 Stories About: business AND cars AND news AND United States
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A Compact, With Less of the Devil
Small cars gaining popularity in U.S. amid high fuel costs |
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02 May 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 9:48 AM on 02 May 2008 High gasoline prices and other economic woes have driven car-buyers in the U.S. to purchase smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles lately. Last month, sales of compact and subcompact cars made up about 20 percent of total sales; in the mid 1990s, small cars accounted for only about one in eight cars sold in the country. Sales of vehicles with four-cylinder engines also ou ... |
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Think Again
All-electric car coming to the U.S. next year |
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22 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 7:57 AM on 22 Apr 2008 Reasonably priced, all-electric cars are coming soon to a California near you. (And then to the rest of the U.S. before too long.) Think Global, which was sold by Ford Motor Co. to Norwegian investors in 2003, will partner with two venture capital firms to mass-produce the battery-powered Think City in the U.S., starting next year. About the size of a Mini Cooper, the Think City is a two-seater but has ro ... |
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How Enterprising
Enterprise Rent-a-Car opens six 'green' branches in Atlanta |
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10 Apr 2008 |
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| Posted at 8:26 AM on 10 Apr 2008 The largest car rental company in the United States, Enterprise Rent-a-Car, announced it's opening six "green" branches in Atlanta, Ga., where 60 percent of the available rental vehicles will be hybrids or other fuel-efficient cars. The agency said the increase in efficient vehicles is due to consumer demand. Enterprise currently has a fleet of about 4,000 hybrids out of a tot ... |
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Buy Low, Sell Hybrids
Honda plans small |
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14 Dec 2007 |
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| "affordable" hybrid car for U.S. market by 2009 Posted at 6:37 AM on 14 Dec 2007 Honda Motor Co. has announced it plans to improve the fuel-efficiency of its U.S. fleet by using "affordable" hybrid-engine technology in at least one model of subcompact car by 2009, as well as offering diesel versions of its larger vehicles. A company official characterized the plan this way: "At this moment, we say hybrid for small cars and diesel ... |
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But Kermit Said ...
Japan rules, U.S. drools in new list of greenest vehicles |
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14 Feb 2006 |
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| But Kermit Said ... Japan rules, U.S. drools in new list of greenest vehicles An annual list of the world's greenest cars placed the top American car at an impressive, uh, No. 10, while Japanese cars took all of the top five spots. (But American cars dominated the Totally Un-Gay Testostero-Manly Mean Machine lis ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, fuel efficiency, hybrids, Japan, news, placemaking, Prius, United States (all these topics) |
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