Teslarati

AUGUST 26, 2022

It could show the future of electric hypercars, not just from Pininfarina but from the market as a whole. With a quad motor setup that puts 1,874 horsepower and 1,726 pound-feet of torque, it will make your head spin as you rocket from 0-60 in under 2 seconds. Much like other electric vehicles, the vehicle is far from featherweight.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2009

Hybrid new vehicle market share by month. Hybrids significantly outperformed the total light-duty vehicle market, which dropped 27.7% General Motors. GM hybrids currently comprise the Chevrolet Malibu, Saturn Aura and Vue BAS hybrids; and the Tahoe, Silverado, Yukon, Sierra, and Cadillac Escalade two-mode hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

The AMP Equinox features dual Remy motors—the same model used in the GM two-mode hybrid system—applied in an AMP-manufactured drivetrain that is the “ secret sauce ” for the converted vehicle, according to Steve Burns, AMP’s CEO. signed a letter of intent for a potential long-term electric motor supply agreement. Earlier post.).

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Many US drivers now have a vague idea that General Motors is doing something with electric vehicles. That would give the radically slimmed-down GM a mass-market brand and a luxury brand. Buick, meanwhile, was vitally important for the Chinese market, where today more than four times as many Buicks are sold as in North America.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

The reported sales represented a 2.65% hybrid new vehicle market share (based on Autodata’s total LDV sales figure)—the highest monthly new vehicle share for hybrids so far this year, but below the 3.2% new vehicle market share. Hybrid monthly new vehicle market share. 338 units of the Saturn VUE hybrid, representing 11.3%

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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. The plan assumes a 19.5%

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Green Car Congress

MAY 15, 2009

In its recent S-4 filing and updated Viability Plan ( earlier post ), General Motors said it will reduce its dealer network from 5,969 stores today to approximately 3,600 by the end of 2010. We have said from the beginning that our dealers are not a problem but an asset for General Motors. outside of GM’s control.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 16, 2012

To create the largest impact, the researchers concluded, emphasis should be placed on the largest producers of vehicles; the five largest producers of automotive vehicles in the United States are General Motors, Ford, Toyota, Chrysler, and Honda. General Motors. Cost to manufacture is one of the main considerations.

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Auto Industry Industrial Industry Auto 252

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. Going forward, GM plans to spend proportionally less of its marketing budget on the corporate identity and more on the vehicle brands. Fritz Henderson emphasized: “ the only way we’re going to make GM great again is to win in the market.

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

Indeed sales of hybrids have significantly out-performed the total light duty vehicle market, which dropped by 27.7 General Motors: A total of 1,454 hybrid models were delivered in the month, which is a rise of 26.5 General Motors: A total of 1,454 hybrid models were delivered in the month, which is a rise of 26.5

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

Monthly new vehicle market share for hybrids. year-on-year to 35,429 units, representing a 3.55% new vehicle sales market share for the month—the highest monthly share yet. General Motors. Non-core brand sales declined when compared with June as Pontiac dipped 7%; Saturn was down 21%, and HUMMER and Saab declined 26%.

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Cash For Clunkers Sale Hybrid Dodge 150

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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Altima Hybrid Gasoline-Electric Lithium Ion Plug-in 100

The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Things were unsettled around the far-flung GM Empire during the second half of the 2000s, to put it mildly, and North American Suzuki dealers were moving a significant amount of Daewoo-built iron in the immediate aftermath of Daewoo Motor America's demise.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 26, 2006

He yanked big engines out of American cars and replaced them with electric motors that worked in tandem with much smaller gasoline engines. The current top seller is Toyota Motor Corp.'s Japanese car makers, about to market their own hybrids that didn't plug in, paid scant attention. Their first move with a Ford Motor Co.

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Plugs and Cars

AUGUST 18, 2007

We may need ICE vehicles to get there (gas cars will serve for long distance travel even as EVs come to market, I believe) but they should be parked and forgotten. Feet, pedals and electric motors only will make for a much more pleasant and greener event. Back after Labor Day. Google Guys Th!nk

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The main study shows that under all nine scenarios for both rates of market penetration of PHEVs and the evolving power grids characteristics (capacity/carbon intensity), PHEVs will vastly reduce greenhouse gases for the next 40 years. But theyve needed definitive proof that PHEVs wont increase pollution.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

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.) General Motors Chevy Volt series PHEV, which it calls "extended range electric vehicle" (EREV), part of "E-Flex" multi-fuel platform. Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Electric car supporters are rising to defend General Motors’ development of the Chevy Volt after the Obama Administration’s automotive task force proclaimed that the car was probably too expensive to be commercially successful in the near future. There’s plenty of room in the market for both. The group pointed to a B.C.G.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

" In other words, General Motors is going to lose its shirt until the Volt establishes itself in the marketplace. And what we want to do is make sure we launch the car well, that we get the maximum learning from it, that its successful in the market so that when we get to Gen 2, weve got the most cost out of it we can."

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