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TechCrunch took a field trip to GM's Orion Assembly plant in Michigan to get an up close view of how this factory has evolved since the 1980s.
The 1961 Unimate installed at a General Motors factory differed significantly from George Devol's 1954 patented design. The Unimate was a hydraulically actuated programmable manipulator arm with 5 degrees of freedom. This contrasted with the simpler three-prismatic-link pick-and-place arm described in Devol's "Programmed Article Transfer" (PAT ...
The General Motors EV1 is a battery electric car produced by the American automaker General Motors from 1996 until its demise in 1999. A subcompact car , the EV1 marked the introduction of mass produced and purpose-built battery electric vehicles.
General Motors Diesel Division Saint-Eustache Bus Plant: Saint-Eustache, Quebec: Canada: GMC New Look bus Classic bus: 1979: 1987: Manufactures transit buses. Sold to Motor Coach Industries, along with the designs for the bus models this factory produced, in 1987. General Motors Diesel Division Saint Laurent Bus Plant: Saint Laurent, Quebec ...
At CES earlier this year, GM CEO Mary Barra announced, to much fanfare, that the Bolt EV would have a range of over 200 miles, cost less than $30,000 (after tax credits) and ship by the end of the ...
World of Motion, presented by General Motors, [1] was the former occupant of the transportation pavilion in Epcot at Walt Disney World Resort.It was an opening day attraction at EPCOT Center in 1982 and it closed in 1996 to make way for Test Track, a new thrill ride through a GM testing facility.
GM's widely touted factory of the future, forced on a town desperate for jobs and hailed decades later by former President Barack Obama, is set to wind down over the next few years, leaving ...
After GM's lay-offs in Flint, Michigan, a strike began at the General Motors parts factory in Flint on June 5, 1998, which quickly spread to five other assembly plants and lasted seven weeks. Because of the significant role GM plays in the United States, the strikes and temporary idling of many plants noticeably showed in national economic ...