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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.
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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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Phone projection gets a picture-in-picture window in GM's new truck software. The native features now have to hold a driver's attention while CarPlay is already on screen, and GM's product manager makes the case for bigger tap targets.
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Last week's Silverado and Sierra software reveal got read as GM restoring phone mirroring. The eleven electric nameplates that lost projection in 2023 are still Google built-in only, and the stack underneath them is why.
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Removing a per-car subsidy left a finished battery plant in Ohio making cells nobody was buying, and the fastest cost its owners could cut was people. The capital had been committed years before the policy changed.
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Six of the eight positions Harris Associates increased in Q2 2026 are banks, brokers, exchanges or payments processors. The other two are Salesforce and Sysco, and the trim list includes an insurer.
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NHTSA's eBoost escalation turns on a mismatch between the degradation sequence GM tested and what some drivers report. The difference is whether brake assist survives until the car has stopped. The agency has not ruled on which explanation holds.
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Mary Barra told Fortune the trades may be more AI-proof than some office careers, and the 2.1 million-job shortage she cites was sized by a coalition of BlackRock, Carhartt, Ford and Google, all buyers of that labour.
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GM has already stripped CarPlay and Android Auto from its newest electric models. Engadget reports gas cars follow when GM's own computing platform arrives around 2028. The replacement runs on Android Automotive.
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The order also requires GM to make location tracking easy to switch off and to let drivers see and delete what its Smart Driver feature collected. It binds GM alone, and only for five years.
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In Foreign Affairs, the former director of Biden's National Economic Council argues Washington has an elaborate apparatus for refusing inbound capital and almost no route to approving it. The two federal measures it names are still proposals.
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Median pay for technology titles reached $2.6mn, up 45.4% since 2021, though one year supplied a 28.9% move on its own, and the largest single award in the data had lost 41% of its value before any of it vested.
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Fifty percent duties on roughly $20bn of Canadian goods began on Aug. 22 and Ottawa answers on Sept. 8, so firms with cross-border bills of materials are now pricing a political constraint instead of a negotiation.
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