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  Honda, GM to co-develop affordable EVs – new electric car series to go on sale in 2027, North America first

  6 April 2022 / 1 comment

  Following the signing of an MoU in September 2020, General Motors and Honda have now finalised their cooperation, announcing plans co-develop a series of affordable electric vehicles (EVs) based on a new global architecture using […]

   

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  Toyota the bestselling automaker in the US, beats GM

  5 January 2022 / 8 comments

  Toyota Motor Corporation has done the unthinkable – it has finally dethroned General Motors as the bestselling auto brand in the United States of America. This is a first in 90 years, and GM’s slump […]

   

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  Microsoft partners General Motors for self-driving tech

  20 January 2021 / 4 comments

  General Motors has announced that it has partnered with self-driving car service provider Cruise and Microsoft in order to speed up the commercialisation of autonomous vehicles. Microsoft joins General Motors, Honda and other institutional investors […]

   

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  General Motors reveals new logo for its EV strategy

  11 January 2021 / 0 comments

  With electric vehicles being a strongpoint of General Motors’ future, the company has launched a new marketing campaign called “Everybody In” to accelerate the mass adoption of EVs. To go along with the new campaign, […]

   

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  General Motors, Nikola announce revised agreement; Badger fuel-cell pick-up truck ‘paused indefinitely’

  1 December 2020 / 0 comments

  General Motors has announced a revised agreement with Nikola Corp on a fuel-cell partnership, superseding the previous agreement from September which was for the Nikola Badger fuel-cell pick-up truck to be developed and manufactured by […]

   

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  General Motors to launch 30 electric vehicles by 2025

  20 November 2020 / 0 comments

  General Motors will be launching 30 electric vehicles globally by 2025, it has announced at the Barclays Global Automotive Conference. The slew of new models will come from across the group’s line-up of brands, and […]

   

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  General Motor’s upcoming Ultium-powered EVs to be the first to use a wireless battery management system

  10 September 2020 / 4 comments

  General Motors has announced that it will be the first automaker to use an almost completely wireless battery management system (wBMS) on its upcoming electric vehicles. The system, which is being developed with Analog Devices, […]

   

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  Honda, GM to form new North American alliance – co-develop platforms & powertrains, improved economies

  4 September 2020 / 11 comments

  General Motors (GM) and Honda have just signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to establish a North American automotive alliance. Under the proposed alliance, the two entities will co-develop and share common vehicle platforms, with […]

   

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  Covid-19: GM and Ford wind down ventilator projects

  27 August 2020 / 2 comments

  Remember the early days of Covid-19 when the coronavirus swept the globe and became everyone’s problem? Seems like a long time ago, but it was just a few months back. In March, America was stormed […]

   

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  No more Holden, but RHD Corvette C8 will still be sold in Australia – GM Specialty Vehicles is the new arm

  19 August 2020 / 2 comments

  As Ford found out with the current Mustang, making a right-hand-drive version of a famous American car will pay for itself. Similarly, GM is going global with the Corvette, another legendary American nameplate – the […]

   

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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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