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What’s the Most Environmental Thing To Do When a Car’s Engine Dies

Clean Fleet Report

What’s the Most Environmental Thing To Do When a Car’s Engine Dies Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® The engine is fried on my old Honda Civic. Venice, CA Civics will last, but they do have a finite lifespan Studies show that the typical combustion engine has a lifetime expectation of about 200,000 miles.

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Could Future Mazda Engines Emit Less CO2 Than Electric Cars?

Green Car Reports

Is it possible to make a gasoline engine so efficient that it would emit less carbon dioxide per mile than is created by generating electricity to run an electric car over that same mile? In an interview published last week with the British magazine Autocar, Mazda claimed that its next generation of SkyActiv.'

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Alliance AutoGas launches 5300-mile, 12-city Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride with converted F-150

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Supported by partners, Clean City Coalitions and corporate sponsors, Alliance AutoGas is embarking on a 5300+ mile, 12-city, cross-country road trip—the Alliance AutoGas Coast-to-Coast Clean Air Ride —with its record-setting propane autogas F-150. Alliance’s new Engineered Conversion System, installed on a Bi-Fuel 2016 3.5-liter

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2016 Hyundai Sonata Plug-In Hybrid powertrain named to Ward’s 10 Best Engines List

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The powertrain of the 2016 Sonata Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) ( earlier post ) was named to Ward’s 10 Best Engines list. For Hyundai’s first entry into the plug-in hybrid segment, Hyundai engineers did an impeccable job blending fuel efficiency with refinement and daily usability. The vehicle is powered by Hyundai’s 2.0-liter

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Audi sets new lap record for diesels on Sachsenring; electric compressor overcomes turbo lag, enhances sprint performance

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Audi has set a new record time on the Sachsenring for cars with a diesel engine. The Audi RS 5 TDI competition concept is based on a technical concept car that Audi presented in summer 2014 on the 25 th anniversary of the TDI engine. —Ulrich Weiß, Head of TDI Engines Development at Audi. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Driver Takes Down a 113-Year-Old Salt Tram Tower in Death Valley

Baua Electric

A video of the incident , published by Outside magazine, showed a white pickup truck, partially immersed in mud, its tires spinning in place. It formed part of a 13-mile aerial tram, built by the Saline Valley Salt Company in 1911, to transport salt from the Saline Valley over the Inyo Mountains to the Owens Valley. “I

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Volkswagen Group receives 2015 KS Energy and Environment Prize for the Golf GTE and Audi A3 e-tron PHEVs

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The total driving range of the models is around 940 km (584 miles). They can be driven up to 50 km (31 miles) in all-electric mode. Despite strong competition, the awards committee was unanimous in its choice of the plug-in hybrids from Volkswagen. The plug-in hybrid offers a combined system power of 204 PS and fuel consumption of 1.5