Electricity demand from AI data centers is pushing everyone — including automakers like GM and Ford — into the energy storage business.

General Motors has expanded its partnership with Redwood Materials to cover every stage of the battery lifecycle — manufacturing scrap recovery, end-of-life recycling, and now second-life energy storage deployed at a GM factory. It’s the first automake…
GM is developing an entirely new sodium-ion battery chemistry for use in everything from data centers to its own factories.

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 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’s global ambitions will take center stage ahead of the next Brazilian Grand Prix, with its flagship luxury brand Cadillac announcing plans to open three brand-new “Experience Centers” in the South American nation as part of the lead-up to the race.
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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.

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 […]
Google Gemini is rolling out to 4 million GM vehicles, turning your daily drive into a smarter, more connected, and surprisingly fun experience.

The auto design world is full of advanced 3D visualization tools and VR sculpting platforms, but your average new car still enters the world as a sketch. Those sketches traditionally see endless iteration and refinement from all angles before being turned into 3D models by hand, some dying in the digital world, others sculpted into […]