Friday, July 17, 2009
GM picks Downriver for battery factory
Brownstown plant to make power packs for electric vehicles
Robert Snell and David Shepardson / The Detroit News
General Motors Co. is expected to open a $43 million lithium-ion battery plant in a Brownstown Township industrial park that will supply a key component of the Chevrolet Volt extended-range electric [...]
Lawmakers seek tax exemptions for Fremont auto plant
By Steven Harmon
MediaNews Sacramento Bureau
Updated: 07/17/2009 06:38:30 AM PDT
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July 17th, 2009
Read my lips: the Pontiac G8 is dead, again
Posted by: David Bailey
General Motors Co promised it would make decisions much faster following its failure and rebirth in bankruptcy and its on-again, off-again revival of the Pontiac G8 is dead again after just three days.
The sporty G8 — flagship of the soon-to-be discontinued Pontiac [...]
GM’s ‘Garage Sale’
Automaker Set to Unload Golf Course, Shuttered Plants and Other Less Profitable Assets
By CHRIS BURY
BEDFORD, Ind., July 16, 2009 —
On its speedy exit from bankruptcy, the new General Motors left behind another company containing all the stuff it no longer wants. The bankrupt old GM is now Motors Liquidation Company — and everything [...]
