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Friday, July 3rd, 2009The June ‘09 numbers are out, and they contain good news for hybrids. In an overall disappointing month for US car sales, hybrid sales increased 5.2% in units sold over June 2008. Overall, hybrids represented 3% of all vehicles sold, which makes the fourth straight month of increasing market share.
Green Car Congress has [...]
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Will the GM bankruptcy affect the Chevy Volt?
Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009With the GM Chapter 11 bankruptcy announcement this week, one of many unanswered questions swirling around concerns the Chevy Volt - the plug-in hybrid that GM had planned to start producing around November of 2010. While there’s certainly a great deal of uncertainty regarding what will happen to GM and what the “new GM” [...]
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Toyota seeing huge demand for its 2010 Prius
Sunday, May 31st, 2009So far, Japanese demand for the new Toyota 2010 Prius, the 3rd generation of the Prius hybrid, is greatly exceeding Toyota’s expectations. Toyota had set a sales goal of 100,000 cars in Japan by December - right now it looks like they’re going to meet that goal this summer. With so much initial demand, [...]
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Chevy Silverado Hybrid 1500 4WB Crew Cab review
Sunday, May 24th, 2009If you’re looking to buy a full sized pickup truck and you also want better gas mileage than what you’re used to in this size range, you might want to take a look at the review of the 2009 Chevy Silverado Hybrid 1500 4WD Crew Cab posted at All Cars Electric. A 6.0 [...]
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Ford’s 1000 miles per tank challenge
Saturday, April 25th, 2009Can you go 1000 miles on a single tank of gas? That’s the challenge that Ford has laid out, and this weekend they’re seeing if their Ford Fusion Hybrid can do it. Ford is using an unmodified (except for the paint job) Ford Fusion Hybrid for the test, and has employed some hypermilers [...]
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Hybrid price wars - great news for hybrid buyers!
Saturday, April 4th, 2009It looks like Toyota is aggressively going after the new Honda Insight, which is great news for hybrid buyers. The new Insight, which has been a great seller so far in Japan, was being billed as a Prius killer by Honda, and so Toyota is reacting to the challenge. The new, third [...]
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The New York Times road tests the next generation 2010 Prius
Saturday, March 28th, 20092010 Toyota Prius
The NY Times got its hands on the not yet available new generation Prius and hit 69 mpg. Of course, they were driving the Prius in a way you probably wouldn’t want to to on public roads (i.e. slow with lots of coasting), but the new 2010 Prius does have an EPA [...]
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Jalopnik posts first pictures of Tesla Model S Sedan - $49,900 seven seater Electric
Thursday, March 26th, 2009Head on over to Jalopnik if you want to see a bunch of pictures of the out in 2011 Tesla Model S Sedan. The Tesla Model S will have a 300 mile range, a 45 minute fast charge capability, a 0 to 60 time of 5.5 seconds, and room to seat 7.
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Hybrid news - Honda Insight goes on sale this week, while the Ford Fusion may not quite be living up to its EPA mpg numbers
Saturday, March 21st, 2009If you’re interested in buying a hybrid, Honda’s Insight will hit the showrooms starting this Tuesday. The LX base model price is $19,800 (with an additional $670 for freight charges), while the option loaded EX model lists for $21,300. The Insight’s EPA mpg is 40/city, 43 highway. Honda is trying [...]
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West coast governors envisioning 3 state alternative fueling station plan
Sunday, March 8th, 2009The Governors of Washington, Oregon and California have been talking about a plan to devleop alternative energy fueling stations along interstate 5. Their plan would create what they call a “green highway” that streches from the Canadian border all the way down to Mexico - they envision stations at every rest stop that [...]
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