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GM Will Apply Plug-in Hybrid Technology To One of Its Remaining Four Core Brands, Delivery Still in 2011

Green Car Congress

Saturn currently sells two hybrid vehicles (VUE and Aura with GM Hybrid System) and was scheduled to begin initially offering a two-mode hybrid Vue ( earlier post ), with a Vue plug-in two-mode hybrid version ( earlier post ) due in 2011 for use in a cooperative demonstration test fleet with the US Dept. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Plug-ins to play part in GM future

Green Cars News

Currently Saturn sells two hybrid vehicles - the VUE and Aura with GM hybrid system - and was also scheduled to offer a two-mode hybrid Vue with a Vue plug-in two-mode hybrid version scheduled for 2011 to be used in a test fleet with the US Department of Energy.

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

Green Car Congress

The 2MT70 transaxle, which is extremely compact at just 381mm (15 inches) in length, has the potential to bring two-mode architecture to a much wider range of vehicles. The unit is designed to be scalable across a range of FWD vehicles with engines ranging from a 2.0L four-cylinder turbo-diesel to a 3.6L

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Finding Battery Minerals With AI

Cars That Think

And then of course we use copper windings in the electric motors as well. And we need to understand the whole range of different possibilities. Strickland: Okay, and so you mentioned that you are finding the auras that you were hoping to find in Quebec. What’s the end game there? Goldman: Yeah, it’s a great question.

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Mercedes-AMG EQE53 4matic+ review

EV Central

We’re nearing ski-resort altitude on the winding road, and the EQE53 is doing amazing things. Mercedes-Benz Australia hasn’t yet decided which variants of the EQE will round out the local range. The present plan is to import a single-motor rear-drive entry-point version and a dual-motor all-wheel-drive mid-range model.