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...GM has delayed plans to build electric versions of its Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra trucks....
...GM sold nearly 692,000 cars, trucks and vans in the second quarter, 2 per cent of which were electric....
...Half of those, around 1.5mn vehicles, were “full-sized” pick-ups, such as the Ford F-150 or Chevrolet’s Silverado, the market where the Cybertruck will compete....
...Competition among carmakers is heating up in electric commercial vehicles: General Motors unveiled its battery-powered Chevrolet Silverado on Wednesday, a work truck starting at $40,000 and meant to challenge...
...Yet the most visible EV models in the US have all been cars, including the Toyota Prius, Chevrolet Bolt and Tesla Model 3....
...GM had previously focused on launching electric and hybrid cars under the Chevrolet brand, including the mass-market Bolt....
...At stake was the company’s survival, whether victims would be adequately compensated and the trust of millions of consumers in the GM brands, which include Buick, Cadillac and Chevrolet....
...It marks a key difference with GM, which has ambitions to launch its own self-driving service next year using a version of its electric Chevrolet Bolt car....
...The light blue GoRide vans that flit around Ford’s technical centre illuminate the leading carmakers’ response to one of the biggest challenges....
...The US industry never offered any real competition for its luxury driving machines: a Cadillac is no Mercedes....
...GM, which owns the Cadillac, Chevrolet and Buick brands, announced adjusted pre-tax profits of $3.4bn for the three months, up by $700m on the same period last year....
...The mainstream Chevrolet brand logged a 5.3 per cent year-on-year decline to 178,820 vehicles. However, inversely, the more upscale, but smaller, Buick and Cadillac units both logged gains....
...When General Motors buys electricity for the Texas plant that makes hundreds of its Chevrolet and Cadillac trucks each day, it normally does a deal with a local power utility lasting at most a couple of...
...It also announced a partnership with South Korea’s LG to develop a battery for its planned Chevrolet Bolt electric car, intended to shake up the market by offering a 200-mile range at a price of only $30,000...
...The executives in Las Vegas were largely there to promote cutting-edge technologies such as General Motors’ electric Chevrolet Bolt and driverless cars....
...Its Chevrolet Bolt concept car, revealed on Monday, highlighted the company’s determination to challenge Elon Musk’s Tesla in the growing electric vehicle market....
...Premium car sales are proving more resilient, and GM will continue to sell higher-end vehicles including Cadillac and some US-built Chevrolet models in Russia....
...Cadillac hopes to take on Mercedes, BMW and other luxury-vehicle manufacturers with wider, more attractive ranges....
...The latest recalls involve 1.18m sports utility vehicles – mainly Buick Enclaves and GMC Acadias – 303,000 GMC Savana and Chevrolet Express vans and 63,900 Cadillac XTS sedans....
...GM’s range, from the mass-market Chevrolet to the exclusive Cadillac, was meant to offer consumers options that would ensure they stuck with GM as their tastes and priorities changed over a lifetime....
...They can find a Chevrolet Volt electric car followed by a compact Malibu sedan then a larger Impala. Within a few months, the Cadillac ELR luxury electric car will join the mix....
..., Buick, GMC and Cadillac vehicles, beginning in 2014 in the US and Canada....
...Better control of financing options could prove important in China, where GM wants to establish an important market for its Cadillac luxury brand and other products, including its Chevrolet and Buick saloons...
...Advertisements for the Chevrolet and Cadillac brands will run on US television during this year’s Olympic Games in London as GM is a sponsor of NBC’s coverage, Mr Morrissey said....
...However, General Motors dropped 0.2 per cent to $21.31 even as the maker of the Chevrolet, Cadillac and Buick brands said its August sales had beaten market forecasts....
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