Let them eat SUVs: Trump White House orders fleet of luxury cars as Americans struggle

Americans are facing a deepening affordability crisis but at least Trump and co have ... 250 new Cadillac Escalades…

 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/29/trump-general-motors-escalades

Phone Call to General Motors

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISZ9UOBwRFA

General Motors lifts financial forecast as Trump tariff outlook improves

To spur consumer demand, GM planned to offer a program that would have allowed its dealers to continue offering the tax credit on EV leases. It has since backtracked on the initiative following backlash from lawmakers, including Bernie Moreno, a Republican senator for Ohio and a former car dealer...

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/21/general-motors-finances-tariffs-ev

 

Tariffs Backfire: GM Loses $5 Billion & Shuts Down Plants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYkPBY4UCgQ

 

How G.M. Tricked Millions of Drivers Into Being Spied On (Including Me) - The New York Times

This privacy reporter and her husband bought a Chevrolet Bolt in December. Two risk-profiling companies had been getting detailed data about their driving ever since...

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/23/technology/general-motors-spying-driver-data-consent.html

Opinion | China’s Electric Vehicles Are Going to Hit Detroit Like a Wrecking Ball - The New York Times

What the United States is trying to do is really hard. We want to preserve the economic geography and institutions of our old fossil-powered economy while retooling it to work in a new zero-carbon world. There's no small amount of irony in the fact that all those involved here — Democrats, Republicans, major automakers — resent China for achieving what was once a goal of, well, hippies and environmentalists: making electric cars popular and cheap. But if they've done it, we can do it too. It will take grit and good-faith effort. We should assume that Ford and General Motors will be competing with BYD and Geely for decades to come, and we should relish that…

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/27/opinion/gm-ford-electric-vehicles.html

GM shakes up lithium industry with California geothermal project | Reuters

…The geothermal process involves extracting super-hot lithium-rich brine from reservoirs 8,000 feet (2.4 km) underground and using the heat to produce electricity, after which lithium is extracted from the brine...

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gm-shakes-up-lithium-industry-with-california-geothermal-project-2021-07-02/

G.M. Will Sell Only Zero-Emission Vehicles by 2035 - The New York Times

The move, one of the most ambitious in the auto industry, is a piece of a broader plan by the company to become carbon neutral by 2040.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/28/business/gm-zero-emission-vehicles.html

Trump Says He’s Doing a Hell of a Job Getting Medical Supplies. Reality Says Otherwise.

The president tweeted Friday morning that he was embracing authority to force companies to ramp up supply chains. Except, it’s not clear he’s doing so.
https://thedailybeast.com/trump-says-hes-doing-a-hell-of-a-job-getting-medical-supplies-reality-says-otherwise

Hours After Doubting the Need for 40,000 Ventilators, Trump Demanded 40,000 Ventilators - Mother Jones:

"You go into major hospitals sometimes, and they'll have two ventilators."
https://www.motherjones.com/coronavirus-updates/2020/03/hours-after-doubting-the-need-for-40000-ventilators-trump-demanded-40000-ventilators/

To Get Back at G.M., Trump Threatens to Punish Any American Who Buys an Electric Car - Vanity Fair

The president is in a MOOD. ....
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/11/trump-general-motors-subsidies-threat

Dem Rep. Tim Ryan seeks hearings on how GM used GOP tax-law savings - The Hill

Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio) is urging the leaders of the House Ways and Means Committee to hold hearings to examine how General Motors used its savings from the GOP tax law after the automaker announced Monday that it would lay off workers and close up to five North American plants....
https://thehill.com/policy/finance/418318-rep-tim-ryan-seeks-hearings-on-how-gm-used-gop-tax-law-savings

GM to lay off 15% of salaried workers, halt production at five plants in U.S. and Canada - The Washington Post

As part of its restructuring plan, General Motors announced Monday that it plans to reduce production at plants in Ontario, Canada, Maryland, Ohio and two facilities in Michigan. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/26/gm-lay-off-percent-salaried-workers-halt-production-five-plants-us-canada