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2015 Kia Soul EV Electric Car Unveiled At Chicago Auto Show

Green Car Reports

this morning, officially launching the 2015 Kia Soul EV at the Chicago Auto Show. The Soul EV was one of three Kia vehicles featured at the Chicago show. Call it electric Soul: Kia took the wraps off its first electric car to be sold in the U.S.

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2015 Chevrolet City Express Small Van Launched At Chicago Auto Show

Green Car Reports

Chevrolet has announced full details of its 2015 City Express van, launched at this year''s Chicago Auto Show. Basically a rebadged version of Nissan''s NV200 van--best-known in its more fenestrated guise as New York City''s "Taxi of Tomorrow"--the City Express promises greater fuel efficiency than full-size vans.

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2015 Kia Soul EV Electric Car: Chicago Auto Show Live Photos

Green Car Reports

If you can get over the rodent-based adverts, Kia''s new electric Soul, the 2015 Soul EV, is quite an interesting vehicle, and it''s the first electric car sold by Kia in the U.S. It''s making its debut at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show, and gives buyers yet another body style for their electric.'

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2016 Chevrolet Equinox: Updated SUV Unveiled At 2015 Chicago Auto Show

Green Car Reports

The 2015 Trax may be the new kid on the block, but Chevrolet isn''t completely ignoring its next-smallest crossover. Debuting at the 2015 Chicago Auto Show, the 2016 Chevrolet Equinox gets a handful of styling and trim changes, but is essentially unchanged mechanically.

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QOTD: Where Have You Encountered the Worst Traffic?

The Truth About Cars

As much as I love driving, this is part of why I pay way too much to live in the city of Chicago proper as opposed to the suburbs, even though I grew up in the 'burbs. The flip side of this is that I often deal with Chicago's horrendous traffic. As bad as Chicago traffic is, I've dealt with LA's notoriously terrible traffic jams.

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U Chicago, MIT study suggests ongoing use of fossil fuels absent new carbon taxes

Green Car Congress

A paper by a team from the University of Chicago and MIT suggests that technology-driven cost reductions in fossil fuels will lead to the continued use of fossil fuels—oil, gas, and coal—unless governments pass new taxes on carbon emissions. But in 2015, the average price of oil was about $49 per barrel.

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2015 Lincoln Navigator replaces 5.4L V8 with new 3.5L V6 EcoBoost engine

Green Car Congress

Ford’s Lincoln Motor Company introduced the new 2015 Navigator luxury SUV, which will make its public debut at the Chicago Auto Show on 6 Feb. The 2015 Navigator features a six-speed automatic transmission with Lincoln’s SelectShift, which allows the driver to manually control gears if desired. The new Navigator replaces the 5.4-liter

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