August 19, 2020
Via: Transport TopicsGeneral 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 […]
Impact & Regulations, Vehicles
August 10, 2020
Via: Transport TopicsDETROIT — 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 […]
January 27, 2020
Via: Transport TopicsGeneral 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 27, 2019
Via: Transport TopicsGeneral Motors Co. and Tesla are about to become the first automakers that will have to sell EVs without the benefit of a $7,500 federal tax credit. Congress failed to include legislation in a spending bill that would have tripled […]
October 11, 2019
Via: Transport TopicsGeneral 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 […]
Impact & Regulations, Vehicles
September 17, 2019
Via: WiredWhen 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 […]
May 20, 2019
Via: WiredGeneral 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
Via: Transport TopicsPresident 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
Via: Transport TopicsA 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 […]
November 14, 2018
Via: WiredIt’s rough timing for Tesla. Just as Elon Musk’s automaker has started to hit its stride – churning out Model 3s, outselling Audi and Cadillac, making a profit – the federal tax credit that can knock $7,500 off the price […]
November 2, 2018
Via: WiredIN A FEW weeks, Waymo will launch America’s first commercial robotaxi service. GM and Ford are both developing competing fleets. The grand vision? Fewer road fatalities, less congestion, and cleaner air, as human drivers cede control of their cars to […]
Impact & Regulations, Vehicles
October 29, 2018
Via: PoliticoGeneral 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 […]
October 4, 2018
Via: WiredCruise, the self-driving car arm of General Motors, has an unexpected new ally in its bid to keep its corporate master at the forefront of an industry enduring its greatest period of change in generations: Honda. In a deal announced […]
June 15, 2018
Via: TreeHuggerAn interesting thing happened the other day: My family had dinner with friends, and two of the other three other families said they were seriously considering an electric or plug-in hybrid car. It confirmed something I’ve been thinking about for […]
April 24, 2018
Via: Transport TopicsAmazon.com has partnered with General Motors Co. and Volvo Cars to deliver packages to car trunks in 37 U.S. cities, as the e-commerce giant seeks new delivery methods for customers who may be wary of leaving packages outside or allowing […]
October 9, 2017
Via: WiredGENERAL MOTORS JUST took another step to prepare itself for the future of driving, acquiring a startup that makes what could prove a key technology to unlock self-driving cars for use in fleets. Cruise, GM’s self-driving car startup, will now […]
May 26, 2017
Via: TreeHuggerEverybody loves pickup trucks in America, the bigger the better. And the biggest and baddest GM pickups are often powered by giant Duramax diesel engines. These engines are marketed as being clean diesels, but a recent lawsuit claims that GM […]