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NRC report finds Federal analysis to set LD CAFE and GHG standards generally of high quality; some technologies and issues should be re-examined

Green Car Congress

The National Research Council is the principal operating arm of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Engineering. However, 24% listed engine improvements and 20% cited alternative fuels as their preference for improving fuel economy. Gasoline internal-combustion engines rated second-most preferred at $2.50/gallon,

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

GM has announced plans for public sales in 2010, and almost every carmaker now says it will sell PHEVs or highway-speed battery electric vehicles (BEVs) sometime after 2010. Shifted earlier focus to all-electric Focus in 2011 with Magna. Company says its focusing on gasoline and hydrogen. todays answer is "Yes -- but not yet."

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