Ford readies mix of all-electric and plug-in hybridsCNET News, CAFord expects to price the electric and plug-in hybrid cars with a slight premium, comparable to what consumers pay for hybrids today, he said. At the 2009 Geneva Motor Show earlier this year, Ford showed its Tourneo Connect battery electric vehicle …
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Most Fuel-Efficient Cars For The BuckAlibaba News Channel, NEW YORKWith gas at less than $2 a gallon, sales of hybrid cars and trucks are down 33.6% so far for 2009. It's not that consumers have lost their sense of green; they're just focusing more on the kind in their wallets. Select models of inexpensive, …
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Obama's Clean Car Chimera Battery technology is still not good …Reason Online, CADuring the presidential campaign, candidate Obama promised to enact $7500 tax credit for new plug-in electric hybrid (PHEV) cars, vowing to "put 1 million Plug-In Hybrid cars—cars that can get up to 150 miles per gallon—on the road by 2015, …
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EarthTalk: Are hybrid cars really better for the environment?MiamiHerald.com, FLBy E/THE ENVIRONMENTAL MAGAZINE Dear EarthTalk: If you have an electric or plug-in hybrid car, you're paying for electricity rather than gasoline all or most of the time. How does that cost compare to a gas-powered car's cost-per-mile? …
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Most Fuel-Efficient Cars For The BuckForbes, NYWith gas at less than $2 a gallon, sales of hybrid cars and trucks are down 33.6% so far for 2009. It's not that consumers have lost their sense of green; they're just focusing more on the kind in their wallets. Select models of inexpensive, …
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Cabbies' suit says hybrid rule threatens workBoston Globe, United StatesThe plaintiffs say they do not oppose hybrid cars and generally favor the greening of the fleet. But they bristle at a regulation that they must buy new hybrids instead of less expensive used ones, and want the city to delay the changeover. …
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Missoula dealership looking to move Hybrid carsKPAX-TV, MTBitterroot Motors General Sales Manager Hal Woods says that Hybrid cars have been accepted well in Montana because of the great gas mileage and the environmental friendly factor. While the Toyota Prius claims to be the best selling Hybrid in the world, …
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A short history of General MotorsCanada.com, CanadaIt’s worth noting diesel-electric locomotives are hybrids and were produced decades before gas-electric hybrid cars. During the Second World War, GM manufactured trucks, tanks, aircraft and a variety of other military supplies, helping the Allies to …
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Buyers to Get Subsidy for Eco-Friendly, Compact Cars????(???), South Korea… Economy Ministry official said the government is formulating a policy to give W1 million to those who want to put superannuated cars registered before January 2000 out of service and buy compact cars or eco-friendly green cars such as hybrid cars.
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Honda Insight SETimes Online, UKIn the meantime, important sectors of the industry continue to suggest that hybrid cars present a respectable “intermediate solution”. They offer economical benefits but are reassuringly familiar, which is handy in a fundamentally conservative …
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