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Last month, the U.S. government’s General Services Administration (GSA) said that it would be buying $210 million worth of new, fuel-efficient or alternative energy vehicles.  Each of the cars purchased would be replacing vehicles that were already at the end of their service life, so this wasn’t just frivolous spending, but the government did enact [...]

As part of its plan to once again become financially viable, the beleaugered automaker General Motors has been shedding some of its various brands in order to focus on their core vehicle lines.  One consequence of this is that Saturn is being dropped, even though that particular brand accounted for 28% of GM’s hybrid vehicle [...]

Electric drivetrains are nothing new, but finding a way to effectively power that drivetrain over long distances is a Holy Grail for automakers.  The development of the Voltec electric vehicle platform by General Motors, which will first hit the streets in the Chevrolet Volt in November 2010, is focused in large part on battery technologies.  [...]