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REPORT: Minicar, EV on the way from Opel

General Motors has declared that Opel needs a minicar, a tiny little thing that can compete with runabouts like the Ford Ka and Peugeot 107. That's a fine sentiment here at the starting line, but to get to the finish, GM will need to keep Opel running smoothly, get its Spark firing quickly (if indeed it aims to use that as an Opel), and lure some eyeballs away from the two dozen minicars currently in the segment and the ones on the way from the likes of Volkswagen and Toyota. Opel showed off the Trixx Concept (pictured) five years ago, ... Read more →

GM fuel cell boss explains that the technology needs to pass final cost hurdle to production Sam Abuelsamid

It's no secret that General Motors remains committed to hydrogen fuel cells as a long term solution to zero emissions transportation. In this cause, GM is in league with many of the largest ...

GM awarded DOE money to research Shape Memory Alloy heat engines Chris Shunk

General Motors has been awarded $2.7 million by the Department of Energy to create a working prototype engine using Shape Memory Alloys (SMA). The idea is for the prototype to use SMA tech to ...

GM invites Volt fans to name first color and win a test drive! Sam Abuelsamid

Take a close look at the Chevy Volt in the photo above. We've seen it a number of times already but we've never said anything about the color. While it's predominantly silver, it does have a green ...

Coskata opens doors to first semi-commercial flex ethanol facility Sebastian Blanco

Coskata caught our attention back in January 2008 with the announcement that GM would take an equity stake in the cellulosic ethanol producer in an effort to bring the biofuel to market at a cost ...

GM's Hybrid/EV engineering director Bob Kruse resigns 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

Bob Kruse is going freelance. Kruse has been executive director of global vehicle engineering for hybrids, electric vehicles and batteries at General Motors since early 2008. He has overseen the teams led by Denise Gray, Larry Nitz and Micky Bly that are developing hybrid and electric vehicles for ...

GM shows off fifth-generation fuel cell stack, hopes to commercialize unit by 2015 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

While improvements to the tried-and-true internal combustion engine continue to come in small, incremental bits year after year, hydrogen fuel cell technology is progressing in leaps and bounds. Evidence of such can be seen in the latest version of General Motors' hydrogen fuel cell system. ...

Elektromotive and GM team up to lobby UK MPs to support EVs 2 months ago on Autoblog Green

In order for companies getting into the electric vehicle business to have a chance to be financially viable, they are going to need help from governments. That means incentives to help offset the vastly higher initial cost of such vehicles as well as a means to charge them. General Motors and ...

Chat with retiring GM research VP Larry Burns today at 3pm EDT 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Larry Burns has served as General Motors Vice president of research and development for 11 years, a tenure longer than anyone else since the original holder of that office, Charles Kettering. This fall however, Burns will be strolling off into the sunset as he has opted for retirement. Before he ...

GM to hold webchat with Project Driveway manager Mark Vann and one of the drivers, 2pm EDT today 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

This week, General Motors' Project Driveway Fuel Cell test program will top the 1 million total mile mark after only two years on the road. GM built over 100 of the hydrogen fueled electric crossovers and they have been in daily use with both corporate partner fleets and average drivers who ...

General Motors announces Mike Robinson as new environment VP 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors has announced that Michael Robinson will be its new vice president responsible for Environment, Energy and Safety Policy. That means Robinson will be GM's chief advocate on most of the policies determined by the federal government. Robinson will be replacing Beth Lowery, who is ...

GM using bankruptcy to shirk responsibility for clunker mercury switches? 3 months ago on Autoblog Green

Here's the problem: General Motors went through the bankruptcy earlier this year and was able to pawn off a lot of unwanted things onto a new company called, originally, General Motors Company (since renamed Motors Liquidation Company). Some of the unwanted crap includes polluted old factories ...

At Witz' End - A sneak peak at the "new GM's" critically important product future 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

It was probably mid-1980, soon after the federal government agreed to guarantee massive loans to financially struggling Chrysler Corp., when then-Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca invited groups of auto media and analysts to its styling center for an off-the-record preview of what was coming two, three, ...

Honey, I shrunk the fuel cell! Next-gen GM hydrogen stack gets small 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

In spite of the cuts at General Motors over the past year, work has continued in the powertrain labs at the Warren, MI tech center on hydrogen fuel cells. Back in 2007, GM shifted much of its fuel cell work from the Honeoye Falls, NY research facility to the production engineering group in ...

Next-gen GM 6-speed automatic to boost mileage another 5 percent 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

It's only been a year since General Motors launched its 6T40 six-speed automatic transmission for mid-size and compact cars. When it was introduced, it brought with it a five percent bump in fuel efficiency. The engineers at GM Powertrain are now developing a second-generation variant of the 6T40 ...

Officially, official: GM lithium ion battery plant goes to Brownstown Township, MI 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

As was speculated several weeks ago, General Motors announced this morning that it will build a factory to manufacture lithium ion battery packs in Brownstown Township south of Detroit. The plant will produce the packs for the Chevrolet Volt and other upcoming vehicles using the Voltec powertrain. ...

Two new GM concepts go back to the Bare Necessities (w/VIDEO) 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors says that it's learned a lot since the Chevy Volt concept was introduced a few years back. Paramount among these new revelations is that not all green vehicles are created equally, and not all customers looking for an eco-friendly ride really want the same thing. Some want a ...

GM not giving up on hydrogen fuel cells yet! Production planned for 2012 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

The current administration in Washington clearly doesn't favor the pursuit of hydrogen fuel cells, but that doesn't mean General Motors is giving up on the technology. In spite of the pending retirement of Larry Burns, VP of research and development, his replacement, Alan Taub, remains ...

GM announces that 2011 Chevrolet Volt will get 230 mpg city! 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

In case you missed it this morning, General Motors CEO Fritz Henderson made some big news just one month after the "new" GM emerged from bankruptcy protection. First of all, Henderson announced that the GM FastLane blog would now be used to solicit feedback on new designs directly from ...

What is 230? GM knows, but isn't saying... 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

The graphic above has been appearing all over the place -- television, billboards, elevators, baseball games, even people's shirts. It has a blog, Flickr and Facebook pages, and a YouTube channel. What it doesn't have is an explanation. Ad Age lined up the perps behind the online assets and ...

Chevy Volt battery plant location to be announced this week 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Back in January at the Detroit Auto Show, then-CEO Rick Wagoner announced that General Motors would be building the battery packs for the Chevy Volt at a new plant to be located somewhere in Michigan. At the time, no one from the company would admit where the plant would be located although it ...

REPORT: GM Environment VP Beth Lowery leaving 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Beth Lowery is leaving General Motors and her position as Vice President, Environment, Energy, and Safety Policy. Over the last eight years Lowery has been GM's chief advocate on environmental policies and has spent much of her time working with government officials to help shape policies such as ...

REPORT: GM gets out from under its polluted sites scot-free 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Next in the line of those clamoring for attention and payouts from Motors Liquidation Co., the company that was given all of GM's unwanted assets, are the environmental and economic redevelopment departments of state governments. General Motors was able to exit bankruptcy without responsibility ...

VIDEO: See how prototype Chevy Volt bodies are built 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

Right now, the crew at General Motors pre-production operations center at the Warren Technical Center is in the midst of building 75 Chevy Volt IVER prototypes. IVER – integration vehicle engineering release – prototypes are the vehicles in the last stage prior to pilot builds. For ...

Webchat with Volt design boss Bob Boniface on Tuesday, July 28 4 months ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors is continuing its series of almost daily webchats with one of the people who helped bring the Chevy Volt to life. This week's target is the leader of the team that gave form to the upcoming extended range EV, Bob Boniface. Boniface led the exterior design team that created the ...

General Motors 4.5L Duramax V8 could be revived when the conditions are right 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Earlier this year, as General Motors was slashing spending on programs in a desperate and ultimately unsuccessful attempt to stave off bankruptcy, one of the victims was the new new 4.5-liter Duramax diesel V8. The engine, which was intended to start production in early 2010 for use in GM's ...

Toyota chafes at Ontario $10,000 EV rebate, calls it GM subsidy 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Stephen Beatty, managing director of Toyota Canada is not to thrilled with plug-in rebate plan announced by Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty this week. In fact, Beatty sees the plan as more of a subsidy for General Motors and the Chevy Volt than a real plan for promoting plug-in vehicles. While ...

Day one for The New GM: the more things change... Lutz stays, company needs vehicles that matter 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

After only 40 days in bankruptcy, General Motors emerged today as the new GM (sans green logo, for now). While the bankruptcy was about as short and sweet as they come, the future is what everyone is most interested in, and it's kind of looking a lot like the present/past. For one thing, Chevy Volt ...

Dead Diesels: Six automakers reportedly kill plans for oil burners 5 months ago on Autoblog Green

Diesel's near-term prospects in America took a huge hit with the revelation that nine diesel-powered 2010 models are on hold. Ford, General Motors, Chrysler, Toyota, Honda, and Nissan have put the kibosh on rolling out more oil burners due to cost and perception issues. Toyota's obviously on a ...

GM Veep Beth Lowery: Future Volts will turn a profit 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Since the automaker's descent into Chapter 11 bankruptcy, a number of people have taken to referring to GM as Government Motors. That's clever, but Beth Lowery, GM Vice President, Environment, Energy & Safety Policy, has a different acronym on her mind: Green Motors. A bit flowery perhaps, ...

Would it matter if the Chevy Volt is made by an entity other than "GM"? [w/POLL] 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

One of the many questions arising from the General Motors bankruptcy is whether or not the company will keep the same name once it emerges from Chapter 11. While some people have already taken to calling it Government Motors, it seems somehow unlikely that new CEO Fritz Henderson will officially ...

GM to select factory for building small cars by the end of June 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors has narrowed down its selection process for its new small car assembly plant to three locations. The Lake Orion, MI plant that until recently built the Pontiac G6 is one possibility as is Janesville, WI which had been building full-size SUVS. The third possibility is Spring Hill, ...

U.S. government buys 17,205 new cars for $287 million, Ford represents 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Completing the Obama Administration's plan to replace its fleet of government vehicles with newer, more efficient vehicles, the U.S. General Services Administration is reporting that it has purchased roughly $210 million worth of new vehicles from Chrysler, Ford and General Motors. Of the three ...

General Motors opens new Global Battery Test lab in Warren, Michigan 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

On Monday, General Motors officially inaugurated the new Global Battery Systems test lab that was announced at the Detroit Auto Show in January. The lab, which GM claims is the largest such facility in the United States, greatly expands on the automaker's ability to test advanced energy storage ...

Rush Limbaugh calling for boycott of GM products 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

As if things weren't bad enough. Rush Limbaugh used to love GM, at least the company's gas-guzzlers. Now that the General has become "Government Motors," Limbaugh is rallying his Dittoheads to boycott GM products. Limbaugh is joined in his quest by fellow rightwing pundit Hugh Hewitt and, for now, ...

GM marketing boss Mark LaNeve apparently unaware that diesel is now cheaper than gas 6 months ago on Autoblog Green

Over the last several years, we've heard a lot of excuses from many auto executives as to why their companies aren't offering diesel engines in their American market cars. Yesterday, General Motors' Mark LaNeve, the company's vice president of sales and marketing, made an appearance on C-SPAN's ...

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