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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

Here in the UK we’re so downtrodden by extortionate petrol prices that the prospect of driving fuel efficient green cars carries obvious appeal. However, what about our US neighbours where ‘gas’ prices are distinctly lower and so-called muscle cars are seen as almost iconic and part of the culture?

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Has the cash for clunkers scheme failed? The Green Piece

Green Cars News

So it seems that the programme is helping to get America’s dirtiest cars off the road, but that still hasn’t convinced some environmentalists. Nevertheless, that doesn’t mean that the success of the scheme should be ignored in that it has offered an incentive to buyers at a time when rocketing petrol prices are still very much on their mind.

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An interview with Riversimple

Green Cars News

Riversimple shot to fame in June 2009 when they unveiled arguably the most exciting development for British green car technology yet; the two-seater Riversimple hydrogen prototype. I believe that all three barriers are very real for the auto industry but they are not true in any absolute sense. 40Fires.org.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", losing sales to fuel-efficient cars from Toyota Motor Corp., todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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