Chevrolet Trucks - ALTERNATIVE POWER: Michigan sets sights on ethanol to become an
Posted in Chevrolet Trucks on March 31st, 2006 ALTERNATIVE POWER: Michigan sets sights on ethanol to become an
Detroit Free Press - E85 is a blend of 85% ethanol and 15% gasoline. Ethanol blends like E85 are gaining a lot of attention in Michigan as an alternative to conventional gas. Four plants are expected to come online within two years and produce more than 200 million
Engineering job cuts show shift
Vindicator - DETROIT General Motors Corp.’s plans to announce hundreds of engineering job cuts in Michigan next week reflect the automaker’s push to rely more on its far-flung engineering centers in South Korea, India, China and Australia to develop vehicles
Our View Standards will help reduce oil addiction
Mankato Free Press - The Bush administration has taken a good first step toward reducing America s addiction to oil with its tougher mileage requirements to be completed next week. The new fuel mileage standards for SUVs and pickups will require automakers to
SUVs, trucks face tougher mileage rules
Detroit News - BALTIMORE — The Bush administration Wednesday boosted gas mileage requirements for pickup trucks, sport utility vehicles and vans, adding for the first time General Motor Corp’s Hummer H2 and other giant SUVs. Under the new rule, light trucks must
Road Test: BMW 7 Series is big and boldly high-tech
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Buyers of BMW’s flagship sedan, the 7 Series, had better not be technophobes. This large, luxury sedan fairly bristles with technology, from an adaptive suspension to a drive-by-wire throttle. A driver even has to learn how to shift from “drive” to
GM to build an extra 12,000 SUVs to
Waterbury Republican-American - General Motors Corp., seeking to capitalize on demand for its largest sport utility vehicles, is increasing production of the Chevrolet Tahoe and other redesigned SUVs at three plants. GM will build as many as 12,000 more Tahoes, GMC Yukons and
Higher mpg required of SUVs
Baltimore Sun - The U.S. Transportation Department made some of the most far-reaching changes to its fuel economy standards in the 27-year history of the program yesterday - adopting rules that will raise mileage requirements for minivans, SUVs and some pickup
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: Buyouts give automaker flexibility; workers
Detroit Free Press - A: No one is saying, but Michigan has four of the 12 plants that GM said would close by 2008. Q: Does this mean the end of the jobs bank? A: No, but it will greatly reduce the number of workers in that program, which pays hourly workers nearly full
G. Chambers Williams III G. Chambers Williams III: GM’s new cash cows
San Antonio Express News - As booming sales of the redesigned 2007 Chevrolet Tahoe astound General Motors Corp. and industry observers, the beleaguered automaker continues to roll out more variants of its newest generation of full-size sport utility vehicles, including the GMC