Honda considering to end self-driving partnership with GM On December 11, Honda Motor Co. announced that it plans to stop funding its joint project with General Motors to develop autonomous vehicles, after GM said it will halt funding and development of the Cruise robotaxis. The two automakers, along with GM's autonomous driving Cruise unit, planned an autonomous ride-hailing service to begin in Tokyo in 2026 using Cruise Origin electric vehicles...

News  Updated at: 2024/12/12

GM's Cruise to pay USD 1.5 million fine over October 2023 crash On September 30, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said that GM’s Cruise self-driving car unit will pay a USD 1.5 million fine after it failed to disclose details of a serious October 2023 crash involving a pedestrian. Under the settlement, Cruise must submit to NHTSA a corrective action plan on how it will improve compliance and face enhanced reportin...

News  Updated at: 2024/10/02

GM’s Cruise, Uber enter multi-year partnership for customers to access AV rides On August 22, GM's self-driving Cruise LLC unit and Uber Technologies LLC announced they have entered a multiyear deal for customers to book autonomous Cruise robotaxis through the Uber platform. Cruise and Uber expect to launch the service in 2025 with Chevrolet Bolt-based autonomous vehicles.  Cruise recently relaunched service with safety drivers in Houston, Pho...

News  Updated at: 2024/08/24

GM reports Q2 adjusted EBIT up 37.2%, suspends Cruise Origin production On July 23, General Motors reported a 37.2% gain in its EBIT-adjusted income, to USD 4.4 billion for Q2, as total revenue rose 7.2% to USD 48.0 billion, and net income rose 14.3% to USD 2.9 billion from the same period in 2023. GM CFO Paul Jacobson said that GM recorded a USD 600 million charge for indefinitely stopping production of the self-driving Cruise Origin, assembled ...

News  Updated at: 2024/07/25

cells from Ohio into modules that are put into a battery pack, that then goes into EVs built at Factory Zero. That extra assembly creates the potential for a problem, according to one GM person familiar with the process, who said the company is studying ways to mitigate the risks. On October 25, a Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle caught fire on the assembly line, and while firefighters extinguished the fire with the help of the building's sprink...

News  Updated at: 2024/03/02

tly. We learned that the cause was a non-battery related component that has since been corrected," said GM spokeswoman Tara Kuhnen. The 1,880 employees at the facility currently assemble the GMC Hummer electric pickup and SUV and the Chevrolet Silverado EV work truck. Factory Zero had been building Cruise Origin EVs until the Cruise self-driving subsidiary halted production in November, saying then it was due to an October 2 accident in San Franc...

News  Updated at: 2023/12/21

GM’s Cruise lays off 24% of workforce On a blog post released on December 14, Cruise LLC announced it will lay off approximately 24% of its workforce as the company undergoes a series of changes stemming from a pedestrian accident on October 2. Approximately 900 employees, primarily in the company’s commercial operations and related corporate function fields, will be affected by the layoffs. This announcement follows the departure of nine emp...

News  Updated at: 2023/12/15

a 6-speed gearbox in the 4x2 and 4x4 versions. Duster ECO-G 100 offers a dual fuel option (gasoline and LPG), releasing 10% less CO2 when running on LPG. As an various exterior components, the all-new Duster is the first to use Starkle, a material with up to 20% reused polypropylene, and no animal-origin leather or decorative chrome is used. Inside, it is equipped with 7-inch digital cluster, 10.1-inch central touchscreen, and an updated infotai...

News  Updated at: 2023/11/29

GM says Origin robotaxi will not be produced in 2024, Cruise scales back to one city On November 22, Cruise’s newly appointed President and Chief Technology Officer Mo Elshenawy outlined the company's next steps in an email to employees. As it awaits the results of two independent safety investigations, Cruise will focus on its electric Bolt robotaxis in only one city before expanding to others, and is postponing for now any plans to deploy its...

News  Updated at: 2023/11/28

Honda, GM, GM Cruise to start Level 4 autonomous taxi service in Odaiba, Tokyo Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda), General Motors Company (GM), and GM Cruise Holdings LLC (GM Cruise) will jointly start a “Level 4” autonomous driving (fully autonomous driving under certain conditions) taxi service in the Odaiba area (part of Minato and Koto wards, Tokyo) from January 2026, as they previously announced in October. The three companies will gradually ...

News  Updated at: 2023/11/20

GM to halt production of Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle GM plans to temporarily halt production of the Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle at its Factory Zero Detroit-Hamtramck plant. A GM spokesperson said that the company would finish production on a small number of pre-commercial vehicles before temporarily pausing production of the Origin. In October, Cruise announced it would stop its autonomous operations across the U.S. after regulators in ...

News  Updated at: 2023/11/08

is the forerunner of a model that embodies Honda's unchanging sports mindset and inherits the "joy of driving" into the era of full-scale electrification. It is a model that makes you want to go anywhere and feel the excitement of the extraordinary. The Honda booth also features the General Motors Cruise Origin, a self-driving vehicle that frees you from time constraints; the SUSTAINA-C Concept, a vehicle created through resource circulation; th...

News  Updated at: 2023/10/26

EV truck production at Orion Assembly, GM is delaying launches of the Chevrolet Equinox EV, the Silverado RST for retail customers and the Sierra EV Denali "by only a few months," Barra said. GM and Honda partnerships on the Ultium platform-based 2024 Honda Prologue and Acura ZDX SUVs, self-driving Cruise Origin, and hydrogen fuel cells will continue. (Detroit News article on October 25, 2023)...

News  Updated at: 2023/10/26

Honda, GM and Cruise plan to begin driverless ridehail service in early 2026 in Tokyo On October 19, Cruise, GM and Honda announced that they have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding aiming to establish a joint venture which will begin a driverless ridehail service in Japan in early 2026. The three companies aim to establish this new company in the first half of 2024 pending regulatory approvals. With this new service, the Cruise Origin, j...

News  Updated at: 2023/10/19

itability of our products." Production of the Chevrolet Silverado EV Work Truck has already launched at GM’s Factory Zero plant, and production of the retail Silverado EV should start there later in 2023. GM reported 18 Silverado EV sales in the third quarter. The GMC Hummer EV pickup and SUV and Cruise Origin autonomous shuttle are also produced at Factory Zero.  Production of the GMC Sierra EV is scheduled to start at Factory Zero in 2024, w...

News  Updated at: 2023/10/18

GM Cruise recalls 300 robotaxis to update software after bus crash in San Francisco On April 7, General Motors announced that its Cruise autonomous vehicle subsidiary has recalled 300 robotaxis to update software after one of them ran into the rear end of a municipal bus in San Francisco.In U.S. National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA) documents posted, Cruise said that the robotaxi inaccurately predicted how the bus would mo...

News  Updated at: 2023/04/11

ll-electric Chevrolet Bolts and will launch the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra EV pickups. GM previously invested more than USD 2.2 billion to transition its Factory Zero Detroit-Hamtramck Assembly Center to build the Hummer EV truck and will assemble the Silverado and Sierras EV as well as the Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle. (Detroit News article on March 30, 2023)...

News  Updated at: 2023/03/31

ploy this year will enable a new era of software-defined vehicles with digital experiences that can grow and evolve over time," Fowle said, noting that the shift would not just be about voice commands.Barra, who was speaking at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas, stood in front of a Cruise Origin, saying “We’ll have this on the road yet this year”. While its Cruise subsidiary has the technology operating in San Francisco, Ph...

News  Updated at: 2023/03/16

Cruise Origin robotaxi to hit San Francisco streets with human drivers On October 16, GM’s Cruise tweeted that its autonomous, all-electric, ride-sharing Origin robotaxi is currently on track to begin production in the coming months. Cruise stated that the Cruise Origin AV will soon be seen on San Francisco streets operated by a human driver in test runs.This testing operation will help Cruise validate perception models and object tracking syst...

News  Updated at: 2022/10/20

Honda completes prototype of Japan-spec Cruise Origin autonomous vehicle Honda Motor Co., Ltd. (Honda) announced on September 29 that it has completed a prototype of the Japan-spec version of its “Cruise Origin” mass-market autonomous vehicle and that it has started tests in the U.S. Honda will manufacture multiple Japan-spec prototype vehicles to check driving functions and safety. The Cruise Origin has been jointly developed by Honda, Gener...

News  Updated at: 2022/09/30