Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

AMP will use the Remy HVH250 electric motors in their custom electric vehicle conversions. The first two vehicles available for AMP conversions are the GM Saturn Sky and the GM Pontiac Solstice. GM presented the study at the recent SAE 2010 Hybrid Vehicle Technologies Symposium. Earlier post.).

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Conversion Motor Motors Motoring 218

DIY Electric Car

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

It's a 2002 Saturn SL1 with 220,000 miles and a rough engine, however it still runs. I am thinking of doing a conversion like Daniel Lynn's car :-. I am presently stuck on batteries? I have bought my donor car. The price was $900 which was OK I think? In the end I went with what was available and what I could afford.

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Saturn 2002 DC Chinese 100

Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

General Motors presented an updated Viability Plan that accelerates and deepens the cuts in US brands and nameplates, dealers, manufacturing operations and employees intended to enable GM North America to breakeven (on an adjusted EBIT basis) at a US total industry sales volume of approximately 10 million vehicles. Fritz Henderson.

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GM Saturn Hummer 2008 150

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2011

van Wijk, a former Methanex executive, formed Saturn Methanol which subsequently built Titan Methanol, a 2,500 tonne per day methanol production facility in Trinidad, and began Atlas Methanol, also in Trinidad. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues. GigaMethanol and Gas to Gasoline (Janus NPRA presentation).

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Alaska Gasoline Gas Trinidad 257

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

This is from "Commercializing Plug-In Hybrids" (pdf), the current CalCars 24-slide presentation about PHEVs available along with other documents at CalCars Downloads. Several after-market companies have done PHEV conversions of the Ford Escape hybrid and one has done a retrofit of the F-150 pickup -- see Where PHEVs Are and ICE-Conversions.)

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Plug-in Plug Hybrid PHEV 45