General Motors
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The 2015 Chevrolet Trax goes on sale in January.
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Sakti3 Battery Firm: Key To GM 200-Mile Electric Car, $100 Per kWh By End Of Decade?
By all indications, there will be an all-electric 2017 Chevrolet Sonic EV for which General Motors is targeting a range of 200 miles. And one of the keys to achieving such a range from a compact car will be a more energy-dense battery than those used today. DON'T MISS: GM's 200-Mile Electric Sonic...
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Tesla A 'Fringe Brand': Former GM Product Czar Bob Lutz (Video)
When an unknown automotive startup from Silicon Valley unveiled an all-electric sports car with supercar performance back in 2006, the shock was enough to make industry giant GM sit up and pay attention. That, plus the desire to gain some of the green halo seized by Toyota's Prius hybrid, led GM's...
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2015 Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon Gas Mileage: 20 Or 21 MPG Combined For V-6
General Motors released the first fuel-economy information for its new mid-size pickup trucks.
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2015 Buick Envision Compact Crossover Unveiled In China
The 2015 Buick Envision will be sold in the U.S. as a 2016 model.
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GM's 200-Mile Electric Sonic EV For 2017: What We Know So Far: UPDATED
The arrival of a moderately-priced battery electric car with a rated range of 200 miles will change the entire market for plug-in vehicles. When that will happen, and from which maker, remains open--though the likely suspects are Nissan, Tesla, and General Motors, with BMW as a long-shot outsider...
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Let's say your company builds a crucial, high-volume component for advanced-technology vehicles. Suppose it emerged this week that you've now got contracts to supply two of the world's three biggest automakers. That would put you in a good spot, wouldn't it? First GM, now VW Group Yesterday, LG Chem said it had secured a supply contract with Audi. That means the Korean battery maker will be selling its cells not only to General Motors but also to the Volkswagen Group. They are two of the world's three largest camakers. The third, Toyota, has repeatedly said it sees little future for plug-in...
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Cadillac ELR Not A Tesla Competitor, GM Exec Acknowledges
Mark Reuss, the head of global product development for General Motors, has acknowledged that GM may not have a vehicle that competes directly with the Tesla Model S electric luxury sedan. Speaking yesterday at a business breakfast associated with the weekend's Dream Cruise event in Detroit, Reuss...
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Chevy Volt Electric Car: Only Current GM Model NOT Recalled This Year
The current 2015 Chevrolet Volt, now in its fifth year, will be the last of its generation before a revised and updated 2016 Volt is unveiled next January and goes on sale later in the year. But GM's first range-extended electric car turns out to have logged another minor distinction in its list of...
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2015 Chevy Colorado, GMC Canyon Mid-Size Pickups Almost Here
GM's new small pickups will offer fuel-efficient four-cylinder gasoline and diesel engines.
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When Will Electric Cars Compete in the Mainstream Market?
Electric-car advocates often take it as an article of faith that electric propulsion will one day compete directly with vehicles powered by fossil fuels. Many would go further, arguing that electric cars are already competitive with those using an internal-combustion engine, or ICE, in the consumer...
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GM Full-Size SUVs To Get Diesel Engine Option For Fuel Efficiency?: UPDATE
The Cadillac Escalade may add diesel and gasoline V-6 engine options in the near future.
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General Motors is still hard at work behind the scenes on the next-generation Chevrolet Volt. We won't know full details of the car for some time, but one upgrade it's likely to feature is a new, more efficient and less expensive power inverter. According to Charged EVs, GM is currently developing an inverter capable of a 55kW peak and 30kW continuous output. While not described directly for use in the Volt, the new inverter is modular and scalable, meaning it can be used in various different applications, and GM is said to be two-thirds the way through the project, expected to finish January...
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Crushed BMW ActiveE Test Fleet Headed For Scrapyard (UPDATED)
Just two weeks ago, drivers of the BMW ActiveE fleet of electric test vehicles were delighted to see that their cars would have a second life. BMW announced that it would redeploy 80 ActiveE electric cars to its DriveNow car-sharing program in San Francisco. MUST READ: 2014 BMW i3 Test Drive: No...
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Google Gets Chevy Spark EV Electric Cars For Ride-Sharing Test
GM will test a ride-sharing program on the Google campus using Chevrolet Spark EV electric cars.
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Mother-Daughter Team Installs Battery Packs In Chevy Volt Electric Cars
A mother and daughter work side by side to install Chevy Volt battery packs at GM's Detroit-Hamtramck plant.
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Natural-Gas Powered 2015 Chevy Impala To Start At $38,210
The 2015 bi-fuel Chevrolet Impala can run on natural gas or gasoline.
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2016 Chevrolet Cruze Sedan Unveiled At Beijing Auto Show
China's 2015 Chevrolet Cruze sedan will arrive in the U.S. as a 2016 model next year.
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Sometimes memories are short. Electric-car advocates often forget that it took seven years from the first Toyota Prius hybrid, launched in Japan in 1997, until sales of the second-generation Prius started to grow in global markets. Now, General Motors appears to be the subject of suspicion and distrust over whether it's actually, truly committed to plug-in electric vehicles for the long term. Slow sales, low numbers The evidence suggests that it is--but that GM is not tipping its hand the way it did during the very transparent development process that led to the launch of the 2011 Chevrolet...
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2014 Cadillac ELR Recalled For Stability-Control Software Issue
GM will recall 656 2014 Cadillac ELR coupes to fix a software glitch.
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GM's New 3- And 4-Cylinder Engines Face Off Against Ford, VW
Yesterday's announcement by General Motors that it would launch a new line of three- and four-cylinder Ecotec engines for better fuel economy was short on some details. Notably, the carmaker only gave two examples of future cars they would power--and even declined to identify the three existing...
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Should GM Buy Tesla? What Would Be The Pros And Cons?
The suggestion hit the day before Christmas: Analyst Yra Harris of Praxis Trading predicted in a CNBC interview that General Motors might buy Tesla Motors sometime in 2014. Harris called it "a perfect fit" for one of the three largest carmakers in the world to buy the closely-watched Silicon Valley...
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Collapse of Battery Startup Envia: What Really Happened
The race to find battery technologies of the future is not one without casualties. The trail left behind Envia, one of the most promising battery startups in recent years, has left something more akin to a warzone--and even huge companies like General Motors have taken shrapnel during their...
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GM Expands Landfill-Gas Use To Power Car Assembly Plants
Car production isn't the greenest of processes, but in recent decades many automakers have at least made attempts to reduce environmental impact--and General Motors is the latest to take a step towards improving it. The automaker has announced a $24 million investment in the use of landfill gas at...
Antony Ingram