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General Motors has found a way to give use to the oil-soaked plastic boom material that is being used to soak up oil in the Gulf of Mexico. The American Group is using it to produce parts for its Chevrolet Volt. In fact General Motors will be conver...

General Motors is using a new crash test dummy that is specifically engineered for rear impacts. The dummy is called the BioRID and was developed at Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden. It has 24 vertebra simulators so it can react natu...

US government will no longer own GM in next 12 to 15 months

General Motors has announced that it will buy back 200 million shares of stock from the US government for $27.50 a share for a total of $5.5 billion. The US Treasury Department that has been the owner of the GM stock says that it will divest itsel...

General Motors will focus on electric cars and plug-in hybrids in the future as opposed to standard hybrid systems. It predicts that by 2017 it will sell 500,000 cars a year with some form of electrification globally, which is about 6% of total sa...

GM owns a 7% stake in PSA

General Motors CEO Dan Akerson says that the company has no plans to buy any more of PSA/Peugeot-Citroën regardless of how the French company is doing financially. GM owns a 7% stake in PSA. "We don't have any intention of invest...

It is also working on a new Aveo for 2016 for Korea

General Motors is working on a new generation Spark to debut in the first half of 2015 and is working on a new Aveo small car for Korea, which is sold as the Sonic in North America. Both cars will be built in South Korea. The news was revealed whe...

Allows for up to 60 favorite radio stations, link 10 device and better voice recognition

Chevrolet will debut its second-generation MyLink infotainment system on the new Impala, but it has already confirmed the system for the Spark EV. Eventually, the upgrade will roll out to other Chevy's with MyLink for 2014 including its pick-u...

The Opel/Vauxhall factory in Zaragoza, Spain, had produced its nine millionth Corsa. The Corsa and the Zaragoza factory have been big successes for General Motors. Of the vehicles made at the Zaragoza factory, 90% have been exported to the Un...

General Motors, Honda, Toyota, Chrysler, Mercedes, Audi, BMW and Jaguar/Land Rover have all announced their intentions to create Apple's Siri-compatible entertainment systems in their cars. Apple announced the partnership with the automakers a...

General Motors CEO Dan Akerson says that an announcement about the joint venture between GM and PSA Peugeot-Citroën is coming in the next few weeks. The company also filed paper work with the US Securities and Exchange Commission about workin...