Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2017

and president of Honda North America, Inc. GM and Honda earlier collaborated in a powertrain cross-supply arrangement in 1999 under which Honda manufactured 50,000 V-6 engines for the Saturn VUE and Honda received diesel engines from GM’s Isuzu affiliate for use in Europe.

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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.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Representatives of GM stoked the clamor for the Volt, and a Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid sat on the show floor. As America downsizes and SUVs go unpurchased, GM’s diehards put inefficient if zero-emission H2/FCV Equinoxes in advertisements and a few dozen driveways to which they remain tethered by unavailable fuel.

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Charged EVs

MAY 31, 2022

Buick, meanwhile, was vitally important for the Chinese market, where today more than four times as many Buicks are sold as in North America. Thus, the restructured GM was composed of Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac, while the Hummer, Pontiac, Saab and Saturn brands died. The Task Force ultimately agreed.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

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. For North America, the electric Hummer is the first of a promised 20 or so GM EVs based on the company’s new Ultium battery and powertrain technology.

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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. Buick will focus on North America and China. GMC is “ professional grade ” and will focus on North America and the Middle East. GMC is “ professional grade ” and will focus on North America and the Middle East. by Bill Cooke.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

America’s first ground-up design pure electric sportscar since the EV1 arrives again. The keys will likely be handed to me (and EV1 co-veteran Linda Nicholes) by Bob Sexton, the very mechanic who rotated the tires of our EV1s at Saturn Marina del Rey back in 1998. But this week takes me right back to car heaven.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

MAY 29, 2009

I met Jerry Asher last summer on his trip across America in Madison, Wisconsin. 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

America's ready to go where North Carolina's ready to go." General Motors is also on the plug-in bandwagon with its Saturn Vue Green Line. "This new energy economy is out there just waiting for somebody to pluck it from the vine ," Easley said in announcing the plan at a forum on energy at N.C. Duke Energy Corp.

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Plug In Partners

MAY 23, 2007

The Volt will even make people forget that it was Lutz who gave us the Pontiac Solstice and Saturn Sky. was marching in the direction, it would give America a lot of stick to go to developing countries like India and China and say…”We figured it out… this is the technology we all should be investing in to save the planet.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2009

Non-core brand sales declined when compared with June as Pontiac dipped 7%; Saturn was down 21%, and HUMMER and Saab declined 26%. The 2009 model Escape Hybrid and Mariner Hybrid are the most fuel-efficient utility vehicles in America. Nissan North America reported sales for July of 71,847 units, a decrease of 24.6%.

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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. So, it was a single Grant cheaper than its twin from the same Tennessee assembly line.

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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. - General Motors North America structural costs are to decline by 25 per cent from $30.8billion in 2008 to $23.2billion in 2010. Hourly employment levels are to be reduced from around 61,000 in 2008 to 40,000 in 2010.

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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. Perhaps, at long last, truly what's good for GM might be good for America. Electric motors are clean, lightweight, maintenance-free and powerful.

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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. For the 2010 MY, GM will have eight direct-injected engines in 38 vehicle models worldwide, with 18 models in North America alone. GM North America Gasoline Direct Injection Applications. Saturn Sky Red Line.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

JANUARY 15, 2009

GM/SaturnEV-1 : Join Kris Trexler on his "ChargeAcross America" GM/SaturnEV-1 : Peter Ohlers new EV. Saturn :Ken Norwicks online conversion diary Saturn: conversiondiary Solectria E-10 : Tom Husons new project SolectriaForce : Tom Hudson doesnt let cold weather stop him. ElectricVehicles of America, Inc.

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Cars That Think

MAY 17, 2022

But when von Braun’s Apollo program came to fruition, in the late 1960s, huge crowds gathered every few months on the Florida coast to watch the thundering Saturn V rockets take off. They rained down on Paris, London, and other cities, killing 9,000 people , mostly civilians. It was a partylike atmosphere and a joyous time.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

for the Analysis of Global Security Set America Free coalition " Oil and Security " (PDF), by George Shultz and R. General Motors has announced its intention to mass-produce two PHEVs -- a Saturn VUE SUV, and the Chevy Volt, a series hybrid (where only the electric motor powers the wheels and the gasoline engine recharges the batteries).

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Visionary Vehicles Team w/Malcolm Bricklin (who brought the Subaru and the Yugo to America) aims for luxury PHEV. Lutz said GM is pushing to have Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid on the road by 2009. -- ( Autoweek ). "I I think that our No.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

“Any new technology like the Chevy Volt takes time to become profitable,&# said Jay Friedland, the legislative director for Plug-In America , an electric-car advocacy group. Currently there are only about 1,500 500 plug-in hybrids and 500 1,500 pure electric cars, according to Plug-In America. and Chrysler.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. " The feds arent convinced.

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