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Bob Lutz is Now Via Motors’ New Chairman of the Board
Bob Lutz is sticking to his claims that electrified powertrains are more at home in trucks and larger commercial vehicles, not passenger cars, as that’s the stated goal of the company he’s been a part of for a few years now: VIA Motors. Now, they have announced Lutz, a former vice-chairman of GM, as their new Chairman of the Board. Read more »
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Via X-truck Has Mad Max Looks, 800hp With 100mpge And Is Backed By Bob Lutz
VIA Motors is a privately-owned electric vehicle company founded in 2010 that has developed a proprietary extended-range drive technology called VIA V-Drive that is designed for use in full-size pickup trucks, vans and SUVs. It purchases standard GM...
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Gm's Bob Lutz Says That Auto Execs Are "way, Way, Way Underpaid"...
Yes, you read correctly; auto executives earning six- or seven-figure salaries to run a company that went bankrupt and had to be bailed out by the government, (partially due to the incompetence of some of its high-ranking/paid officials), should be filling...
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Carl-peter Forster Leaves Opel, Bob Lutz Rumored To Chair The German Firm's Board
GM Group vice president and CEO of Opel, Carl-Peter Forster has left his post as the head of the company's European operations only three days after GM's decision to terminate a deal to sell its Opel unit to Magna. While neither side gave a reason...
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Gm Plans On Selling 70,000 Volts In Two Years At $40,000
In an e-mail sent to the Free Press on Thursday, GM’s Vice Chairman Bob Lutz told the website that the automaker is planning to manufacture 10,000 examples of its plug-in electric Chevrolet Volt in 2011, the hybrid’s first full year of production,...
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Gm's Bob Lutz Retiring This Year - Tom Stephens Becomes New Vp Of Global Product Development At Gm
76-year old Bob Lutz will be retiring from General Motors at the end of the 2009 calendary year. Effective as of the beginning of April, Tom Stephens will take over Lutz's position as the Vice Chairman in charge of  Global Product Development....
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