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For Don Johnson, GM's vice-president for US sales, these vehicles offer the perfect solution.

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Bob Lutz, the former GM vice chairman and old-school "car guy" who brought the struggling Volt to market.

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The just-named acting CFO, GM Executive Vice President John D.

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After a long career with GM, he served as vice president of OnStar for two years and then worked for a Seattle-based startup, before returning to GM in 2010.

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Prior to Disney, Scott was chief technology officer at GM and vice president of operations at Bristol-Meyers Squibb.

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But he goes on to say that Burns is the perfect guy for pushing radical technology--and has given him uncommon institutional support, by promoting him to vice president and putting him on GM's most senior management team in 1998, about the time fuel cells were starting to show promise.

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