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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. A 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line hybrid in a Colorado wrecking yard.

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Scrapyard Find: 2010 Citroën C4 Picasso VTR+

The Truth About Cars

This generation of C4 Picasso was built from 2006 through 2013, with all examples built at the assembly plant in Vigo, Spain. For 2010, the C4 Picasso was available with diesel or gasoline power. You never know where a Junkyard Find will lead you! It was available as a five-seater or (as the Grand Picasso) a seven-seater.

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Rio Tinto to take a position $1.4B in greener aluminum smelter, which might support EV output

Baua Electric

The announcement as of late eases anxiousness over jobs forward of that plant’s closure in 2025, and offers extra weight to Rio Tinto’s declare to being a manufacturer of inexperienced aluminum, with the more recent amenities emitting some distance fewer greenhouse gasoline emissions. The post Rio Tinto to take a position $1.4B

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Plug In Partners

must not be 'hostage' to foreign oil February 20, 2006 MIT researchers invent new hybrid car battery February 7, 2006 Re-thinking the world's economic future February 7, 2006 100-M.P.G.

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BYD Han & Tang form reached one millionth supply milestone

Baua Electric

542 refers to 0 – 100 km/h acceleration date inside 5 seconds, electrical four-wheel pressure, and gasoline intake beneath 2L/100km. After in 2006, it advanced its first lithium iron phosphate battery known as F3e, however didn’t have a lot luck. This marked the start of BYD’s fresh power automobile advance.

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News: 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV

Clean Fleet Report

The first Honda hydrogen vehicle–the FCX EV Plus 1997-99 Insight Hatchback Hybrid 1999-2006 Civic Hybrid 2003-* (offered intermittently in various generations of Civics starting with the 7 th generation in 2003; note: An all-new Civic Hybrid will be released in 2025.)

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US grants ethanol blend waiver

Green Cars News

The waiver applies to new cars and light trucks built from the model year 2007 onwards – with a decision on the use of E15 in model year 2001-2006 vehicles to be made [.]. Tags: Biofuels Green cars Latest news E10 E15 Environmental Protection Agency EPA ethanol blends ethanol in gasoline ethanol in petrol.

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