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GM to Double Down on China After Tesla Grabs EV Lead

August 19, 2020

Via: Transport Topics

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 […]


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Fiat Chrysler Calls GM’s Bribery Allegations ‘Preposterous’

August 10, 2020

Via: Transport Topics

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 […]


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GM Confirms Detroit Plant Going All-Electric Next Year

January 27, 2020

Via: Transport Topics

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 […]


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GM, Tesla Head for New Year Without Electric Vehicle Tax Credits

December 27, 2019

Via: Transport Topics

General 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 […]


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GM Losing Patience With UAW Over Nearly Monthlong Strike

October 11, 2019

Via: Transport Topics

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 […]


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The Shift to Electric Vehicles Propels a Strike Against GM

September 17, 2019

Via: Wired

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 […]


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GM Gives All Its Vehicles a New Soul

May 20, 2019

Via: Wired

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 […]


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Trump Calls on GM to ‘Bring Jobs Home’ After Ohio Plant Closing

March 18, 2019

Via: Transport Topics

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, […]


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GM’s Cruze-Producing Ohio Plant Goes Idle

March 6, 2019

Via: Transport Topics

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 […]


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Tesla, GM, and Nissan Unite to Save Their EV Tax Credits

November 14, 2018

Via: Wired

It’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 […]


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Robotaxis Are Coming. So Why Are We Still So Unprepared?

November 2, 2018

Via: Wired

IN 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 […]


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GM calls for national EV program

October 29, 2018

Via: Politico

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 […]


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Honda’s Helping GM on Its Quest to Deliver Self-Driving Cars

October 4, 2018

Via: Wired

Cruise, 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 […]


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Is GM about to get serious about electric cars?

June 15, 2018

Via: TreeHugger

An 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 […]


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Amazon Starts Delivering Goods to Trunks of GMs, Volvos

April 24, 2018

Via: Transport Topics

Amazon.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 […]


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GM Buys Lidar Startup Strobe to Help It Deliver Self-Driving Cars

October 9, 2017

Via: Wired

GENERAL 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 […]


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GM accused of cheating on emissions tests for big diesel engines

May 26, 2017

Via: TreeHugger

Everybody 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 […]