Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

General Motors issued a short statement announcing that it is proceeding to the next step with respect to the sale of Saturn. A number of potential buyers have surfaced and expressed interest in the Saturn brand and retailer network.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2014

As a result of new CEO Mary Barra’s request for a comprehensive internal safety review following the ignition switch recall, General Motors announced three separate recalls involving US production and sales of approximately: 303,000 Chevrolet Express and GMC Savana from the 2009-2014 model years with gross vehicle weight under 10,000 pounds.

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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. The White House and Congress reached a compromise in a 2010 NASA authorization bill.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

As a result of GM’s strategic review of the global Saab business, the Saab Board announced today that it will file for reorganization under a self-managed Swedish court process to create a fully-independent business entity that would be sustainable and suitable for investment. The reorganization should have no impact on other GM operations.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

As part of the new plan, GM will accelerate the wind-down or sale of HUMMER, Saturn and Saab to the end of 2009, and phase out Pontiac by the end of 2010. The revised plan moves up the resolution of Saab, Saturn, and Hummer to the end of 2009, at the latest.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

Work on a research project developing an actively coupled ultracapacitor-battery system targeted at plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) applications is attracting interest from a variety of OEMs both at a component and a system level, according to Argonne’s Ted Bohn, in his presentation at the Department of Energy Merit Review this week.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2023

The two had been exchanging ideas in person and via email and reviewing the work of others who were trying to solve similar issues. Testifying before Congress in his early days at DARPA, he wore a three-piece suit. But extending it to handle multiple networks—whose reliability couldn’t be taken for granted—was a different story.

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