The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Volkswagen Routan , Saab 9-7X , Mitsubishi Precis , Acura SLX , Isuzu I-Series , 2006-2009 Mitsubishi Raider and 1988-1993 Pontiac LeMans come to mind here. Saab dealers were issued rebadged Trailblazers and Subaru Imprezas , because what the hell, and Saturn offered Opels that few wanted.

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Baua Electric

MAY 1, 2023

” Boeckmann took possession of Galpin Ford in 1968 and led the gang because it added franchises, together with promoting the primary Saturn car within the U.S. I worked every day from 8 a.m. He labored six days a year smartly into his 80s, even upcoming his son, Beau, become president and COO in 2014.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 27, 2009

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. share in 2009, with share stabilizing in the 18.4

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2009

of the new vehicle market, essentially flat with the January 2009 results. The Saturn VUE hybrid posted 188 units, for 6.4% The Saturn Aura posted 23 units, representing 1.5% Annual new vehicle market share for reported US hybrids, including 2009 year-to-date. New hybrid sales represented 2.3% by volume year-on-year.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 4, 2010

With the demise of Saturn, GM was left with only one model featuring its mild hybrid system, the 2009 Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid sedan, but sadly even that green vehicle was dropped from the automaker's lineup this year.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

Following the steep decline in US industry sales in December 2008 and January 2009, GM responded by further lowering its forecast for 2009 US industry sales to 10.5 Saturn will remain in operation for the next several years, through the end of the planned lifecycle for all Saturn products. million units (57.5

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Plugs and Cars

SEPTEMBER 12, 2007

From the pricey ads in national magazines devoting serious space to the Volt to today's announcement about the plug-in hybrid Saturn Vue, GM is compelling me to take their expressed interest in plug-in cars seriously. As announced in Frankfort and reported in Detroit , GM hopes for a 2009 release of the first Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid SUV.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2009

Year-to-date in 2009, hybrids are holding a 2.4% drop year-on-year in its combined hybrid sales in April 2009. 338 units of the Saturn VUE hybrid, representing 11.3% 31 units of the Saturn Aura hybrid, representing 1.7% high mark in April 2008. new vehicle market share. Hybrid monthly new vehicle market share.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 3, 2009

by volume in June 2009 year-on-year to 26,205 units, representing 3% of new vehicles sold—marking the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008, and the fourth straight month of increasing share. For the first half of 2009, hybrids held a 2.6% Sales of conventional RX models in June 2009, however, jumped up 52%.

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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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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Roll back the clock to the dark days of 2009, when two of the three US automakers collapsed into bankruptcy and were restructured by the White House Auto Task Force in the early days of the first Obama administration. Photo courtesy of FedEx. The BrightDrop Zevo 600. Photo courtesy of FedEx The BrightDrop Zevo 600. Photo courtesy of FedEx.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The two body styles parallel the pair of H2 versions sold from 2002 to 2009, when Hummer was one of eight brands offered by GM. The brand died in 2009 as GM declared bankruptcy, restructured with US government backing, and jettisoned not only Hummer but also Pontiac, Saab and Saturn.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2009

General Motors will debut its two-mode plug-in hybrid technology—originally intended to appear first in a Saturn VUE, prior to that brand’s sale—in a new Buick crossover vehicle in 2011. GM engineers presented the front-wheel-drive (FWD) iteration of their two-mode hybrid transaxle, termed the 2MT70, at SAE World Congress 2009 in April.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

Compared to June 2009, volume was up nearly 12,000 vehicles. Non-core brand sales declined when compared with June as Pontiac dipped 7%; Saturn was down 21%, and HUMMER and Saab declined 26%. Ford posted the first year-on-year 2009 sales gains of any major OEM in the US market in July, with total sales climbing 2% to 158,838 units.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2009

Results of an earlier simulation study of capacitor sizing for the system shows that a 75-100 Whr capacitor bank is appropriate for a Saturn VUE-sized PHEV. This unit is under test Mar-June 2009. Reduced-cost EDLCs, through capacitor construction that reduces labor cost (machine assembled with fewer parts).

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 28, 2008

Authorizes $30 million per year 2009-2018 Secondary Application and Disposal of Electric Drive Batteries Directs DOE to carry out research, development, and demonstration of secondary application of vehicle batteries, and Research, development and demonstration of recycling, and disposal of batteries.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JUNE 9, 2010

in 2008, but its sales fell to 14,595 in 2009. Smart brought in Lajdziak, the former chief of the Saturn brand for General Motors Co., Fuel prices dropped dramatically as a result of the recession, and reviews of the 41-miles per gallon car took issue with its sluggish performance and clunky transmission.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 15, 2009

Congratulations are due to the university students from Ohio State University, who earned top marks at the 2009 finals of the EcoCar: The NeXt Challenge Competition. The next stage of the competition will see students use their powertrains in the Saturn VUE, while the third year focuses on refining the vehicles to near showroom quality.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2009

The Saturn version of the two-mode plug-in hybrid at the Milford Proving Grounds. In April 2009, Consumer Reports recommended only 17% of the GM cars they tested while they recommended 70% of the Fords. Direct Injection V6 is a Ward’s automotive “Top Ten Engine” of the year in 2009. by Bill Cooke. Click to enlarge.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 23, 2009

Source: Japanese Newspaper Nikkan Jidosha Shimbun ; document.write(str); } //]]> Posted in: News More from AllCarsElectric.com 04/23/2009 Honda Will Not Lower Price Of Insight: Ends Price War With Toyota For now, Honda has decided to end the price war between their Insight and Toyotas.

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Green Cars News

JULY 5, 2009

per cent by volume in June 2009 compared to the same month in the previous year. GM hybrids currently include the Chevrolet Malibu, Saturn Aura and Saturn VUE BAS; as well as the Tahoe, Silverado, Sierra, Yukon and Cadillac Escalade two-mode hybrids. Reported sales of hybrids in the US increased by 5.2 per cent year on year.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2009

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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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

MAY 29, 2009

May 15th to 17th, 2009 was a unique experience in Columbia, Maryland. Besides presentations by the original folks involved with the Citicars, there was also a plastics repair demonstration (Citicars have Plastic bodies, like a Saturn) and "unofficial" events of driving laps and drag-racing.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

General Motors is also on the plug-in bandwagon with its Saturn Vue Green Line. The Vue Green Line will get a two-mode hybrid powertrain later this year and a plug-in variant will be introduced in 2009. Toyota is currently testing its own prototype plug-in Prius and 100 Californian households will receive plug-in Priuses this spring.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 27, 2009

This revised plan also moves up the resolution of Saab, Saturn and Hummer to the end of 2009 at the latest. - The Pontiac brand will be phased out by the end of 2010 and GM will offer a total of 34 nameplates in 2010, down 29 per cent from the 48 available in 2008.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

A National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) project, funded by GM, found that an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system (ESS) in a Saturn VUE BAS (belt alternator starter) mild hybrid performed at least as well or better than the NiMH battery system in the production hybrid. Source: Gonder et al. Click to enlarge. Pesaran, A.;

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Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2011

billion coal-gasification project, but called off the project in late 2009 due to high capital requirements, the narrow difference between petroleum and natural gas prices and uncertain US energy policy. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues. Eastman originally bought the plant in 2007 for a $1.6-billion

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 13, 2009

For MY 2009, GM is offering 6 engine variants with direct injection in 10 models in North America, 18 worldwide. The MY 2009 engines include three 2.0-liter Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook. Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook. liter Ecotec variants (LNF, LHU and LDK); a 2.2L Ecotec (LCH); and two 3.6-liter

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Cars That Think

APRIL 30, 2023

Fifty years ago, on 14 May 1973, a modified Saturn V rocket launched from the Kennedy Space Center carrying Skylab, the United States’ first space station. IEEE Spectrum interviewed him right after his mission and again in 2009. More than a decade later, a rancher found this end cap from one of Skylab’s oxygen tanks in the dirt.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

April 17, 2009 11:38 am Link Goodbye GM. April 17, 2009 12:22 pm Link I don’t see how the Telsa Sedan would be an advantage. April 17, 2009 12:34 pm Link Perhaps they should turbo charge the Volt or Telsa to run more like this electric powered Datsun drag racer: [link] American’s love a hot rod. — Goodbye 2.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Slide and summary table last modified February 2, 2009. Partnering with Alcoa, Duke Energy, Google.org, Johnson Controls Indiana startup plans to unveil vehicle May 2009 at EVS-24 in Norway; mass production in 2012. 1,000 pre-orders for small production runs in 2009 and 2010starting 4th quarter 2009. Batteries not ready.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

They only have that many models because they use the same chassis and drivetrain to build 3 different cars, one branded as a Chevy, the next a Pontiac, then a Saturn, etc. Posted by: AJ | Apr 13, 2009 3:24:59 PM Dont buy the hype, version 1 was the EV1 which GM released in 1996. Wired Home Subscribe Sections Cars 2.0 Thats right.

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