The newspaper reported that the hybrid Malibu gets 34 mpg on the highway and 29 mpg overall, while the gasoline-powered sedan gets 34 mpg on the highway and 26 mpg overall. The hybrid, however, costs approximately $4,000 more.
One California-based Chevy dealer seemed unconcerned by the elimination of the Malibu hybrid. The Journal reported that a sales manager at Ron Baker Chevrolet-Isuzu in National City, CA, said, “We could care less,” in reference to GM’s decision.
The debate over unintended acceleration, having lingered around the periphery of the auto industry for more than two decades, may be about to receive a fatal blow.
Against a backdrop of mounting product complexity and a need to keep a lid on development costs, companies are recognizing a need to make simulation a more integral part of the design process. In response, vendors in the CAD world are building out CAE functionality as part of their CAD suites while simulation vendors are building tighter integrations to leading CAD tools. Keith Meintjes, Ph.D., Practice Manager, Simulation and Analysis at CIMdata, Inc., joins Design News CAD Editor Beth Stackpole in this radio program to explore the new face of integrated CAD and CAE, how companies are benefitting from this tighter partnership between platforms, and how integrating CAE earlier in the development cycle pays off in optimized product designs.
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