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The BMW-sourced 1.6L diesel in the Toyota Verso

Green Car Congress

The enhanced 2014 Toyota Verso features an expanded engine line-up which introduces a new 1.6 Since the initial launch of the European market Verso in 2002, cumulative sales have risen to more than 700,000 units. D-4D is mated to a Toyota 6-speed gearbox. l/100 km (52 mpg US) in the combined homologation cycle.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. liter engine and automatic).

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2014 Toyota Verso offering new 1.6L diesel from BMW, first stop/start system

Green Car Congress

Toyota first introduced the Verso in 2002, and in 2013, launched the current Verso MPV, developed exclusively for the European market. The 2014 Verso now features an expanded powertrain line-up of 4 diesel and 2 gasoline engines which introduces a new 1.6 mpg US) in the combined homologation cycle. The new 1.6

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BMW H2 BS

Plugs and Cars

Especially a super luxury car that switches to gasoline with the flick of a finger. The gasoline-only production version of this car, the 7 Series, is available today for between $75,800 and $122,600. And some say electric cars are too expensive. You can't beat a free car and free fuel.

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News: 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV

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Revolutionary New Honda EV In a first-ever technology pairing for series production, Honda is mating plug-in battery electric and hydrogen fuel cell electric in the all-new 2025 CR-V—e:FCEV. kW electric motor powered by electricity from its hydrogen fuel cell (fed by up to 4.3 kg of hydrogen).

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

How does this sound: 100+ MPG in a regular vehicle? But when you do, your car essentially becomes an electric vehicle with a gas-tank backup. Lifetime service costs are lower for a vehicle that is mainly electric. A PHEV with only a 20-mile all-electric range is 62% lower (see printed page 95 in the 2004 study ).

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Current Hybrids are natural donor platforms because they already have most of the needed electric propulsion components, so the conversion process deals primarily with integrating larger battery packs.A What changes do we make to convert a gasoline-only hybrid to a Plug-In Hybrid? See SEVA:Electric vehicle.

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