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Review: 2022 Ford Escape Plug-In Hybrid lacks Lightning allure

Green Car Reports

With a Fusion sedan and C-Max hatchback, those Energi products were the perfect on-ramp for the electric vehicles we assumed would follow in greater numbers. Ford knows plug-in hybrids well. Nearly a decade ago it offered a smart set of Energi models proving that drivers were eager to plug in. They’re here.

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EPA proposes air pollution standards for oil and gas drilling operations; focus on capture of escaping natural gas

Green Car Congress

This significant reduction would largely be accomplished by capturing natural gas that currently escapes to the air and making that gas available for sale through technologies and processes already in use by several companies and required in some states. Methane, the primary constituent of natural gas, is a potent greenhouse gas.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

The Truth About Cars

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. In fact, fuel prices went insane right around the time that review was written. That car was the 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line, and I managed to find one in a Denver-area car graveyard recently.

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MAN Truck & Bus presents electric delivery truck CitE at IAA 2018

Green Car Congress

MAN engineers developed the concept in 18 months, leveraging the concepts of the short product development cycles of the software industry. Reviews with project participants at regular intervals accelerated the decision processes significantly. The MAN CitE is also equipped with special design tires from Continental.

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Ford Mustang Mach-E April sales experience effects of ongoing chip shortage

Teslarati

The Ford Mustang Mach-E is getting positive reviews from owners, but the ongoing chip shortage has adversely affected the all-electric crossover’s momentum in the market. When it reported its earnings, Ford noted that it was cutting its production outlook in half due to the ongoing shortage.

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BP awards Colorado State University $5M to research technology for oil recovery from watered-out wells

Green Car Congress

The term watered-out refers to a well that has begun producing large amounts of water—often occurring with waterflooding for enhanced oil recovery—thereby making oil production unprofitable. Oilfield Review. Upward of 70% of the petroleum can remain in the rock formations of many watered-out wells. Bill Bailey et al.

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New York show: Wild Genesis GV60 Magma electric hatch previews high-performance family to fight BMW M and Mercedes-AMG 

EV Central

Said to be close to production, the Genesis GV60 Magma previews a fast EV that Australians should be able to buy from around as soon as next year. Even the roof hasn’t escaped the aerodynamicists attention. Also named Magma, it will challenge the likes of BMW M and Mercedes-AMG. seconds likely.