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Eco Factor: Fuel-saving hybrids and plug-in SUV to be launched by General Motors. With financial aid from U.S. government, the once mighty General Motors, is planning to launch a new set of hybrids and all-electric cars in the next couple of...

Eco Factor: Fuel-saving engine technology. Spark-free combustion is analogous with diesel engines where heat and pressure trigger combustion. Being a fuel-saving technology, General Motors is pushing the technology to much used gasoline engines,..

Way back in 1930s and '40s, GM dismantled or as chance would have it contributed to the sad downfall of the thriving streetcar systems throughout the United States. One could so easily relate it to despoiled rail transit and promoted auto sales....

Eco Factor: GM’s new hydrogen fuel-cell powered car ready for open roads. General Motors has announced that the company’s hydrogen fuel-cell powered car – HydroGen4 — is ready for open road testing. The company will be accompanied by nine..

The future is truly in finding green solution for existing problems and that is probably the most true in case of the automobile industry which is galloping towards a eco-friendly and sustainable future at a blurring pace leaving every other field...

Automobile giants General Motors are collaborating with Clairvoyant Energy, Veolia Environmental and the Government of Aragon to have their Zaragosa assembly plant in Spain installed with the world's largest rooftop solar array. The facility follows...

I have always been someone who believed that plastic and batteries are the most poisonous of all waste. Not just because they harm the planet, but they are used in such large number and with such frequency that they are always more dangerous than the...

GM and Coskata have joined hands to give ethanol a broader dimension. Current ethanol is produced using the chemical breakdown of sugar laden crops, such as corn and sugar cane. This makes ethanol more expensive and extremely agriculture dependent...

GM may have announced their Chevy Volt Hydrogen concept months ago, but attendees at CES are getting the world's first look under the hood of the eco-friendly beast. More than just a random rendering, one can see Chevy's direction with eco-cars in...

Like many other motor majors, GM too has plunged into the zero landfill waste category. Meaning that it would no longer dump what it doesn't need but reuse, recycle or convert the waste from its production operations into energy. Its transmission plant.