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Twitter: michiganwllzDETROIT — While speakers all across The Business of Plugging in conference are obsessed with fuel economy and reduced emissions and how to get there, John Waraniak just wants to talk about how cars will continue to be fun.
Date: October 21, 2009
Categories: Connected vehicle, Electric vehicles, Technology, Uncategorized, green
DETROIT — As the electric utility and automotive industries come together to create an entirely new kind of vehicle, there is still much debate about such basic questions as infrastructure needs.
Gen. Wesley Clark challenges the auto industry to use the electric vehicle to jumpstart the economy
The first decade of the new millennium has given us some fantastic new vehicle technologies. Here’s a few of my favorites. Feel free to add your own.
GM has decided to pull back the Buick crossover it had announced earlyer this month.
At first, when I heard that General Motors had dropped plans for a new Buick sport utility vehicle, I was disappointed. But after further reflection, I realized that this could be a sign that GM really will start listening to what consumers want.
Two weeks ago at the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars autos conference in Traverse City, company officials announced that Buick would introduce a new mid-size sport utility vehicle, including a plug-in hybrid version, in 2010 as a 2011 model. Click here to see story.
It seemed like a natural progression since the vehicle would use the underpinnings of the new Chevrolet Equinox. It’s a formula GM has grown accustomed to using for generations: Develop several vehicles that differ only in trim or minor sheetmetal changes and bam, models that can be sold by four different divisions.
General Motors expects Buick/'s as-yet unnamed crossover to be the first plug-in hybrid vehicle to be offered by a major automaker.
Tom Stephens, GM’s head of product development, told the Center for Automotive Research’s Management Briefing Seminars autos conference, that Buick would launch a new five-passenger crossover in 2010 with the plug-in hybrid to come in 2011.
The plug-in version of the as-yet unnamed vehicle will have 270-horsepower version of GM’s 3.6-liter direct injection V-6. It will use a new version of GM’s Two-Mode hybrid system first seen on the Chevrolet Tahoe. It will be capable of driving on battery power alone at low speeds for up to 10 miles. The company said that although fuel economy numbers have not been set yet, it is possible that it will be able to double the mileage of the same vehicle without the hybrid system.
