 Stories About: cars AND electric vehicles AND fuel efficiency AND hybrids AND news
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Heeeyy, Tahoooe
Hybrid Chevy Tahoe wins |
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15 Nov 2007 |
News |
| "Green Car of the Year" award Posted at 1:02 PM on 15 Nov 2007 The Green Car Journal has awarded the "Green Car of the Year" prize to ... drumroll please ... the hybrid Chevy Tahoe. An eight-passenger SUV not yet on sale? Whaaa? "People don't think green when SUVs are concerned and for generally good reason, since SUVS often get poor fuel economy," says Green Car publisher Ron Cogan. "Chevrolet's Tahoe Hybrid changes thi ... |
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Go Get 'Em, Plugger
Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study |
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23 Jul 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Go Get 'Em, Plugger Plug-in hybrids would reduce greenhouse-gas emissions, says new study Plug-in hybrid vehicles, long extolled here at Grist HQ, seem always to elicit one question from doubters: Wouldn't running cars on electricity just mean more emissions from power plants? Answer: No! According to a ne ... |
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| Topics: cars, climate, electric vehicles, electricity grid, energy, fuel efficiency, green living, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, news, placemaking (all these topics) |
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Sticker Shock Absorber
Some hybrids can pay back their price premium over time |
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24 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Sticker Shock Absorber Some hybrids can pay back their price premium over time High price of hybrids got you down? According to the gurus at Edmunds.com, the cash some hybrid owners save on gas can make up for the sticker price. Hybrid cars and trucks cost between $1,200 and $7,000 more than their gas-chugging counterparts, but as analyst Alex Rosten s ... |
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| Topics: cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, hybrids, news, placemaking, politics, Prius (all these topics) |
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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 |
Daily Grist |
| 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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Prius-toric
Team achieves 110 mpg in Toyota Prius |
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09 Aug 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Prius-toric Team achieves 110 mpg in Toyota Prius If you thought fuel efficiency was cool, wait 'til you meet ... Xtreme fuel efficiency! Rawk! Ahem. A team of five oddly obsessive middle-aged American men, seeking to break the unofficial mileage record set in Japan, recently drove a factory Toyota Prius 1,397 miles on one tank of gas, spending two days circling around one 15- ... |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, hybrids, news, placemaking, Prius (all these topics) |
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