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☆ Chevy Blazer Troubles Add to GM’s EV Growing Pains
  + stars: | 2024-01-14 | by ( Mike Colias | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
The Chevrolet Blazer’s turbulent rollout is the latest setback as GM seeks to establish itself as an EV player. Photo: jim lo scalzo/ShutterstockAs one of the nation’s first owners of General Motors ’ new electric Chevrolet Blazer, James Hattin was loving the SUV—before the problems began. On a trip from the mountains back to his home in Burbank, Calif., he and his wife heard weird clicking noises coming from the dashboard. A short time later, the cruise control went out. A few days after that, in his driveway, the car’s screens went blank and the car wouldn’t start.
Persons: jim lo, James Hattin Organizations: General Motors, Chevrolet Locations: Burbank , Calif
☆ GM’s Cruise Ordered by California Regulator to Testify About October Incident
  + stars: | 2023-12-04 | by ( Meghan Bobrowsky | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A California regulator said Cruise omitted critical information about the safety of its vehicles regarding an October incident involving a pedestrian. Photo: John G. Mabanglo/Zuma PressGeneral Motors ’ Cruise has been ordered to testify before the California Public Utilities Commission over allegedly misleading comments it gave to regulators about an incident in October in which a pedestrian was hit. The CPUC said the self-driving car firm omitted critical information about the safety of its vehicles regarding the incident. A woman was hit by a human-driven car and thrown into the path of a driverless Cruise vehicle, which collided with the pedestrian and dragged the person about 20 feet. Cruise could face a fine of up to $1.5 million, the latest blow to the company’s operations in recent months after the company lost its driverless permits in California and CEO Kyle Vogt resigned.
Persons: John G, Mabanglo, Motors ’, CPUC, Kyle Vogt Organizations: Zuma Press, Motors, California Public Utilities Commission Locations: California
☆ GM’s Cruise Draws Plans to Resume a Downsized Robotaxi Service
  + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Mike Colias | Meghan Bobrowsky | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
A Cruise self-driving vehicle. Photo: Poppy Lynch for The Wall Street JournalGeneral Motors ’ Cruise driverless-car unit plans to eventually reintroduce its robotaxi service following safety mishaps, but will narrow the focus to one city and shelve plans for the Origin, a GM-built driverless taxi. Cruise’s new co-president, Mo Elshenawy, outlined in an employee email Wednesday the plan to scale back future operations to one market, a change from an earlier strategy to deploy service in more than a dozen cities, according to people familiar with the matter.
Persons: Poppy Lynch, Mo Elshenawy Organizations: The Wall Street, GM
☆ GM’s Self-Driving Car Unit Skids Off Course
  + stars: | 2023-11-21 | by ( Ryan Felton | Meghan Bobrowsky | Mike Colias | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Shortly after midnight on Aug. 24, a driverless shuttle operated by General Motors ’ Cruise stopped in the middle of a street in downtown Austin, Texas. Then it veered off the road, jumped the curb and hit the side of a building, according to video footage and police reports. By the time officers showed up, Cruise employees had covered the vehicle with a tarp and were trying to dislodge it—a task complicated by the lack of driver’s seat or steering wheel.
Persons: General Motors ’ Cruise Organizations: General Motors, Cruise Locations: Austin , Texas
☆ Cruise Suspends Employee Share Program, Citing Need to Revalue Business
  + stars: | 2023-11-16 | by ( Mike Colias | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
General Motors’ self-driving car unit Cruise has paused its U.S. operations after California regulators called its vehicles unsafe. WSJ reporter Ryan Felton explains what this decision means for the future of autonomous vehicles and rivals like Google’s self-driving unit Waymo. Photo: Elijah Nouvelage/ReutersGeneral Motors ’ Cruise is suspending an internal program that allows employees to cash out shares in the driverless-car company, citing the need to revalue the business after a pedestrian accident led it to halt robotaxi services last month. Cruise notified employees of the decision Thursday in an email from Chief Executive Kyle Vogt , which was viewed by The Wall Street Journal. The autonomous-driving startup, majority owned by GM, told employees that the regular quarterly offer to sell shares would be canceled as it re-evaluates the program.
Persons: Ryan Felton, Elijah Nouvelage, Kyle Vogt Organizations: Motors, Reuters General Motors, Wall Street, GM Locations: California
☆ UAW Calls Strike on One of GM’s Largest and Most-Profitable Factories
  + stars: | 2023-10-24 | by ( Mike Colias | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
UAW union members have been striking over job security and pay as automakers push forward in developing EV’s, which require fewer workers and cost more in raw materials. So what does that mean for the future of auto workers and the union? Illustration: George Downs/The Wall Street JournalThe United Auto Workers expanded its strike against Detroit’s automakers with a walkout at one of General Motors ’ largest and most profitable factories, marking the second straight day of escalation by the union. About 5,000 unionized workers walked out of GM’s Arlington, Texas, assembly plant Tuesday morning, the union said. The plant makes several large sport-utility vehicles, including the Chevrolet Suburban and Tahoe, GMC Yukon and Cadillac Escalade, which are GM’s highest-profit-margin vehicles globally.
Persons: George Downs Organizations: Street, United Auto Workers, Detroit’s, General Motors, Chevrolet, Tahoe, GMC Yukon, Cadillac Locations: GM’s Arlington , Texas
☆ 2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup: A Truck With Moves Like a Porsche
  + stars: | 2023-03-31 | by ( Dan Neil | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: +1 min
TONS OF FUN The GMC Hummer EV Edition 1 Pickup is built as an off-road/performance flagship, with a three-motor, all-wheel drive array producing up to 1,000 hp, a mechanically locking front differential and ‘virtual’ locking rear, long-travel suspension and adjustable air-suspension capable of lifting the truck another 5.8 inches (Extract Mode). IN THE WORDS of guitarist David St. Hubbins, there’s a fine line between stupid and clever. Parked squarely over the line is the 2022 GMC Hummer EV Edition 1, General Motors ’ all-electric off-road truck. Whatever mean tweet you could compose about GM’s colossal electric sport-utility truck (SUT), I’m here for it. The Hummer truck might be dumb as a hammer, but as hammers go, it’s pretty ingenious.
☆ GM Drains the Dregs of the Pandemic Boom
  + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Stephen Wilmot | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
General Motors ’ annual results show a business on the cusp of radical change and uncertainty: It is churning out profit by selling an old technology while investing more than ever in a new one—and cutting costs just in case. On Tuesday, the largest U.S. auto maker by sales announced unexpectedly strong fourth-quarter revenues that kept full-year profit at around the record pandemic-era level achieved in 2021. Improving chip supplies meant GM sold about 25% more vehicles than in 2021, and inflation in its costs was almost entirely offset by higher selling prices. The resulting bonanza compensated for deteriorating profit from the company’s financing arm, where falling used-vehicle prices and rising provisions for loan losses are headwinds.
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