Green Car Congress
AUGUST 30, 2009
On 11 August, GM invited approximately 75 journalists and auto analysts to spend a day learning about the new GM. The day was split between a morning session at the GM tech center in Warren and an afternoon session at the GM proving grounds in Milford, MI. GM’s identify in the US starts with its four core brands.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 8, 2009
Overall light-duty vehicle sales were essentially flat for the month, according to figures from Autodata, with 746,928 units sold in November 2009, compared to 746,789 units in November 2008. new light-duty vehicle market share. Total light-duty vehicle sales were up 2.6% GM reported a total of 1,020 hybrid sales, down 25.5%
Green Car Congress
MARCH 5, 2009
Reported sales of light-duty hybrids in the US dropped 29% by volume in February year-on-year to 16,020 units. The decline in hybrids was less than the 41% decline in the overall light-duty vehicle market for the month. GM came in second for total hybrid sales in the month, with 1,807 units sold. of all Auras sold.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 4, 2009
by volume from the year before to a combined 15,400 units, a lower rate of decline than that of the overall light-duty vehicle market in the month. Total light duty vehicle sales in the US dropped 37.1% to 315,863 units in January, while sales of light trucks dropped 37.8% 19 Aura hybrids, representing 1.4% Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
JULY 3, 2009
Hybrids significantly outperformed the total light-duty vehicle market, which dropped 27.7% Overall, Honda posted a 30% drop in light-duty vehicle sales in June. GM reported a total of 1,454 hybrid vehicles delivered in the month, up 26.5% Overall, GM light-duty vehicle sales in June were down 33.4% from June 2008.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 3, 2009
US sales of hybrids in March 2009 as reported by the automakers dropped 44% by volume year-on-year to 21,433 units; that performance was worse than the total light duty vehicle market, which posted a 36.8% Hybrid sales as a percentage of total light duty vehicle sales by automaker. 26 units of the Saturn Aura hybrid (1.3%
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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