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The American General Motors group decided to abandon the CD player in its cars as a development step for its cars.

The General Motors Group revealed that it decided to abandon the CD player in all passenger cars, while continuing to provide the CD player in some models such as the Chevrolet Silverado.

The General Motors group's decision came due to the majority's preference to use Apple CarPlay and Android Auto applications to listen to songs instead of a DVD player.

General Motors also wanted to offer a more modern front cabin, which made it consider removing the CD player, especially since the CD player gives a classic look.

General Motors increases spending on electric cars for the third time
General Motors, the US auto giant, is preparing to increase its investment in electric and self-driving cars by 30%.

According to Reuters news agency reports, General Motors wants to spend 35 billion dollars, equivalent to 131.3 billion Saudi riyals, in developing electric and self-driving cars.

General Motors had announced at the beginning of 2020, before the outbreak of the Corona virus in the United States of America, an investment of $ 20 billion in the development of electric and self-driving cars, and then raised the total amount to $ 27 billion during the month of November.

General Motors increased its investments in this field after the American company Ford announced that it intends to invest another $30 billion in electric cars by 2030.

General Motors is working during the coming period to establish two new battery factories in the United States, but without announcing their location so far.

In the event of the establishment of two new factories, the General Motors Group will become the owner of four factories to create batteries for electric cars, since it currently owns two factories in partnership with LG.

The General Motors group wants to provide 30 electric models to the global market by 2025, which makes it an urgent need to own a large number of electric car batteries.

General Motors aims to have sales of electric vehicles in China and the United States reach about one million vehicles by the end of 2025.

General Motors begins production of these models despite the lack of chips
The prestigious American automaker General Motors announced the models it will produce in the pickup truck category despite the semiconductor shortage crisis, known as the microchip crisis.

With the beginning of the decline in the crisis of relatively small semiconductor chips, which are used with great reliability in the auto industry, the auto giant General Motors had announced to raise production rates for various models in the coming period to compensate for the huge losses during the last period.

List of cars that General will produce despite the crisis

The American group, General Motors, announced the names of some of the models that it will produce during the coming period, despite the semiconductor crisis, as follows:

2021 Chevrolet Tahoe.

2021 Chevrolet Suburban.

2021 GMC Yukon.

Yukon XL model.

Cadillac Escalade luxury model.

Escalade ESV luxury model.

New Chevrolet Silverado Edition.

GMC Sierra.

These models will not come with a new version of the keyless start technology, as General Motors will abandon this technology in exchange for production cars as normal.

The leading group in the automotive industry, General Motors, confirmed that it will raise the production rate of pickup trucks, for which it is famous, during the coming period to about 1,000 new pickup trucks per month.

He confirmed that this increase will officially start at the General Motors plant in the US state of Michigan next July, despite the continuing crisis of semiconductor chips.

Hyundai and General Motors touch the future with flying cars
 Hyundai Motors and General Motors, the two giants of the auto industry in the world, announced that they are moving forward with their latest developments in the world of vehicles, with research aimed at producing flying cars.

If we are witnessing the fulfillment of many of the predictions of science fiction films and novels in the current era, the prophecy of the flying car may be one of them, and it will be operational sooner than we imagined.

South Korea's Hyundai Motors has expressed optimism to have a "flying taxi" service in operation possibly by 2025.

"It may take up to 2030 for flying taxi services to overcome technical and regulatory hurdles and reach commercial operation," a General Motors executive said.

Promising and future market
Other automakers are developing flying cars either on their own or in partnerships, including Toyota Motor, Daimler and China's Geely.

Morgan Stanley estimated that the total size of the urban flying taxi market could reach $1 trillion by 2040 and $9 trillion by 2050.

In March, German flying taxi startup Lilium announced that it would raise $830 million, at a valuation of $3.3 billion, through a reverse merger in New York with special-purpose takeover Plumber.

Lilium plans to take off its flying cars from a network of helipads around Orlando, Florida, by 2024 and aims to build another 10 helipads across Europe.

Last year, Joby Aviation, the US flying taxi startup backed by Uber and Toyota, raised money via a $6.6 billion special-purpose acquisition, while rival Archer merged with another $3.8 billion plumber.

Older, more established car companies such as General Motors were encouraged to invest as General Motors CEO Mary Barra introduced the concept of a “flying Cadillac,” a vertical take-off and landing drone that could leap between rooftops in the city.

The company stated that the project gave "a glimpse of what autonomous driving and Cadillac luxury might look like in the near future."

Commercially applicable
Experts point out that there are several limitations that influence turning fantasy into reality. For a new product like flying cars to be widely adopted, cars must move from being technologically and scientifically feasible to being commercially viable, socially acceptable and subject to consumer laws.

It is worth noting that huge investments in battery technology have transformed the energy-to-weight equation, allowing for cheaper cost, greater production range and lower noise pollution.

While Morgan Stanley analysts acknowledge that it will take decades for the urban air transport economy to be a reality, they note that future "simulations" indicate that air vehicles may in the near future be a promising competitor to conventional cars.