General Motors News
A spokesperson for the automaker confirmed GM’s Bowling Green Assembly plant will be down for several weeks. The 2025 Corvette ZR1 will be built there.
When it comes to automakers’ decisions to delay new-vehicle launches, you could have an endless nobody-is-wrong debate among industry experts about who gets disrupted the most.
Honda’s go-it-alone move comes as Honda and GM navigate shifting auto alliances while international carmakers scramble to find friends to help shoulder the huge investments in next-generation powertrain technologies.
Many suppliers have been asking automakers about contracts and automakers largely haven’t been answering. With the industry in a potential trade war and regulatory uncertainty, automakers aren’t totally sure what to make.
Should tariffs be in place for a longer haul, GM would have to confront more uncertainty and more complicated questions — including whether to spend billions of dollars to relocate assembly plants, CFO Paul Jacobson said.
Nikola is the latest manufacturer to succumb to a punishing environment for EVs, which are struggling to maintain traction due to high costs, spotty charging infrastructure and lukewarm customer interest.
The automaker expanded its MobileService+ program in January, opening it up to dealerships in all but two states with new capabilities and a new van — the electric Chevrolet BrightDrop 600.
About 2 percent of roughly 18,000 customers with Super Cruise subscribed to keep using it after their three-year trial ended in 2024, CEO Mary Barra said, early evidence subscriptions could be a reliable revenue stream.
The Shenyang plant produces Buick GL8 minivans and the Chevrolet Tracker crossover for the China market, where the automaker's sales have skidded from a peak in 2017.
The number of glitches with new vehicles reported after three years of ownership hit its highest level since 2009, at 202 problems per 100 vehicles surveyed. The biggest bugs: software and smartphone integration or connectivity.