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Visitor remark: Automakers are lacking a chance to promote extra EVs to ladies

Baua Electric

In 2003, Volvo debuted the YCC, a automobile designed through and for girls. Saturn introduced a internet order referred to as “Novel Adventures” that featured 4 ladies in a retain membership interacting with a special Saturn in each episode. GM discontinued the Saturn logo two years then.

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Toward a Plug-in Hybrid Saturn Vue

Plugs and Cars

GM today announced two contracts to "design and test lithium-ion batteries" for use in the Saturn Vue Plug-in Hybrid announced last month at the LA Auto Show. According to the press release, two variants of Lithium batteries will be "evaluated in prototype Saturn Vue Green Line plug-in hybrids beginning later this year."

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Ohio State University Takes Top Spot at 2009 EcoCAR Competition with EREV Design

Green Car Congress

University students from The Ohio State University earned top honors at the 2009 finals of the EcoCAR : The NeXt Challenge competition in Toronto, Canada for their design of a Extended Range Electric Vehicle (EREV). The Ohio State’s design was powered by a 1.8-liter liter engine and fueled by E85 ethanol. Plug-in capability.

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EcoCAR 3 competition to use Chevy Camaro as base vehicle

Green Car Congress

For EcoCAR 2: Plugging In to the Future, GM donated Chevrolet Malibus; for EcoCAR: The NeXt Challenge, GM donated Saturn Vues; and for Challenge X: Crossover to Sustainable Mobility, the company donated Chevrolet Equinoxes.

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GM boosting investment at Spring Hill by $167M for two future mid-size vehicles

Green Car Congress

The facility is designed to supplement production for plants being retooled for new products or add production to meet sales spikes in real time. GM Spring Hill Manufacturing, home to the former Saturn brand from 1990 to 2007, operates as a fully integrated complex.

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Video Friday: In Der Natur

Cars That Think

Rethink ] The designer of one of the most destructive combat robots ever built gives some tips on how to hit harder. For two decades after launch, the spacecraft were planetary explorers, giving us up-close views of the gas giants Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. Somehow, they know exactly what my desk looks like most of the time.

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2013 Chevrolet Cruze

Green Car Reports

The 2013 Chevrolet Cruze may best live up to the promise that its former Saturn division never did: that an American car company could design and build small cars to rival Japanese competitors for both quality and value.