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GM to Pay $145.8M Penalty After US Finds Excess Emissions
Jul 5 2024 // General Motors will pay a $145.8 million penalty and forfeit credits worth hundreds of millions of dollars after a U.S. government investigation found excess emissions from approximately 5.9 million GM vehicles, government...
GM, LG Agree on $150M Relief for Chevy Bolt EV Owners Over Faulty Batteries
May 20 2024 // General Motors and South Korea’s LG Electronics reached a settlement to establish a $150 million fund to provide relief to Chevrolet Bolt EV owners affected by defective batteries, documents filed in a U.S. court on...
GM Ends OnStar Driver Safety Program After Privacy Complaints
Apr 25 2024 // General Motors Co. has ended its OnStar Smart Driver program after customers complained it violated their privacy. OnStar had cut deals with LexisNexis and Verisk to share personal driving data as part of the program,...
GM’s Cruise Prepares to Resume Robotaxi Testing After Halt
Feb 26 2024 // General Motors Co.’s Cruise autonomous driving unit is nearing the resumption of robotaxi testing in the coming weeks, with Houston and Dallas emerging as potential locations, following the grounding of its fleet...
GM’s Cruise Owns Up to Robotaxi Mess in Hopes of Returning to Roads
Jan 26 2024 // General Motors Co. blamed poor leadership for mishandling its Cruise robotaxi crisis, an admission the carmaker is hoping will help get its cars back on the roads. A report by the law firm Quinn Emanuel, hired by GM and...
GM Financial Rebranding OnStar Insurance as General Motors Insurance
Jan 19 2024 // GM Financial earlier this week said it is rebranding its OnStar Insurance to General Motors Insurance, with plans for market expansion. During 2023, the GM Insurance unit shifted from an agency model to a full-stack...
GM’s Cruise Robotaxi Unit Dismisses Nine Execs After Safety Probe
Dec 14 2023 // General Motors’ Cruise robotaxi unit dismissed nine key people amid an ongoing safety investigation, according to a memo seen by Reuters on Wednesday, which the company confirmed included Chief Operating Officer Gil...
GM’s Cruise Recalling 950 Driverless Cars After Pedestrian Dragged in Crash
Nov 9 2023 // Cruise is recalling 950 driverless cars from the roads across the United States following a crash involving one of its robotaxis and will likely issue more recalls, General Motors’ self-driving unit said. The cars...
US Probes GM’s Cruise Robocars Over Pedestrian Close Calls
Oct 30 2023 // General Motors’ autonomous vehicle unit, Cruise, is facing multiple federal investigations over its cars’ safety, including two incidents where the robot cars appeared not to yield to pedestrians in crosswalks,...
NHTSA Probes Pedestrian Risks at GM’s Self-Driving Unit Cruise
Oct 18 2023 // U.S. auto safety regulators on Tuesday opened a probe into whether General Motors’ self-driving unit Cruise is taking sufficient precautions with its autonomous robotaxis to safeguard pedestrians. The National...
U.S. Labor Department Finds 19 Safety Violations at GM Joint Venture Battery Plant in Ohio
Oct 17 2023 // DETROIT (AP) – The U.S. Labor Department said that investigators found 19 safety and health violations at a General Motors joint venture electric vehicle battery plant in Ohio during a two-week period this year. The...
OSHA Investigates Chemical Solvent Leak at GM-LG Battery Plant in Ohio
Aug 24 2023 // The U.S. workplace safety regulator said on Wednesday it was investigating a recent chemical solvent leak at an Ohio battery plant jointly owned by General Motors GM.N and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution...
GM Recalls Nearly 900 Vehicles With Takata Air Bag Inflators
Aug 3 2023 // General Motors is recalling nearly 900 vehicles in the U.S. and Canada with Takata air bag inflators that could explode and hurl shrapnel in a crash. The recall covers certain Chevrolet Camaro, Sonic and Volt vehicles as...
Stellantis, GM Pay $363M in Fuel Economy Penalties
Jun 5 2023 // Chrysler parent Stellantis and General Motors paid a total of $363 million in civil penalties for failing to meet U.S. fuel economy requirements for prior model years, documents seen on Friday by Reuters show. The...
GM Must Face Class Actions Over Defective Transmissions
Mar 23 2023 // A federal judge in Detroit certified class actions for drivers in 26 U.S. states who accused General Motors Corp. of producing faulty transmissions for about 800,000 vehicles from the 2015 to 2019 model...
General Motors Files to Trademark ‘GM Financial Insurance Company’ Name
Feb 2 2023 // General Motors has filed to trademark “GM Financial Insurance Company,” according to a record found with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. The filing was made on Jan. 24, 2022. GM Financial is the auto...
Safety Probe Opened Into Autonomous Driving System in GM’s Cruise Vehicles
Dec 16 2022 // U.S. auto safety regulators said Friday they have opened a formal safety probe into the autonomous driving system in vehicles produced by General Motors’ robotaxi unit Cruise LLC. The National Highway Traffic Safety...
GM Recalls 825,000 Trucks, SUVs Over Headlight Issue
Dec 15 2022 // General Motors said on Wednesday it was recalling 825,000 trucks and SUVs in North America because daytime running lights may not deactivate when the headlights are on, potentially causing excess glare. The largest U.S....
Family of Michigan Woman Killed by Exploding Air Bag Sues GM, Others
Aug 15 2022 // The family of a Michigan woman who was killed after an air bag module exploded in her SUV following a crash filed a lawsuit alleging negligence. The complaint was filed last Thursday in Houghton County Circuit Court and...
GM’s Cruise Wins First California Permit To Carry Paying Riders In Driverless Cars
Jun 3 2022 // General Motors Co.’s GM.N Cruise on Thursday became the first company to secure a permit to charge for self-driving car rides in San Francisco, after it overcame objections by city officials. Self-driving test cars...
