Taking strides together

SAE 2011 World Congress host company General Motors touts teamwork as a way to expand industry knowledge and encourage energy efficiency.

AT GENERAL MOTORS, 2011 will largely be remembered as the year of the Volt. With a host of 2011 Car of the Year awards already in hand and Chevrolet Volt deliveries expected in all 50 states by year's end, GM has taken a huge step forward this year in its effort to “redefine the DNA of the automobile.”

“We are right now in a very significant time phase where we are reinventing the automobile; the DNA of the automobile is basically being redefined,” said Karl-Friedrich Stracke, GM's Vice President of Global Vehicle Engineering and SAE 2011 World Congress General Chairman.