Saturn Related Topics 
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 1, 2009
(PAG) has terminated its discussions with General Motors Company to acquire the Saturn brand, citing concerns directly related to the future supply of vehicles beyond the supply period it had negotiated with GM. Today’s disappointing news comes at a time when we’d hoped for a successful launch of the Saturn brand into a new chapter.
Green Car Reports
JANUARY 21, 2022
The first pre-production 2023 Cadillac Lyriq electric SUV has rolled off the assembly line at General Motors' Spring Hill, Tennessee, factory, GM president Mark Reuss announced Thursday on LinkedIn. GM is aiming to ship the first customer vehicles in "a few months" Reuss said. That means the automaker could meet the first-quarter 2022 deadline it.
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Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2009
and Penske Automotive Group confirmed details of a proposed transaction under which Penske would acquire the Saturn brand. If completed, the deal would save more than 350 dealerships and 13,000 jobs at Saturn and its retailers in the United States, and would preserve the Saturn brand. General Motors Corp. Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 16, 2010
will convert three of DTE Energy’s fleet Saturn VUE SUVs to battery electric powertrains. The all-electric DTE Energy fleet Saturn Vues will be powered by Amp’s exclusive modular electric powertrain system. AMP Holding Inc. Earlier post.) million Michigan homes and businesses.
Electric Cars are for Girls
MARCH 22, 2011
I have been considering converting my 1999 Saturn SL2 to electric. This has an automatic transmission. I only drive 12Km to work every day and believe
Green Car Reports
MARCH 14, 2011
The shuttered Saturn brand is quickly fading from memory, but now GM plans to bring back one former Saturn model to live on in a new incarnation. But even if you're a Saturn fan, you won't be able to buy one--unless you're a business.
Green Car Congress
MAY 4, 2009
General Motors issued a short statement announcing that it is proceeding to the next step with respect to the sale of Saturn. A number of potential buyers have surfaced and expressed interest in the Saturn brand and retailer network.
Green Car Reports
AUGUST 21, 2009
Just two weeks ago, we reported that GM's first plug-in hybrid vehicle--originally meant to be a Saturn Vue before GM decided to sell Saturn to Pennske--would become a Buick crossover. My, how quickly things change in the new Internet world. As GM said Wednesday on its Fastlane blog, "not all the feedback was positive.".
Green Car Congress
MARCH 29, 2014
Meanwhile, GM has decided to replace the ignition switch in all model years of its Chevrolet Cobalt, HHR, Pontiac G5, Solstice and Saturn Ion and Sky in the US, since faulty switches may have been used to repair the vehicles. About 95,000 faulty switches were sold to dealers and aftermarket wholesalers.
Green Car Reports
OCTOBER 20, 2020
GM looks to the birthplace of Saturn for making electric vehicles. The maker of the iPhone is getting into the business of electric cars. Porsche updates its plug-in hybrids. And the Model Y gets recalled, but because of OTA updates it’s not a big deal. This and more, here at Green Car Reports.
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 7, 2021
The same site that supported the inaugural launch of Saturn V and the Space Shuttle and every single crewed mission to the Moon, Pad 39A’s next mission doesn’t carry quite the same gravity but will still be a milestone in the history of spaceflight.
Plugs and Cars
JANUARY 4, 2007
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."
Plugs and Cars
NOVEMBER 29, 2006
Wagoner said GM is using the Saturn Vue hybrid sport utility vehicle to develop a plug-in hybrid, which can be re-charged from a standard electrical outlet, and will offer biofuel-capable Hummer SUVs. Tags: GM plug-in hybrid Saturn. (GM) Chief Executive Rick Wagoner said Wednesday that the U.S. for complete story: [link].
Teslarati
FEBRUARY 9, 2023
The first stage of Saturn V produced around 3400 tons (7.5M Unless SpaceX’s goal was a minimum-throttle static fire, Starship’s 31-Raptor static fire likely beat Saturn V’s record to become the most powerful ground test in the history of rocketry. The most powerful rocket test in history?
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
This is yet another reminder that GM can be a dysfunctional family of brands, to say the least (look at Saturn). As other GM brands exit these dealerships, he argues that they will likely shift to sell more Chevy vehicles and further expand the Chevy brand. Chevrolet Bolts on a dealership parking lot.
Teslarati
DECEMBER 17, 2021
Known as Launch Complex 49 (LC-49) and located where NASA once considered building LC-39C, a third Saturn-class pad to match 39A and 39B, NASA now says that SpaceX aims to develop the site into a dedicated Starship launch pad. The plot of land NASA deemed LC-49 as recently as 2017 sits about 1 mile (1.6
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 10, 2010
A National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) project, funded by GM, found that an ultracapacitor-based energy storage system (ESS) in a Saturn VUE BAS (belt alternator starter) mild hybrid performed at least as well or better than the NiMH battery system in the production hybrid. Source: Gonder et al. Click to enlarge.
Teslarati
FEBRUARY 1, 2023
Saturn V, the next most capable expendable rocket, could launch up to 118 tons (~260,000 lbs) to LEO and cost $1-2 billion per launch. SpaceX publicly advertising the expendable performance of Starship unsurprisingly confirms that the company is considering all of the capabilities its new launch system will offer.
Green Cars News
MAY 6, 2009
Having already taken the decision to close its Pontiac brand, General Motors has now announced that it will proceed with the sale of Saturn. Tags: Cars Latest news general motors Chrysler Fiat GM to sell Saturn Saturn. At this point, GM has declined to comment on a potential Fiat-GM tie-up.
Green Car Congress
MAY 16, 2014
The GM recall covers the 2005-2010 Chevrolet Cobalt, 2007-2010 Pontiac G5, 2003-2007 Saturn Ion, 2006-2011 Chevrolet HHR, 2006-2010 Pontiac Solstice and 2007-2010 Saturn Sky vehicles. After review and consultation by NHTSA, GM twice expanded the recall to include a total of 2,190,934 vehicles in the United States.
Green Car Congress
MAY 9, 2009
At the recent SAE 2009 World Congress in Detroit, General Motors engineers presented the first front-wheel-drive (FWD) iteration of their two-mode hybrid transaxle, termed the 2MT70 ( earlier post ), scheduled for its first application in the Saturn 2009 VUE 2-Mode Hybrid light sport-utility vehicle later this year ( earlier post ).
Teslarati
JANUARY 11, 2023
While the records of N1 , Saturn V , and Energia still stand, all three were retired decades ago. In terms of performance, Falcon Heavy is the fifth most capable rocket ever built and is second only to NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) today.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 7, 2013
GM Spring Hill Manufacturing, home to the former Saturn brand from 1990 to 2007, operates as a fully integrated complex. Chevrolet Equinox production began at the site in the third quarter of 2012 to meet growing consumer demand and support GM’s Canada operations.
Teslarati
MARCH 18, 2022
This is the first time a Moon rocket has rolled out of NASA’s Vehicle Assembly Building since Saturn V headed to Pad 39A for Apollo 17 in 1972. About six hours later, the massive rocket departed the VAB for the first time ever and began a four-mile (6.4 km) journey to Pad 39B atop Crawler-Transporter 2.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 25, 2014
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.
Teslarati
AUGUST 26, 2022
In Top Gear’s video in the rain, the hypercar handled more like the Saturn 5 rocket than a road-going vehicle. And if you are willing to keep your foot off the floor, the vehicle will even take you 300 miles , with 100% complimentary lifetime charging. Much like other electric vehicles, the vehicle is far from featherweight.
Teslarati
AUGUST 2, 2021
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Soviet Union was able to install its Saturn V-class “N1” Moon rocket’s 30 engines in just two days. Raptors on Super Heavy pic.twitter.com/jJy1vftHNB — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 2, 2021. Historically, only one other feat of rocketry comes close.
Cars That Think
AUGUST 28, 2022
Looks like we’re looking back toward the Saturn V. But Nelson is right: The rocket is retro in many ways, borrowing heavily from the space shuttles America flew for 30 years, and from the Apollo-Saturn V. “When you look at the rocket, it looks almost retro,” said Bill Nelson , the administrator of NASA.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 11, 2009
The Malibu hybrid shares components with two other GM mild hybrids: the Saturn Aura and Vue hybrids. Service and warranty of existing Malibu hybrids will be unaffected by the decision, as the company has an adequate supply of replacement components, including the 36/42V battery packs.
Teslarati
JANUARY 31, 2023
Saturn V, the most capable rocket ever flown, was fully expendable and could launch up to 118 metric tons (~260,000 lb) into orbit. If SpaceX can achieve those figures, Starship will be the most capable rocket in history even with the major performance penalties that full reusability entails.
Electric Cars are for Girls
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
What would it take to convert a Saturn SC2 to electric? The information on web sites is all over the place. Some want $5,000.00 for a kit while another
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 24, 2016
He was deeply involved in developing clutch-to-clutch transmission controls for the Saturn Automatic and GM Allison transmissions used in Heavy Duty Trucks. His work in clutch-to-clutch control set the stage for other 6-, 8-, 9- and 10-speed transmissions at GM. In electrification, Mr.
Teslarati
APRIL 5, 2021
As promised, the new information offers some insight into the cause of Starship SN11’s premature demise and the challenges of iteratively developing systems as complex as a fully-reusable Saturn V-class launch vehicle.
Green Car Congress
MAY 5, 2009
Prototype Saturn Vue PHEV plugging in to a Coulomb Chargepoint ( earlier post ) in San Jose, CA. Based on the current restructuring plan, GM is accelerating the wind-down or sale of Saturn to the end of this year. Click to enlarge. of Energy (DOE) and nonprofit Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).
Teslarati
JULY 26, 2021
There’s a distant possibility that SpaceX will build a true NASA-style Vehicle Assembly Building like the colossal VAB used to fully assembled Saturn V and the Space Shuttle at Kennedy Space Center. Musk’s assertion that the new facility will be “much larger” can be interpreted a number of ways.
Teslarati
MARCH 17, 2022
lbf) of thrust at liftoff – substantially heavier and more powerful than Saturn V or N1, the largest rockets ever successfully and unsuccessfully launched.
Teslarati
MAY 13, 2021
That performance is roughly equivalent to two expendable Saturn V Moon rocket launches for a total launch cost to SpaceX likely less than $500 million, while five of those 19 launches also brought in revenue on the order of $400M to $500M. Two and half years and ten launches later, the booster looks decidedly “flight-proven.”
Green Car Congress
MARCH 17, 2014
million Buick Enclave and GMC Acadia models from the 2008-2013 model years, Chevrolet Traverse from the 2009-2013 model years, and Saturn Outlook from the 2008-2010 model years. GM is aware of two engine compartment fires in unsold vehicles at dealerships and two cases of melted components.
Teslarati
JANUARY 13, 2022
SpaceX has plans for another two Transporter rideshare launches later this year.
Teslarati
OCTOBER 6, 2021
lbf) – more than twice that of the current record-holder, NASA’s famous Saturn V Moon rocket. Once SpaceX has qualified and ramped up production of next-generation Raptor 2 engines, Super Heavy’s max thrust at liftoff could jump to almost 7600 tons (~16.8M 33 engine boosters anyone?
Teslarati
JULY 2, 2021
Once Super Heavies are eventually outfitted with a full 32 Raptors, more engines than any other rocket in history, the booster will also produce more than twice the thrust of NASA’s Saturn V Moon rocket – still the most powerful vehicle ever flown.
Green Car Congress
MAY 1, 2011
van Wijk, a former Methanex executive, formed Saturn Methanol which subsequently built Titan Methanol, a 2,500 tonne per day methanol production facility in Trinidad, and began Atlas Methanol, also in Trinidad. van Wijk sold Saturn to Methanex in 2000 due to funding issues.
Teslarati
JUNE 1, 2021
Even in its weakest configuration, Super Heavy will still be more than 60% more powerful than Saturn V and 25% more powerful than N1 – the largest rockets to have ever successfully or unsuccessfully flown.
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