Latest General Motors Headlines
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Hackers Breached Some GM Accounts, Accessing Personal Data
May 26 2022 // Hackers compromised some online accounts of General Motors Co. customers in April, potentially accessing addresses, phone numbers and other personal information, according to a data breach notice filed with California...
People Moves: Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions Promotes Math to President; Polak Retiring as TWIA GM
Apr 27 2022 // Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions Promotes Steve Math to President & CEO Specialty Comp Insurance Solutions (SCIS), a division of Specialty Program Group, LLC (SPG), promoted Steve Math, FCAS, to president and chief...
Dallas Mavericks Accused of Firing Ex-GM For Reporting Sexual Misconduct
Mar 22 2022 // Former Dallas Mavericks general manager Donnie Nelson sued the team last week, alleging that team owner Mark Cuban fired him in retaliation for reporting sexual misconduct by a team executive. In a court document filed in...
GM Financial to Pay Massachusetts $1.8M Over Alleged Delays in GAP Insurance Refunds
Mar 9 2022 // GM Financial, an automobile financing company, has agreed to pay more than $1.8 million to resolve allegations that the company’s business practices violated Massachusetts state consumer protection laws. Attorney...
GM, Alphabet Win California’s First Autonomous Permits for Passenger Rides
Sep 30 2021 // General Motors Co.’s Cruise and Alphabet Inc.’s Waymo self-driving car subsidiaries on Thursday became the first companies to receive autonomous vehicle permits to offer rides to passengers in...
GM Recall Due to Fire Risk Covers All Chevrolet Bolts
Aug 23 2021 // General Motors said Friday it is recalling all Chevrolet Bolt electric vehicles sold worldwide to fix a battery problem that could cause fires. The recall and others raise questions about lithium ion batteries, which now...
GM Offering Onstar Service to All Drivers Through App; Options Include Insurance
Jun 8 2021 // General Motors Co. plans to offer subscriptions for its Onstar Guardian security services to anyone in the United States or Canada who wants to download a smartphone app, expanding beyond owners of GM vehicles in a step to...
GM Says It Has Software Fix for Electric Car Bolt’s Battery Fires
Apr 30 2021 // Engineers at General Motors have figured out how to fix a battery problem with the Chevrolet Bolt electric hatchback that caused five of them to catch fire. The company says they developed diagnostic software to look for...
GM Sees Insurance As Part of Growing Its Business Beyond Cars, Trucks
Apr 7 2021 // Pam Fletcher wants to change the way General Motors Co. makes money. The veteran GM engineer’s Global Innovation team is looking for new enterprises to expand the automaker’s sources of revenue well beyond...
Reuters Exclusive: Safety Regulators Reviewed Concerns Over GM Steering Sensor
Mar 17 2021 // U.S. automotive safety regulators reviewed evidence related to an allegedly defective steering sensor that was used in roughly 778,000 older General Motors Co vehicles but ultimately decided against opening a formal...
Reuters Special Report: Suit Over Deadly Crash Renews Spotlight on GM Safety
Mar 17 2021 // On a clear afternoon in November 2014, Glenda Marie Buchanan set off in her silver Chevrolet Trailblazer SUV from her home in rural Georgia. Several minutes into the drive, she started veering off the road. Buchanan...
GM Settles With California Over Ignition Switch Statements for $5.75M
Feb 16 2021 // General Motors Co. agreed to a $5.75 million settlement to resolve allegations it made false statements to California’s largest pension system and other investors over its deadly ignition switch recalls. California...
General Motors to Sell Use-Based Auto Insurance Through Onstar
Nov 19 2020 // General Motors Co. on Wednesday launched an auto insurance program with the help of its OnStar subsidiary, joining a growing field of companies hoping to cash in on the vast amounts of data generated by increasingly...
GM Recalling 69,000 Chevy Bolt Electric Cars Over Fire Risk
Nov 16 2020 // General Motors Co. said on Friday it was recalling 68,677 electric cars worldwide that pose a fire risk after five reported fires and two minor injuries. The recall is for 2017-2019 model year Chevrolet Bolt EVs with high...
California Permits GM’s Driverless Car to Cruise Streets of San Francisco
Nov 2 2020 // The race for driverless autonomous vehicles is heating up and in October, Cruise became the first to receive a permit to test cars without anyone in them on the streets of San Francisco from California’s Department...
GM’s Cruise on Top in Consumer Reports Safety Ratings of Driving Assistance Systems
Oct 29 2020 // General Motors Co.’s Super Cruise once again edged Tesla’s Autopilot in an evaluation of 17 vehicles equipped with active driving assistance systems (ADAS) by Consumer Reports, the testing organization said on...
How Auto Workers Are Keeping Factories Running and Masks On
Oct 27 2020 // When the coronavirus pandemic slammed the United States in March, the Detroit Three automakers shut their plants and brought their North American vehicle production to an unprecedented cold stop. Now, four months after a...
Self-Driving’s Latest Turn: GM’s Cruise Seeks OK for Cars Without Steering Wheel, Pedals
Oct 22 2020 // Self-driving car maker Cruise said on Wednesday it and majority shareholder General Motors Co. would seek U.S. regulatory approval in coming months to deploy a limited number of Cruise Origin vehicles without steering...
Battery Fires Make Headlines as Electric Vehicle Sales Take Off
Oct 20 2020 // First, Hyundai Motor Co. made headlines about its electric cars catching fire. Five days later, it was General Motors Co. and Ford Motor Co. The next day, it was BMW AG. Vehicles going up in flames aren’t new to the...
California Permits GM’s Driverless Car to Cruise Streets of San Francisco
Oct 16 2020 // The race for driverless autonomous vehicles is heating up and on Thursday Cruise became the first to receive a permit to test cars without anyone in them on the streets of San Francisco from California’s Department...
