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2012 Toyota Prius C Vs 2012 Honda Insight: Sub-$20K Hybrids Compared

Green Car Reports

If you're in the market for a brand new hybrid but want to save a few pennies on purchase price, you're really limited to two vehicles. One is the 2012 Honda Insight, familiar not just for its Prius-like profile but also having been on sale for several years now.

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GSA To Make 5,600 Hybrids Available To Federal Agencies, Including 100 Plug-In Hybrids; Cost Still An Issue

Green Car Congress

GSA previously purchased 1,600 hybrid vehicles using revenue from the sale of older vehicles that agencies exchanged last year when they received funds for new vehicles through the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) of 2009. They’re very expensive vehicles. capital’s limited. It’s tough to make that jump.

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Polk: 35% of hybrid owners buying hybrids again

Green Car Congress

While the selection of hybrid models in the US has more than doubled since 2007, only 35% of hybrid vehicle owners choose to purchase a hybrid again when returning to market in 2011, according to recent analysis by Polk. As an example, the Honda Civic is the second most cross-shopped vehicle among both Toyota Prius and Honda Insight shoppers.

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Chevrolet Sprint ER

The Truth About Cars

Other Sprint models could be purchased with optional automatics that year. The original Honda Insight beat it, but it needed a gasoline-electric hybrid powertrain plus a lot of cutting-edge aerodynamic and weight-reduction tricks to pull it off. It appears that this engine was not legal for sale in high-altitude areas.

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1.0L EcoBoost Fiesta receives EPA rating of 45 mpg highway

Green Car Congress

As an example, the 2014 Honda Insight achieves 44 mpg highway, while the 2014 Volkswagen Golf diesel with a manual transmission delivers 42 mpg highway. Fuel economy is often cited as the Nº 1 purchase consideration in the subcompact class, according to Ford research. l/100 km) highway. Earlier post.) With the new Fiesta 1.0-liter

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Embracing a century of EV history

Electric Auto Association

Partly in order to change this situation, Steiner purchased Waverley Electrics , a firm founded in 1896 by Albert Augustus Pope that manufactured the electric Waverley vehicle in Indianapolis from 1898 until 1916. “I I’d been driving my Honda Insight to Chicago every couple of months for chapter meetings,” Steiner said.

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One in 10 new cars sold is… a Toyota Prius

Green Cars News

The Prius isn’t the only hybrid model enjoying success in Japan where the technology benefits from tax breaks and subsidies offered toward the purchase of fuel efficient models. Total passenger car sales for the month were 268,450. per cent of new vehicle sales for the month. .

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