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GM and Chrysler Submit Updated Restructuring Plans; Up to $18.6B More Needed; Outlines for Product Plans

Green Car Congress

Elements of the new plan include: GM will sell or phase out the Hummer brand by 31 March, with a final resolution no later than 2010. Pontiac will serve as a focused brand with fewer entries, within the Buick-Pontiac-GMC channel. GM will have a total of 36 nameplates in 2012, down 25% from 2008 levels. GM Fuel Economy plans. Click to enlarge.

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Abandoned History: The 2014 VIA VTRUX Pickup, a Forgotten Silverado

The Truth About Cars

In 2009 Raser displayed a Hummer H3 that claimed to return up to 100 miles* on a gallon of fuel (*in local daily driving) when it was outfitted with the company’s range-extender plug-in electric powertrain. This sort of topic is the very reason Abandoned History exists. Let’s learn about the world of VTRUX.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

The main concern is purchase price or more likely, monthly payment. You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude. GM has plans—for an electric Hummer of all things.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

The main concern is purchase price or more likely, monthly payment. You can see that every forecast issued for the number or penetration rate of electric cars, it should be in 2012, 2013, 2015, 2017—all of these forecasts have been wrong by up to an order of magnitude. GM has plans—for an electric Hummer of all things.