Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The 2013 Chevrolet Cruze may best live up to the promise that its former Saturn division never did: that an American car company could design and build small cars to rival Japanese competitors for both quality and value.

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Teslarati

JULY 2, 2021

Six weeks after assembly began, SpaceX has completed Starship’s first true Super Heavy booster prototype, rolled it out of its ‘high bay’ nest, and installed the building-sized rocket at the launch pad. Super Heavy Booster 3 on test pad A: pic.twitter.com/PEsjdIocVI — Starship Gazer (@StarshipGazer) July 1, 2021.

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Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2023

The company has been building the second of several planned Starship launch sites for more than three years. Ironically, work on that pad began before the company started building the pad that will actually support Starship’s first orbital launch attempts.

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DIY Electric Car

MARCH 10, 2012

However I have been busy buying parts and I building myslef a lab power supply for a old computer ATX power supply which I had lying around. Hope to finish the Volvo this weekend and then start de-ICE ing the Saturn. Had to replace the lower control arm on my Volvo V70xc. What a pain that is? This a link as to how to do it.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 22, 2021

More than three months after the building-sized Starship booster’s latest return to Starbase’s orbital launch site, SpaceX has finally begun the process of testing what CEO Elon Musk says is still the first flightworthy Super Heavy. lbf) of thrust – 50% more powerful than NASA’s retired Saturn V Moon rocket.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2009

The EcoCAR competition, along with its headline sponsors—the US Department of Energy (DOE) and General Motors (GM)—challenges 17 universities across the US and Canada to redesign and reengineer a 2009 Saturn VUE to further minimize fuel consumption and reduce emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

The co-developed new generation stack builds on the compact size and high-performance of Honda’s current generation stack in the Clarity ( earlier post ) by achieving significant cost reductions. Earlier post.). FCSM will operate within GM’s existing battery pack manufacturing facility site in Brownstown, Michigan, south of Detroit.

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All Cars Electric

OCTOBER 24, 2009

Now reported widely around the web, Fisker Automotive seems to be near a deal to acquire General Motor's Boxwood Road assembly plant in Wilmington, DE, where GM produced the Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice. GM is discontinuing both the Saturn and Pontiac brands. Fisker Automotive intends to build their next hybrid electric.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

But very few consumers will come up with BrightDrop , the name GM has given to a new unit that builds electric commercial vehicles: full-size vans and even electric cargo containers. Thus, the restructured GM was composed of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac, while the Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands died. Why not GMC?

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Teslarati

JANUARY 23, 2023

The company almost always preferred to build, test, and learn from minimum-viable-product prototypes as quickly as possible, even if that meant that failures were guaranteed. The next heaviest rockets ever built, Saturn V and N-1 , weighed around 2800 tons (~6.2M lbs) fully loaded.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2023

They went over to Engineering Building 1, where the computer was housed, and found the building locked. “I Mainly, the group aimed to build a way to model the performance of the ARPANET and its gateways under different traffic conditions. Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to build the switches for the nascent network.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Our model is that we didn’s have the $3 billion to do a vehicle from scratch, and that even if we did, we couldn’s build a car as good as the Equinox.We AMP, which currently up fits Saturn Sky and Pontiac Solstice vehicles, is targeting the Nissan Leaf, with its 100 mile range, as its closest rival. Steve Burns.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2009

General Motors will debut its two-mode plug-in hybrid technology—originally intended to appear first in a Saturn VUE, prior to that brand’s sale—in a new Buick crossover vehicle in 2011. The new five-passenger crossover will build on the success GM has had with the Buick Enclave. Photo by Jeffrey Sauger for GM) Click to enlarge.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

These successes, together with renewed international scientific and commercial interest in the moon, have emboldened China to embark on a new lunar project that builds on the Chang'e program's newly acquired capabilities. under development , building on technologies from the Long March 5. James Provost. A human-rated rocket is also.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 12, 2010

A little googling revealed that the local Chrysler plant had recently closed, and these folks were hoping to see it re-opened and used to build a new generation of electric cars. I haven’t heard about them since (though the former Saturn plant in the area is slated for Fisker ) but the image stuck with me.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

Results of an earlier simulation study of capacitor sizing for the system shows that a 75-100 Whr capacitor bank is appropriate for a Saturn VUE-sized PHEV. Reduced-cost EDLCs, through capacitor construction that reduces labor cost (machine assembled with fewer parts). Gold Peak USA is supplying prototype LiMnO 2 polymer batteries.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Vehicle Assembly Building (VAB) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida—a cavernous structure built in the 1960s for constructing the Apollo program’s Saturn V rockets and, later, for preparing the space shuttle—the agency’s next big rocket is taking shape. Inside the. It’s taller than the Statue of Liberty,” he said at an.

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Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

For example, in 2008, it was rumoured that Toyota would build an entire brand around the Prius. In addition, General Motors’ nearest thing to a green brand - Saturn, the brand under which it put out its first hybrids - is falling victim to the company’s restructuring following the global economic crisis.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

The first 100 orders paid upfront - and thankfully so because the few stocks I sold to buy the car are worth far less today - and then we waited and waited as Tesla sped, lurched, detoured, veered and hurtled through the incredible complex labyrinth of building cars. And now… the day has come! I am very very lucky!

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. The facility is very well maintained and gives the impression of being on a gigantic movie set, since it is full of buildings and roads but contains relatively very few people. Build better products. by Bill Cooke. Click to enlarge.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 6, 2009

The two-mode plug-in hybrid technology that was originally supposed to appear in the Saturn VUE will now make its debut in a new Buick crossover vehicle in 2011. According to Tom Stephens, GM vice chairman of product development, the vehicle is capable of electric only propulsion for more than 10 miles at low speeds.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2006

As underscored last month when GM announced it would build a plug-in hybrid version of its Saturn Vue, the logic of electric propulsion is compelling. Electric motors are clean, lightweight, maintenance-free and powerful. The latest lithium-ion batteries are energy-dense, durable, compact and recyclable.

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

SpaceX) Further to the contrary, SpaceX’s Starbase factory is already building multiple intentionally-expendable Starships. In short, SpaceX already has extensive plans to build variants of Starship that are either fully expendable or can only be reused in orbit.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

In the basement of his school's engineering building, Dr. Frank and his students tinker with sport-utility vehicles. Saturn and a 200-horsepower electric motor. That was the Explorer's downfall last year in an annual contest held by the Department of Energy to see which American university could build the most efficient-running car.

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Teslarati

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

With ultra-low launch costs and orbital refueling, Starship could become the most high-performance rocket in history and outclass multi-billion-dollar single-use behemoths like Saturn V and SLS for a price tag less than Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy today ($70-100 million).

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Teslarati

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In theory, it would have been able to launch up to 300 tons (660,000 lb) to low Earth orbit (LEO) – twice the payload of Saturn V, the next most capable rocket.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook. Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook. The LAF pistons use a lightweight design, resulting in less reciprocating mass inside the engine, increasing efficiency, decreasing vibration and enhancing the feeling of performance as the engine builds revs. MY 2010 (announced to date).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

For people looking for the most effective way to end our addiction to oil, PHEVs have made sense because carmakers can build them now, with todays technology and using todays infrastructure. They reinforce the Pacific National Labs January 2007 findings that we wont have to build new power plants for cars that charge at night.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

Saturn :Ken Norwicks online conversion diary Saturn: conversiondiary Solectria E-10 : Tom Husons new project SolectriaForce : Tom Hudson doesnt let cold weather stop him. So You want To Build an ElectricCar: Where to begin. BuildYour Own Electric Vehicle : By Bob Bryant.

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Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

It successfully descended to Saturn's moon Titan in 2005 after being carried by the Cassini orbiter. The radiation builds up a charge on the materials over time, and precisely because they're insulators there's nowhere for that charge to go—until it's ultimately released in a hardware-damaging electrostatic discharge. JPL-Caltech/NASA.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Establishing dealer network. Batteries not ready.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

People are scared that they’ll get stuck and have no way of charging the batteries, hey I have an idea why not build a wind turbine on the roof that way as you drive the turbine spins and charges the battery. April 18, 2009 1:40 am Link I drive a Saturn SL1 that has over 300K miles on it. — Tony 11. I miss my EV1.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Photo: General Motors See Also: Feds Say the Volt Wont Save GM Well See a Chevrolet Volt in June Design Under Constraint: How to Build a Streamlined, Mass-Produced Electric Car Stumble ShareThis Claiming that GM has 18 models that get 30 mpg or more is a bit of a false dichotomy. Forget the black helicopter conspiracies.

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