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  • Tesla Motors, Palo Alto, California

    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 electric-car startup. The internet went wild. Investors, analysts, electric-car advocates, and Tesla supporters all weighed in from various viewpoints--although we'd say the majority opinion seemed to be on the "Hell, no!" end of the scale. At a reasonable value, Harris said, "that deal is made in...

  • GM Announces $24-Million Landfill Gas Investment
    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...

  • Envia Battery Technology
    Envia's High-Energy Battery Cell Mired In Dispute, GM Cancels Deal

    Researchers and development firms regularly reveal battery-technology breakthroughs. Now, Envia Systems--one company that gained much public attention by promising such a breakthrough--faces two lawsuits. One claims that Envia stole its technology from other companies. And General Motors, which...

  • GM EV1 and Tesla Model S electric cars, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA, Oct 2013
    GM EV1 & Tesla Model S: Looking At 20 Years Of Electric Cars

    Last week, we were struck by a single photo that captured electric cars across two decades. The image, showing a GM EV1 and a Tesla Model S on the Worcester Polytechnic Institute campus, was posted on Facebook by Tesla Motors [NSDQ:TSLA]. More than anything we've seen in a while, that photo showed...

  • GM's military fuel cell fleet
    GM Gets New Partner For Fuel-Cell Vehicle Research: U.S. Army

    An expanded partnership with the U.S. Army gives GM more fuel cell development resources.

  • Tesla Motors, Palo Alto, California
    Is Tesla Motors Really Worth Almost Half The Value Of GM?

    Discussions of Tesla Motors sometimes seem couched in the terms of a religious tale: Tesla as David vs General Motors in the Goliath role. One company is the plucky Silicon Valley electric-car startup that's never built a vehicle with a gasoline engine. The other is the largest U.S. automaker, one...

  • 2013 Chevrolet Volt

    The development of the Chevrolet Volt is now the subject of a 29-page academic paper.

  • Dan Akerson
    GM CEO: Cadillac To Take On Tesla, One Day--With Plug-In Hybrid Sedan, Perhaps?

    It looks like the success of the Tesla Model S all-electric luxury sedan may be starting to get under GM's skin. CEO Dan Akerson told the Detroit News that General Motors will compete with Tesla Motors--"ultimately"--through its Cadillac luxury brand. But, Akerson said, he remained unconvinced that...

  • GM EV1 electric car at Missouri S&T, Rolla, Missouri [photo: Jalopnik/Joel Johnson]
    Rare Surviving GM EV1 Waits For Savior At Missouri University

    The late and much lamented GM EV1 electric car is by now a mythical creature. It's been the subject of a much-discussed documentary, and is still cause for blind loathing of General Motors in some quarters. Designed, engineered, and offered for lease in California and a few other locations from...

  • GM OnStar and TimberRock's on-demand solar charging
    GM To Test Utility-Controlled Solar Charging For Electric Cars

    If there's one thing that most people agree on when it comes to electric cars, it's that powering them with electricity generated by renewable energy is generally the greenest thing to do. Solar is a popular choice with those in warmer climates, but even that endless nuclear furnace we call the sun...

  • Dan Akerson
    It's Official: General Motors Now Sees Tesla As A Threat

    "History is littered with big companies that ignored innovation that was coming their way because you didn’t know where you could be disrupted." General Motors will be hoping those words, from vice chairman Steve Girksy as the automaker begins to study electric upstart Tesla Motors...

  • 2013 Chevrolet Malibu Eco
    Buick eAssist, Chevy Eco Hybrid Recall Questioned By NHTSA

    Back in May, General Motors announced the recall of more than 38,000 Buick and Chevrolet mild hybrid sedans to check for a potentially defective electronic component. Now, following a fire in a vehicle apparently repaired under the recall, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is...

  • GM's Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicle Milestones

    The puzzle is almost complete: General Motors and Honda have signed an agreement to work on the future of fuel cell technology. They're the latest large automakers to announce a fuel cell technology share agreement, as car companies continue to explore the future of alternative propulsion. GM and Honda are calling it a "long-term, definitive master agreement to co-develop next-generation fuel cell system and hydrogen storage technologies, aiming for the 2020 time frame." That's longer term than the 2015-2017 discussed by several other collaborating manufacturers, including Toyota--whose first...

  • 2012 Buick Lacrosse with eAssist, Catskill Mountains, October 2011
    Buick eAssist, Chevy Eco Hybrid Recall For Control Module Check

    General Motors announced today that it will recall more than 38,000 Buick and Chevrolet sedans fitted with its eAssist mild-hybrid system, to check for a possibly defective electronic component. The vehicles, from both the 2012 and 2013 model years, are the Buick LaCrosse and Buick Regal sedans...

  • Supporters of the Climate Declaration, drafted by Ceres & BICEP
    GM Becomes First Automaker To Sign Call For Action On Climate Change

    When we think of the companies and organizations concerned with climate change, we don't often think of major automakers. But maybe we should think again. Yesterday, General Motors became the first automaker to sign onto the Climate Declaration, a statement drafted by Ceres and its Business for...

  • 2013 Chevrolet Spark EV cutaway
    GM Now Building Chevy Spark EV Electric-Car Motors In Maryland

    Eighteen months ago, GM announced that it would build the electric motor for its upcoming Chevrolet Spark EV electric car in the U.S. Now, that motor is officially in production at the company's Baltimore Operations plant in White Marsh, Maryland--along with the associated final-drive...

  • Chevrolet Performance's rolling Camaro chassis - image: GM Corp
    $55,000 Kit To Build Electric Camaro Offered By GM

    Home-converting a car to electric power would be so easy were it not for all those inconvenient drivetrain parts you have to remove. It's like carmakers didn't think of what people might want to do with their cars--engine, gearbox, exhaust, filters, fuel tanks--they're all just lumps of metal...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV prototype, Sausalito, CA, Nov 2012
    GM Working On 200-Mile Electric Car, Says CEO Akerson

    Last summer he dropped a hint that it might be possible. Now Dan Akerson has confirmed it: GM is working on an electric car with a 200-mile range, according to its CEO. The chief executive officer of General Motors made the comment yesterday at an energy conference, as reported in Reuters. He...

  • Ed Begley Jr. arrives at pre-Oscar event in a Chevy Volt

    Stars and green cars are nothing new--several have admitted to owning Toyota Prius in the past, while others have been spotted in Tesla Roadsters or Fisker Karmas. At Global Green USA's 10th Pre-Oscar party on Wednesday, a host more stars were caught alongside two electric vehicles--the 2013 Chevrolet Volt and 2014 Chevrolet Spark EV. Global Green USA hosts a party each year, bringing together celebrities to raise awareness for green issues, such as sustainability, green building projects, improving health and creating jobs. This year, the focus was on building greener, more resilient homes...

  • General Motors' plan for powertrain expansion and work consolidation (February 2013)
    GM Moves Electric, Fuel-Cell Work To Michigan From CA, NY

    General Motors has announced more shuffling of its future-tech facilities. Back in October, the automaker shut down a fuel cell center in Honeoye Falls, New York and shifted operations (along with 220 jobs) to Pontiac, Michigan. Outposts in Torrance, California, Castleton, Indiana, and Warren...

  • 2012 Chevrolet Sonic
    GM: 1 Million 30 MPG-Plus Vehicle Sales In 2012

    General Motors is celebrating being the first U.S. automaker to sell more than one million vehicles in a single year capable of 30 mpg or more on the highway. Sales of 13 different 30 mpg-capable models totaled one million units in 2012, with four models--the Spark, Cruze, Sonic and Volt--managing...

  • 2014 Chevrolet Silverado 1500
    Official: GM Quietly Drops Hybrid Pickups; Are SUVs Next?

    GM's full-size hybrid pickups, the Chevrolet Silverado Hybrid and GMC Sierra Hybrid, for much of the time they've been on sale, have offered the highest gas mileage of any full-size truck on the U.S. market. Yet these hybrid pickups, which were introduced for the 2009 model year, have been...

  • Proterra Electric Bus
    GM Ups Investment In Electric-Bus Maker Proterra

    General Motors' venture capital arm GM Ventures has invested for the second time in Proterra Inc, an electric bus maker. The Greenville, South Carolina company makes the EcoRide, a battery-electric bus that achieves the equivalent of 24 mpg in a diesel-engined bus. Proterra's EcoRide can also be...

  • 2012 Chevrolet Volt
    GM To Concentrate On Plug-In Electric Cars, Downplay Hybrids

    General Motors has narrowed its portfolio of future technologies, and will focus on plug-in and electric vehicles over the coming years. The company will build on the success of its Chevrolet Volt range-extended electric car, an area where it leads its competitors, while downplaying more...

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