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How to Get a Plug-In Hybrid

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

At these prices, people are buying the "environmental feature" -- they want to be among the first owners of the worlds cleanest extended-range vehicles. They are early adopters, buying "Version 1.0" The easiest conversions are for 2004-2008 Prius (not 2001-2003 Prius) and the Ford Escape/Mercury Mariner Hybrid.

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Scania Delivering 85 Ethanol Buses to Stockholm Suburbs; E95 in a Diesel Engine

Green Car Congress

The order from Busslink is Scania Sverige’s largest single bus transaction in the Swedish market since 2004. A continued commitment to ethanol power is consistent with SL’s decision to buy only buses that operate on renewable fuels starting in 2010. The company has delivered 600 such buses, about 500 of them to Swedish cities.

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