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Visitor remark: Automakers are lacking a chance to promote extra EVs to ladies

Baua Electric

Saturn introduced a internet order referred to as “Novel Adventures” that featured 4 ladies in a retain membership interacting with a special Saturn in each episode. GM discontinued the Saturn logo two years then.

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SpaceX installs rocket-catching arms on Starship’s Florida launch tower

Teslarati

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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Perspective: A View Into the New GM

Green Car Congress

The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. As part of the culling, GM has the option to re-badge vehicles from the non-core brands, such as the Pontiac G8, Opel Insignia and Saturn Vue. I was able to spend 10 minutes driving a Saturn Aura sedan with an (HCCI) engine system. by Bill Cooke.

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GM Previews First Two-Mode, Front-Wheel-Drive Hybrid Transaxle

Green Car Congress

At the recent SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit, General Motors engineers presented the first front-wheel-drive (FWD) iteration of their two-mode hybrid transaxle, termed the 2MT70 ( earlier post ), scheduled for its first application in the Saturn 2009 VUE 2-Mode Hybrid light sport-utility vehicle later this year ( earlier post ).

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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. CarWeights : a database of car weights for many models and years Comutacar Bumper Upgrade: What to do when the rubber bumpers fall off.

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No Antenna Could Survive Europa’s Brutal, Radioactive Environment—Until Now

Cars That Think

It successfully descended to Saturn's moon Titan in 2005 after being carried by the Cassini orbiter. Much of our frame of reference for designing landers—and their antennas—comes from Mars landers. For context, so far the only lander to explore the outer solar system is the European Space Agency 's Huygens lander.

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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. Lutz said GM is pushing to have Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid on the road by 2009. -- ( Autoweek ). "I 4/06/07 GM spokesman Jeff Holland said Friday that its Saturn Vue sport-utility vehicle will be available as a plug-in by the end of 2009. (

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