Spartan Motors has hosted General Motors (GM) and Isuzu Commercial Truck of America executives as they celebrate the first of the new Chevrolet medium duty trucks rolls off the production line at the Spartan Motors plant in Charlotte, ...
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Robots are no longer the unyielding, one-task giants doing humans' dull and dangerous work. The new breed can perform more than one task and work alongside humans without being a physical threat. As a result, manufacturers across industries ...
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XL Hybrids has received approval from California Air Resources Board (CARB) for incentive vouchers for converting hybrid-electric vehicles to fleet vehicles. The approval for the first California Heavy Duty Voucher Incentive Project ...
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Lyft and General Motors (GM) have expanded their Express Drive short-term vehicle access program to California and Colorado, including the all-new 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV. Launching in San Francisco in the summer of 2016 and in Los Angeles ...
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General Motors (GM) is investing $290m in its Corvette plant in Bowling Green, Kentucky, US to carry out upgrades at the facility. The investment will modify the faciliity's vehicle assembly operations with new technologies and processes. ...
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The United States Advanced Battery Consortium (USABC), a collaborative organization of FCA US LLC, Ford Motor Company and General Motors, has awarded a $4m contract to SiNode Systems in Chicago, Illinois, for development of advanced anode ...
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The all-new 2017 GMC Acadia is being equipped with the Rear Seat Reminder, a new, industry-first feature designed to remind drivers to check the back seat as they exit their vehicle under certain circumstances. GM global safety strategy ...
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German automaker Volkswagen has invested $300m in Israeli ride hailing provider, Gett, which competes with Uber, Lyft, and Didi Chuxing. Volkswagen's investment comes months after General Motors injected $500m into privately held American ...
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General Motors (GM) has announced a recall of more than one million pickup trucks due to a seat belt flaw. The company said the recall of the 2014-15 Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra 1500 pickups is not linked to any crashes, injuries ...
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General Motors is turning its employees’ recycled water bottles into a new life: noise-reducing fabric insulation that covers the Chevrolet Equinox engine. The bottles - collected from five of its Michigan facilities - are also ...
General Motors Financial broke ground on a new financial servicing center in San Antonio, Texas, US. "We are proud to call San Antonio the future home of our fifth Servicing Center in North America, and excited to break ground on this new ...
A New York jury has ruled that a faulty ignition switch in General Motors’ car was not responsible for the accident that happened in 2014 on an icy New Orleans bridge. As per the ruling, GM is also not re quired to pay any damages ...
According to several reports, Uber is planning to buy or has already placed a huge order to buy Mercedes-Benz S-class cars. Reports suggest that the ride-hailing company is planning to have fleet of self-driving cars by 2020. With this ...
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The FBI and US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) have warned that motor vehicles are “increasingly vulnerable" to cyber attacks. The warning comes in the wake of a demonstration by researchers that showed how a ...
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Automobile majors have reached an agreement to include automatic emergency braking in almost all the vehicles in the US by September 2022. The agreement by 20 auto majors has been announced by the US Department of Transportation's ...