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Business, Equipment

GM Promotes 1,350 Temp Workers to Full-Time Status After Strike

General Motors Co. delivered on one of the key promises made in its labor contract that ended a 40-day strike in October by giving 1,350 temporary staffers full-time status.

January 15, 2020
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel

GM Set to Revive Hummer Brand With Electric Truck and SUV

General Motors Co. is moving forward with plans to revive its polarizing Hummer brand, this time as an electric truck instead of an emblem of gasoline consumption, according to people familiar with the matter.

January 10, 2020
Business, Technology, Fuel, TCA

GM, Tesla Head for New Year Without Electric Vehicle Tax Credits

General Motors Co. and Tesla are about to become the first automakers that will have to sell EVs without the benefit of a $7,500 federal tax credit.

December 27, 2019
Business, Technology

After Century of Automaking, Last GM Truck Rolls Off Canada Line

After more than a century and 20 million autos built, the General Motors Co. plant in Oshawa, Ontario, will make its last vehicle Dec. 18 when a final pickup truck rolls off the line.

December 18, 2019
Business, Technology, Fuel

GM Loans Ohio Plant Buyer $40 Million to Launch Electric Truck

General Motors Co. loaned the buyer of its half-century-old assembly plant in Ohio $40 million to help the cash-strapped startup roll out an electric pickup truck.

December 10, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel

GM to Build $2.3 Billion Battery Plant in Lordstown, Ohio

General Motors Co. and its battery partner, South Korea’s LG Chem Ltd., will jointly invest $2.3 billion in a new electric vehicle battery plant to be built in Lordstown, Ohio, the same city where the automaker controversially idled and then sold a 53-year-old compact-car factory.

December 5, 2019
Business, Equipment, TCA

GM Announces $175 Million Diesel Truck Engine Component Plant in Ohio

The Dayton, Ohio, area will soon be home to a new General Motors plant making components for Duramax diesel truck engines.

November 22, 2019
Business, Technology, Fuel

GM CEO Mary Barra Charges Ahead With Electric Cars but Shuns Hybrids

If General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra had her way, the auto industry would forget about selling hybrid electric models and instead concentrate on getting more battery-powered vehicles into showrooms.

November 21, 2019
Business

GM Sues Fiat Chrysler, Alleging Union Bribes

DETROIT — General Motors is suing Fiat Chrysler, alleging that its crosstown rival got an unfair business advantage by bribing officials of the United Auto Workers union.

November 20, 2019
Business, Technology, Equipment, Fuel

GM Sells Shuttered Lordstown, Ohio, Assembly Plant to Electric Vehicle Startup

Lordstown Motors Corp., the electric-truck startup formed specifically to save a shuttered Ohio car factory, has acquired the highly politicized plant from General Motors Co.

November 7, 2019