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  Pent-up demand for cars in China boosts GM – both its joint ventures report double-digit growth in April

  4 May 2020 / 2 comments

  Now here’s something out of the blue, or the blues facing the auto industry thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic. It looks like there’s some pent-up demand for new cars in China, where the novel coronavirus […]

  
  

   

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  GM shuts down its Maven unit for good; BMW and Daimler also exit North American car-sharing market

  22 April 2020 / 2 comments

  It wasn’t very long ago that car-sharing was one of the buzzwords of an auto industry seeking to diversify away from traditional car ownership models. The service didn’t really take off in a big way, […]

  
  

   

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  GM starts production of ventilators for the US govt

  15 April 2020 / 2 comments

  The Detroit big boys are all hard at work assisting the war against the coronavirus. Earlier, we read about Ford’s efforts, which included face shields, masks and a rather cool powered air-purifying respirator for frontline […]

  
  

   

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  Honda and General Motors to jointly develop EVs

  3 April 2020 / 6 comments

  General Motors will work together with Honda to develop two new electric vehicles for the Japanese carmaker, which will go on sale in North America by the 2024 model year and be built at GM’s […]

  
  

   

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  General Motors to build ventilators at Indiana plant

  24 March 2020 / 2 comments

  Automakers are shoring up resources to join efforts toward containing the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak. General Motors and medical equipment manufacturer Ventec are teaming up in a partnership codenamed ‘Project V’ for the production of ventilators […]

  
  

   

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  Coronavirus: Detroit’s Ford, GM, FCA shut US plants

  20 March 2020 / 0 comments

  Detroit’s big three have agreed to shut down their US plants to halt the spread of the coronavirus. Ford, General Motors and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles did so after bowing to pressure from the United Auto […]

  
  

   

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  GM announces new Ultium batteries and EV platform

  5 March 2020 / 3 comments

  General Motors is stepping up its electrification initiative by introducing its third-generation electric vehicle architecture, which can accommodate modular propulsion systems and the company’s newly-developed Ultium batteries. For now, the carmaker has yet to reveal […]

  
  

   

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  GM to exit Thailand, discontinue Chevrolet brand there, sell Rayong plant to China’s Great Wall Motors

  17 February 2020 / 15 comments

  You’ve read about GM’s decision to wind down sales, design and engineering operations in Australia and New Zealand, as well as retiring the Holden brand from those markets; well, that’s not all. Closer to home, […]

  
  

   

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  China’s Great Wall buys GM India plant for USD300 mil

  28 January 2020 / 5 comments

  Ending General Motors’ (GM) involvement in car manufacturing in India is the sale of its plant in Talegaon in Maharashtra state to China’s Great Wall Motor. The deal, said to be worth between USD 250 […]

  
  

   

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  General Motors to revive Hummer as EV brand – report

  13 January 2020 / 2 comments

  Hummer H3T concept. General Motors is going to revive the Hummer brand for a range of electric pick-up trucks and SUVs under the GMC banner, Automotive News reports. Reuters reported in October that the electric […]

  
  

   

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