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  • GM Recalling 600K Vehicles Over Engine Issue

    04/29/2025 6:19:32 AM PDT · by V_TWIN · 95 replies
    newsmax.com ^ | 29 April 2025
    GM is recalling nearly 600,000 SUVs and trucks in the United States due to engine issues, it announced Tuesday. The Detroit automaker is recalling 2021 through 2024 model year Cadillac Escalade and Escalade ESV, Chevrolet Silverado 1500, Suburban, and Tahoe, GMC Sierra 1500, Yukon, and Yukon XL vehicles with 6.2L V8 gas engines. It said the connecting rod and crankshaft engine components may have manufacturing defects that can lead to engine damage or failure. GM said it identified 12 crashes and 12 injuries in the United States that may be related to the recall issue. Dealers will inspect the engine...
  • The V8 Engine of a Cadillac Escalade Blew Up After Only 4 Miles. What Happened?

    02/03/2025 9:08:24 AM PST · by TexasKamaAina · 37 replies
    autoevolution ^ | 02/03/2025 | Elena Luchian
    The owner had just left the dealer's yard when the engine of the brand-new Cadillac Escalade failed, and they had to call a tow truck to take it back.
  • GM’s Broken 6.2L V8s Are Stranding Owners for Weeks as Replacement Engine Pipeline Dries Up

    01/28/2025 3:07:44 PM PST · by TexasKamaAina · 94 replies
    The Drive ^ | 01/27/2025 | Byron Hurd
    General Motors is now the subject of an NHTSA investigation after more than a thousand complaints were logged over sudden and catastrophic failure of some of its “L87” 6.2-liter V8s—a core power plant for Cadillac, Chevy, and GMC trucks. It’s actually the latest in a string of uncommon but linked reliability problems to impact the 5.3- and 6.2-liter small block families over several recent model years—a notably bad run for what’s supposed to be an uncomplicated, naturally-aspirated V8 engine.
  • That Cadillac XLR Convertible Returns & Roadster Model Also (Sneak Preview)

    12/30/2024 6:45:38 PM PST · by Robert DeLong · 45 replies
    Roar Wheels ^ | November 3, 2024 | Hamza Aftab Khan
    Engine Cadillac has fitted the 2025 XLR Convertible with a strong and productive V8 motor to fulfill. The superior presentation needs of the present extravagance purchasers. In the engine, this roadster includes a 5.5-liter twin-turbocharged V8, conveying an expected 600 drive and 590 lb-ft of force. This motor plan, roused by Cadillac’s hustling legacy. Empowers the XLR to accomplish a 0-60 mph time in just shy of four seconds. The motor’s low focus of gravity and lightweight development add to the XLR’s nimble taking care. Price The 2025 Cadillac XLR Convertible positions itself inside the extravagance sports vehicle market with...
  • GM sells stake in Michigan EV battery factory subsidized by state

    12/03/2024 3:42:25 AM PST · by Adder · 32 replies
    Bridge Michigan ^ | 12-2-2024 | Paula Gardner
    General Motors is selling its stake in a large-scale electric vehicle battery factory that company officials once promised would help make Michigan the “epicenter” of the EV industry. The Detroit automaker announced Monday that it has reached a non-binding agreement to sell its share of the nearly completed Ultium Cells LLC battery plant in Delta Township, just west of Lansing. When the deal concludes, the factory will be owned and operated by GM’s joint venture partner in the property, South Korea-based LG Energy Solution.
  • Auto Execs Beg Trump to Keep Biden's EV Mandates After Spending Billions on Unprofitable Electric Cars

    11/22/2024 5:33:38 PM PST · by MinorityRepublican · 205 replies
    Breitbart ^ | 22 Nov 2024131 | John Binder
    Executives at Ford Motor Company, General Motors (GM), and Stellantis are begging President-elect Donald Trump to keep in place President Joe Biden’s Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates. The plea comes as automakers have invested billions in EVs that have failed to turn a profit. In March of this year, Biden issued a federal regulation to begin phasing out gas-powered cars, requiring American automakers to produce EVs and ensure that by 2032, the majority of new cars sold in the U.S. market are electric. Since then, Ford, GM, and Stellantis have staked their futures on EVs. The results have been bleak as...
  • BIDENOMICS: General Motors Announces Cuts of 1,000 Software Engineers, 600 in Michigan – The Day After UAW President Endorses Commie Kamala at DNC

    08/20/2024 3:09:03 PM PDT · by DFG · 14 replies
    Gateway Pundit ^ | 08/20/2024 | Jim Hoft
    On Monday night United Auto Workers President Shawn Fain endorsed Kamala Harris at the DNC Convention in Chicago. Fain called Kamala Harris a “fighter” for the working class and denounced Donald Trump as a “scab.” During President Trump’s first term, he prioritized bringing manufacturing back to America. And that is exactly what he did. --SNIP -- And then on Tuesday, the day after UAW President Shawn Fain announced his endorsement of communist Kamala Harris, General Motors announced a loss of 1,000 high-paying engineering jobs – 600 of those job losses will be in Michigan.
  • GM lays off more than 1,000 salaried software and services employees

    08/19/2024 10:58:06 AM PDT · by ChicagoConservative27 · 34 replies
    CNBC ^ | 08/19/2024 | Michael Wayland
    DETROIT — General Motors is laying off more than 1,000 salaried employees globally in its software and services division following a review to streamline the unit’s operations, CNBC has learned. The layoffs, including roughly 600 jobs at GM’s tech campus near Detroit, come less than six months after leadership changes overseeing the operations, including former Apple executive Mike Abbott leaving the automaker after less than a year in March due to health reasons. “As we build GM’s future, we must simplify for speed and excellence, make bold choices, and prioritize the investments that will have the greatest impact,” a GM...
  • 2025 Chevrolet Silverado EV

    08/16/2024 10:17:25 PM PDT · by Leaning Right · 52 replies
    Car and Driver ^ | no date given | DAVID GLUCKMAN
    MSRP $70,000–$100,000
  • GM trims 2024 EV forecast amid slower-than-expected demand

    06/12/2024 6:23:47 AM PDT · by george76 · 18 replies
    CNBC ^ | JUN 11 2024 | Michael Wayland
    General Motors is trimming its expected sales and production of all-electric vehicles this year, as U.S. adoption of EVs occurs slower than expected. GM Chief Financial Officer Paul Jacobson said the company now expects production of 200,000 to 250,000 EVs this year, down from a previously announced range of 200,000 to 300,000. ... Jacobson said GM expects EVs to make up 8% of U.S. sales industrywide this year. That’s lower than many other auto analyst forecasts, which expect EVs to represent around 10% of industry sales in 2024.
  • Tadge Juechter, Godfather of the C7 and C8 Corvette, Is Retiring

    04/18/2024 1:26:01 PM PDT · by Red Badger · 17 replies
    Car & Driver ^ | APR 17, 2024 | ERIC STAFFORD
    The Corvette's executive chief engineer waves the checkered flag just as his masterpiece—the new ZR1—debuts this summer. Tadge Juechter, the Corvette's executive chief engineer since 2006, has announced his retirement. Juechter's career with General Motors spanned 47 years, most of which were spent in the Corvette division. He led the development of the C7 and C8 generations, with the latter effectively making him the godfather of the mid-engined Corvette that debuted for 2020. Since 1993, Tadge Juechter has been involved with one of the most iconic sports cars in the world: the Chevy Corvette. By 1999, he was named assistant...
  • General Motors Quits Sharing Driving Behavior With Data Brokers

    03/25/2024 8:32:29 PM PDT · by george76 · 17 replies
    New York Times ^ | March 22, 2024 | Kashmir Hill
    G.M. had provided information about braking, acceleration and speed to LexisNexis Risk Solution and Verisk, firms that generated driver risk profiles for insurers... General Motors said Friday that it had stopped sharing details about how people drove its cars with two data brokers that created risk profiles for the insurance industry. The decision followed a New York Times report this month that G.M. had, for years, been sharing data about drivers’ mileage, braking, acceleration and speed with the insurance industry. The drivers were enrolled — some unknowingly, they said — in OnStar Smart Driver, a feature in G.M.’s internet-connected cars...
  • How GM's Ultium Electric Car Revolution Went Off The Rails

    02/23/2024 7:17:56 AM PST · by Red Badger · 39 replies
    Inside EVs ^ | Feb 22, 2024 at 11:24am ET | By: John Voelcker
    General Motors once hoped to unseat Tesla as America’s EV leader. Sources tell us what went wrong with batteries, software and more. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ It wasn’t supposed to be like this. By early 2024, General Motors was to have had half a dozen electric vehicles selling in volume, all using the next-generation Ultium architecture it unveiled at “EV Day” in March 2020. That list includes the Chevrolet Silverado EV, Blazer EV, and Equinox EV; the Cadillac Lyriq; and the GMC Hummer EV in two versions. This expansive rollout of new EVs was to put GM on a course to, as The...
  • Ford, GM CEOs open to partnerships to compete with China

    02/22/2024 4:53:08 AM PST · by bert · 18 replies
    Fox Business News ^ | 2/22/2024 | Eric Revell
    Ford CEO Jim Farley and GM CEO Mary Barra said they are open to collaborating with automakers on EV tech to compete with China The CEOs of leading U.S. automakers Ford and GM on Thursday signaled they are open to considering partnerships to lower the cost of electric vehicle technology to compete with low-cost Chinese EVs looking to the U.S. and European markets. "If there’s ways that we can partner with others, especially on technologies that are not consumer-facing, and be more efficient with R&D as well as capital, we’re all in," GM CEO Mary Barra told investors at a...
  • GM Hustling To Get PHEV Chevy Silverado, GMC Sierra To Market

    02/20/2024 8:38:43 PM PST · by Red Badger · 13 replies
    Autoweek ^ | FEB 20, 2024 | TODD LASSA
    A full-size van replacement and a Ford Maverick competitor—both of them EVs—have been canceled. * Sources tell us plug-in hybrid versions of the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra are headed to market, in a hurry. * General Motors had been fully committed to all-electric pickups, but problems towing and hauling heavy loads have made EV pickups less attractive to traditional truck buyers. * GM’s change in plans creates uncertainty for Detroit’s Factory Zero, which has been retooled solely for production of battery-electric vehicles such as the GMC Hummer (pictured above). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ While zero-emissions enthusiasts wait for mass production of General...
  • Who Failed the Chevy Camaro?...Did GM fail to advertise the Chevy Camaro well enough, or did we fail to buy enough of them while it was around?

    02/17/2024 6:44:38 PM PST · by Red Badger · 79 replies
    Motor Biscuit ^ | February 17, 2024 | NATHANIEL EHINGER
    Three pony cars made it out of the muscle car era to be part of our modern automotive world. These three are the Ford Mustang, Dodge Challenger, and Chevy Camaro. The Challenger is barely a pony car, but the Mustang and Camaro provide several engine options leading up to a V8 engine at the top of the line, defining the pony car market. While the Mustang lives on, the Chevy Camaro is dead and won’t likely return in true pony car form. The top-level Chevy Camaro was awesome At the top ZL1 trim, the last two generations of the Camaro...
  • Ford, GM CEOs open to partnerships to compete with China

    02/16/2024 5:04:28 AM PST · by bert · 15 replies
    Fox Business ^ | 2/16/2024 | Eric Revell
    Ford CEO Jim Farley and GM CEO Mary Barra said they are open to collaborating with automakers on EV tech to compete with China The CEOs of leading U.S. automakers Ford and GM on Thursday signaled they are open to considering partnerships to lower the cost of electric vehicle technology to compete with low-cost Chinese EVs looking to the U.S. and European markets. "If there’s ways that we can partner with others, especially on technologies that are not consumer-facing, and be more efficient with R&D as well as capital, we’re all in," GM CEO Mary Barra told investors at a...
  • Tech boss Sanjay Shah plunges to his death after ‘freak accident’ on stage

    01/20/2024 6:43:12 PM PST · by Drew68 · 54 replies
    The Sun via news.com.au ^ | 21 Jan 2024 | Juliana Cruz Lima
    A tech boss has plunged to his death during his firm’s celebrations as horror footage captured his final moments alive. Sanjay Shah, CEO of US-based company Vistex, was making a grand performance in an iron cage before part of the chain supporting the structure snapped. The freak accident took place at Ramoji Film City in Hyderabad, India, during the company’s silver jubilee on Thursday evening, The Sun reports. Sanjay, accompanied by his colleague Raju Datla, entered an iron cage on stage intended to be lowered from a height. But one side of the iron chain supporting the cage broke, dropping...
  • General Motors to cut 1,300 workers across two factories

    12/15/2023 6:23:49 AM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 34 replies
    Channel 3000 News/CNN ^ | December 15, 2023 | CNN Staff
    General Motors will lay off about 1,300 workers from two of its Michigan plants, according to WARN notices the company has filed with state regulators. The job cuts at GM’s Orion Assembly and Lansing Grand River Assembly, which will take place in the new year, come after the automaker said in October that it would be delaying electric pickup truck production into 2025. The layoffs at GM’s Orion plant will affect 945 employees, while 369 employees will be cut from the Lansing assembly plant. The Orion plant produced the Chevrolet Bolt EV and Bolt EUV crossover, and GM is planning...
  • General Motors facing delays, software glitches in early days of EV transition

    01/15/2024 8:26:23 AM PST · by Leaning Right · 18 replies
    ABC7 Los Angeles ^ | January 13, 2024 | Dave Kunz
    The 2024 Chevrolet Blazer EV is an early step in General Motors' promise of an electric vehicle future. "Our early experience in a Chevy Blazer EV has been anything but positive, sadly," said Alistair Weaver, editor-in-chief of Edmunds.com. *snip* "We took it into a Chevy dealer, asked them to have a look at it, and they came back with nothing short of 23 different error codes, which frankly is almost unheard of," said Weaver.