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PASSION FOR CHANGE; A Monegasque adventure in search of tomorrow.(News)
Byline: KEVIN A. WILSON
Ed Welburn says the young designers General Motors assigned to the Hy-wire program experienced an unexpected problem. ``After about two weeks, you could see it in their eyes,'' remembers Welburn, the director of GM's body-on-frame platform design studio. ``It was a kind of panic-it occurred to them that they had so much freedom, they didn't know where to start.''
Body-on-frame is about the only traditional descriptor that applies, though even that doesn't apply in the traditional sense, for the ``frame'' is a version of the Autonomy ``skateboard'' that GM showed at Detroit a year ago. No engine and transmission to work around. No ...
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- Press release article from: PR Newswire August 14, 2002 700+ words
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- GM unveils Hy-wire fuel cell prototype.
- News wire article from: United Press International August 14, 2002 700+ words
...Wednesday gave reporters a look at Hy-wire, the world's first drivable fuel...fiberglass. "The fact that we developed Hy-wire as a drivable concept vehicle in...With AUTOnomy, GM shared a vision. Hy-wire accelerates our progress with a functional...
- GM HY-Wire: ?El auto del futuro?(Automotriz)
- Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México) August 17, 2002 700+ words
...italiana Bertone y se le llam Hy-wire. Su misin principal es...convencional. El nombre Hy-wire proviene de una sesin de...trabajadores de General Motors. "Hy-" por el funcionamiento...combustible en base a hidrgeno y "wire" porque todos los sistemas...
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- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Hastings, Michael August 25, 2003 700+ words
...Technology Group designed their latest concept car, called Hy-Wire, they didn't have your average middle-aged SUV...shooting and looting their way through Grand Theft Auto. Hy-Wire got a fair amount of attention at last fall's Paris...
- Hy-Wire act.(News)(product information for Hy-Wire fuel cell car )(Brief...
- Magazine article from: Automotive News December 30, 2002 700+ words
Seats: 5 Wheelbase: 122.6 in. Length: 195 in. Weight: 4,185 lbs. Hydrogen storage: 3 high-pressure tanks weighing 165 lbs. Fuel cell power: 94 kilowatts Fuel cell stack: 19 in. long,10 in. wide, 20 in. tall
- GM Hy-Wire battles weight, cost challenges.(News)(General Motors Corp. )
- Magazine article from: Automotive News Jewett, Dale December 30, 2002 700+ words
...his promise. Journalists drove the Hy-Wire concept around a course on a wind...make some compromises to put the Hy-Wire on the road in France: * The aluminum chassis of the Hy-Wire - which contains the fuel cell...
- GM's Hy-wire concept: Case study in global teamwork.(Motor)
- Newspaper article from: Manila Bulletin January 2, 2003 700+ words
...Group and program director of the Hy-wire concept. Engineers and designers...Group developed the vehicles by-wire technology at its laboratories in...few challenges. Once we developed Hy-wires shape, we had to make sure that...
- Hy-Wire's act has its ups and its downs.
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL) July 2, 2003 700+ words
...contribution to the hydrogen hysteria, the Hy-Wire, at the automaker's Proving Grounds here. Hy-Wire began life eight months ago built...to which a body was attached. Hy-Wire is a stylish four-door, five...
