General Motor Corp. on Tuesday disclosed about the production version of their highly anticipated Chevrolet Volt.
Chevrolet Volt is a plug-in electric car which has become a centrepiece. It has moved away from gas –guzzling SUVs to recharge slumping sales.
Rick Wagoner, Chief Executive introduced the Chevrolet Volt. Chevrolet Volt is a small, curvy 4-seater car. It [...]
General Motors has faced a substantial net loss in the first quarter of 2008, amounting to $3.25 billion dollars. A chunk of this loss comes from the one time charge for its suffering financier GMAC and also for the on going problems it is having with Delphi Corp. Compounded by the fact that America is [...]
“Production at a GM plant has come to a screeching halt”, sounds like a line which has been done to death in the last month. While its true, yet again, this time the halt has got nothing to do with the UAW versus American Axle face off that has become a kind of never ending [...]
General Motors Corp’s global head of sales, John Middlebrook is slated to retire on July 1st . The man taking over the reigns from him is Jonathan Browning, who is currently the head of Sales in Europe. He will take over effective from 1st June.
John Middlebrook has worked for GM for nearly a half century; [...]
As trends go, they don’t get bigger than this. In a mad dash to be the most eco-friendly of them all, most car manufacturers are pushing the envelope and stretching their imaginations to come out with the next big thing. General Motors sure have their priorities in place to ensure a nice and secure future [...]
Encouraged by the success of its first small car venture in India, GM is keen to come out with a similar small car in India within the next two years. The first of the GM small cars in India was the Chevrolet Spark, although the second one may not be under the Chevrolet banner.
India’s car [...]
General Motors has reported an annual loss of $ 38.7 billion at the end of 2007, which was largely due to write down tax credits, in the third quarter, that were expected to retire unused. General Motors has offered voluntary buy outs to all 74,000 members of its union represented US workforce. This would enable [...]
There has been a sudden race to develop the finest batteries and hydrogen fuel cells. Well the reason is the keen interest automakers have taken to manufacture electric and hybrid vehicles. General Motors Corps’ new global engineering group is specially assigned to speed up development of electric and hybrid vehicles. Chrysler LLC did the same [...]
Toyota and General Motors shared the spoils by winning Polk Automotive Loyalty Awards of R. L. Polk & Co at the just concluded Automotive News World Congress. General Motors won the prestigious ‘Overall Manufacturer award’ for demonstrating an unmatched ability of retaining its previous customers. Toyota also emerged as a major winner, grabbing top honours [...]
For millions across the globe it’s all about “living life king size”. Yet there are others who believe in “keeping it simple and small”. And the world’s two largest automakers agree with the latter. GM and Toyota are currently working on ultracheap cars to sell in emerging markets.
The auto giants got the “small car” [...]