Plugs and Cars
JANUARY 16, 2007
And so we pay neither Big Oil, nor our local utility. If the Sierra Club, NRDC, and the Union of Concerned Scientists awaken from their CAFE-induced slumber and espouse such a message as Roberts' suggests, projects awaiting commercialization from a Toyota plug-in Prius to the Saturn plug-in Vue and the Volt just might get the jolt need.
Plugs and Cars
DECEMBER 22, 2006
As underscored last month when GM announced it would build a plug-in hybrid version of its Saturn Vue, the logic of electric propulsion is compelling. Putting these components together opens a world of oil- and carbon-saving possibilities." Electric motors are clean, lightweight, maintenance-free and powerful.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 13, 2009
Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook. Saturn Sky Red Line. Saturn Outlook. The cylinder head has integral cast oil passages that feed a set of internal oil control valves that activate cam phasers, enabling variable valve timing. Piston head and oil cooling jet. MY 2010 (announced to date). GMC Acadia.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
For people looking for the most effective way to end our addiction to oil, PHEVs have made sense because carmakers can build them now, with todays technology and using todays infrastructure. Adoption of plug-in hybrids will transfer the overwhelming majority of our miles driven to nearly oil-free electricity.
Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2011
The resulting methanol would be blended with crude and transported via the trans-Alaska oil pipeline to Valdez, where it would be extracted from the oil and processed via Methanol-to-Gasoline technology into gasoline. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
Plans Saturn Vue PHEV-10. Aims to get Saturn Vue on road in 2010; no production goal. I believe strongly that this country has to get off oil," he says, sitting beside a massive V-16 engine on display in his office. Lutz said GM is pushing to have Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid on the road by 2009. -- ( Autoweek ). "I
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
APRIL 21, 2009
It is also flex so that future biomass fuels such as cellulosic ethanol, methanol can be used (no oil). Also maintenance on these (no oil changes to speak of) etc will cost much less than an internal combution propelled car. Those cars will reduce oil demand at most by about 1/5th of one percent. — Volt Enthusiast 7.
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