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Honda Clarity Fuel Cell EPA-rated with 366-mile range; longest of any ZEV

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Honda will further develop its dealer network as more hydrogen fueling stations become available. Honda’s second-generation fuel cell vehicle, the FCX Clarity, launched in July 2008. Honda has deployed fuel cell vehicles in the US, Germany and Japan, including the FCX Clarity, which was named the 2009 World Green Car.

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Dead Hybrid Battery: What Should I Do? (Owner Question)

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Every once in a while, other media outlets will ask for advice from Green Car Reports on various fuel economy or car technology questions. We recently received one concerning a 2008 Ford Escape Hybrid, which the owner had left unused for several months.

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Worldwide Prius Cumulative Sales Top 2M Mark; Toyota Reportedly Plans Two New Prius Variants for the US By End of 2012

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Worldwide Prius sales have been buoyed since 2009 by the introduction in Japan of a government subsidy for green cars that propelled Prius to be the top-selling car in Japan for 17 months in a row. In 2007, sales in Japan represented 21% of all Prius sales worldwide and in 2008, 26%.

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Prius tops the charts in Japan

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times the number it sold in June 2008 at 6,231 units - according to data from the Japan Automobile Dealers Association. The hybrid green car leader first became the country’s top seller in May with sales of 10,915 units, more than twice its year-on-year sales of 5,079 units in May 2008.

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General Motors presents viability plan

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The Pontiac brand will be phased out by the end of 2010 and GM will offer a total of 34 nameplates in 2010, down 29 per cent from the 48 available in 2008. A restructure of GM’s dealer organisation with the number of dealers to drop to 3,605 by the end of 2010 - that’s down from 6,246 in 2008. -

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Volkswagen to invest in Brazil

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Currently, Volkswagen do Brazil has a daily production capacity of 3,000 vehicles and is already the country’s largest car manufacturer. Indeed Volkswagen also has the largest dealer network in the Brazilian automotive industry with 600 dealers located across the country.

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Profile: Li-ion Battery and Pack Supplier Valence Technology

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The polyhedra aid the eye in seeing the ions grouped as (green) Fe/Mg-enclosing octahedra and (yellow) phosphate tetrahedra. Green Car Congress had the opportunity recently to have a discussion with Mark Donaghy, the Global Marketing Manager for Valence Technology, Inc., Click to enlarge. gallon in January 2009. The Maxity, a 7.5

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