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APRIL 21, 2014

In conjunction with the start of Auto China 2014 in Beijing, GM China President Matt Tsien announced that GM’s China joint ventures will make capital expenditures of about $12 billion between 2014 and 2017. That investment will help GM step up its pace by funding facility and capacity expansion and new product programs.

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MAY 8, 2019

Teijin Limited announced that its Sereebo carbon fiber reinforced thermoplastic (CFRTP) has been selected by General Motors (GM) for use in select pickup box applications. Sereebo will be used to manufacture the optional CarbonPro pickup box jointly developed by Teijin and GM for the GMC Sierra Denali 1500 and GMC Sierra AT4 1500.

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JUNE 7, 2016

General Motors demonstrated for the first time in China its latest version of connected vehicle (V2X) technology, including Intersection Collision Alert and Emergency Brake Alert, at the National Intelligent & Connected Vehicle Test Demo Base in Shanghai. It will support more than 100 programs by the end of 2017.

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JULY 2, 2024

Global efforts to combat climate change hinge on pivoting sharply away from fossil fuels. Against this backdrop, massive efforts are underway to design and test advanced electric-vehicle (EV) motors that do not use rare earth elements (or use relatively little of them). research on advanced motors for EVs. And indeed they have.

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JANUARY 7, 2021

General Motors and its joint ventures delivered 2.9 million in 2017, for a three-year decrease of 28%. —Julian Blissett, GM executive vice president and president of GM China. GM accelerated its NEV development and made solid progress on its drive to a zero-emissions future. from a year earlier.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 12, 2017

General Motors earned a 2017 EPA ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year — Sustained Excellence award for continued leadership in protecting the environment through superior energy efficiency. In the US, GM reduced energy use at its manufacturing facilities by 10% on a per-vehicle basis in 2016 compared to the previous year.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

General Motors and the US Army Tank Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) will reveal a Chevrolet Colorado-based fuel cell electric vehicle in October at the fall meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA) in Washington, D.C. The Army intends to conduct user assessments and demonstrations in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Activities within the program include everything from low carbon products to global research initiatives to partnerships with startups developing innovative new technologies. The Lightning Systems GM 6500XD electric Class 6 truck is zero-emission on the road. bp became an investor in Lightning Systems in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

General Motors and its joint ventures delivered an October record 382,723 vehicles in China. Retail sales were up 11% year-on-year, marking the highest monthly sales growth in 2017. In the first 10 months of 2017, GM and its joint ventures in China delivered a record 3,130,862 units, up 2.2% from a year earlier.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2017

Ford Motor Company has appointed Jim Hackett as Ford Motor Company president and CEO, replacing Mark Fields, who is retiring, effective immediately. Ford has no plausible approach towards mobility and e-vehicles yet and lags behind GM in that respect, but the crucial point is that changing the CEO is not likely to change this.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2017

SAIC-GM, GM’s Chinese joint venture with SAIC, announced its Connectivity Strategy 2025, which lays out a roadmap for its connectivity development from 2017 through 2025. The strategy will take advantage of its extensive customer base and global resources with a focus on vehicle information, infotainment and intelligent driving.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 23, 2017

At the 2017 Geneva auto show, General Motors announced the sale of its entire European operations—comprising factories and the Opel and Vauxhall brands—to PSA Peugeot Citroën. German Opel and its British Vauxhall sibling have represented GM's main presence in Europe for decades, but the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 21, 2013

General Motors discussed its future plans in China during a press conference in conjunction with the start of Auto Shanghai 2013. GM is also in the process of bringing Cadillac’s entire global portfolio to China, adding one locally produced model per year through 2016. —Gary Smyth.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

General Motors is promoting the adoption of dedicated short range communications (DSRC) in China. —GM Global R&D Electrical & Controls Research Technical Fellow Dr. Hariharan Krishnan. GM will bring this technology to market with the 2017 Cadillac CTS.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 1, 2015

General Motors CEO Mary Barra and her leadership team outlined the company’s plans to capitalize on the future of personal mobility by owning the customer relationship beyond the vehicle, building upon nearly two decades of connectivity leadership. They also outlined alternative transportation initiatives GM is exploring. Car Sharing.

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AUGUST 4, 2017

General Motors and its joint ventures in China set a July record for deliveries. GM’s performance was strong across segments, with SUVs remaining the biggest riser—generating growth of 50% year over year. In July, GM surpassed 2 million deliveries in China for 2017. Retail sales increased 6.3%

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 22, 2017

LG’s first-half 2017 global revenues for vehicle components were more than $1.5 billion, a 43% increase from the same period last year, due in large part to the successful collaboration with General Motors on the Chevrolet Bolt EV. Vehicle components represent the fastest-growing business of LG Electronics.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2017

In separate presentations at the 2017 SAE High Efficiency IC Engine Symposium in Detroit, R&D executives from GM and Ford each stressed the importance of improved, advanced fuels—among other technology developments—for their future engine efficiency gains and for long-term CO 2 emissions goals.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2016

General Motors and IBM are partnering to bring the power of OnStar and IBM Watson together to create OnStar Go, the auto industry’s first cognitive mobility platform. Starting in early 2017, OnStar is expected to give millions of GM drivers the ability to connect and interact with their favorite brands.

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JULY 25, 2015

GM officially opened its new $14-million, 52-acre Active Safety Test Area at its Milford Proving Ground near Detroit. Cynthia Bay, director of Active Safety Electronics and Controls said the facility is also ideal for testing vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) technologies, which will be standard on the 2017 Cadillac CTS. The most recent J.D.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 5, 2017

General Motors and its joint ventures in China delivered a November record 418,225 vehicles in China, achieving growth of 13% on an annual basis. Sales of the Equinox global SUV continued to grow as well, with deliveries topping 6,900 units. Deliveries of the Malibu family, Chevrolet’s flagship sedan, rose 41% to nearly 15,000 units.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 8, 2017

General Motors and its joint ventures in China delivered a March record of 345,448 vehicles, an increase of 16% from a year earlier. Their hot-selling models—the Baojun 510, Buick GL8 and Cadillac XT5—stood out in the fast-growing SUV, MPV and luxury segments, which accounted for about half of GM’s March sales.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Burns is the former Corporate Vice President of Research & Development and Planning at General Motors ( earlier post ). After leaving GM in 2009, Dr. Burns was a Professor of Engineering Practice at the University of Michigan (2011-2015), and Director of the Program for Sustainable Mobility at Columbia University (2010-2014).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2012

General Motors Ventures LLC has invested in NanoSteel Company, a developer of proprietary nano-structured steel material. GM Ventures joined lead shareholders EnerTech Capital and Fairhaven Capital Partners and five existing investors to complete the Series C financing round. Terms of the GM Ventures investment were not disclosed.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

General Motors CEO Mary Barra gave investors a detailed playbook for the automaker's future electric vehicles plans Wednesday, including a possible glimpse at a crossover based on the Bolt EV. Barra gave the presentation for investors at the Barclays 2017 Global Automotive Conference in New York.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 3, 2016

The Chevrolet Colorado ZH2, the extreme off-road-capable fuel-cell-powered electric vehicle from General Motors, made its debut at the fall meeting of the Association of the United States Army (AUSA). GM is leveraging a range of advanced technologies for multiple applications, including military. GM has accumulated 3.1

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2018

A key element in DiDi’s strategy is building a smart transportation ecosystem to capture future opportunities, with global expansion through alliances with regional partners. In 2017, taxi drivers completed 1.1 DiDi and SoftBank aim to build an open and inclusive platform that will be available to all of Japan’s taxi operators.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

In last fall's runup to the launch of the production 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV 200-mile electric car, GM discussed working together with Korean corporate giant LG on the Bolt's development. Mark Reuss, GM’s head of global product development said in October that the company's partnership with LG Chem was "unprecedented."

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Scott Jorgensen, a former General Motors Technical Fellow and principle at Hyrax Intercontinental LLC, recently joined Skeleton Technologies as an advisor to the Board to support the company in gaining market share for curved graphene ultracapacitors in the hybrid and electric vehicle market. —Skeleton Technologies CEO Taavi Madiberk.

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JUNE 1, 2022

General Motors-owned Chevrolet rolled back prices of the new model year versions of the Bolt EV and EUV by $5,900 and $6,300, respectively, despite electric vehicle costs increasing due to materials and parts shortages. Nearly 50% of 2017-19 Chevy Bolt EVs have been remedied after battery fire recall.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 19, 2017

The Velite 5, Buick’s first extended-range electric vehicle, made its global debut in Shanghai today. Bottom: 2017 Chevrolet Volt. The Velite 5 features GM’s proven EVT electronic controlled intelligent variable transmission. The Velite 5 features GM’s proven EVT electronic controlled intelligent variable transmission.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 19, 2016

Under most circumstances, the man who runs not only global automaker Nissan but the Franco-Japanese Renault-Nissan Alliance displays a serious, thoughtful countenance. But as he inspected the 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV during last week's Detroit Auto.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2021

After a walk in the park in 2020, Tesla repeated its 2018 and 2019 Best Seller titles, with the Califonian now having 3 titles in the bag, as much as Nissan (2011, 2013 and 2014) and BYD (2015 to 2017), so it looks that Tesla will go ahead of those two in 2021, as it looks no one is in position to challenge Tesla for the 2021 title.

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AUGUST 1, 2017

The sale of Opel Automobile GmbH with its brands Opel and Vauxhall by General Motors to Groupe PSA has now been finalized. New management positions include: Christian Müller, previously Vice President Global Propulsion Systems – Europe and with Opel since 1996, will succeed William F. Bertagni as Vice President Engineering.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 4, 2017

The global debut of the MG E-motion electric concept car at the Auto Shanghai motor show in April 2017 epitomized the strategy of the resurgent MG brand. SAIC Motor sold 6.49 In 2015, the company ranked 46 th on the annual Fortune Global 500 list, with $106.68 billion in revenues.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2018

The report shows that projected global ZEV adoption from 2015 to 2039 (based on the BNEF 2017 forecast) may follow an s-curve, similar to that of smartphone adoption in the US from 2005 to 2015. As of October 2017, 337,483 ZEVs have been sold in California. GM plans to introduce 20 new ZEV models by 2023, while Ford promises 13.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Could these two massively successful Silicon Valley startups overturn the established order in the global auto industry? DON'T MISS: 2017. Over the last five years, much has been written about autonomous-car efforts from Apple and Google.

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