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GM shifts r&d role to meet new realities

Jon Lauckner, GM's chief technical officer, outlined Chevrolet's connectivity initiatives in June 2015 in Detroit.
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Richard Truett
January 26, 2016 05:00 AM
BLOG06_160709968_H1_-1_ZXUIERENGYEQ.jpg Richard Truett covers technology and engineering for Automotive News.

For most of its existence, General Motors r&d has focused on investigating technologies that might be deployed in automobiles decades down the road.

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