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Hybrids, Subaru, Mazda Clean Up In Consumer Reports 'Best New-Car Value' List

Green Car Reports

People buy green cars for fuel efficiency, but that''s often far from their only good quality. Consumer Reports released its "Best New-Car Value" list yesterday, and there are plenty of hybrids and fuel-efficient gasoline cars on it. The magazine named the 2014 Toyota Prius hybrid best overall automotive value.

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Perspective: Government Leadership Needed for Electric Vehicles to Succeed

Green Car Congress

The critical need for government leadership in the emergence of electric vehicles dominated a recent Green Fleet Management discussion in Toronto, hosted by Fleet Challenge Ontario. In an interview published in Maclean’s, a Canadian news magazine, the chairman and CEO of General Electric said, “ Government should be a catalyst for change.

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Electric cars doomed? Market outperforms early hybrid sales

Green Cars News

The electric car is doomed.nobody is buying them.these unfounded myth is perpetuated across much of the mainstream media. And yet new research by Scientific American shows that electric car sales are actually performing better than hybrids did were when they were first introduced.

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Does the future of electric cars hinge on costs?

Green Cars News

According to Ron Cogan, founder and editor of the Green Car Journal , the Obama administration is betting heavily on technology and that electric cars are not an exclusive answer to future transportation challenges and consumers will not be willing to buy them at all costs.

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When Will EVs Hit Primetime?

Revenge of the Electric Car

BYD’s all-electric e6 production line at the company’s base in Shenzhen was “ready for manufacturing&# in March, but was only producing the gasoline-powered F6, according to Yang Binbin, who writes for Caixin magazine, a business publication based in Beijing. Chinese green-car subsidies on hold.

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Transport minister launches new fuel economy label for used cars

Green Cars News

I hope as many dealers as possible will participate and I encourage used car buyers to look out for the label when they consider what to buy.”. The used car label is also available to motor industry information providers, with HPI the first company to provide its own approved version.

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Solving the Electric Vehicle Charging Conundrum

Cars That Think

Fortunately, one of my fellow contributing editors at the magazine is a bundle of answers. John Voelcker has been reporting on cars and the automotive industry for almost as long as he's been driving. He's also a contributing editor to Car and Driver , and is the editor of Green Car Reports.