Cars That Think

AUGUST 28, 2022

Looks like we’re looking back toward the Saturn V. But Nelson is right: The rocket is retro in many ways, borrowing heavily from the space shuttles America flew for 30 years, and from the Apollo-Saturn V. “When you look at the rocket, it looks almost retro,” said Bill Nelson , the administrator of NASA.

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Teslarati

JULY 2, 2021

Standing some 65 meters (~215 ft) tall, Super Heavy Booster 3 (B3) is the same height as an entire two-stage Falcon rocket and Dragon spacecraft and is expected to singlehandedly weigh six times more than a fully-fueled Falcon 9 when loaded with liquid oxygen and methane propellant.

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Gore Saturn Installation Building 145

Clean Fleet Report

MAY 13, 2021

These European designs are perfectly good EVs, although their limited battery range and high price compared to the gasoline versions are major drawbacks. For instance, the charge port will end up being where the gas fuel filler used to be, whether that makes sense for an electric vehicle or not. I’m hoping for the latter.

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Market Motorcycles Saturn Prius 70

Teslarati

JANUARY 31, 2023

SpaceX employees have nicknamed the arms “chopsticks,” and those arms are integral to what CEO Elon Musk calls “Mechazilla” Mechazilla refers to the combined launch tower and arms, which SpaceX has designed to grab, lift, stack, and fuel both stages of Starship.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 16, 2010

The first two vehicles available for AMP conversions are the GM Saturn Sky and the GM Pontiac Solstice. The torque and power density allows for improved fuel economy, increased range in all-electric drive mode and the potential for a smaller internal combustion engine in hybrid vehicles.

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Conversion Motors Motoring Motor 218

Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

The newly introduced GMC Terrain ( earlier post ) became the latest GM North American model that will feature a fuel-efficient gasoline direct injection (DI) engine in 2010. The direct-injection fuel injectors inject fuel directly into the combustion chamber and are located beneath the intake ports, which transfer only air.

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Gasoline Engine Oil-Sands Saturn 170

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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EPA VUE Saturn General Motors 150

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. One of the designers called Buick “ premium without being pretentious ” Buick appears to be targeting a Lexus like experience. The Enclave was the first step in the “ renaissance of the Buick brand ” as mentioned by another designer. by Bill Cooke.

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GM Buick Fuel Economy Economy 262

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. It’s designed to take a huge amount of cargo and people to deep space.

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Hydrogen Florida Congress Engine 119

Green Cars News

MAY 21, 2009

Times are changing in the automotive industry as customers search for better fuel consumption and more environmentally friendly vehicles with lower emissions. It appears that it is no longer viable for companies to designate one of their brands as green because advanced fuel efficient technology is expected across their range.

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Green Cars Green Saturn Malibu Hybrid 36

Green Cars News

JUNE 15, 2009

Their design of an extended range electric vehicle took first place out of 17 universities in the US and Canada that competed in the first milestone of this three-year competition. Ohio State’s design was powered by a 1.8litre engine and fuelled by E85 ethanol.

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Ohio VUE Saturn Extended Range 36

Cars That Think

JULY 21, 2021

Designing a robotic lander that can survive such harsh conditions will require rethinking all of its systems to some extent, including arguably its most important: communications. It successfully descended to Saturn's moon Titan in 2005 after being carried by the Cassini orbiter.

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Environment Design Power Powered 90

Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

When President Bush delivers his State of the Union address next week, he is expected to tout alternative auto fuels, like ethanol, as well as nuclear energy. While running on electricity, the plug-in's fuel cost drops to 70 cents a gallon, or lower, Dr. Frank estimates. Saturn and a 200-horsepower electric motor.

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Gasoline-Electric Plug-in Plug Recharge 100

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Audi Volkswagen-owned company exploring PHEVs Metroproject Quattro Sub-compact PHEV Concept Car shown October 2007; PHEV of A1 Sportback under consideration Bright Automotive For-profit spin off from Rocky Mountain Institute designing lightweight PHEVs, successor to RMIs 1990s "Hypercar" concept. Has shown some concept fuel-cell PHEVs.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

MazdaB-2600 : a nice pickup conversion MazdaMiata : Bill Theeringer project Manx Dunebuggy : Scottsbuggy, bike, and Comutacars Maxion: Max HallsCommutamatic II leaning 3 wheeler MercuryCapri : Uve has a great EV design calculator on his page. (No No picturesof his car yet though.) DeepCycle Battery FAQ : Everything you need to know.

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Conversion Midget Motors Taylor-Dunn DC 28

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

It says the Volt is too little, too lateand too expensive to save the beleaguered automaker, and it recently chastised GM for pumping so much money into the Volt instead of developing more fuel-efficient gasoline cars. GM is developing more fuel-efficient vehicles. Thats short-sighted. It offers 18 models that deliver 30 mpg or more.

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Volt GM Chevrolet EV1 41

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

While the Volt holds promise, it is currently projected to be much more expensive than its gasoline-fueled peers and will likely need substantial reductions in manufacturing cost in order to become commercially viable,” the task force noted in its recent assessment of GM’s restructuring plans. — Goodbye 2. — Dan 3. — Nick 6.

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