The Detroit Free Press has announced its latest round of “Automotive Difference Makers” for 2016, and General Motors has been well represented.
The publication’s most substantial award, the Lifetime Achievement award, will be going to the deserving Ed Welburn, GM design chief. Welburn was selected for his high level of achievement within the automotive industry, and for his influence in breaking down social and racial barriers within corporate America over his decades of work and service.
Following Welburn is the entire General Motors, 2017 Chevrolet Bolt EV team, which is one of a handful of recipients for a Automotive Difference Maker award.
Team Bolt includes Doug Parks, global vehicle line executive and chief engineer, global electric vehicles; Pam Fletcher, GM’s executive chief engineer for electric vehicles; Larry Nitz, executive director for hybrid and electric powertrain engineering; Stuart Norris, Bolt chief designer, and Josh Tavel, Bolt chief engineer.
Not only did the team succeed in bringing an affordable, 200-mile EV to market, but the 2017 Bolt EV will also be the cornerstone of the GM’s personal mobility brand, Maven.
The Freep will hold an awards ceremony on March 15, 2016, to present each recipient their award at the Detroit Athletic Club.
A sincerest congratulations to the men and women honored for their contribution, from GM Authority.
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If you trust buying a vehicle from a company (GM) that was mandated by the federal government to make EV’s, as part of the DOE’s ballout deal. Or the FACT that GM still owes the US tax-payers $10 BILLION (USD) in federal bailout monies, all while knownly adding defective parts on their other vehicles that harmed and killed customers!
I WOULD NOT trust driving a GM made vehicle if my life depended on it!
Then don’t buy one.
What $10 billion are you talking about? GM paid back the loan and the US government sold all their shares so case closed.
CAFE regulations are industry wide and have nothing to do with the bailout. EV, PHEV, hybrid and eAssist are being produced to comply with CAFE numbers only.
“mandated by the federal government to make EV’s”
You think people wouldn’t want EV’s on their volition?
Well, Chris, I hope you don’t buy Honda or other Japanese brands that have the Takata air bag. They are real killers!