The Verge

APRIL 24, 2022

General Motors will reportedly no longer provide battery replacements for the all-electric version of the Chevy Spark, according to a report from EV-Resource (via InsideEVs ). The Chevy Spark electric vehicle (EV) was first released in 2013, and GM continued to make new models until 2016.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

General Motors, parent company of Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, and Buick, said it was temporarily halting production at six of its North American factories as a result of the global chip shortage. Four of GM’s US-based plants will be affected: Fort Wayne, Indiana; Wentzville, Missouri; Spring Hill, Tennessee; and Lansing, Michigan.

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The Verge

APRIL 6, 2021

General Motors just confirmed it’s making an all-electric version of the Chevy Silverado pickup truck, the company’s bestselling vehicle. The new truck will be powered by GM’s new EV battery and will offer around 400 miles on a full charge. GM has been teasing an electric Silverado for months now. Image: Getty Images.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

General Motors will reveal the all-electric Hummer truck on October 20th, and to help whet your appetite until then, the automaker is confirming a rumored standout feature. GM confirms that the Hummer will come with Crab Mode, allowing it to move across the terrain diagonally like a sand-dwelling crustacean. Image: GMC.

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The Verge

MARCH 8, 2021

General Motors will reveal an SUV version of its all-electric Hummer EV on April 3rd, the company announced. GM, which is producing the electric Hummers under its GMC brand, wouldn’t say when the SUV is expected to go into production. GM retired the Hummer in 2010, after the global recession caused fuel prices to rise.

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The Verge

JULY 29, 2020

Image: General Motors. General Motors is now set to unveil the all-electric Hummer truck sometime in the fourth quarter of this year, after scratching the original May 20th reveal due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Hummer pickup truck is slated to go into production in late 2021, with deliveries starting shortly after.

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The Verge

JANUARY 12, 2022

The used car market is red hot , and it seems General Motors wants to compete squarely with used vehicle sites like Carvana with a new website called CarBravo. GM is beginning to enroll dealers now to be a part of the site, which is set to launch in “spring 2022,” according to a press release.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 26, 2021

General Motors will start making Chevy Bolts again on November 1st, after shutting down production in late August following a global recall of the electric vehicle due to battery fire risk. The production restart will come just a few weeks after GM announced that battery supplier LG agreed to foot the $2 billion bill for the recall.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2021

Microsoft is joining forces with Cruise, the self-driving subsidiary of General Motors, to help speed up the commercialization of autonomous vehicles. Later that year , GM teamed up with Honda to design a purpose-built self-driving car. billion investment from GM, SoftBank, Honda, and T. In 2018, Cruise secured a $2.25

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

General Motors is taking an 11 percent stake in electric truck startup Nikola, the companies announced on Tuesday. As part of the deal, GM will help Nikola engineer and manufacture its battery-electric and hydrogen fuel cell vehicles, including the Badger pickup truck. GM will also get to nominate one director to Nikola’s board.

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The Verge

APRIL 16, 2021

The new GM logo heralding its electric future. On Friday, General Motors and LG Chem are expected to announce a new $2.3 GM already announced that Lyriq will be powered by GM’s new scalable battery architecture called Ultium. GM grew to be the largest automaker in North America on the back of combustion engines.

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The Verge

JULY 31, 2020

General Motors is working with electric vehicle charging network EVgo to build more than 2,700 new fast chargers in cities and suburbs across the US over the next five years. They won’t be exclusive to GM vehicles, and the first chargers that are part of this new buildout will be available in early 2021.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Dan Ammann, the CEO of Cruise, the autonomous vehicle company that is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Motors, is stepping down, the automaker announced late Thursday. GM didn’t provide a reason for Ammann’s departure. GM acquired Cruise in 2016 to speed up its self-driving car development program.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

General Motors said Monday that it will start swapping new batteries into Chevy Bolt EVs in October in response to at least a dozen fires that triggered a massive recall. GM did not say when it will restart production of brand new versions of the electric car. GM made one minor tweak to its guidance, though.

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GeekWire

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

John Travolta goes back to his “Grease” roots in a T-Mobile ad; General Motors teams with Netflix to promote electric vehicles; Google wants to fix your Pixel photos; and more. GM + Netflix Actor Will Ferrell is typically a gas. But in this ad for General Motors and Netflix, he’s electric.

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The Verge

AUGUST 20, 2021

General Motors is expanding its recall of the Chevy Bolt to include all models — including the two new versions released earlier this year — after multiple fires in the electric vehicle’s battery packs caused by defects in the LG Chem cells found inside. The recall has cost GM nearly $2 billion.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

With the Bolt currently not on sale due to the massive battery recall, that means parent company General Motors’ most advanced technological feature is currently not available on any new car. “[W]e’re GM is currently suing Ford over the name.). Automakers have had to make a number of hard choices because of the chip shortage.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 6, 2021

General Motors will debut the all-electric Chevy Silverado at the 2022 Consumer Electronics show in January in Las Vegas, Nevada, as part of CEO Mary Barra’s opening keynote address. The Silverado EV will be the second electric truck announced by GM, following the pickup version of the resurrected Hummer.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

General Motors announced Thursday that it was dumping more money into its electrification plans and would also be accelerating its production to release more electric vehicles sooner than expected. Also by 2025, GM will launch 30 new electric vehicles around the world, more than two-thirds of which will be available in North America.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 3, 2021

Ford and General Motors told a federal judge they’re planning to settle a trademark battle over the term “Cruise” to describe hands-free driving. GM said in its complaint that the two the companies had been involved in “protracted discussions” over the name but were unable to come to agreement.

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The Verge

JANUARY 19, 2022

GM’s EMPOWER rapid charger can help retail fuel stations add more affordable DC fast-charging capabilities | GM. General Motors announced plans to manufacture mobile power generators using its Hydrotec-branded hydrogen fuel cells. GM is planning on offering these generators in multiple sizes for a variety of uses.

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The Verge

MAY 12, 2021

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says the new “EUV” version of the 2022 Chevy Bolt will travel an average of 247 miles on a full battery pack — three miles shy of the estimate General Motors provided when the vehicle was announced in February.

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TM Forum

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

AT&T and General Motors. which aims to “bring 5G cellular connectivity to millions of GM vehicles coming off the assembly line over the next decade,” with the first 5G-enabled cars due to be available in 2024. Like GM, Audi also has an eye on autonomous driving, but it is not announcing any CSP partnerships.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 1, 2021

General Motors announced that it will construct a new cathode factory in North America for its electric vehicle batteries. Much like the rest of the auto industry, GM is racing to boost its EV offerings, vowing to spend $27 billion on the development and production of 30 new electric vehicles by 2025.

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The Verge

MARCH 15, 2021

General Motors has decided to make some 2021 full-size pickups without a certain fuel management module because of the ongoing microchip shortage. The trucks affected are models that use GM’s 5.3-liter GM decided to make the trucks without the fuel module so as not to affect production.

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The Verge

MAY 3, 2021

General Motors has finally revealed its plan to fix the issue at the center of last year’s Chevy Bolt recall , which the automaker issued in response to a handful of battery pack fires. That software, GM says, will be able to “detect potential issues related to changes in battery module performance before problems can develop.”

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The Verge

DECEMBER 2, 2020

A class action lawsuit was filed against General Motors alleging that the Chevy Bolt’s battery is “prone to burst into flames.” The lawsuit comes on the heels of GM announcing that it was recalling 68,000 Bolts over a malfunctioning battery. GM has found two reports of injuries due to smoke inhalation.

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The Verge

JULY 23, 2021

General Motors is recalling 2017-2019 model year Chevy Bolts a second time because of a risk that the battery packs could catch fire. GM has also finally shed a little light on the source of the problem. Owners should also charge their vehicle after each use, according to GM. Photo: Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge.

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GeekWire

OCTOBER 7, 2023

.” RELATED: Job opportunities outweigh political differences when climate tech comes to rural communities OneD is partnering with General Motors on R&D with the possibility of GM using the technology in its EV batteries. The startup has additional, unnamed partners and has raised $73.4 million to date.

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The Verge

JUNE 4, 2020

General Motors is working on an all-electric delivery van , according to Reuters. If true, GM would the latest automaker to hone in on what’s expected to be a successful slice of the nascent electric vehicle market. Those sources also said the van will be built at GM’s Detroit-Hamtramck plant.

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The Verge

JANUARY 6, 2022

General Motors completely redesigned the compute architecture that powers its next-generation “hands-free” driving system thanks to US semiconductor company Qualcomm. The size of “two laptops stacked together,” GM claims the new architecture will have the processing power equivalent to “several hundred” personal computers.

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

General Motors announced a new “end-to-end” software platform for its cars called “Ultifi” — a play on the name Ultium , which is the automaker’s new electric vehicle battery architecture. The Linux-based system will also be available to third-party developers who may want to create apps and other features for GM customers.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 9, 2021

The Silverado EV will be the second electric truck for General Motors, succeeding the GMC Hummer EV, which is expected to reach a handful of its first customers before the end of 2021. GM claims the Silverado will get more than 400 miles of range on a full charge.

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The Verge

MARCH 18, 2022

General Motors issued a recall last week for at least 10 of the electric pickup trucks after determining that there was something wrong with the software that powers the taillights. The problem was discovered by two GM employees based on field reports of the Hummer EV, which only just started shipping late last year.

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GeekWire

JANUARY 23, 2023

(GeekWire File Photo) — Siddhartha Srinivasa , a leading robotics expert and professor at the University of Washington, has left his position as director of Robotics AI at Amazon to join Cruise , General Motors’ autonomous-vehicle subsidiary. ” Srinivasa is the Boeing Endowed Professor at the Paul G.

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The Verge

APRIL 12, 2021

General Motors is launching a new in-car mapping service for nearly 1 million of its vehicles. Maps Plus is designed for vehicle owners who didn’t purchase the option for in-car navigation when they bought their vehicle, said Tim Babbitt, senior manager for digital experiences at GM.

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The Verge

MARCH 13, 2022

Last year, a lack of semiconductors forced Ford to scale back production of its popular F-150 , and in November, Ford and General Motors announced a deal with chip manufacturer GlobalFoundries to help ease the shortage.

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