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Auto Industry's MPG Report Card, Dealer Dilemma, GM Mid-Size Pickups: Today's Car News

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Today on Green Car Reports: The auto industry is making good progress in meeting gas-mileage goals, why dealers are a bottleneck for electric-car sales, and the 2015 Chevrolet Colorado and GMC Canyon mid-size pickup trucks are on their way to showrooms. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Electric-car charging fraud, Mercedes MPG, 2017 Rogue Sport, EPA axes science: Today's Car News

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Today, a transmission dies, a smaller crossover appears, Oregon wants to give car salespeople money, and the fossil-fuel industry may soon apparently run the EPA. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Electric Car Rentals, BMW i3 Production Boost, Larger Toyota Engines: Today's Car News

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Today on Green Car Reports: Production of the BMW i3 electric car may be increased, electric car rentals lag, and Toyota thinks larger, non-turbocharged engines can deliver better mpg. All this and more on Green Car Reports. It thinks "upsized".'

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Criticism for Government green car buys

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It seems like a great idea in theory - the US Government is backing up its calls for the public to move to green cars by buying some of its own. They have an average rating of 22mpg city/32mph highway with hybrid vehicles only achieving marginally better mpg ratings than their conventional counterparts.

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Ford doubles electric drive market share in US from 2012 to 2013; surging with plug-in hybrids

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of the industry’s 389,725 units sold. The flap over realized fuel efficiency of the C-MAX and its subsequent relabeling to a lower window-sticker mpg ( earlier post ) appear to have some slowing impact on its market performance. so far in 2013: 7,635 units out of an industry total of 32,718 plug-in hybrids. Chart at right.).

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Weekly round-up: Grand Tour trailer debut, fancy a Forza 3 car, how the school run affects MPG and more

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Well, we don’t know about that but pre and post-Paris Motor Show is always a quiet time in the automotive industry, with. No news is good news right?

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Volkswagen targeting 5% of Jetta sales in US with new sporty Hybrid model; expected 45 mpg combined

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The company anticipates EPA-rated combined mileage of around 45 mpg US (5.2 An industry first, the Jetta Hybrid uses a seven-speed, DSG dual-clutch automatic gearbox. Green Car Congress attended the media drive events held in New Mexico. The Jetta Hybrid can accelerate from 0-60 mph in 8.6 kWh, and pulse power of 32 kW.

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