Leadership We remain the only automaker to sign the Ceres Business for Innovative Climate & Energy Policy Climate Declaration stating that tackling climate change is an economic opportunity. We committed to generate or source all electrical power for 350 operations in 59 countries with 100% renewable energy by 2050. We achieved perfect scores on climate change data disclosure in 2013, 2014 and 2015. We earned a perfect score on performance in 2014 and were featured in the CDP S&P 500 Climate Change Report and The CDP Climate Performance Leadership Index 2014. We received a 2016, 2015, 2014 and 2013 EPA ENERGY STAR® Partner of the Year - Sustained Excellence award, the organization’s highest level of recognition for corporate energy management. EPA recognized us for raising climate change awareness. We were one of the first 13 companies to sign the White House American Business Act on Climate Pledge demonstrating ongoing commitment to climate action and support for a strong Paris climate negotiations outcome. The Solar Energy Industries Association named us a “Solar Champion” for significant impact on establishing a strong U.S. solar industry.
Reducing Energy Use We reduced energy use at our global facilities by 28% on a per-vehicle-produced basis between 2005 and 2010. These savings reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 3.34M metric tons during that timeframe. We committed to reduce energy intensity from facilities by 20% by 2020 over a 2010 baseline. From 2010 to 2015, we reduced it 14%, despite severe winter climates. GM avoided $89M in energy costs through these conservation initiatives. We have 73 facilities meeting a voluntary energy-reduction challenge set by the U.S. EPA – more than any company worldwide. These facilities reduced energy by 25% on average, resulting in $237M in energy savings. We have received ENERGY STAR® certification at 13 of our facilities, such as our Lansing parts distribution center and Arizona IT Innovation Center. These buildings perform in the top 25th percentile of similar facilities nationwide.
We reduced 20,000 metric tons of CO2 through energy efficiency at three buildings recognized in EPA’s ENERGY STAR® National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings. We participate in U.S. Department of Energy’s Better Buildings, Better Plants program to achieve 25% or greater combined energy use reduction at 31 plants by 2018. Our facilities around the world employ a variety of efficiency tactics: o Liuzhou, China used no heating system in winter, other than in the paint shop. Natural ventilation and harvested daylight make this one of the lowest energy per-unit plants in the world. o Bupyeong and Gunsan, Korea conducted paint shop energy conservation projects to save $820,000 annually. o Quito, Ecuador used solar panels to power LED lamps in outlying areas. o St. Catherine, Ontario replaced chillers with a water-cooling system using canal water from the adjacent St. Lawrence Seaway. o Gliwice, Poland made three heat recovery investments that, combined, save 9,140 MWh in annual energy use. o We completed our largest LED conversion in North America at our Lordstown, Ohio assembly and stamping complex reducing energy consumption 84% and CO2 by 8,500 metric tons.
Reducing Emissions By saving energy and increasing use of renewable energy sources, our global facilities achieved a 28% reduction in CO2 emissions on a per-vehicle- produced basis between 2005 and 2010. We committed to reduce carbon intensity from our facilities by 20% by 2020 over a 2010 baseline. From 2010 to 2015, we reduced it 15%. Since 1990, we decreased our manufacturing emissions by 60%. We joined EPA SmartWay Partnership to drive benchmarking of fuel use and emissions reduction by our freight shippers and carriers.
Chevrolet met its voluntary commitment to reduce 8M metric tons of CO2 emissions from entering the atmosphere through its five-year community-based carbon reduction initiative. The brand retired the carbon credits to benefit the climate instead of using them to offset emissions of its vehicles or operations. o Investment projects promoted energy savings, renewable energy, responsible use of natural resources and conservation. o Chevrolet was the largest corporate buyer of voluntary carbon-reduction credits in the U.S. by volume for 2011, 2012, and 2013, as tracked by Forest Trends’ Ecosystem Marketplace. o We created a methodology enabling U.S. college campuses to earn money for their clean energy upgrades, a collaboration that won a Climate Leadership Award for Innovative Partnerships from the U.S. EPA Center for Corporate Climate Leadership.
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Renewable Energy In North America, 9% of our energy consumption comes from renewables. We use 106 MW of solar, landfill gas, hydro, and waste to energy at our facilities today, moving us closer to our 125MW renewable energy goal by 2020. Since our first renewable energy project in 1993, we’ve saved more than $80M. We now save about $5M annually. We are a founding member of the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center and signatory to the WWF and WRI’s Corporate Renewable Energy Buyers' Principles designed to help utilities and renewable energy providers understand how they can make renewable energy investments easier and meet rising demand. o These NGOs brought together their expertise in transforming energy markets to create the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance, which works to identify barriers to buying clean energy and develop solutions to meet growing demand. o GM is one of 60 multinational companies in REBA representing demand for renewable power. We made SEIA’s list of top corporate solar users in 2015, 2014, 2013 and 2012, when the organization first published its rankings. We have more solar installations in the U.S. than any other automaker and have the second-highest percentage of solar usage among all commercial users. Our global solar footprint is equivalent to the size of 130 American football fields. We house 48MW of solar power at 22 facilities around the world. o Additional rooftop solar installations in Europe include nearly 13 MW at Russelsheim and Kaiserslautern, Germany. o Our fourth-largest array is an 11MW rooftop solar array on our Changwon Assembly plant in South Korea. o Our 1.8MW array in Toledo is the largest rooftop installation in Ohio, generating nearly 3% of the facility’s overall electrical consumption. GM also completed a 2.2MW groundmount array at Lordstown Assembly in 2015. o Our Baltimore plant houses one of the largest solar rooftop arrays in Maryland at 1.81 MW, generating 6% of the facility’s electrical consumption. o Our 1MW solar array on our distribution center in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif. was the first public solar project in the U.S. over 1MW when it began operating in the fall of 2006. It provides about half of the facility’s electricity. o Michigan’s largest ground-mount solar array is at our Detroit Hamtramck Assembly plant, generating 516kW. o Others: Zaragoza Assembly in Spain (11.87MW); Fontana Distribution Center in California (910 Kw); Joinville Engine in Brazil and Orion Assembly in Michigan (350 Kw each); and Flint Engine and Flint Swartz Creek processing center in Michigan (150Kw each). o We use solar to power 20% of our 400-plus EV charging EV charging stations and have nine facilities with solar EV charging. We are one of the largest industrial users of landfill gas in the United States. Three of our U.S. manufacturing facilities use it as a source of energy. These installations generated a savings of $4M in 2015. Landfill gas use is: o 43% of the energy consumed at the Fort Wayne assembly plant o 16% at the Toledo transmission plant o 66% at the Orion assembly plant We increased landfill gas by 14MW at our Fort Wayne and Orion assembly plants in 2014, avoiding an additional 23,000 metric tons of CO2 per year. Solid municipal waste from Metro Detroit is turned into process steam to heat and cool portions of our Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant – GM’s top facility for renewable energy use at 58%. We procured 34MW of wind to help power four of our Mexico facilities’ electricity needs and 30MW for our Arlington Assembly plant in Texas. Once live in 2016, we’ll achieve our corporate renewable energy commitment four years early. Our .98MW micro-hydro system at our St. Catherine’s plant in Canada eliminates chillers and natural gas-driven equipment. It harnesses the cooling energy of canal water to help reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions. A 74kW solar array and two 2kW wind turbines feed our Milford Data Center office’s circuit breaker panel, where five Chevrolet Volt batteries work in parallel to supply power to the building, delivering net-zero energy use annually. This secondary use application extends its life, while delivering waste reduction and economic benefits on an industrial scale. o The batteries can provide back-up power to the building for four hours during an outage and stores energy when it’s unneeded.
Green Building We have nine LEED certified buildings: Joinville Engine in Brazil (Gold), GM China Advanced Technical Center (Silver), GM China Headquarters (Gold), Lansing Delta Township (Gold), our Enterprise Data Center (Gold), Korea Design Center (Gold), Baltimore Operations e-Motor Building (Silver), Milford Proving Ground's administration building, and Milford IT Data Center (Gold). o When it opened, the Lansing Delta Township building was the largest industrial project to be certified LEED. o A flywheel for battery-free backup power and in-row cooling reduces electricity at our Warren and Milford data centers. o Joinville Engine is the first automotive plant in South America to become LEED Gold certified. It generates electricity from sunlight, heats water using solar power, and reuses water through reverse osmosis. We earned ISO 50001 certification for energy management at nine facilities throughout Europe, Asia and South America. We follow LEED practices in any new construction projects or renovations regardless of whether we apply for certification. All of our North American construction sites adhere to GM Green Construction practices.
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Landfill-Free Facilities We aspire to become the first automotive company in the world to achieve zero-waste manufacturing. We have a total of 131 landfill-free facilities worldwide that reuse, recycle, or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. No other automaker has as many facilities contributing zero waste to landfill. o Our 90 landfill-free manufacturing sites on average reuse or recycle approximately 89% of their waste from daily operations and convert 9% to energy. o We surpassed a commitment to have half of our global manufacturing operations landfill-free by the end of 2010. o Our efforts have spread to non-manufacturing sites; we also have 41 landfill-free non-manufacturing facilities. o We achieved landfill-free at the Renaissance Center, GM’s world headquarters dominating the Detroit skyline. The building is the most complex of GM’s 131 landfill-free sites as it’s the only one open to the public. Covering 5.5M sq. ft., the building houses an all-hotel skyscraper, 11 other businesses, 20 restaurants and 27 retailers. It accommodates 12,000 office workers and 3,000 visitors daily. The facility now composts food preparation scraps from its various restaurant kitchens for use in urban farming initiatives throughout the city, including a rooftop garden at the complex. We were named a Michigan Green Leader and Green Corporate Citizen for our landfill-free program, and received a Top Project of the Year Award from Environmental Leader for driving a global movement for zero waste. We published a downloadable blueprint, "The Business Case for Zero Waste”, intended to help companies of all sizes and industries reduce waste and create efficiencies. We’ve committed to achieve 100 landfill-free manufacturing sites and 50 non-manufacturing sites globally by 2020.
Reducing We were one of the first organizations, and the only automaker, inducted into the U.S. EPA WasteWise Hall of Fame. We committed to reduce total waste from manufacturing facilities by 40% by 2020 over a 2010 baseline. From 2010 to 2015, we reduced it 22%. From 2000 to 2010, we reduced non-recycled waste by 73% and total waste by 43% at our global manufacturing facilities. We work with our suppliers on designing for the environment to avoid scrap. To help grow regional recycling and the job development network, we initiated the Suppliers' Partnership for the Environment Southern Network Forum. We hosted automakers, suppliers, recycling partners and government officials at our Spring Hill complex to discuss waste-reduction challenges, recycling opportunities and capabilities.
Reusing We helped form the Reuse Opportunity Collaboratory-Detroit initiative designed to develop a robust reuse network enabling one company’s trash to become another organization’s raw material. We co-championed the U.S. Business Council for Sustainable Development’s Materials Marketplace, an online database for companies that matches traditional and non-traditional industrial waste streams with new product and revenue opportunities. We frequently turn material byproducts from routine manufacturing operations into new-vehicle components. We view this waste as potentially useful and marketable, and work with our teams and suppliers to develop closed-loop systems. o Cardboard shipping materials from various GM plants are recycled into a superior sound-dampening material in the Buick Lacrosse and Verano headliner to help keep the cabin quiet. o Plastic caps and shipping aids from the Fort Wayne facility are mixed with other materials to make radiator shrouds for the Chevrolet Silverado and GMC Sierra pickups built at the plant. o Test tires from our Milford, Mich. Proving Ground, thanks to their elasticity and durability, are shredded and used in the manufacturing of air and water baffles for a variety of GM vehicles. o Scrap aluminum shavings from machining our transmission casings are melted down and used to create more casings. o Other operational waste comes full circle, as well, and is often recycled into plant supplies. Paint sludge from our Lansing Grand River plant has been turned into plastic material and used for shipping containers durable enough to hold Chevrolet Volt and Cruze engine components. We reused 1,600 shipping crates from Orion Assembly by turning them into raised beds for a Southwest Detroit community garden providing nearby residents with locally grown food and an urban farming initiative supporting soup kitchens. We donated 600 plastic shipping trays from our Kokomo, Ind. facility to a beekeeper who reuses them as shelves in insulated beehives.
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Recycling Today, all of GM’s worldwide manufacturing facilities combined – including landfill-free plants and all others – on average recycle or reuse 89% of the waste they generate. We recycled or reused more than 2 million metric tons of waste materials at our plants worldwide in 2015 – enough to fill 38 million garbage bags. GM recycles more waste from its worldwide facilities than any other automaker.
Our recycling and reuse efforts in 2015 avoided 8.9 million metric tons of CO2-equivalent emissions, which more than offsets our total facility operational impacts of direct and indirect emissions. We use recycled and bio-based materials (e.g., plastic bottles, cardboard, denim fibers, carpet, tires, kenaf fibers, balsa wood and soy) in a variety of vehicle components. Each material we use meets or exceeds product quality and durability requirements. More than 3.2 million water bottles from six General Motors facilities and the Flint community get a second life as fleece-like materials that benefit products, plants and people. o 7 bottles help make a fabric insulation that covers the Chevrolet Equinox v6 engine to dampen noise o 6 bottles help make an air filtration component used in 10 GM facilities o 31 bottles help make the insulation for the Empowerment Plan coat that transforms into a sleeping bag for the homeless. We convened 11 businesses who make up the supply web in our “Do Your Part” recycling initiative. We developed a method to convert 227 miles of oil-soaked booms from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill and turn it into air deflectors in the Chevrolet Volt, preventing 212,500 pounds of waste from entering our nation’s landfills.
Vehicle Recyclability We design our vehicles to be as recyclable and recoverable as is feasible, following ISO standards and developing internal standards to gain common benefits across global regions. On average, our vehicles are approximately 85% recyclable and 95% recoverable by weight. We work with the vehicle dismantling industry to help ensure the majority of material is salvaged and can be recycled or reused in new vehicles or other consumer products.
Business Case We’ve generated $2.5B in revenue through various recycling activities from 2007 to 2010 and have generated as much as $1 billion from recycling and reuse of byproducts in recent years. For the last 15 years, we have been using a resource management system that allows us to view all of our waste streams and manage them in the best possible way. This single system includes all byproducts and treats them as valuable commodities. We track 15,549 waste streams in our plants globally and gather approximately 10,471 points of waste data monthly.
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Reducing Water Use Between 2005 and 2010, we reduced water use by 32% on a per-vehicle-produced basis at our facilities worldwide. We committed to reduce water intensity by 15% by 2020 over a 2010 baseline at our global facilities. From 2010 to 2015, we reduced it 10%. Whether it’s reusing water in pretreatment processes in our paint shops or capturing rainwater to feed manufacturing equipment cooling towers at various plants, we are committed to resource conservation throughout our operations. We share best practices globally and approach water management at the local facility level. Since water issues vary considerably by region, each of our operating regions establishes annual internal goals for water use reduction. We realize water savings through a variety of initiatives, such as using reverse osmosis – a process that pushes water through a filter to eliminate particles – to filter water from recycled treated wastewater for toilet flushing and industrial uses at our LEED-certified engine plant in Joinville, Brazil. It’s the first application of its kind at an automotive facility and saves the plant the equivalent of nine Olympic- sized swimming pools – 22.9 million liters per year. We also have initiatives underway at our facilities located in some of the world's most water-starved areas. o In South Africa, water conservation initiatives are integrated into our two plants in Port Elizabeth. Two full-day workshops with employees have identified 7,360 kiloliters of water-withdrawal savings to date. o Our Ramos Arizpe Complex in the water-stressed region of northern Mexico features a three-acre artificial lagoon as a part of its filtration and purification system. In addition to recycling facility water the lagoon serves as an important natural habitat for wildlife, providing wetland for migrating and local birds. Our San Luis Potosi plant in central Mexico operates a zero liquid water discharge treatment facility, reducing use of groundwater and saving about 400 gallons of water per vehicle built. o Employee engagement is a big part of our Zaragoza facility’s conservation efforts. The Spanish plant regularly shares water conservation tips with employees on ways they can help contribute to Zaragoza’s progress by using water more efficiently. The plant has also organized a two-day outing that included a tour of environmentally protected lands and a canoe trip down the Ebro River.
Watershed Education Our GM GREEN program (Global Rivers Environmental Education Network), now in its 26th year, encourages community engagement by helping youth better understand their impact on local watersheds. The program has impacted 150,000 youth since its inception in 1989. The initiative comprises 50 of our facilities, including all of our U.S. and Canadian manufacturing plants. We’re now including dealers in the program to further spread the impact. We match more than 12,600 students each year with GM mentors to retrieve, test and analyze water samples, then channel findings into a sustainable action plan addressing water quality in their community. GM GREEN is designed to sharpen problem-solving skills, improve knowledge of science and the environment, and encourage community involvement through hands-on learning experiences. GM GREEN is a partnership between GM, the nonprofit Earth Force, and local schools and conservation groups in GM communities. In addition to volunteers, GM and the GM Foundation provide financial support to the national and local programs. o In 2015, GM mentors volunteered in water monitoring events, classroom visits and student-driven watershed improvement projects. The program engaged 50 GM facilities and 17,419 students.
Habitat Enhancement We strive to increase native biodiversity at our facilities and have more Wildlife Habitat Council certifications than any automaker. o Our Lansing Delta Township earned Corporate Habitat of the Year in 2014, which recognizes one high-quality Wildlife at Work program each year for outstanding environmental stewardship. The plant also received the Wings Over Wetlands award in recognition for protecting wetland habitat for waterfowl and other migratory birds. o Arlington Assembly, Lansing Delta Township and our Canada headquarters in Oshawa hold WHC’s Rookie of the Year awards for newly certified programs recognized for outstanding environmental education, stewardship and voluntary employee efforts. We actively manage nearly 4,700 acres of WHC-certified wildlife habitat at 46 sites in eight countries. o We were the first company to establish a certified wildlife habitat in China, Korea and Argentina, at our Guangde Proving Ground, Gunsan Complex and Rosario Automotive Complex, respectively.
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o Some features at these sites include walking trails, native tree plantings, butterfly gardens, rain gardens to control storm water runoff, restored prairie and wetlands, and bat and duck nesting boxes. We committed to secure wildlife habitat certification at each of our manufacturing sites by 2020. We are halfway toward our goal. o We converted 16.5 acres of lawn area at our Detroit-Hamtramck assembly plant into a grassland habitat for migratory birds. o We developed a 75-acre wildlife habitat at our Bowling Green, Ky. assembly plant that also features a 1.5-mile walking trail, as well as 42,000 pounds of recycled shredded organic mats from the facility that provide soft ground cover for a picnic area. We are the first automaker to use IBAT, an integrated biodiversity assessment tool that tracks features such as threatened species, sites important for biodiversity, and wildlife hotspots near any facility around the world. The insight increases opportunities to work closer with communities to have a more beautiful working environment and strategically protect native flora and fauna through habitat programs. We repurpose scrap Chevrolet Volt battery covers as bat, bluebird, wood duck and scaly-sided merganser nesting boxes. o The battery cover is challenging to recycle by traditional means, so this initiative provides a more practical solution with less environmental impact. o We’ve designed and created 800 of these houses over the last five years. o The houses are located on GM sites and on various public and private lands across the U.S., Canada, China and Russia. We work with local schools, NGOs, nonprofits and environmental preservation groups to enhance our habitats and increase community awareness about wildlife preservation.
Endangered Species White-nose syndrome has killed 5.7M bats in the U.S. and Canada. Bats with the disease act abnormally and wake from hibernation. o We create bat houses out of scrap Chevrolet Volt battery covers that can hold up to 150 little brown bats each. We have installed more than 200 of these bat houses at our facilities and in other private and public lands in the United States. o We work with bat experts from Bat Conservation International and Organization for Bat Conservation to examine repurposing leftover adhesive used in manufacturing the Chevrolet Corvette Stingray as a stalactite. Artificial stalactites provide more surface area from which to hang, spreading bats out around the cave. This may slow transmission of white-nose syndrome. Nearly a third of U.S. honeybee colonies died or disappeared last winter, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service cites habitat loss as one of their main threats. Many of our facilities incorporate pollinator gardens in their onsite wildlife habitats. o Our Guangde Proving Ground in China features a 27,000-square-foot pollinator garden and wetland. o The pollinator garden at our Saginaw Metal Casting Operations received the 2013 Pollinator Advocate Award from the Wildlife Habitat Council and North American Pollinator Protection Campaign. The garden’s black-eyed-susans and purple coneflowers provide local bee populations with an ample source of nectar, and swamp milkweeds serve as food source for the monarch. Peregrine falcons were only recently taken off the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s endangered species list, but they remain an endangered species in Michigan. There are 14 active peregrine nests in the Detroit area and 45 nesting pairs in the entire state. o Our GM Technical Center in Warren, Michigan has been home to a peregrine falcon aerie for the last several years. o Three juvenile peregrine falcons – Chevy, Sonic and Dino – hatched earlier this year and all three have successfully fledged. Scaly-sided mergansers are an endangered species in East Asia, due in part to the declining number of trees old enough to provide natural cavities for nesting. Today only 2,200 breeding pairs are estimated to exist. o We tailored our Volt nesting box design and partnered with WWF and Wetlands International to install 10 inside China’s Changbai Mountain National Nature Reserve. A few months later, it became home to a merganser hen and her 11 chicks.
Dealer Outreach We recognize Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac dealerships across the U.S. with proven track records in areas such as energy reduction, renewable energy use, water conservation efforts, recycling, on-site nature habitats and community outreach through the Green Dealer program. o The program now features 435 Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac dealers in the U.S. – 10 percent of GM’s dealer network. o GM has awarded 38 Green Dealer certifications since its launch in 2015. o We designed the program to encourage dealers to continue these voluntary efforts and build a network for sharing best practices to help others begin or advance their sustainability journeys. Our dealers, suppliers and non-manufacturing facilities across the U.S. are partnering with the National Wildlife Federation on GM Eco Green, a hands-on program exposing 4,000 students to STEM career paths while encouraging them to become effective future leaders, problem solvers and environmental stewards. o Through the partnership, NWF scales its Eco-Schools program to more communities while enabling GM to make a bigger impact by serving communities beyond the cities where it has manufacturing operations.
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Strategy We are transforming transportation using a long-term, customer-centric approach. We are restructuring vehicles to maximize efficiencies, reimagining manufacturing to lessen environmental impact, and collaborating with unlikely partners, from NGOs to competitors, to advance the industry. M. Barra and 12 other automotive CEOs – convened through the World Economic Forum – committed to the vision of decarbonizing automotive transport. The group is dedicated to sustainable mobility and addressing the greenhouse gases from driving.
Innovation We lead all companies in U.S. clean-energy patents granted since 2002, according to the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index. We’ve received more than 700 patents in fuel cell technologies since 2002, more than any other company, according to the Clean Energy Patent Growth Index.
Electric Vehicles with Extended Range The Chevrolet Volt is the world’s first mass-produced electric vehicle with extended range. The Cadillac ELR luxury coupe features the first application of extended range EV technology by a full line luxury brand, eliminating range anxiety. For the first 53 miles, the 2016 Volt can drive gas and tailpipe-emissions free using a full charge. After the battery is depleted, the engine acts as a generator to power the electric motors, which drive the wheels. Total driving range is over 420 miles. Chevrolet has sold 100,000 Volts; owners have driven almost 1.5B miles in EV mode of a total 2.5B cumulative miles. o Based on an average new car fuel economy of 25.3 miles per gallon, Volt drivers have saved nearly 58M gallons of fuel. That is enough gasoline to fill more than 87 competition-size swimming pools.
All-Electric Vehicles The 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV, a pure-electric, five-person hatchback for all 50 states, received an EPA-estimated 238 miles of range at a target price of around $30,000 after federal incentives. o Chevrolet designed this long-range, affordable EV for the masses. o The car is capable of using the latest mobile app technology to enable car sharing, advanced GPS routing and gamification. The Chevrolet Spark EV is the industry benchmark in retail electric vehicle efficiency with an EPA-estimated combined city/highway 119 MPGe. It has a combined city/highway EPA estimated range of 82 miles when fully charged. o Spark EV is the first vehicle in the market to offer an SAE combo charger option for DC Fast Charging, enabling it to recharge up to 80% of its capacity in about 20 minutes. Hybrids Chevrolet offers a new hybrid version of the Malibu, delivering an EPA-estimated 46 mpg city, 47 mpg highway and 46 mpg combined, unsurpassed in the segment. The lithium-ion based chemistry of our 80-cell battery pack can power the vehicle up to 55 miles per hour on electricity alone. Cadillac expects the fuel economy of its 2016 CT6 plug-in hybrid – available in China – to be more than double that of the car’s conventional engine offerings, as measured by miles per gallon equivalent. Its 18.4 kWh lithium-ion battery pack has the largest storage capacity rating for any PHEV in the luxury sedan segment.
Batteries & Electric Motors We are a leader in advanced battery technology and consider it a competitive advantage. We have labs in U.S., China and Germany. We operate the largest battery systems lab of any automaker in North America. We are the first major U.S. automaker to design and build electric motors and drive units for plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles.
Personal Mobility & Car- and Ridesharing Services We are using our information, connectivity and transportation expertise to engineer mobility services that advance our sustainability. Our new carsharing service called Maven combines our multiple programs under one single brand. o City: Maven offers carsharing services in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Washington DC, Boston and Chicago. o Residential: Maven+ launched carsharing for Chicago residents in partnership with Magellan Development Group in first quarter 2016, and expanded its program in NYC with Stonehenge Partners. These programs offer service to 5,000 residents. o Peer-to-Peer: Existing global initiatives include peer-to-peer car-sharing through the CarUnity marketplace in Germany; 10,000 users have signed up since 2015. o Campus: GM is refining and testing future Maven commercial offerings on its campuses in the U.S., Germany and China.
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Maven provides an ownership-like experience with the convenience of carsharing; customers experience seamless smartphone and keyless integration with the vehicle. o Our global team includes more than 70 employees from the connected car technology industry as well as professionals from Google, Zipcar and Sidecar. We will invest $500M in Lyft to help continue the growth of the ridesharing service. GM will become a preferred provider of short-term use vehicles to Lyft drivers through rental hubs in various cities in the U.S. We partnered with Google last year to test a commuter ridesharing service using Chevrolet Spark EVs in an app-driven system matching drivers and riders. We designed an electric bike concept to demonstrate our evolving view of mobility and to help people stay mobile in a difficult-to-navigate urban landscape. We partner with Zagster on bike sharing at our Technical Center.
EN-V (Electric Networked Vehicle) The Chevrolet EN-V is an electric urban mobility concept powered by lithium-ion batteries. We built EN-V to represent our vision to meet growing demand for safe, connected, zero-emissions transportation. We partner with Jiao Tong University in China to integrate Chevrolet EN-V 2.0 vehicles into multi-modal transportation systems.
Autonomous Vehicles Our global Tech Center is a rapid-development lab providing data and lessons to accelerate our mobility strategy. Later this year, we’ll add a fleet of autonomous Volts that employees can reserve through an app; the car will drive to the desired location and park it. We will be the first to introduce semi-autonomous driving technology to the market in the 2017 Cadillac CT6. We expanded our partnership with Mobileye to crowdsource highly precise maps to help enable autonomous driving. We announced a long-term strategic alliance with Lyft to create an integrated network of on-demand autonomous vehicles in the U.S. We are acquiring Cruise Automation to add Cruise’s deep software talent and rapid development capability to further accelerate our development of autonomous vehicle technology.
Efficient Fundamentals Our efficient fundamentals strategy encompasses aerodynamics, lightweight materials, advanced materials and engine technology.
We’re focused on reducing vehicle weight to help meet global CO2 standards and offer consumer benefits; various grades of steel, aluminum and composites are used to help make GM vehicles stronger, safer, more fuel efficient and fun to drive. Our R&D team invented industry-first welding technologies enabling us to weld aluminum to steel and aluminum to aluminum enabling vehicles to be lighter and more fuel efficient while at the same time more structurally robust. Efficiency improvements to our internal combustion engines include: o Active fuel management, enabling a V8 engine to operate on half the engine’s cylinders when full power is not needed. Fuel economy is improved about 12%. o Direct injection allowing for more precise fuel delivery and better control of the combustion process, improving fuel economy by 3% and reducing cold start emissions about 25%. We were the first domestic automaker to introduce the technology and 70% of our vehicles have it. o Variable valve timing, featured on virtually all engines, alters the timing of intake and exhaust valves, allowing the engine to maximize horsepower and torque while helping reduce emissions. Fuel economy is improved 2%. For the 2016 model year, we have 32 models achieving at least an EPA-estimated 30 mpg hwy; nine of which get at least 40 mpg, like the segment-leading Chevrolet Cruze Eco.
Product Commitments We developed commitments to meet customer needs for efficient vehicles and reduce our products’ environmental impact: o Put 500,000 vehicles on the road in the U.S. with some form of electrification by 2017. As of 2015, we have 196,861. o Double the models that achieve an EPA-estimated 40-mpg highway or better by 2017. As of 2015, we have nine. o Reduce average carbon emissions of U.S. fleet by 15% by 2016, Opel/Vauxhall fleet in Europe by 27% by 2020; and China fleet 28% by 2020.
Diesel, CNG & LPG We’re leveraging our diesel engine expertise in markets around the world; in the U.S., there are several models available such as the Chevrolet Cruze Clean Turbo Diesel, which delivers an industry best EPA-estimated 46 MPG on the highway, and the Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon. All of our diesel models in the U.S. are capable of running on B20. We offer several models capable of running on CNG and LPG. They include full-size vehicles, pickups, and sedans, primarily targeted to fleet/commercial customers; they are also available to retail customers in certain markets.
Hydrogen Fuel Cell Vehicles Hydrogen fuel cells – using no gas nor releasing any emissions other than water vapor – are part of our advanced propulsion portfolio. In collaboration with Honda, we are developing next-gen hydrogen fuel cell systems and storage technologies in the 2020 timeframe. We will pursue non-automotive fuel cell applications for aerospace and military industries.
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