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

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engine side. The unit is designed to be scalable across a range of FWD vehicles with engines ranging from a 2.0L direct injection, spark ignition V6 gasoline engine, while requiring no more space than a conventional six-speed automatic transaxle. General Motors 2MT70 FWD two-mode hybrid transaxle, as seen from. Click to enlarge.

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GM and Honda to establish industry-first $85M joint fuel cell system manufacturing operation in Michigan

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Over the past three years, engineers from Honda and GM have been working as one team with each company providing know-how from its unique expertise to create a compact and low-cost next-gen fuel cell system. —Mark Reuss, GM executive vice president, Global Product Development, Purchasing and Supply Chain“.

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NC Transportation Center

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Cost is a big factor for making the batteries available to the average consumer, and Easley said with the proper research that the department can bring the cost of the battery from $10,000 to $3,000 and make other improvements. General Motors is also on the plug-in bandwagon with its Saturn Vue Green Line.

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The Beast in the Rumble Seat

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Hybrid doubters — who once railed that the batteries were sketchy, the costs of the so-called hybrid premium unrecoverable, the mileage gains overstated, and so on — are beginning to look like the Flat Earth Society. Electric motors are clean, lightweight, maintenance-free and powerful.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. Honda Sees PHEVs as having "unnecessary fuel engine and fuel tank;" promises all-electrics "assuming we can come up with a really high-performing battery that we are working on currently." Plans Cadillac Converj, Opel Ampera, other versions.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

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Its like having a second fuel tank that you always use first -- only you fill up at home, from a regular outlet, at an equivalent cost of under $1/gallon. People routinely pay more for such options as sunroofs, automatic transmissions, V8 engines and leather seats. You dont have to plug it in. See CalCars-News Archive for updates.

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