GM Seeks Gold in Silicon Valley
The Chevy Volt's technology represented a huge change for GM. But GM's future high-tech cars could represent an even more dramatic break with the General's past. Photo credit: General Motors Co.
In the old days -- before 2010 or so, in other words -- General Motors wasn't exactly known for its receptiveness to outside ideas. It maintained its own vast R&D operation, and it would listen to its suppliers, but new ideas from outside Detroit? GM had no interest.
We all know where that attitude led: Bankruptcy court, as GM found itself falling further and further behind its import rivals. Now, GM is under new management -- and those new managers are determined not to make the same mistake twice.
GM recently disclosed that it has a special team of executives following Tesla Motors' every move. But GM's actually doing much more. As Fool contributor John Rosevear explains in this video, GM is scouring Silicon Valley for high-tech innovations it can use in its products -- and that's a massive change from the old General's approach.
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