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The building blocks for autonomous cars are already here, but so far the biggest step into that world for actual consumers has been Tesla’s Autopilot. Now General Motors is going there too with a semiautonomous highway driving feature called Super Cruise, available on the new Cadillac CT6. Questions about how it…

It’s not unusual nowadays to hear about auto companies involved in the development of self-driving cars acquiring a smaller subsidiary that makes autonomous tech components or the like. But General Motors announcement Monday that it has acquired LIDAR technology company Strobe is significant. It puts the company one…

Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.

General Motors is planning to unleash an electrified onslaught of cars in the coming years, announcing on Monday that it’ll push out at least 20 all-electric vehicles by 2023. The first two are expected within the next 18 months, the company said.

SHREVEPORT, La.—When Mark Jones took over the Chevron gas station he owns here more than three decades ago, it was in a sleepy and undeveloped part of town. Quickly, though, things changed. A nearby General Motors truck assembly plant opened in 1982 and gave way to a crush of development. Neighborhoods sprouted to…

Good morning! Welcome to The Morning Shift, your roundup of the auto news you crave, all in one place every weekday morning. Here are the important stories you need to know.

General Motors is taking precaution and has begun alerting customers who purchased early-production Chevrolet Bolts  that they may experience sudden loss of propulsion in certain low-voltage conditions.

Earlier this week, General Motors came out strong against a proposed $15 million settlement for thousands of claims related to the automaker’s ignition switch scandal, a weird scenario that pitted GM against “Old” GM. After duking it out in court, the settlement’s off the table, according to Bloomberg, meaning GM…

No one, except for white supremacists, seems happy with President Donald Trump’s doubling down on the “well BOTH SIDES were BAD” response to racially-motivated protests and violence in Charlottesville, Virginia this past weekend. That included business leaders who struggled with how to handle their public ties to the…

Here’s a story that sounds very 2017 for you: General Motors is set to fight General Motors in court. To the untrained eye, that may seem strange, but the scenario is a byproduct of the automaker’s bankruptcy nearly a decade ago, and GM’s deadly ignition switch scandal that later followed, leaving almost 125 people…

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Cadillac president Johan de Nysschen debunked rumors about the luxury CT6 sedan being on the chopping block earlier, and said the company is actually reconfiguring its sedan lineup. But it’s the crossovers that are taking over the car market, and de Nysschen said Cadillac has plans for that.

When Reuters reported Thursday that six General Motors vehicles, including the new, technology-flagship Cadillac CT6, could get axed due to a U.S. sales slump, it came as a surprise to us at Jalopnik. When we asked Cadillac president Johan de Nysschen about it, he said, “That report came as a surprise to me, too.”

Thanks to a big sales slump in the U.S., General Motors has a lot of unsold cars sitting around. The slump is extending factory shutdowns, putting jobs at risk, and, now, it’s threatening to take away the car that’s taking Cadillac back to the roots that we all longed for—the new CT6, which is supposed to be a shining…

Venezuela’s economy has been rankled by a years-long, sky-high unemployment which appeared to claim as a victim a General Motors plant that hadn’t produced a car since 2015. Workers at the factory, about 2,700 in total, were allegedly laid-off by text message. But Reuters dug in and discovered there’s more to the GM…

At least one person was injured at an explosion at General Motors’ assembly plant in Hamtramck, Michigan earlier today.

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Back in April, General Motors quietly disclosed that it had plans to put together a large fleet of self-driving Bolt EVs to test in California, Arizona and Michigan. On Tuesday, GM CEO Mary Barra confirmed that’s all going forward, and that GM has produced 130 autonomous Chevy Bolt EVs at one of its assembly plants.…

General Motors’ new Bolt EV was set to be rolled out for sale nationwide in September, but the automaker decided to push that date up by a month, according to Automotive News. The move coincides with Tesla’s planned date to start production on the Model 3 sedan, widely seen as the Bolt’s biggest competitor.