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General Motors is a major American automaker making vehicles under brands including Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, and Buick, plus connected-car apps and software.
A Black production group leader at GM's Spring Hill plant sued the automaker on October 14, alleging race and sex discrimination and retaliation. The claims rest on comparisons with white and male peers, and none has been tested in court.
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Hyundai Motor plans 320,000 vehicles a year of capacity at the former GM plant in Pune by 2030, against GM's 130,000. Getting there takes line speed from 21 vehicles an hour to 44.
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Cox Automotive's third-quarter count of almost 263,000 US EV sales is about 40% below the tax-credit rush of a year earlier. Europe registered 277,006 in July alone, so a US plan should start from 263,000 and treat 2025 as a one-off.
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Hyundai inaugurated its Pune plant at 170,000 units a year, taking India capacity to 994,000 with Chennai's 824,000. Pune opens with the Venue, a model Chennai already built, so the volume to fill it has to come from exports and EVs.
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GM's Warren, Michigan cell development center, priced at $900 million by its head, will prototype cheaper EV batteries, The Verge reported. Its subhead says the work takes half the time, a figure buyers cannot yet turn into a price or a launch date.
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Northeastern University researchers found 19 of 21 tested cars sent data to at least one third-party company over Wi-Fi. Teams that review only the vehicle miss most of it, since for most cars the ad-tech traffic came from the phone app.
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Jobs for the Future and the Burning Glass Institute expect 1.7 million US skilled-trade openings every year through 2035. Only 600,000 are net new jobs across the whole period, so AI data-center demand sits on top of a shortage driven mostly by replacing an aging workforce.
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Some months-old 2026 Toyota Rav4s are listing for $3,000 to $6,000 above new dealer prices, according to CarGurus data. Toyota cannot build the hybrids fast enough, so sellers of nearly new ones are asking shoppers to pay to skip the wait.
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LG Energy Solution expects third-quarter operating profit to rise 25.7% to 756 billion won, or 339.1 billion won without US tax credits. Analysts cited by Channel NewsAsia trace the beat to a one-off payment from an automaker that missed its purchase minimums, a sign of weak EV demand.
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Ford CEO Jim Farley says UEV cars will check their own assembly connections, after Ford set a US record of more than 150 recalls last year. The car reports straight to line workers, so the first person to hear about a bad connection now works on the line.
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GM, which sells one hybrid model, gave no date for more as hybrids rose to 19% of US vehicle sales in August from 16% before the war, according to JD Power. Record hybrid quarters went to Japanese and Korean rivals, while GM's last stated target for new hybrids is 2027.
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Ultium Cells, GM's venture with LG Energy Solution, will finish retooling its Tennessee plant for LMR cells by 2028, aiming at LFP cost with 33% more density. The plan puts a date on a U.S.-made cell meant to sit between low-cost LFP and energy-dense high-nickel chemistries.
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GM chief executive Mary Barra still calls EVs the endgame, but the only date she will commit to is eyes-off highway driving on the 2028 Cadillac Escalade IQ. That single highway feature is the milestone investors can hold GM's strategy to.
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Consumer Reports and Northeastern studied 15 automakers and found drivers can unknowingly agree to driving-data collection at a new car's first start-up. The exposure is consent given on a touchscreen, and tracking where the data goes falls to whoever owns the car or the fleet.
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GM and LG Energy Solution's Ultium Cells idled about 480 Lordstown battery workers indefinitely and told 850 more they won't be needed for months. Atlas Public Policy counts about three dollars of US EV and battery projects cancelled last year per new dollar announced.
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GM Korea is taking pre-orders for Buick's Electra E7, a plug-in hybrid SUV built entirely in China, with a starting price in the 43 million won range. That price rests on Chinese factory and battery costs and stays provisional until final pricing in November.
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GM's Buick brand has entered South Korea with the Electra E7, a China-built plug-in hybrid SUV priced from about 43 million won. The car was planned, developed and made in China, and its price is the first test of what that cost base buys GM in a third country.
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Northeastern and Consumer Reports found all 21 cars they tested sent data to third-party domains, with more than half reaching ad or analytics firms. For fleet buyers and carmakers' product teams, the brand's phone app is the first place to check.
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More than $100 billion in tariff money has gone back to importers, adding an estimated 0.2 point to third-quarter GDP. It does not repeat, and much of it is already promised to someone else.
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US-built cars fell to 28.4% of Canadian new-vehicle sales in the first half of 2026 from 35.4% a year earlier, JD Power Canada data show. Japanese and Korean builders took more than half of that lost share, and the US levy on Canadian cars and parts is expected to reach 50% in January.
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