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DETROIT — GM Vice Chairman Bob Lutz, an executive credited with bringing an urgency to the automaker’s efforts to revamp its vehicle line-up and shake off negative consumer perceptions, will retire o…
General Motors stopped work on the Cadillac Converj, an electric-drive coupe similar to the Chevrolet Volt, to focus on cheaper plug-in hybrids for its luxury brand, two executives with knowledge of the move said.
To understand why General Motors has spent a year and a couple of billion dollars working on restructuring plans for its European Opel/Vauxhall unit, try to imagine GM without Chevrolet.
The vehicle assembly process is a tricky thing–just ask Toyota, which has had to deal with massive brake recalls over the past few weeks. Things get even more complicated when you add expensive and rapidly-changing electric vehicle batteries into the mix. For its part, GM has turned to enterprise software from Apriso to make sure that the Chevrolet Volt battery assembly process goes smoothly …
General Motors hasn’t yet determined how early versions of the Chevrolet Volt will be used to get customer feedback, a top company executive told the Free Press. Before official production begins in November, GM will build a special fleet to test the vehicles in a variety of conditions and work out any last-minute kinks.
The Chevy Volt is a futuristic GM car that’s virtually silent and powered primarily by battery.
General Motors’s top executive in charge of developing batteries for the Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid is leaving to take a position with an unnamed startup battery company in California.
A key member of the small team brought together four years ago to create the 2011 Chevrolet Volt electric car is unexpectedly leaving General Motors. Denise Gray, director of global battery systems engineering at General Motors, will leave the company on Friday, March 5, to take an unspecified position with an unidentified battery startup in…
This year’s International CES in Las Vegas was surprisingly optimistic when you asked both exhibitors and attendees about what’s in store for this year.
General Motors CEO Tom Stephens said that the company’s Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle would not support E85 at the start, Gas 2.0 said.
