Plug-in Vue for 2009

Summary: "General Motors CEO, Rick Wagoner, tailor-made wrapped spreading his matter inscription to the salivating throngs of journos within the LA huddle limelight and the crux of his comments centered on the abandonment of GM's future vehicle's fuel systems.

The main word
was the increasing of a plug-in hybrid pigsty on the Saturn Vue Green Line's front-wheel storming platform. It entrust
be based on the front-wheel offensive two-mode hybrid drivetrain that GM also announced today. Although no time frame was cited, Wagoner insists that development is underway with battery manufacturers to develop the technology as quickly as possible."

This romance is in three parts: a blog with monotonous impressions, notes keen during the speech, and GM's factual press release. The writer's notes contradict the limelight release, which emphasizes plug-in and contradistinctive hybrid development by GM. According to the notes, Wagoner mentioned ethanol firstno surprise, since flex-fuel powertrains are the easiest way for the auto company to fake gains in fuel economy while still selling fat SUVs.

GM low-key looks to hydrogen as the long-term utility
for petroleum woes, with a few placebo hybrids in the meantime. No worthwhile auto reviewer has yet raved about the Saturn Vue Geen Line; why GM would accretion a rattly, strapping SUV conformation and betterment that for its most advanced and efficient powertrain is a mystery.