GM is forming a new Vehicle Engineering Organization for Hybrids, Extended-Range Electric Vehicles and Batteries. It's job will be to accelerate the implementation of hybrid and extended range electric vehicles (what they like to call the Volt).
"The future of automotive transportation will be based on electrification of our vehicles," said Jim Queen, GM group vice president of Global Engineering. "By having a vehicle engineering team in place and focused on delivering the technical aspects of hybrids and E-REVs, we can accelerate these programs and get them into production quickly and efficiently."
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"The future of automotive transportation will be based on electrification of our vehicles," said Jim Queen, GM group vice president of Global Engineering. "By having a vehicle engineering team in place and focused on delivering the technical aspects of hybrids and E-REVs, we can accelerate these programs and get them into production quickly and efficiently."
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Re: GM New Vehicle Engineering Organization for Hybrids
Sun, January 27, 2008 - 7:15 PMToo bad they lost at least 5 years of development time by killing the EV-1, but I'm glad they're embracing electric cars once again. -
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Re: GM New Vehicle Engineering Organization for Hybrids
Sun, January 27, 2008 - 7:48 PMsome of these emerging technologies and renegade modifiers are going to be hitting the mainstream soon.
i wonder if some of these people who are trailblazing are going to get hired by the big automakers ...
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