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GM recalling 656 Cadillac ELR extended range electric vehicles over calibration of Electronic Brake Control Module

Green Car Congress

Meanwhile, GM has decided to replace the ignition switch in all model years of its Chevrolet Cobalt, HHR, Pontiac G5, Solstice and Saturn Ion and Sky in the US, since faulty switches may have been used to repair the vehicles. About 95,000 faulty switches were sold to dealers and aftermarket wholesalers.

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Analysis: What’s the Best Way to Market EVs?

Clean Fleet Report

But the battery-powered two-wheelers get separate showrooms, sales methodologies and marketing programs aimed at different target audience. This behemoth will be super powerful and long range–and will be expensive too. For our discussion, Saturn dealers were the delivery and service point for GM’s aborted first electric car, the EV1.

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Junkyard Find: 2009 Suzuki Equator RWD Crew Cab

The Truth About Cars

The Volkswagen Routan , Saab 9-7X , Mitsubishi Precis , Acura SLX , Isuzu I-Series , 2006-2009 Mitsubishi Raider and 1988-1993 Pontiac LeMans come to mind here. Saab dealers were issued rebadged Trailblazers and Subaru Imprezas , because what the hell, and Saturn offered Opels that few wanted.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It Saturn and a 200-horsepower electric motor. It had gobs of torque," he recalls.

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GMs Expanding Gasoline Direct Injection Engine Portfolio

Green Car Congress

direct injection engine generates 182 hp (136 kW) of power and 172 lb-ft (233 N·m) of torque. An engine with direct injection can deliver comparable power to a much larger displacement port-injected engine, with significant fuel savings. Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook. Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. Plans Cadillac Converj, Opel Ampera, other versions.

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NASA to roll SLS Moon rocket to the launch pad two days early

Teslarati

NASA ultimately devised a rocket that would extrapolate Shuttle external tank technology into a larger liquid hydrogen/oxygen ‘core stage’ powered by four flight-proven, reusable Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSME; now RS-25). Starship stands 119 meters (390 ft) tall to the SLS rocket’s ~111 meters (365 ft). NASASpaceflight).

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