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09-19-2006, 09:37 PM
First GM vehicle powered by BAS, a hybrid system that delivers 27/32 city/highway. (http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/060919/1348010.html?.v=1)
Nashville Business Journal - Sept. 19, 2006
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Tennesee’s first hybrid (Saturn Vue Greenline) unveiled Tuesday.
Gov. Phil Bredesen visited Spring Hill on Tuesday to celebrate the first hybrid vehicle produced in Tennessee. The Saturn VUE Green Line is a hybrid version of the company's sport utility vehicle.
The first models have been rolling off the Spring Hill assembly line in recent days and have already been shipped to dealers. Bredesen and other state and local officials were on hand along with General Motors and United Auto Workers officials, including Beth Lowery, GM's Group Vice President on Environment and Energy.
Lowery said GM is implementing a three-pronged approach to alternative vehicles, seeking better gasoline engines, gas-electric hybrids and hydrogen fuel-cell technology.
"We want to make sure that everyone understands there's not one single solution," she said this morning. "We believe working on all of these technologies and bringing them to the marketplace in great volume is really the answer."
GM says the VUE Green Line provides a 20 percent boost in fuel efficiency, and gets 27 miles per gallon in the city and 32 on the highway. The suggested retail price is less than $23,000.
Bredesen, who took one of the VUEs for a test drive, said he particularly liked the price tag on the vehicle. "If we're going to take advantage of this we need to move the hybrids out of the ... cost is no object class" to something that's practical for the vast majority of Tennesseans.
Nashville Business Journal - Sept. 19, 2006
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Tennesee’s first hybrid (Saturn Vue Greenline) unveiled Tuesday.
Gov. Phil Bredesen visited Spring Hill on Tuesday to celebrate the first hybrid vehicle produced in Tennessee. The Saturn VUE Green Line is a hybrid version of the company's sport utility vehicle.
The first models have been rolling off the Spring Hill assembly line in recent days and have already been shipped to dealers. Bredesen and other state and local officials were on hand along with General Motors and United Auto Workers officials, including Beth Lowery, GM's Group Vice President on Environment and Energy.
Lowery said GM is implementing a three-pronged approach to alternative vehicles, seeking better gasoline engines, gas-electric hybrids and hydrogen fuel-cell technology.
"We want to make sure that everyone understands there's not one single solution," she said this morning. "We believe working on all of these technologies and bringing them to the marketplace in great volume is really the answer."
GM says the VUE Green Line provides a 20 percent boost in fuel efficiency, and gets 27 miles per gallon in the city and 32 on the highway. The suggested retail price is less than $23,000.
Bredesen, who took one of the VUEs for a test drive, said he particularly liked the price tag on the vehicle. "If we're going to take advantage of this we need to move the hybrids out of the ... cost is no object class" to something that's practical for the vast majority of Tennesseans.