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  Bambooweb: General Motors
General Motors, also known as GM, is a United States-based automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Daewoo, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Oldsmobile, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab, and Vauxhall.
General Motors was founded in 1908 as a holding company for Buick, by then controlled by William C. Durant, and acquired Oldsmobile later that year.
The chairman of General Motors at the time, Alfred P. Sloan, allegedly defended this support of the German government, because GM's operations in Germany at that time were "highly profitable".
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 Transit Toronto - Content: The HEP Units
Also, if the diesel engine were to fail, passengers would suddenly find themselves without heat or power in their cars.
GMDD took out the traction motors and the prime mover and replaced it with a smaller 900hp and HEP generator.
They lost their traction motors and prime mover, but got a new 900hp motor and HEP generator, as well as refurbished cabs.
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 EXPLORING THE AUTO CULTURE -- Carole SauvĂ©
In its early developments, the motor car was the fulfillment of man's dream of the "horseless carriage," self-propelled and capable of extraordinary speed.
The motor to power the self-moving vehicle was essentially a German invention, having been developed almost simultaneously by Gottfried Daimler and Karl Benz in 1885.
With the introduction of the yearly model by General Motors in the 1920s, a marketing tool was now in place to encourage and sustain consumer interest and demand.
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 GMC (General Motors division) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
GMC manufactured transit and inter-urban buses in Canada and the United States.
GM faced increased competition in the late 1970s and 1980s and stopped producing buses soon after.
In 1987, GMC later sold their bus models to Transportation Manufacturing Corporation (also under Motor Coach Industries in Canada) and later NovaBus.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/General_Motors_Diesel_Division_Buses   (616 words)

  
 After Gutenberg
Because of the heat that can be generated by lithium ion packs, it’s important for the cell manufacturer to do whatever they can to minimize internal resistance and the pack integrator has to do the same with the interconnects in the pack.
There is a general consensus among electric drive engineers that, if, coincident with full-scale production and further development, ultra caps came down in price, then they would become an essential component in electric vehicles, either replacing batteries or supplementing performance.
These buses have the premium Enova optional system, which includes a larger battery based on advanced battery chemistry that provides stored energy intended to be drawn down over the driving cycle.
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Nova and the Saint Eustache plant are both descendants of the former General Motors Diesel Division and Motor Coach Industries operations.
Their bus fleet consists entirely of GMDD, MCI and Nova buses; its Cremazie maintenance shops, the home of both bus and subway maintenance, were visited after the Nova plant tour.
The group was taken on a tour of the Ottawa busway system and then a stop at their Saint Laurent Garage, the largest of three garage locations, and the home of OC Transpo's administration and maintenance facilities.
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 ARR Stories: EMD London HEP Man
The plant here in London was opened in 1950 mainly to service the Canadian Railroads and replace all of their steam with diesel electric locomotives.
The plant at one time or another produced Terex trucks, city buses, articulated buses, and until recently light armored vehicles.
I worked on long hoods, traction motors, even as a janitor for a while.
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 AC   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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 HPL and Plymetal Panels for Buses and Coaches, Rail Transit and Urban Mass Transportation
HPL and Plymetal Panels for Buses and Coaches, Rail Transit and Urban Mass Transportation
FrankRalphs focuses on supplying interiors for Mass Transit vehicles of all types.
FrankRalphs is certified to ISO9002-94 and is a "Privileged Supplier" to customers such as Bombardier Transportation, Novabus Corp, General Motors Diesel Division, and CAE.
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