Everyone wants a piece of Tesla’s battery business
Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.
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Why everyone’s an energy company now
Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.
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GM thinks EVs can help offset AI’s energy suck with vehicle-to-grid tech
At an event in San Francisco today, General Motors made a series of announcements around EV batteries, energy storage, and grid resiliency in the face of growing electricity demand from AI data centers. The automaker announced that it would be activating new vehicle-to-grid capabilities for its current EV and home energy customers. It’s releasing a […]
GM joins race to build batteries for AI data centers and the grid
GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.
GM’s electric future depends on a new battery — and this building
GM wants to slash EV prices by deploying new battery tech up to a year earlier than planned. This building is key to making that happen.
GM just laid off hundreds of IT workers to hire those with stronger AI skills
Some of the positions focus on AI-native development, data engineering and analytics, cloud-based engineering, and agent and model development as well as prompt engineering and new AI workflows.
GM settles California lawsuit claiming it sold driving habit data to insurance companies
General Motors has agreed to pay $12.75 million to settle a California data privacy lawsuit that accused the automaker of selling driver location and driver data, as reported earlier by Reuters. In a proposed settlement filed on Friday, GM agreed to stop selling customer information to data brokers for five years and must give California […]
All the wrong EVs are getting canceled
These past few weeks have been particularly brutal for the EV industry – and anyone who believes that electric vehicles are the future. Thanks to slowing demand and policy whiplashes, automakers are on an EV murder spree, killing a host of promising new models. The EV graveyard grows bigger by the minute. And unfortunately, as […]
GM figured out how to navigate EV uncertainty with the Chevy Bolt
The 2027 Chevy Bolt might not be a groundbreaking new EV, but incremental improvements have made it better without inflating the price.
The 2027 Chevy Bolt is the McRib of the automotive world
TechCrunch drove the 2027 Chevy Bolt and found that incremental improvements build on a solid basic recipe to deliver an affordable EV.