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Who is winning the green car race? The Green Piece

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In Europe, the likes of the Yaris and the iQ have kept average fuel consumption levels low, while Toyota is working on several new concepts such as the FT-EV (see article ) which has a claimed range of 50miles per charge. When sales of the Civic Hybrid started to flag, Honda introduced the Insight Hybrid earlier this year.

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The French are coming. The Green Piece

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Last week it began taking pre-bookings for the Peugeot i0n model ( see article ), which is based on the Mitsubishi i-MiEV. The PROLOGUE puts the internal combustion engine up front and runs on diesel, while the RC uses petrol with the electric motor going at the back.

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