DETROIT - General Motors and battery manufacturer Microvast are partnering to develop new electric vehicle battery technology and build a factory in the United States with hundreds of jobs to manufacture what they call specialized separators. The two companies announced the partnership Wednesday, saying the factory and the specialized separator technology development will be funded
DETROIT - General Motors has just decided to drastically reduce the prices of its entry-level model, the Chevy Bolt. This vehicle, dubbed the "Tesla Killer" of the Detroit vehicle manufacturer, will be sold below the symbolic bar of $30,000. The Chevy Bolt will thus become the most affordable electric vehicle on the market. The price
DETROIT - Come their Feb. 25 paychecks, approximately 42,500 U.S. hourly workers at General Motors Co. will receive up to $10,250 in profit-sharing based on the Detroit automaker's strong 2021 financial results, the company announced Tuesday. But workers at one plant that was idled for long stretches last year because of semiconductor chip shortages may not
LANSING – General Motors announced Tuesday it will spend $7 billion on four factories, including some $2.6 billion in the Lansing area to build electric vehicle batteries. Another $4 billion will be invested to convert its existing factory in Orion Township to make electric pickups. GM also plans to spend about $500 million to upgrade
DETROIT - General Motors is finding new markets for its hydrogen fuel cell systems, announcing that it will work with another company to build mobile electricity generators, electric vehicle charging stations and power generators for military camps. The emissions-free generators will be designed to power large commercial buildings in the event of a power outage,
DETROIT - Car consumers looking to buy will soon have access to hundreds of thousands of used vehicles on a new digital retail platform from General Motors. Last week GM introduced CarBravo, a website that will list all the used car inventory across GM's participating dealerships as well as used cars owned by GM and
DETROIT - Nearly 20 years ago, when I had the privilege of being the plant manager at General Motors’ Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant, I could not have imagined the role it would someday play in charting the future of transportation. Over the past several months, we retooled this facility with the best, most advanced technology in
DETROIT - Four years ago this fall, we set our vision to create a world with zero crashes, zero emissions and zero congestion. As with many defining moments in General Motors history, this vision served as a rallying point for our employees. Transformation and innovation have been part of our DNA for more than 100
DETROIT—Officials at General Motors Co. announced plans to spend more than $27 billion to roll out 30 new electric vehicles over the next five years. The company said that during that time, its Ultium battery packs will cost 60 percent less than today’s packs with twice the energy density. And to counter fears of range
ANN ARBOR - We live in a very tumultuous time with the pandemic and Black Live Matter riots and Detroit is one of the centers of activity. I grew up in Detroit many years ago. I was in grade school, Edison, and later Redford High. I started college as a freshman at the University of
