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GM Releases New Viability Plan, Launches Bond Exchange; Phasing Out Pontiac

Green Car Congress

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. A more aggressive restructuring of GM’s US dealer organization.

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Grist Writer Gets the URGE2 Electrify

Plugs and Cars

Everything from light bulbs to organic food, to flex-fuel cars to a carbon freeze tax—no, make that a cap-and-trade program—clamors for attention. Tags: union of concerned scientists electric cars urge2 plug-in hybrid chevy volt Saturn grist NRDC vue Sierra Club. Everyone is paying attention to green. But enviros are all over the map.

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Smart Move

Revenge of the Electric Car

Smart will lease a fleet of 250 electric cars to businesses, organizations and select people, in Portland, Ore.; Smart brought in Lajdziak, the former chief of the Saturn brand for General Motors Co., in a bid to help re-energize its brand. San Jose, Calif.; Indianapolis; Orlando, Fla.; and the Washington, D.C.-Boston Boston corridor.

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Meet Mr. Internet: Vint Cerf

Cars That Think

Cerf oversaw improvements to the system for three years after the launch, then left when former colleague Kahn started the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) , a nonprofit contract research organization. His work on MCI Mail would have a big influence on his future work with the Internet. 1965, mathematics, Stanford ; M.S.

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MAEAA Web Links

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Saturn :Ken Norwicks online conversion diary Saturn: conversiondiary Solectria E-10 : Tom Husons new project SolectriaForce : Tom Hudson doesnt let cold weather stop him. TheElectric Barstool Racers : You have to see these in action to believethem. It is a good lookat what EV conversions used to be like.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) Lutz said GM is pushing to have Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid on the road by 2009. -- ( Autoweek ). "I See Chevy Volt for latest.

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Electric-Car Fans Rally Around the Volt - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

April 18, 2009 1:40 am Link I drive a Saturn SL1 that has over 300K miles on it. How about using a competition sailplane for comparison, instead? Or if you don’t want to go into details, just compare the Volt to the Aptera :-) — James 15. It is completely falling apart.

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