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Junkyard Find: 1992 Geo Metro 4-door hatchback

The Truth About Cars

If we're talking about realistic Metro competitors here, the base 1992 Ford Festiva actually managed to undercut the price tag on the cheapest possible Metro two-door hatchback that year: $6,911 versus $6,999. You could buy versions of this car all the way through 2017 in Pakistan. Gets 100 kilometers per 4.5

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Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on

EV Central

We bleated away like blind sheep, buying Ford EcoSports at twice the rate we did Souls in 2019, the last year it was sold in Australia. That said, it wouldn’t have been far off the Hyundai Kona EV’s tag. The post Kia Soul EV review: the cheap electric car Australia missed out on appeared first on EV Central.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

Green Car Congress

Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap. maintain a system as well as maintain and recover and investment on it that is fundamentally very cheap. —Dan Ford. Tags: Batteries Market Background Plug-ins Policy Power Generation. Earlier post.).

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

Whereas overall car sales in the US market were down 34 per cent in May 2009 compared to the same month in the previous year, some of the most popular fuel efficient cars took even bigger hits - the Ford Focus down 54 per cent; the Honda Civic down 61 per cent; the Chevrolet Cobalt down 52 per cent. Will green cars ever be popular there?

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EV special III / Opinion / Hybrid & Electric / Themes / Welcome - Minds in Motion

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The parties buying them are all frontrunners within their own context, Minnesma stresses. With very few moving parts, there is little that can break, so maintenance is infrequent and cheapTags: evdriven. Large-scale, to them, means one million EVs by 2020, starting with five hundred fully electric Th!nk

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The best electric cars in Australia in 2024 between $100,000 and $150,000

EV Central

So to help you make your buying decision, our experts have ranked the best electric cars on sale costing between $100,000 and $150,000. Genesis GV60 AWD Performance – $113,375 While the GV60 AWD Performance shares many features with the GV60 AWD, there are some important additions that justify the steeper price tag.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

An (expected) high price tag. Can these things add up to make a car that people want to buy? It seems like it still may be cheaper to just buy a well used Lotus Elise and modify it yourself. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Small size. New technology.