General Motors voluntarily recalled over 9000 hybrid vehicles, including the Saturn Vue Green Line. GM said the problem in an internal leak in the battery pack that caused the hybrid system is doomed to failure.
A General Motors spokesman told Automotive News that the company planned to sell 27000 mild hybrid vehicles this year, but threatens because their suppliers, Cobasys, provided faulty batteries. In an exclusive interview with HybridCars.com, a Cobasys executive asked not to call-GM responded to statements and press reports, saying: "A lot of it is not right," but declined to elaborate further.
The GM spokesman, was not clear in the Automotive News article, said the company voluntarily recalled about 9000 hybrid vehicles beginning in December 2007. GM said the problem in an internal leak in the battery pack that caused the hybrid system is doomed to failure. The vehicle could be driven, but without the benefit of the hybrid system.
The news about the battery recall comes at a time when GM is trying to ramp, despite its green image menu hybrid sales figures are still much lower than those of Toyota, Honda, and cross-town rival Ford. It is unlikely that the recent introduction of GM's first hybrid sedan, the Chevy Malibu hybrid one of the vehicles affected by the battery problems will reverse the trend.
The battery problems of the Saturn Vue Green Line, Saturn Aura Green Line and Chevrolet Malibu hybrid. By May, 2008 combined sales for the three vehicles were around 1,000 units. The company uses a different supplier for the hybrid system in the society in full-size SUV hybrids, which have sold about a few hundred units so far this year.
Unlike its competitors, General Motors has not consistently reported hybrid sales, but on the basis of figures reported HybridCars.com directly from the Saturn division in 2007, less than 9000 GM mild hybrid vehicles have already been sold. GM spokeman Tom Wilkinson HybridCars.com said that some of the 9000 recalled vehicles were not yet sold, and remained for many traders. Wilkinson told Automotive News: "I do not know how many hybrids we could have sold, but we would have at least 9000 more batteries for the pipeline."
Toyota also some teething problems when it released the redesigned Prius in 2004. A year later, several dozen drivers reported the vehicle on the delayed high speeds. In response, Toyota a service notice asking almost 25000 Prius owners to return vehicles for an hour-long software upgrade. Reports of the delay problem to the extent of the service.
GM is locked in Cobasys as a supplier for the mild hybrid models, at least until next year, because the batteries were designed specifically for the GM models. At the beginning of this year, GM has expressed its concern about the viability of Cobasys, since the company went through financial difficulties because one of its partners, Chevron, stopped funding his money-losing operations. The company was up for sale, but not all customers.
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A General Motors spokesman told Automotive News that the company planned to sell 27000 mild hybrid vehicles this year, but threatens because their suppliers, Cobasys, provided faulty batteries. In an exclusive interview with HybridCars.com, a Cobasys executive asked not to call-GM responded to statements and press reports, saying: "A lot of it is not right," but declined to elaborate further.
The GM spokesman, was not clear in the Automotive News article, said the company voluntarily recalled about 9000 hybrid vehicles beginning in December 2007. GM said the problem in an internal leak in the battery pack that caused the hybrid system is doomed to failure. The vehicle could be driven, but without the benefit of the hybrid system.
The news about the battery recall comes at a time when GM is trying to ramp, despite its green image menu hybrid sales figures are still much lower than those of Toyota, Honda, and cross-town rival Ford. It is unlikely that the recent introduction of GM's first hybrid sedan, the Chevy Malibu hybrid one of the vehicles affected by the battery problems will reverse the trend.
The battery problems of the Saturn Vue Green Line, Saturn Aura Green Line and Chevrolet Malibu hybrid. By May, 2008 combined sales for the three vehicles were around 1,000 units. The company uses a different supplier for the hybrid system in the society in full-size SUV hybrids, which have sold about a few hundred units so far this year.
Unlike its competitors, General Motors has not consistently reported hybrid sales, but on the basis of figures reported HybridCars.com directly from the Saturn division in 2007, less than 9000 GM mild hybrid vehicles have already been sold. GM spokeman Tom Wilkinson HybridCars.com said that some of the 9000 recalled vehicles were not yet sold, and remained for many traders. Wilkinson told Automotive News: "I do not know how many hybrids we could have sold, but we would have at least 9000 more batteries for the pipeline."
Toyota also some teething problems when it released the redesigned Prius in 2004. A year later, several dozen drivers reported the vehicle on the delayed high speeds. In response, Toyota a service notice asking almost 25000 Prius owners to return vehicles for an hour-long software upgrade. Reports of the delay problem to the extent of the service.
GM is locked in Cobasys as a supplier for the mild hybrid models, at least until next year, because the batteries were designed specifically for the GM models. At the beginning of this year, GM has expressed its concern about the viability of Cobasys, since the company went through financial difficulties because one of its partners, Chevron, stopped funding his money-losing operations. The company was up for sale, but not all customers.
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