforts to develop […]

October 21, 2020

General Motors Co. is moving ahead in its talks with startup Nikola Corp. over a proposed partnership to make electric and fuel cell powered trucks, a senior executive at the Detroit automaker said. GM and Nikola announced a tentative agreement […]

September 8, 2020

General Motors Co. and Nikola Corp. on Sept. 8 announced a strategic partnership in which Nikola’s Badger, a hydrogen fuel-cell electric pickup truck, will be built and manufactured by General Motors. GM will receive an 11% ownership share of Nikola […]

August 19, 2020

General Motors Co. is accelerating its push into the fast-growing electric-car segment in China, the world’s largest market, seeking to challenge sales leader Tesla Inc. and a slew of local contenders. The Detroit-based carmaker outlined its technology rollout plan for […]

August 10, 2020

DETROIT — Allegations by General Motors that Fiat Chrysler Automobiles bribed union officials are “preposterous” and read like a script from a “third-rate spy movie,” FCA lawyers wrote in court documents filed Aug. 10. GM, in a court motion last […]

August 6, 2020

Cadillac is turning to its next chapter as an electric-vehicle brand with the debut of the 2022 Cadillac Lyriq crossover. The battery-powered Lyriq, Cadillac’s first all-electric vehicle, will debut online Aug. 6. Although the Lyriq is not expected to hit […]

April 15, 2020

Automakers are anxious to get their assembly lines rolling again, especially since leaving factories idle is costing them billions of dollars by the week. But the experience many of them have had in China illustrates just how long a slog […]

January 27, 2020

General Motors Co. affirmed plans to build electric pickups and SUVs at its Detroit-Hamtramck plant and scheduled the start of production for late next year. Output of electric Cruise Origin driverless vehicles will follow soon after the initial pickups roll […]

December 18, 2019

For many Americans, New Year’s Day means a new set of resolutions, a slight headache, and a refreshing tabula rasa. At Tesla, the electric vehicle maker, January 1, 2020 will mark something else: the official end of its vehicles’ eligibility […]

October 11, 2019

General Motors Co.’s chief labor negotiator suggested the United Auto Workers is dragging its feet in responding to the automaker’s latest contract offer in a show of frustration with a strike that’s lumbering toward the one-month mark. GM made a […]

September 17, 2019

When United Automobile Workers members walked off the job at 33 General Motors sites around the US on Sunday morning, perhaps the most … striking detail was that they only numbered 46,000. The last time the UAW’s GM workers went […]

July 24, 2019

CRUISE, THE STARTUP General Motors acquired to develop its self-driving car, will launch an autonomous taxi service on the gnarly, crowded streets of San Francisco, CEO Dan Ammann said Wednesday. It will not, however, do so by the end of […]

May 20, 2019

General Motors’ latest offering is so far from sexy, it doesn’t even have a clever name created by the marketing department via focus group. But the new “electronic platform,” the computing network that will run through nearly all the company’s […]

March 18, 2019

President Donald Trump said he wants an immediate start to talks between General Motors Co. and the United Auto Workers, extending to a third day his calls for the carmaker and union to reopen an Ohio factory. “Get that big, […]

March 6, 2019

A sprawling General Motors assembly plant near Youngstown, Ohio, will be idled March 6 after more than 50 years producing cars and other vehicles, a move that will eliminate nearly 1,700 hourly positions by months’ end. GM announced in December […]

January 17, 2019

THE DETROIT AUTO Show circa 2004: Gas prices are low. Auto sales are is good. Bigger is better. The only electrics on the floor are the hybrids brought along by the Japanese automakers like Toyota and Honda. Tesla is a […]

November 27, 2018

General Motors’ announcement Monday that it would close five plants and lay off thousands of workers in the U.S. and Canada sent shockwaves throughout North America, including in Washington, D.C., where lawmakers reacted angrily to the cuts. Sen. Sherrod Brown […]

October 29, 2018

General Motors said Friday that it wants the Trump administration to create a National Zero Emission Vehicle program, modeled on California’s efforts. GM, the country’s biggest automaker, said a requirement that a certain percentage of cars sold to be zero-emissions […]