 Stories About: hybrids
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Car Wars II: The Accord Strikes Back
Honda's new hybrid Accord takes aim at Toyota |
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17 Sep 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Car Wars II: The Accord Strikes Back Honda's new hybrid Accord takes aim at Toyota Toyota has thus far dominated the market for gas-electric hybrid vehicles, with its so-hot-Cameron-Diaz-has-one Prius outselling Honda's diminutive Civic Hybrid by an almost two-to-one margin in the U.S. this year (and let's not even mention Honda's Insight -- you ever seen one?). Now Honda is fighting back by offering a hybrid vers ... |
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| Topics: cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Does My Butt Look Big in This Car?
Toyota's Hot-Selling Prius Appeals to Drivers' Vanity |
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24 Aug 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Does My Butt Look Big in This Car? Toyota's Hot-Selling Prius Appeals to Drivers' Vanity Last month, Honda sold 1,963 Civic Hybrids and a meager 34 Insight hybrids in the U.S. -- and sales trends for both models are trending downward -- while the Toyota Prius fairly flew off lots, with 5,230 sold in the U.S. last month. A Toyota spokesperson said the company could have sold twice as many if production h ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Whining Is Job One
Ford Battles Hybrid-Friendly Legislation, Destroys Electric Cars |
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24 Aug 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Whining Is Job One Ford Battles Hybrid-Friendly Legislation, Destroys Electric Cars Ford Motor Co. CEO Bill Ford's vocal attempts to position his company as eco-friendly are sounding a little hollow this week. As the California legislative session nears its end, Ford has ramped up lobbying efforts to kill a bill that would allow d ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, California, cars, electric vehicles, energy efficiency, hybrids, jackassery, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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Escape Notice
Demand for Hybrids Exceeds Expectations |
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14 May 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Escape Notice Demand for Hybrids Exceeds Expectations Demand for gas-electric hybrid vehicles has automakers scrambling to keep up. Ford's new Escape hybrid SUV won't go on sale until August, but already 30,000 people have expressed the desire to buy one via Ford's website, whereas the company had planned to sell just 20,000 a year. Meanwhile, waiting lists for Toyota's Prius are growi ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, business, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Action Heroes
How You Can Make a Difference for the Planet |
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22 Apr 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Action Heroes How You Can Make a Difference for the Planet With today's environmental problems so large, abstract, and intractable -- see warming, global -- you're probably wondering what you, one individual, can do on Earth Day to help. (If you're one of the people surveyed by Gallup -- see above -- perhaps you don't care, but humor us.) It's easy to feel powerless i ... |
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| Topics: cars, green products, greening biz operations, hybrids, Massachusetts, Prius, travel (all these topics) |
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Hy Jinx
Hybrids Gaining Ground Among Celebs, But Still Pricey for the Rest of Us |
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08 Mar 2004 |
Daily Grist |
| Hy Jinx Hybrids Gaining Ground Among Celebs, But Still Pricey for the Rest of Us Thanks to lobbying by intrepid enviro group Global Green USA, several high-profile celebrities arrived at the Academy Awards this year not in stretch limos, but in diminutive hybrid Toyota Priuses. Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon, Charlize Theron, Robin Willi ... |
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| Topics: cars, celebrity, consumerism, electric vehicles, environmental justice, green living, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics) |
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Stinky Unsafe Vehicle
On SUVs |
Umbra Fisk |
25 Feb 2004 |
Ask Umbra |
| Dear Umbra, Please help; my friend Kathryn Schulz, Grist's managing editor, is sick of hearing about my guilt. I own an SUV. In my defense, I got it almost six years ago, when I was moving to the mountains and needed a big car with four-wheel drive to support my rugged, transient lifestyle, and it's a littler model, not a Navigator. Life is funny, though, because now I live in New York, and the only thing I use my SUV for is commuting from ... |
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| Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics) |
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Put the Pedal to the Mettle
The word on relatively green cars and positively green bicycles |
Jim Motavalli, The Green Guide |
16 Dec 2003 |
Earthly Possessions |
| By Jim Motavalli and The Green Guide 16 Dec 2003 Hy-wire act. Photo: DOE. My daughter Maya, who is 9, saw a picture of the General Motors Hy-wire, the company's super-sleek experimental fuel-cell car, and immediately decided we should have one. Unfortunately, I had to explain to her that the hydrogen-powered, zero-emission, fossil-fuel-free car would be perfect for us in all respects except one: It's not ... |
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| Topics: bikes, cars, electric vehicles, fuel efficiency, greenhouse-gas emissions, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics) |
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Big Gulp
Ford May Restart Production of Its Biggest SUV |
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29 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Big Gulp Ford May Restart Production of Its Biggest SUV Ford Motor Co. disappointed enviros with an announcement this week that it may resume production of its monster-sized Excursion SUV, dubbed the Valdez by the Sierra Club. Last year, Ford said it would stop producing the Excursion after the 2004 model year because of falling sales, but now the company is reconsidering because, it says, the market for large S ... |
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| Topics: Big Auto, cars, celebrity, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Cheap Tricks I
Toyota Says Hybrids Can Be Inexpensive to Manufacture |
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03 Oct 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Cheap Tricks I Toyota Says Hybrids Can Be Inexpensive to Manufacture Defying conventional wisdom, Toyota unveiled its new hybrid-car production site in Toyota City, Japan, yesterday and sent a clear message to other automakers: Gas-electric hybrids can be manufactured inexpensively. Such cars have traditionally been thought of as too costly to be practical, and Toyota and Honda, the only two companies to ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Things That Make You Go Hummer
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07 May 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Things That Make You Go Hummer Yesterday, Grist reported that the average fuel efficiency of U.S. vehicles is at a 22-year low. Today, we're happy to report that at least people are upset about it. A survey of complaints about new vehicles, released yesterday by J. D. Powers and Associates, found that fuel consumption was the second-most-common complaint among all respondents. In the 17 years ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, fuel efficiency, hybrids, placemaking, Prius (all these topics) |
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Cutting the Cord
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25 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Cutting the Cord Fuel cells and hybrids are hot; electric vehicles are not. That's the word from the California Air Resources Board, which yesterday axed groundbreaking 1990 rules requiring auto manufacturers to sell a fixed number of electric vehicles (EVs) in the state, including 10 percent of cars sold this year. Instead, the board approved more modest regulations that will force car compani ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, California, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Driving Us Crazy
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21 Apr 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Driving Us Crazy Toyota last week unveiled a spiffy new version of its hybrid gas-electric Prius, which will get better gas mileage (55 miles to the gallon), emit fewer air pollutants, and give passengers more room than previous Prius models. The car will hit showrooms late this year as a 2004 model. Toyota also said it plans to eventually spread its hybrid technology throughout its fleet. But sales of P ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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You Can Hardly Prius Out of 'em
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24 Mar 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| You Can Hardly Prius Out of 'em Some stars toned down the glitz at last night's Academy Awards ceremony in acknowledgement of the war in Iraq, while others toned down their energy consumption, arriving at the event in gas-electric hybrid cars instead of gas-guzzling stretch limos. Actress Cameron Diaz was chauffeured to the Oscars in her own Toyota Prius. "I drive it e ... |
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| Topics: Cameron Diaz, cars, celebrity, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Things That Make You Go Hum-vee
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20 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Things That Make You Go Hum-vee Tax deductions granted by the federal government to small-business owners and the self-employed provide an incentive to purchase oversize, gas-guzzling vehicles like a General Motors Hummer, rather than small, more fuel-efficient cars like the hybrid Toyota Prius. An eligible buyer of a 2003 Hummer H2 could deduct $34,912 of the base price of the vehicle, for a tax savings ... |
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| Topics: cars, hybrids, jackassery, placemaking, politics (all these topics) |
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Wild Horses Couldn't Prius Away
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11 Dec 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Wild Horses Couldn't Prius Away Toyota Prius owners -- celebs and regular folks alike -- are doing more than saving money at the gas pump and curbing greenhouse-gas emissions: They're also making a political statement, thumbing their noses at Saddam Hussein, oil barons, and SUV owners everywhere. Wyatt Earp, a descendant of the legendary gunslinger, has purchased four hybrid-electric P ... |
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| Topics: Cameron Diaz, cars, electric vehicles, green living, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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Think Tanks
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03 Sep 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Think Tanks In another sign of the struggling automotive industry, Ford has abandoned a $123 million electric car venture known as Think. The company said it would instead invest in other alternative technologies, such as hybrid-electric vehicles and hydrogen fuel cells. Ford is cutting the initiative despite a California mandate that auto manufacturers offer up to 100,000 low-emissions vehicles per year beginni ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids (all these topics) |
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Oh, What a Bad Feeling
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01 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Oh, What a Bad Feeling Toyota has been getting a lot of kudos recently for its low-emissions hybrid vehicle, the Prius -- but the car company increased its carbon emissions in the U.S. during the 1990s more than any other major automaker in the country, according to a report released this week by Environmental Defense. The group said Toyota increased its CO2 emissions by a whoppin ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, cars, electric vehicles, hybrids, ozone, Prius (all these topics) |
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Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College
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03 May 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 03 May 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. I'm about to get on a plane to head to Boston, where I'll attend a meeting at the University of Massachusetts on global climate change and biodiversity. I've been invited to give a talk on research, recently published in the journal Oecologia, concerning experimental work we've done in Costa Rica on the effects of climate ch ... |
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| Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics) |
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Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College
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02 May 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Thursday, 02 May 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. My Standard Breakfast Boiled Egg was pretty near perfect this morning. Unfortunately, I burned the toast. You win some, you lose some. Happily, the morning was bright and clear with a kiss of warmth in the air, which bodes well for the peas and beans and strawberry plants sprouting in my garden. I'm afraid I've lost th ... |
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| Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics) |
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Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College
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01 May 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Wednesday, 01 May 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. Today is Canopy Lab Lunch. Every Wednesday at noon, I meet with the small cadre of students who are working or volunteering in my lab on projects related to forest canopy work. Because the Evergreen State College is a small, undergraduate-centered institution, I don't have many graduate students. So I try to cultivate the ... |
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| Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics) |
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Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College
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30 Apr 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Tuesday, 30 Apr 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. My boiled egg this morning was a bit on the soft side. I caught a look of concern from my nine-year old daughter, Erika, but I reassured her that it was okay. After breakfast, I spent much of the morning plugging away on a quest for funding for a project that started five years ago, to build a forest canopy walkway on o ... |
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| Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics) |
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Nalini Nadkarni, Evergreen State College
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29 Apr 2002 |
Dispatches |
| Nalini Nadkarni is an ecosystem biologist at Evergreen State College. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Monday, 29 Apr 2002 OLYMPIA, Wash. My day starts as most do: calling upstairs for my two children to rouse themselves for the beginning of the day. I then put on an egg to boil, a slice of toast to brown. I've been eating the same breakfast for the last three years, and even though the items of food are the same, I have come to learn that each day's breakfast ... |
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| Topics: art, Dispatches, education, grassroots activism, heroes, hybrids, Prius, travel (all these topics) |
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Sticker Shocker
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06 Mar 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Sticker Shocker But never fear, there's still some hope: Eco-friendly products might not be raking in the dough, but 60 percent of new-car buyers say they would purchase a more fuel-efficient hybrid vehicle, even if it raised the sticker price of the car. That was the conclusion of a study released today by auto industry research firm J.D. Power and Associates, which also found that nearl ... |
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| Topics: business, cars, consumerism, electric vehicles, hybrids, Prius (all these topics) |
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David Friedman, Union of Concerned Scientists
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12 Oct 2001 |
Dispatches |
| David Friedman is a senior analyst with the clean vehicles program at the Union of Concerned Scientists. UCS educates and works with the public to advocate for environmental solutions based on the best scientific understanding. The Clean Vehicles Program develops and promote strategies to reduce the adverse impacts of the U.S. transportation system. Dispatch: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 Friday, 12 Oct 2001 DAVIS, Calif. When I can squeeze time away on Fridays, ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, cars, Dispatches, energy efficiency, hybrids, politics, Prius (all these topics) |
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