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GM Could Cancel $1.6 Billion Investment in Brazil
General Motors Co will reconsider plans for new investment in Brazil if the economic and political situation does not improve, the company’s president Dan Ammann said in an interview published on...
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Google To Headline Congressional Hearing About Self-Driving Cars
(Reuters) – The director of the Google self-driving car project and auto industry executives will testify before Congress next week on efforts to develop safe and effective autonomous cars. Senator...
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Why Big Retailers Are Going Solar
Years ago, big retailers and tech companies installed solar panels as a way to take an environmental stance. But these days it’s often an economic choice that is fueled by the promise of lower and less...
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GM Buying Self-Driving Tech Startup for More Than $1 Billion
General Motors GM this morning announced that it will acquire Cruise Automation, a San Francisco-based developer of autonomous vehicle technology. No financial terms were disclosed, but Fortune has...
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You Can Buy This Self-Driving Car for $20,000
General Motors gm Friday made news for the high price it paid for a startup that develops self-driving technology. It forked over more than $1 billion for Cruise Automation, which most recently was...
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GM, Lyft Deepen Partnership With Short-Term Car Rental Service
General Motors and new business partner Lyft are launching a short-term car rental program aimed at bringing on more drivers to the ride-hailing service. The Express Drive program, which will kick off...
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GM’s First Self-Driving Cars Will Still Be Driven by Humans
General Motors will deploy a network of self-driving cars within Lyft’s service in a couple of years--but with a catch. In the beginning, those automated vehicles will have drivers, said Mike Ableson,...
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GM’s Mary Barra Continues to Surprise, and Impress
I continue to be impressed by Mary Barra's leadership of General Motors gm . Time and again she causes me to smite my forehead, at least figuratively, and ask, "This is GM?" The latest example is GM...
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These Are the 10 Worst Cars of 2016
Trying to steer clear of the clunkers lurking at your local wheels dealership? Then you may wish to avoid these autos. Get Data Sheet, Fortune's technology newsletter. Out of the all the latest models,...
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GM Is Planning a Big Push in China’s Car Market
Despite an economic slowdown in China, General Motors is plotting a big push there over the next few years. On Monday, the automaker detailed its goals at a press briefing in Beijing, including plans...
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GM Is Recalling Thousands of Police Cars
General Motors has issued a recall that affects nearly 6,300 police cars in the United States, reports the Associated Press. The vehicles are at risk of power-steering failure due to “corrosion on a...
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Exclusive: Sidecar Co-founder Leaves General Motors for Uber
In February, General Motors acquired the assets and talent behind ride-hailing startup Sidecar to help it develop its own car service. But the Sidecar band isn’t staying together. Jahan Khanna, who...
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GM Shifts $245M Investment From Michigan to Kansas
General Motors is moving production of a planned new vehicle--rumored to be a crossover Cadillac--out of its Orion Township assembly plant in Michigan to a factory in Kansas. The move means Orion loses...
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Verizon Strike Among the Top 3 of the Last 10 Years
About 40,000 Verizon workers up and down the East Coast walked off the job on Wednesday after contract negotiations broke down. The nation’s second-largest telecommunications carrier by revenue wants...
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Why Europe’s Biggest Railway is Working on Self-Driving Cars
Getting people on a train isn’t the hard part; it’s getting them to the train station or bus stop that has long vexed public transit companies and urban planners. Deutsche Bahn, a German-based railway...
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GM Comes Clean About Testing Self-Driving Tech on the New Chevy Bolt EV
Photos of a Chevy Bolt EV equipped with radar on the roof and being driven by the co-founder of an autonomous vehicle startup that General Motors recently acquired seemed like evidence enough that the...
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Why You’ll Want to Tune Into Fortune’s Brainstorm Tech
This essay originally appeared in Data Sheet,Fortune's daily tech newsletter. Sign up here. During a few days from July 11 to 13, Silicon Valley will take a break from being the center of the tech...
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Quiz: 5 Questions About General Motors
General Motors came in at No. 8 on this year’s Fortune 500, the highest ranked auto company on the list. After a tough few years spent mostly dealing with the aftermath of a massive recall scandal, GM...
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Why GM is Slashing the Price of its In-Car Wireless Data Plans
General Motors has cut the price of its wireless data plans in half, giving the automaker a competitive advantage over an industry trying to use in-car Internet connectivity to attract customers. The...
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GM’s President Hopes to Drive the Automaker Into the Future
A 2012 Reuters headline asked whether Dan Ammann, then General Motors’ chief financial officer, is a "bean counter" or a "car guy," the former a reference to his career in finance. Since becoming the...
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