GM opened his dress with electricity, a board member of Nikola said to relax, and Kia. All this and more in The Morning Shift on September 16, 2020.
In those days, GM is desperate to compete with Tesla and is partnering with the (somewhat dubious) start-up Nikola, who talks about Ultium and regularly does what he has done for years.
From Reuters:
The move, which follows GM’s past next-generation battery projects, occurs when the automaker seeks to create an electric car company vertically incorporated into Tesla as a component of its ongoing operations.
According to a statement from GM through Reuters, the automaker is about to reveal that it has designed and plans to produce five sets of interchangeable thrusters and three engines on its own, which it calls the “Ultium Drive” system.
GM said its new electric propulsion systems, called electric axles in the industry, will have enough output force to allow for use with cars ranging from rugged trucks to functional cars.
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Adam Kwiatkowski, GM’s leading executive engineer for global electric propulsion, said that by designing its own electric axles, GM could better integrate them into the battery of an electric vehicle and the rest of the car. The electric axles combine gears, motor and power electronics into a formula and successfully convert battery strength to force the vehicle.
GM “designed those propulsion sets with a full diversity of electric cars that complement our portfolio,” Kwiatkowski told Reuters in an interview last week.
And an excerpt from GM’s announcement:
GM has implemented 25 years of experience in electric vehicles on Ultium Drive with lighter, more efficient designs with intelligent integration. For example, by integrating force electronics into transmission unit assemblies, the mass of force electronics has been reduced by nearly 50% to GM’s next-generation electric vehicles, saving prices and packing area while expanding capacity by 25%.
Like GM’s first near-complete wireless battery control system, this consolidation of portions and features also makes Ultium Drive climb to GM’s long-term electric vehicle lineup.
The strength and versatility of these propulsion sets will cause GM to move high-efficiency segments such as pickup trucks and functional cars to all-electric propulsion while offering the bandwidth needed to push GM’s electric vehicle portfolio into the future.
GM Ultium Drive’s family circle covers the combinations of front-wheel drive, rear-wheel drive and all-wheel drive, adding high-performance, off-road capabilities.
The five propulsion sets are driven through one or more of the 3 engines, adding a number one front-wheel drive motor, which can be configured for front or rear-wheel drive, and all-wheel drive lends a handheld motor.
The company will launch the first of seven new all-electric models planned for next year, according to Automotive News, and all those cars will be there until 2027.
The new electric vehicle strategy, defined Wednesday through Kia CEO Ho Sung Song at the car manufacturer’s Hwasung plant, is an initiative to boost 25% of its global electric vehicle sales through 2029.
The plan comes just one month after the brother Hyundai Motor logo announced plans to launch a global battery-powered electric logo under the name Ioniq. All of this is a component of Hyundai Motor Group’s efforts to sell 1 million electric cars internationally by 2025. , the Korean automotive giant will be a market leader with an overall percentage of 10% in the electric vehicle segment.
The compromised electric vehicle will be called CV and delivered internationally from next year, Kia said in a statement. Unlike Kia’s Soul EV, which is an electrified edition of an existing gas nameplate, the new access will be electric only. on a new modular electric-global platform, or E-GMP, which, according to Kia, will have the most productive interior area in its class.
We are heading towards a global market that until 2022 can more or less have many smart electric vehicle options, even here in the United States. The first company to sell an electric vehicle for less than $20,000 here can take my money.
The 2018 accident involving one of Uber’s cars is believed to be the first fatal incident involving a self-driving car.
From Reuters:
Rafael Vasquez, 46, also known as Rafaela, pleaded not guilty on Tuesday after being charged with the death of Elaine Herzberg on August 27, according to court records, who was released pending trial scheduled for February 2021.
Herzberg died after being run over while cycling across a street at night. The first recorded death of an autonomous vehicle has raised important protection considerations in the nascent autonomous vehicle industry.
Uber declined to comment. A vasquez lawyer did not respond to a request for comment.
A tempe police report said Vasquez watched continuously rather than keeping his eyes on the road. Prosecutors said in March 2019 that Uber was not criminally guilty of the accident.
GM is now suing in state court after its federal lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler came nowhere. GM is suing a former UAW official and a former FCA board member in Michigan State Court.
From Automotive News:
The 3 documents allege, as GM has sued the FCA in November, that the FCA, [former UAW Vice President Joe Ashton], [former FCA board member Alphons Iacobelli] and others were guilty of “corporate espionage” that harmed the company. . , and includes claims that GM first made in August that they used bank accounts abroad to channel money. District Judge Paul Borman downplayed the federal case with prejudice in July after calling it a “waste of time and resources in the coming years,” and then set off the new evidence from GM’s offshore accounts as “too speculative. “
GM, in the case filed Monday in Wayne County Court in Michigan, first appointed the banks it said they used in the plan.
“General Motors is suing claims for which the Federal District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan has refused to exercise its jurisdiction and similar claims, primarily related to breaches of fiddria tasks that Americans owed GM while they were workers or administrators of the company. “GM said in a report: “The Federal Court has taken any decision on the merits of those requests. We look forward to presenting those instances to the court. “
The FCA, in a statement, GM’s retrial “a repeat of the absurd conspiracy theories” listed in its federal case.
Nikola has been suffering in recent years with a short trader who was aiming for him last week and Nikola’s founder has presented a tantrum. Also this week, we learned that the Securities and Exchange Commission was investigating whether Nikola had damaged the laws.
Now, one of its board members has turned to the Financial Times for the company.
Jeff Ubben, the founder of the valueact activist hedge fund and one of Nikola’s first investors, has strongly advocated the start-up of trucks and their leadership opposed to allegations of fraud by short dealers.
In an interview with the Financial Times, Ubben, who is on Nikola’s board of directors, said the company and its founder Trevor Milton had been misunderstood and that Nikola could revolutionize transportation and reach Apple.
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“Nikola is a prototype store,” Ubben said. ” It has the largest company in the world that is a prototype store and is called Apple. That’s what we do. We’re looking to sell trucks, we’re looking to sell hydrogen. »
Ubben recently left ValueAct, taking with him an environmentally focused investment fund that now runs a new company called Inclusive Capital Partners. This fund has an investment in Nikola.
Ubben sold more than part of Nikola’s stake at the end of August and now owns 5% of the company, up from the previous 12%. The sale was imposed on him through investor acquisitions during ValueAct’s transition, he said.
“We’re like Apple, I,” will have to be among the most repeated things in Silicon Valley.
William Durant creates General Motors
During the Depression, Durant went bankrupt and spent his years running a bowling alley in Flint.
That’s how I plan to spend my last years.
I woke up at 5. 30 this morning and made coffee and to take out the trash, as was early, I told myself I wouldn’t meet a neighbor, so I took this crap out in my boxer, big mistake.
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