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Road Test: 2022 Acura RDX SH-AWD A-Spec Advance

Clean Fleet Report

The Acura RDX has been one of the best-selling compact premium SUVs since 2006, and has sold more than 50,000 every year since 2015. Power, but not enough efficiency to hit 30 mpg. The EPA fuel economy numbers of 21 mpg city/26 highway/23 combined are almost exactly what we got covering 301 miles driving through Southern California.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It It had gobs of torque," he recalls. Only a handful of experimental plug-ins are on the road.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

PiPrius : Open Source documentation and kits. Formed in 2002, our efforts for "100+MPG Hybrids" took off when we built PRIUS+ , the worlds first plug-in Prius). By early 2006, the solutions we promote had become so broadly welcomed that they were supported by President Bush. 2008.03.20 - New rechargeit.blogspot.com about PHEVs.

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Will CARB’s New Rules Damage EV Startups?

Revenge of the Electric Car

The new proposed rules also appear to contradict the board’s own recent attempts to curtail greenhouse gas emissions in the wake of a groundbreaking global warming law signed by the governor in 2006. The award-winning 2006 documentary Who Killed the Electric Car? mpg on what was mostly a freeway excursion.

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Where Plug-In Hybrid Conversions (mostly Priuses) Are

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Hymotion, February 2006 Hymotion Toronto, Ontario info@hymotion.com 6. Electro Energy, March 2006 CalCars and Electro Energy Danbury, CT info@electroenergyinc.com 7. South Coast Air Quality Management District, March 2006 EnergyCS Los Angeles County, CA LMirisola@aqmd.gov 8. 2006 (Denver CO) Veridian Corp.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

"However," he continued, "If carmakers decide not to take advantage of this offer, AFS Trinity intends to raise the funds to begin modifying existing hybrids or manufacture its own 150 mpg SUVs and, eventually, 250 mpg sedans. We believe such production models could be available for sale in three years."Furia

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