Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2016

Chrysler unveiled the all-new 2017 Pacifica minivan in both conventional and plug-in hybrid versions at the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) in Detroit. The PHEV is the minivan segment’s first. The Pacifica Hybrid will deliver an estimated all-electric range of 30 miles from a 16-kWh lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2014

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ (FCA) Chrysler Brand will launch two plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) over the next several years, said Al Gardner, President and CEO of the Chrysler Brand, during the FCA Investor Day presentations at Auburn Hills, Mi. FCA will launch a PHEV minivan in 2016 to comply with ZEV requirements.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Exceeding its initial program targets, the plug-in 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid ( earlier post ) has earned an electric-mode fuel economy rating of 84 miles-per-gallon-equivalent (MPGe) from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). No other minivan has ever come close to this rating. (As All figures from fueleconomy.gov.).

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 5, 2023

Road Test: 2022 Subaru BRZ Limited. Raw Sports Car Fun. Sports car purity, says Subaru about the 2022 BRZ. After spending a fun week tooling around Southern California in the BRZ, there isn’t any argument coming from us. A vanishing breed. A Diminishing Breed. The BRZ is EPA rated at 20 mpg city/27 highway/22 combined mpg.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 13, 2017

The EPA’s draft Technical Assessment Report released in 2016 forecast cost increases to integrate fuel saving technology. Top: Incremental technology costs from a 2016 baseline to deliver 2025 CAFE compliance for a gasoline engine. liter, 3-cylinder (i.e., Achates will demonstrate the engine in 2018 in a driveable light-duty truck.

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Plug Me In

APRIL 9, 2024

It started in 2016 when I set myself a small challenge: how do you travel without money and in an electric car from the Netherlands to Australia ? Up to halfway through Morocco, I could travel by train, then mainly buses and minivans. Now, you might be thinking: “Why would you do that to yourself? I was intrigued.

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