GM Donates Powertrains To Support Students In Mexico
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It is no secret that GM has a high sense of social responsibility and that it also firmly supports the automotive industry in all the countries where it has a presence. To demonstrate its commitment, GM Mexico donated engines and transmissions to the National College of Technical Professional Education (CONALEP) located in the Mexican state of Coahuila to support the technical career students of this school, created by the Mexican government in 1978.
The powertrains donated by GM Mexico to CONALEP were manufactured locally in the propulsion systems area of the GM Ramos Arizpe Plant, located in the same state of Coahuila. With this donation, the automaker reiterates its commitment to support the communities where it has both manufacturing and administrative operations in Mexico.
“At General Motors, we feel that education is an agent of change for society. Better trained new generations will translate into a better future for Mexico,” said Director of Global Propulsion Systems plant at GM Ramos Arizpe, Ricardo López, in a statement. “We are convinced that this donation will provide the necessary tools to strengthen the knowledge of young CONALEP students,” he added.
Specifically, the donation that the GM subsidiary in Mexico made to CONALEP includes 17 engines and six state-of-the-art continuously variable automatic transmissions, which will be used for student training practices. Engines include 15 1.0L and 1.2L three-cylinder units used in the Mexican-built Chevy Onix, as well as two 5.3L V8 L84 engines.
This equipment donated by GM Mexico will allow students of technical careers, such as Automotive Industry and Automotive Maintenance at the Mexican school, to have better laboratory practices to learn how the propulsion systems currently used in the automotive industry work. With this donation, CONALEP is one step ahead of other schools that sometimes use discontinued powertrains in their teaching.
In addition to helping create more qualified automotive technicians in Mexico, GM reinforces its commitment to social responsibility in the country, which includes promoting quality education through alliances with different educational institutions. In fact, the company confirmed that it will carry out more actions like this to support training of students and technicians who help strengthen the Mexican automotive industry.
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Every GM vehicle that is sold in the US, should be built in the US.
As “woke” as GM has become, I was very surprised to see the students receive an internal combustion engine to study. Evidently climate change isn’t a “thing” in Mexico. Why didn’t GM provide a state of the art battery and latest electric motor system, if the intent is to help “train students for the future.” Then, Brandon can provide 500,000 charging stations to Mexico and an extension cord from the Hoover Dam to power them.
Have you missed out on the stories regarding the water depth in Lake Mead? Lowest since it was dammed up! Maybe your media sources don’t like to talk about that since climate change doesn’t exist?
If those students would have to count on electrical from the Hoover damn as you suggest, providing them engines to learn on will get them a much better opportunity for learning.
Tuff that’s life deal with it, you don’t like what’s going on in your area then move bum. You’re not entitled to anything nobody owes you Jack.
A battery and electric motor- whats there to learn? People believe its some amazing new tech . Its not. Its boring. Batteries and motors were around a century ago at the beginning of cars- and guess what- people found them to be a pain in the ass, such as charging, running out of juice and burning down the house, oh yeah – same as today! Go by a wawa and see the believers sitting in their Teslas- waiting.
The extension cord should have been the sarcastic “tell” you missed. My point is, teaching students about ice vehicles is like having a class on shoeing horses. Nice to know, but mostly useless if we all believe what the US Government is shoving down our throats about climate change and “carbon neutrality” of building batteries for EV’s. The damage to Mother Earth with just the mining of rare earth minerals should be enough to scare anyone away from that process.
My point? If we really want to teach the future students, why isn’t GM donating facilities to develop hydrogen based power cells. Lake Mead may be low, but there is still a fair supply of water in our oceans, for now.
Sppedshop 540. At a point you could be right on the spot, however these has been two topics of long discussions in this forum. While the ICEs will be a thing of the past, I do not believe that Mexico will switch to EVs (government mandated) anytime soon. Same thing that happened when carburators transitioned to TBI and then TBI to MPFI and the to SPFI and then to DI. And this goes not only to Mexico but to all countries that are behind the electrification.
Now to the latter, it has been noted several time here that even though the US is leading the electrification race ?, there is as of today an absolute shortage in the grid and the hardware. Read the LA Times last month and California (being the state leader in “green energies”) has a shortage alone of 75,000 vehicle chargers.
Eventually the new generation of students will have to be taught on EV & Batteries and who knows, perhaps by the time all of those countries are ready to change, Hydrogen will be the new source.
Hydrogen is not it. Wake up and study it. There is no natural hydrogen, it takes 5 times the effort to make it for the energy you get out. Its a pipe dream, but the energy economics just dont work. My cousin worked at Hoyee falls – Rochester -where GM was trying to make hydrogen cars. When GM went bankrupt in 2008 they closed that crap. It is low on the news totem pole , cause it just doesn’t work.
There’s no natural electricity unless you think people are going to Ben Franklin their cars. Electricity is an awful fuel: It’s inefficient to transport and a total pain to store.
That’s why the Japanese are big on hydrogen. Their country does not have land for solar panels, and even if you ignore the efficiency issues of ultra-long distance transmission, the only place nearby with land to put up panels is China and Russia, with whom they don’t get along with. Without nuclear, they’re just going to get the power from fossil fuels anyway.
There’s no natural gasoline either. In fact, you get hydrogen today the exact same way we get gasoline: in an oil refinery.
Since gm’s so interested in being everyone’s goto Woke car company, oughtn’t they consider building some affordable, economical cars for Americans in the US again??
I would like that. Onix being made in Mexico (B-segment = Sonic) and Cruze being made in Argentina (same as the one made in Lordstown). But all we need and want is SUVs. Here the “customer is always right” thing does not apply.
People need to wake up. When car companies sent the production jobs to Mexico and China. It would only be a matter of time before design and engineering follow.
GM doesn’t give a Rats about anything other than profit and their pay packets.. They lied through their teeth about supporting Holden in Australia and then stabbed everyone in the back and put thousands of people out of work and deserted the brand.
Thanks!