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The 2011 Chevrolet Volt has gotten all the attention lately, including a narrow second-place finish in our GreenCarReports 2011 Best Car To Buy award, but General Motors also has a significant hybrid-electric vehicle program. While its full-size Two-Mode Hybrid trucks have had mixed success, the company’s mild-hybrid Belt-Alternator-Starter system did not do well from 2006 to 2009. From BAS II to eAssist But GM is nothing if not dogged, and as we reported more than a year ago, a new and far more powerful generation of the BAS system is under development. Now, as our colleague Vik...
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GM Resurrects Mild Hybrid System For 2012 Buick LaCrosseAs we first reported more than a year ago, a beefier version of GM’s mild hybrid system, the kind that was on the previous Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid, is coming next year. Set to debut on the 2012 Buick LaCrosse, GM’s new “eAssist” mild hybrid system is said to improve fuel...
Viknesh Vijayenthiran
