The Truth About Cars
MARCH 18, 2024
Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. The Vue's platform outlived Saturn and still lives today, though.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
His career has spanned nearly 40 years with GM, allowing him to work on gasoline engines, manual and automatic transmissions, propulsion and vehicle controls, and hybrid and electric systems. His work in clutch-to-clutch control set the stage for other 6-, 8-, 9- and 10-speed transmissions at GM.
Green Car Congress
JULY 23, 2011
diesel and gasoline) and multiple injections to control in-cylinder fuel reactivity to optimize combustion phasing, duration and magnitude. Bower’s team will use ethanol instead of gasoline, and biodiesel instead of standard diesel. The first, a Saturn Vue called the eMOOve, will be a series hybrid, to be completed in 2012.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Saturn will remain in operation for the next several years, through the end of the planned lifecycle for all Saturn products. In the interim, if Saturn retailers or other investors present a plan that would allow a spin-off or sale of Saturn Distribution Corporation, GM would be open to any such possibility.
Clean Fleet Report
MAY 13, 2021
Battery-gasoline hybrids go back more than 20 years to the first Toyota Prius, but real mainstream battery-only electric EVs are only in their second decade. These European designs are perfectly good EVs, although their limited battery range and high price compared to the gasoline versions are major drawbacks. It debuted in the U.S.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 30, 2017
The Clarity Fuel Cell received the best driving range rating from the EPA of any electric vehicle without a combustion engine with a range rating of 366 miles and fuel economy rating of 68 miles per gallon of gasoline-equivalent combined.
Open Source Civic EV Kit
APRIL 7, 2008
With rising gasoline prices, I believe the demand for freeway capable electric vehicles is going to increase over the next few years. The Saturn came up a distant second, but everyone agreed that the Civic was the best. This project started about a month ago when I became co-chair of the Oregon Electric Vehicles Association.
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