{"id":5052,"date":"2021-01-10T00:49:51","date_gmt":"2021-01-10T00:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5052"},"modified":"2021-01-10T18:43:49","modified_gmt":"2021-01-10T18:43:49","slug":"autobloggreen-qanda-nick-zielinski-and-gary-smyth-of-general-motors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/?p=5052","title":{"rendered":"AutoblogGreen Q&#038;A: Nick Zielinski and Gary Smyth of General Motors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Challenge-X presentation presentation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">General Motors<\/a> headquarters last week, a group of bloggers including myself, Matt Kelly of The Next Gear, Lyle Dennis of <a href=\"http:\/\/gm-volt.com\">gm-volt.com<\/a>, Todd Kaho of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greencar.com\/\">Green Car Journal<\/a>, Scott Anderson of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hydrogenforecast.com\/\">Hydrogen Forecast<\/a>, Philip Proefrock of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ecogeek.com\/\">Ecogeek<\/a>, and Matt Mayer of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.groovygreen.com\">GroovyGreen.com<\/a> were invited to sit down to dinner with Nick Zielinski and Gary Smyth of General Motors. <br \/>\n Nick is the Chief Engineer for the Volt program and Gary is the Director of Powertrain Systems Research and Development. Each will play a major role in shaping the direction and leading the teams that define the future of transportation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/gm\/\">GM<\/a>. We had a wide ranging discussion that covered topics ranging from a certain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/category\/conceptcars\/\">concept car<\/a> as it advances toward production, battery and engine technology, various fuels including coal to liquid and more. I&#x27;m not providing a transcript for this one because of the number people in the discussion, and the length but it&#x27;s definitely worth listening too. Unfortunately a jazz band started playing in the next room about 40 minutes in and that lasts about twenty minutes but you can still hear the discussion. The whole recording runs a few minutes shy of two hours and it&#x27;s unedited.<\/p>\n<p>Lyle gives his take on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gm-volt.com\/2007\/06\/07\/gm-volt-exclusive-part-2-interviews-with-nick-zielinski-chief-vehicle-engineer-of-the-volt-and-gary-smyth-director-powertrain-systems\/\">discussion here<\/a>, and you can listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/stadium.weblogsinc.com\/autobloggreen\/audiointerviews\/smyth_zielinski_dinner.mp3\">the whole thing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2007\/06\/11\/autobloggreen-qanda-nick-zielinski-and-gary-smyth-of-general-moto\/<\/p>\n<p>2007-06-11T15:36:00+00:00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the Challenge-X presentation presentation at General Motors headquarters last week, a group of bloggers including myself, Matt Kelly of The Next Gear, Lyle Dennis of gm-volt.com, Todd Kaho of Green Car Journal, Scott Anderson of Hydrogen\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autoblog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10337,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5052\/revisions\/10337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.abuelsamid.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}