DETROIT/TOKYO—General Motors and Honda recently announced plans to codevelop a series of affordable electric vehicles based on a new global architecture using next-generation Ultium battery technology.

DETROIT—General Motors announced Tuesday its plans to invest $7 billion in Michigan to increase the production of electric vehicles and battery manufacturing. It's the single biggest investment in the company's history.

CONCORD, NC—General Motors recently broke ground on its new Charlotte Technical Center, a 130,000-square-foot facility that will accelerate strategic knowledge transfer between the company's motorsports and production vehicle development.

INGERSOLL, ON—General Motors Co. and labor union Unifor have reached a deal for the automaker to invest nearly C$1 billion ($785.42 million) in its CAMI Assembly Plant here to manufacture commercial electric vans.

DETROIT—General Motors Corp. recently announced that it will spend $27 billion on all-electric and autonomous vehicles through 2025, an increase of $7 billion, or 35 percent, from initial plans announced in March.

DETROIT—The longest nationwide strike against General Motors in half a century ended last Friday after a solid majority of the company’s union members delivered their support for the four-year contract hammered out by their leaders.

DETROIT—Early results from several United Auto Workers locals show that the new contract with General Motors Co. is receiving mixed support from members. The UAW wants local unions representing employees across 55 GM facilities in 19 states to submit their ratification vote totals by this Friday afternoon.

DETROIT—More than 100 automotive supplier companies have enacted some form of temporary layoffs affecting up to 12,000 salaried and hourly employees in the United States, as the United Auto Workers' strike against General Motors Co. enters its fourth week.

DETROIT—General Motors and UAW negotiators continued bargaining Monday in the second week of the union's strike, which is now the longest widespread work stoppage by the UAW since 1985.

DETROIT—Nearly 50,000 members of the United Auto Workers went on strike Monday against General Motors, bringing more than 50 factories and parts warehouses to a standstill in the union’s first walkout against the automaker in more than a decade.