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2020 hindsight: What did Leaf, Volt, and other best green cars of 2010 teach us?

Green Car Reports

The Leaf was our first pick for Best Car To Buy, in 2010 for the 2011 model year. And as we look ahead to our 11th Best Car To Buy pick, for the 2021 model year, we thought it would be worthwhile not to just sum up the previous winners but to revisit the. Earlier this month marked the 10th anniversary of the U.S.

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Seven years of Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy winners

Green Car Reports

As we head into final deliberations for the Best Car To Buy 2018 award, it's worth looking back over our first seven years of winners. The list of seven different models or lineups gives a sense of just how far green cars have come—and how fast they've evolved since 2011.

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2010 Paris Motor Show: Green Car Roundup of Production Models

Green Car Reports

The fall's first big European auto show, the 2010 Paris Motor Show, officially kicks off on Thursday, which is when all the press conferences happen. But the industry has been leaking out selected images, teasers, and occasionally full details on the concepts and production cars that will appear this week.

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Green Car of the Year: 2010 Audi A3 TDI

Green Car Reports

The 2010 Audi A3 TDI was awarded the 2010 Green Car of the Year Award today at the Los Angeles Auto Show by Green Car Journal, which has presented the award for five years. The 2010 Audi A3 TDI is a compact five-door hatchback.

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Best Green Car of the 2010 Detroit Auto Show: 2012 Ford Focus

Green Car Reports

We're back home from the mind-numbing madness of the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, unpacking, sorting press kits (well, these days they're just USB drives), and trying to work out what we thought of it all. This year, there's no question about the best green car there: It was the 2011 Ford Focus compact sedan and hatchback, hands down.

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EC Publishes 6 Calls for Proposals for Transport Research within the Seventh Framework Program; €63M for European Green Cars Initiative and Electromobility

Green Car Congress

Within that, projects for the European Green Cars Inititative are to receive an indicative (i.e., The transport-related calls are the following: FP7-TRANSPORT-2010-TREN-1. million) for the European Green Cars Initiative topics, and the remaining €12 million for the rest of the topics. FP7-SST-2010-RTD-1.

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Top Ten Green Cars of 2010. The Green Piece

Green Cars News

The New Year is finally here and it promises to be an exciting 12 months for fans of eco-friendly cars. Here we look at the top 10 green cars you can expect to hear a lot more about in the year ahead… TOP 10 GREEN CARS OF 2010 If 2009 was the year that green cars stopped [.].