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Exagon Furtive electric GT car – Evo

Exagon Motors has revealed more details of its electric GT car. It says the Furtive eGT marks a return to the French ‘haute couture automobile’. Sitting inside an aluminium subframe and attached to the eGT’s 124kg carbonfibre monocoque structure, two 148 kW Siemens electric motors provide the coupe’s power. Combined output tops 402bhp at typically… Continue reading Exagon Furtive electric GT car – Evo

Exagon Furtive-eGT Electric Sports Car Revealed In Production Trim – Motor Authority

Email This Page Your email was sent successfully. Close Follow Viknesh [% } %] [% }); %] ]]> French electric sports car startup Exagon, a spinoff of the Exagon Engineering motorsport firm, first presented its Furtive-eGT in concept form at the 2010 Paris Auto Show. Exagon started taking orders for the car soon after the… Continue reading Exagon Furtive-eGT Electric Sports Car Revealed In Production Trim – Motor Authority

Self-Driving Trucks Will Transport Limestone in a Norwegian Mine

Rock Carriers An often-overlooked use for autonomous driving technology is in industrial applications, where raw materials have to be shipped from point A to point B. In what automaker Volvo calls its “first commercial autonomous solution transporting limestone from an open pit mine to a nearby port,” six existing autonomous trucks will be upgraded with sophisticated… Continue reading Self-Driving Trucks Will Transport Limestone in a Norwegian Mine

Salaried-worker layoffs will cut deep at GM

Salaried-worker layoffs will cut deep at GMGeneral Motors Co. will likely have to lay off nearly 6,000 salaried workers after roughly 2,250 employees requested to take the buyout the Detroit automaker offered to North American salaried employees and global executives last month.
The number of employees who asked to take the buyout was outlined in a portion of a memo to employees from CEO Mary Barra, obtained by The Detroit News. GM said Monday it was targeting 8,000 jobs with the buyouts, a benchmark the company will now have to meet with about 5,750 layoffs.
Managers from each department were given cost-cutting goals to meet by the end of the year, which could be met by addressing discretionary spending or leveraging buyouts. The managers still have to approve the buyout requests from their employees before GM knows exactly how many employees it needs to lay off.
The automaker offered buyouts to 18,000 salaried workers on Halloween, and the deadline to accept the offer was last week.
Under GM's buyout offer, eligible employees could receive six months' pay and six months' health care coverage starting in February, though on a case-by-case basis some employees could leave before the end of the year to effectively get eight months' compensation.
The expected layoffs come as GM is also planning to stop production at five plants next year, including Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly and Warren Transmission, affecting about 14,300 jobs across the company.
The buyouts and layoffs among GM's salaried workers are part of what the automaker has called a transformation of its workforce. At the same time GM executes some 6,000 layoffs among salaried workers, it is hiring aggressively in emerging automotive disciplines like software development, batter and fuel cell technology and autonomous vehicle development.
GM Cruise LLC, the automaker's self-driving vehicle development arm based in San Francisco, recently surpassing 1,000 workers. A new office in Seattle opening early next year will also add up to 200 new workers.
“We are going to continue to hire,” Barra told reporters Monday. She says GM is focusing harder on the “skillsets of the future”
“You will see us having new employees join the company as others are leaving,” she said. “We still need many technical resources across the company.”
Staff Writer Ian Thibodeau contributed to this report
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Ford Canada CEO says firm has no plans for GM-style auto plant shutdown

OTTAWA, Nov 26 (Reuters) – Ford Motor Co has no plans to carry out an auto plant shutdown in Canada along the lines of the closure announced by General Motors Co, the head of the automaker’s Canadian operation said on Monday. “(We have) no plans to do anything like that,” Mark Buzzell, president and chief… Continue reading Ford Canada CEO says firm has no plans for GM-style auto plant shutdown

The new Mercedes-Benz GLE: The SUV trendsetter – completely re-conceived

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November 2018

Stuttgart/San Antonio

Press Contact (2)

Michael Allner

Manager Communications S-Class, SL, SLC, Guard & Maybach

michael.allner@daimler.com

Tel: +49 711 17-75846

Fax: +49 711 17-98646

Koert Groeneveld

Head of International Product & Technology Communications

koert.groeneveld@daimler.com

Tel: +49 711 17-92311

Fax: +49 711 17-94365

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