General Motors has agreed to pay $220 million to settle claims that it illegally sold driver and location information to data brokers, as reported earlier by Reuters. The agreement, which resolves a complaint from a coalition of 36 US attorneys general, requires GM to limit the driving data it collects and obtain "express consent" from drivers before collecting their information.

The allegations surround GM's now-discontinued Smart Driver program, which collected data about driving habits, including acceleration, braking, and trip length. GM allegedly passed this information to data brokers, enabling insurance companies to purchase the data …

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GM eschewed hybrids in favor of battery-electric vehicles. Now it's gearing up to offer hybrid versions of its SUVs.

At a splashy event in New York City last week, General Motors unveiled its new tech roadmap centered on AI-driven vehicle development, advanced battery tech, high-powered car computers, and autonomous driving.

Some of this was old news: We already knew the automaker was developing hands-free, eyes-off driving automation and had been prototyping new battery chemistries. In a sense, the real purpose of the event was to showcase how all these pieces fit together. With its new "intelligence-defined vehicle" paradigm, GM is banking on artificial intelligence, centralized computing, and virtualized engineering to cut vehicle development timelines …

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To compete with Tesla, Rivian, and a host of Chinese automakers, GM’s fourth-gen EV platform will roll out a new central computer and electrical architecture that will debut in 2028 in the Cadillac Escalade IQ.

It's one of the biggest overhauls ever to the 30-year-old connected car product.

GM is shuttering the Brownstown Battery Assembly Plant, though the closure has nothing to do with the automaker's electrification strategy.