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The center focuses on holistic auto research from science to law

General Motors will join the Center for Automotive Research at Stanford University so that it can recruit top students focusing on the automotive industry in science, technology, engineering, math, law and business. Mary Barra, GM head of glo...

Chevrolet celebrates its centennial on November 3, and its divisions around the world are celebrating the birthday. We already reported today that the 1969 Camaro was voted as the best Chevy ever. Not to be outdone, 1143 Chevrolet owners in&nb...

General Motors has been having business problems in Europe, but now it appears that its corporate culture may be problematic as well. Over the weekend, it suddenly fired its global marketing chief Joel Ewanick, and David Lyon who had been pegged t...

It has tripled in size since opening in 2009

A recent expansion to General Motors’ Global Battery Systems Laboratory in Michigan has made it the largest automotive battery lab in the United States. The updates added 35,000 square feet to the lab to bring its total size up to 85,000 squ...

The system will know the time of day and load on the grid

GM's OnStar has started a pilot program to balance the power stored from solar cells with energy from the electric grid. The system can look at the load electric grid and the power stored in the cell's batteries to know which source to use...

General Motors has announced the official opening of the company’s new Advanced Design Studio, located in Seoul, South Korea, this year’s World Design Capital. The new design studio is part of GM’s will to focus on the design, the p...

General Motors has made its final payment of 5.8 billion dollars to the U.S. Treasury and Export Development Canada. The announcement was made by General Motors Company Chairman and CEO Ed Whitacre that confirmed the ahead of schedule payback to both...

General Motors believes that electrified cars, including hybrids and pure EVs, are going to play a large role in Chine in the near future and have sped up their introduction of electric cars to China.  “China has made electrificatio...

China is no longer allowing foreign automakers to build factories

General Motors and its partner SAIC plan to take advantage of the consolidation in the Chinese auto market to increase sales. The Chinese auto market is still growing, but the Chinese government wants to consolidate its nation's automakers. It...

The development comes from what GM learned from studying Tesla

Current General Motors CEO Dan Akerson may only have a month left of work, but his final legacy with the company may be its upcoming electric sedan. Early in 2013, Akerson took notice of the rising cache of Tesla and set up a taskforce to stud...