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Do Battery-Pack Failures Reduce the Life of Hybrid Cars? A Reader Asks

Green Car Reports

Our reader Jonathan P asks: I have a 1997 Saturn that, remarkably, is still running. It probably has the book value of a large watermelon, so if anything major goes wrong with it, that's the end of that. If that Saturn were a hybrid, I'm guessing the battery pack would have died about four years ago, give or take.

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SpaceX’s Starship rocket sails through first “flight-like” fueling test

Teslarati

The next heaviest rockets ever built, Saturn V and N-1 , weighed around 2800 tons (~6.2M First ever Starship full stack wet dress rehearsal in the books. Once fully loaded, the combined weight of the rocket and propellant likely exceeded 5000 tons (~11M lbs), making Starship the heaviest rocket in history. lbs) fully loaded.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

Family: Sigrid, his wife; sons David and Bennett Education: B.S. 1965, mathematics, Stanford ; M.S. 1970 and Ph.D.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Saturn :Ken Norwicks online conversion diary Saturn: conversiondiary Solectria E-10 : Tom Husons new project SolectriaForce : Tom Hudson doesnt let cold weather stop him. TheComplete Book of Electric Vehicles : by Sheldon R. BuildYour Own Electric Vehicle : By Bob Bryant. Includesan interesting look at several older conversions.

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They only have that many models because they use the same chassis and drivetrain to build 3 different cars, one branded as a Chevy, the next a Pontiac, then a Saturn, etc. So my Saturn SC1 does the job great I am getting 35-38 miles on the Hwy and with over 232,000 miles and runs like a champ. The first VCRs were well over a $1000.00

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