Wednesday, February 17th, 2010
Amidst stories of tragedy on the luge track, and complaints that NBC isn’t giving enough coverage to athletes from countries than the USA, it may have gone largely unnoticed that VANOC, the organizing committee for both the 2010 Winter Olympics and Paralympics, has been pushing to make this year’s games, “…the greenest Olympic Games ever…” [...]
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Monday, February 8th, 2010
If you’re a parent you worry about every aspect of your child’s time behind the wheel of a car, from whether or not they’re really learning anything in driver’s ed, to the cost of getting car insurance for your teenager As a parent in the digital age, however, you have a concern that your own [...]
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Sunday, January 31st, 2010
Automotive News is reporting on the latest snafu with the retail auto industry: an arbitration process for dealers to be reinstated. On the surface it sounds like a great idea – after all, there were hundreds of car dealerships forced to close as the automakers that supplied them declared bankruptcy.
The problem is that – [...]
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
Despite the ongoing Pontiac, Hummer and Saturn fire sale, news out of Detroit yesterday morning is that GM is halting the production of Hummers at the end of the week, while it waits for Chinese regulator approval of the pending sale of the brand to Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Insdustrial Machinery Co.
According to a report [...]
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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009
General Motors has announced that when the Chevrolet Volt goes on sale late in 2010 it’s going to have a government mileage rating of 230 mpg. CEO Fritz Henderson kinda went for the understatement on the statement, “Having a car that gets triple-digit fuel economy can and will be a game changer for us.”
Of course [...]
Filed under: GM, Going Green, In the News by Shorty
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