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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

Here in the UK we’re so downtrodden by extortionate petrol prices that the prospect of driving fuel efficient green cars carries obvious appeal. However, what about our US neighbours where ‘gas’ prices are distinctly lower and so-called muscle cars are seen as almost iconic and part of the culture?

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Toyota and BMW results offer rays of hope

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After US giant Ford recorded its first increase in sales for almost two years, BMW announced it had made a net profit of 121million euros in the first three months from April to June - well above industry forecasts. Toyota’s Prius became the top-selling car in Japan in the months of May and June.

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Sales of hybrid cars increase in US

Green Cars News

After months of doom and gloom for the auto industry in the USA, there is finally a ray of hope courtesy of hybrid cars. This meant that a total of 26,205 hybrid units were sold - some three per cent of all new vehicles, the highest monthly new vehicle share since April 2008. per cent in volume to 859,847 units.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Our PRIUS+ Project Photos PHEV Resources Global Warming Take Action News and Events Contact Us How Carmakers are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity If you ask, "have major auto-makers come around on PHEVs?", In late 2008, BYD started selling the first production PHEV in China. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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GM Says Chevrolet Volt Won't 'Pay the Rent' | Autopia from Wired.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

"It is unreasonable to expect the Volt and any similar new technology to be immediately profitable when other technologies that started with a price premium, such as the Toyota Prius, became wild successes," said Chelsea Sexton, an advisory board member of Plug-In America. AND the Detroit car companies were laughing.

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