The Truth About Cars

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The rules are simple: It has to be a car at least one of us drove during the calendar year, even if only for a few minutes. So, in no particular order, here we go: Chris Tonn From what I’ve read, the recent adage of “There are no bad cars anymore” is being tested by a certain Vietnamese automaker, but I’m not lucky (?)

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 9, 2016

At the 2016 Detroit Auto Show, Fiat Chrysler unveiled its first production plug-in electric model, the 2017 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan. Perhaps not surprisingly, its plug-in hybrid powertrain won't be unique to the Pacifica, though.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 24, 2015

We know very little about the plug-in hybrid version that Fiat Chrysler will launch sometime after the new 2017 Chrysler Town & Country minivan is unveiled next year. But while a spate of plug-in hybrid SUVs and crossover utility vehicles is just about to enter the U.S.

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Clean Fleet Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

If this is appealing, then the 2022 Pacifica plug-in hybrid (PHEV) is what you are looking for. Chrysler calls it a “multipurpose vehicle,” but we will stick with modern minivan. The 2022 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid has a gasoline-powered 3.6-liter mpg, with a breakdown of 174 all-electric and 290 hybrid miles. How It Works.

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 5, 2021

All-New, All-Hybrid Family-Friendly Minivan. Toyota long ago made a commitment to hybrids, with the Prius being the most successful result of the company’s commitment to combining electricity and gasoline. Toyota and its upmarket Lexus division have 16 hybrid models, making the combined nameplates the leader in hybrid offerings.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2021

Nissan launched the all-new Note Aura premium compact car in Japan, with sales planned to start in autumn. Coupled with enhanced insulation in the vehicle body, this results in quietness that’s a class above typical compact cars. The engine now operates at a lower RPM and is engaged less often during a typical drive.

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EV Central

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

This, says the Chinese-owned Swedish brand, makes it easier to understand where its smallest EVs sit in its all-electric line-up that is currently also inhabited by its latest EX30 SUV, large EX90 SUVs and the China-only EM90 people-mover. Except, that is, if you’re looking to buy the cheaper combustion-powered XC40 SUV.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2021

e-POWER made its debut in Japan on the Note compact car in November 2016. The Note claimed the best-selling car in Japan title in 2018.1. In March 2018 an e-POWER version of the popular Serena minivan was launched, which was followed by the all-new Kicks SUV e-POWER in June 2020. e-POWER power train (for New Note).

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Clean Fleet Report

JUNE 16, 2021

If you are one of those “I will never drive a minivan” type of persons, please keep reading. Oh, and could you get used to 32 miles of all-electric driving and 30+ mph when in hybrid mode? The newly styled 2021 Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid is ready for your test drive. It was more than a hybrid—it was a plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 7, 2014

The first green news was that Chrysler will build small numbers of plug-in hybrid minivans and large SUVs to meet emission regulations. Yesterday''s multi-hour presentation of the five-year plan for the combined Fiat Chrysler Automobiles was called "Chryslerpalooza" by local Detroit reporters who sat through it.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 11, 2017

In recent years, Honda has announced that it planned to release advanced-technology green cars in the future—without mentioning even their names, let alone any details or specifications.

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 27, 2023

Kia’s SUVs are surprisingly premium and well equipped for the price, and the automaker has had great success with its Telluride three-row. As it did with the Carnival minivan, Kia mimicked the Telluride’s muscular lines with the updated styling, though changes focus mostly on the front end. inch screens.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2012

Twenty-three percent of US car owners say that their interest in purchasing a hybrid vehicle has increased from a year ago, according to a new Harris Poll. The adoption curve for hybrid vehicles appears to wane with age. Beyond fuel choices, new car selection is also heavily based on opinions about vehicle quality.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2012

Global annual sales of TMC hybrids. Cumulative sales in Japan of Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) hybrid vehicles—including plug-in hybrids— reached 2.04 Globally, cumulative sales of TMC-produced hybrid vehicles since the first was launched in 1997 have now topped 4.60 Click to enlarge. million units, with 1.02

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Clean Fleet Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

Goodbye To the Minivan. Kia is out of the minivan business and is shaking up things with the all-new 2022 Carnival. The Korean car company will remind you it is not a minivan but an MPV or Multi-Purpose Vehicle. With those words it hopes to remove the stigma of people saying “I will never own a minivan.”.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 16, 2018

The average weight for new vehicles produced in MY 2016 was 4,035 pounds (1,830 kg), which was unchanged from MY 2015 although the weight of an average new car fell by 23 pounds (10.4 increase in truck share offset the weight reductions in cars and trucks, so that overall new vehicle weight was relatively unchanged. ft 2 (-0.4%).

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

For those wondering what happened, The Car Guide had reported Dukec as confirming the M5 Touring as bound for America during a Portuguese test drive of the redesigned 2024 BMW X2. Wagons haven’t been fashionable in North America since they were supplanted by the minivan in the 1980s. liter V8 in a plug-in hybrid format.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Cumulative worldwide sales of TMC hybrids. Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that global cumulative sales of its hybrid vehicles—passenger car and commercial—topped the 4-million unit mark as of 30 April. The company reached the 3-million mark with its hybrids in February 2011. Click to enlarge.

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The Truth About Cars

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

While the majority of Americans have long since decamped in favor of crossovers and SUVs, there remains a dedicated cadre of buyers committed to the family minivan. This decision deletes a few features or makes them optional (power liftgate, ambient lighting, and the like) but opens the plug-in hybrid price point to more customers.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 9, 2016

Today, BMW unveils a zero-emission concept car for its 100th anniversary, Volkswagen lawyers say the company delayed announcing its diesel cheating in order to cut a deal with regulators, and a Maserati Levante plug-in hybrid SUV could borrow powertrain components from the Chrysler Pacifica Hybrid minivan.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 20, 2024

seconds MPG: 21 city/29 highway/24 combined Small displacement, but dual power R/T Plus – Plug-in-Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) 1.3-liter, Hybrid is the default mode to maximize efficiency and driving range. The negative was the exhaust note (when in hybrid mode), which was too loud and quickly became tiresome.

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The Truth About Cars

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Consumer Reports has concluded its annual car reliability survey and the resulting data for 2023 has not been kind to all-electric vehicles. Plug-in hybrids were even worse with 146 percent more issues. But it also left your author wondering why standard hybrids weren’t seeing the same number of problems.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 6, 2014

Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ (FCA) Chrysler Brand will launch two plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV) over the next several years, said Al Gardner, President and CEO of the Chrysler Brand, during the FCA Investor Day presentations at Auburn Hills, Mi. FCA will launch a PHEV minivan in 2016 to comply with ZEV requirements. —Bob Lee.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2009

TKM), plans to unveil a concept for a new compact car designed for the Indian market, as well as display 13 other concept and production vehicles, at the 10 th Auto Expo automobile show in New Delhi from 5-11 January 2010. The concept for the new compact car is to be unveiled at a TKM press conference on 5 January.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 26, 2012

If you’re a parent, the chances are you’ve had to make the painful choice between everyday practicality and gas mileage when looking at new cars.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2012

Two-thirds of owners surveyed said they expect their next vehicle to get better fuel mileage than the one they’re driving now, and fuel economy topped the list as the most important consideration when shopping for their next car, followed by quality and safety.

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Clean Fleet Report

APRIL 17, 2021

Now in its second year, the 2021 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid sets the bar high for five-passenger sedans. With the coupe-like design, the sleek lines will cause you to pause about buying a crossover SUV. A seductive statement car in the midsize segment. The 2021 Sonata Hybrid comes in three trim levels of Blue, ES and Limited.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 12, 2023

Alfa Romeo has showed the car as a subcompact crossover aimed basically at Europe, which means it most likely gained’t finally end up within the U.S. Honda Odyssey: Examine Minivans Porsche 911 Vintage Membership Coupe sells for $1.2M

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2011

Chrysler Group LLC and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are working together to determine the possibility of adapting a hydraulic series hybrid system for application in large passenger cars and light-duty vehicles. EPA: How series hydraulic hybrid vehicles work. Jackson, Agency Administrator for the EPA.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 10, 2014

The Trends report has been published annually since 1975 and covers all passenger cars, sport utility vehicles, minivans, and all but the largest pickup trucks and vans. Since 1975, half of car production has consistently been within several mpg of each other. The average MY 2013 adjusted fuel economy for cars is 27.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 18, 2010

EPA projects that the hybrid share of new vehicle sales will increase to 4.3% As part of its 2010 estimates, EPA is projecting an increase in hybrid share to 4.3%, up from 2.3% The four-cylinder engine market share grew from 38% in MY2008 to 51% in MY2009 (and comprised nearly 70% of the car market). in 2010, up from 2.3%

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2013

EPA suggests that the reduction in MY 2011 car and car parts production in Japan in the aftermath of the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disasters “almost certainly” contributed to both the apparent slight worsening in MY 2011 and the large projected improvement in MY 2012. The number of cars with 40 mpg or higher (5.9

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2013

Light trucks (pickups, minivans/vans, and truck SUVs), accounted for 36% of all light-duty vehicle production in MY 2012, the second lowest level since 1993. There are 15 MY 2013 pickup and minivan/van models for which at least one variant of the model has a combined city/highway label fuel economy rating of 20 mpg (11.8

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Push EVs

MAY 9, 2023

plugin hybrids (PHEVs). As we noted for the neighbouring Swedish market , plugless hybrids (HEVs) are now passée in Norway, such is the country’s advanced stage of the EV transition. and a few other small niches (sports cars, farmers’ pickups, and others) to be filled out with compelling and relatively affordable BEV offerings.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 1, 2021

An early adopter Sinclair’s first venture into the world of clean energy vehicles came in the early 2000’s when she and her husband purchased a Ford Escape Hybrid, a car they still own today. It was a little more than I wanted to spend on a used car, but it’s certainly worth it. The Tesla supercharging network is a game changer.”

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The Truth About Cars

JULY 18, 2023

It means quiet in the literal sense – the cabin of this car isolates noise nicely, as befits a luxury car – but also in the more abstract sense. This is a car that seems to fly under the radar, even as it’s one of the last wagons left on the market. Speaking of price points, this is not a cheap car.

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Clean Fleet Report

JANUARY 11, 2022

A Very Trail-Ready Plug-in Hybrid. Jeep global CEO Christian Meunier closed out 2021 by announcing his brand’s goal of becoming the “zero emission freedom brand,” with the Jeep Wrangler 4xe plug-in hybrid (PHEV) as its first example. It’s a whole new world. This is exactly what the 2021 Jeep Wrangler 4xe has to offer.

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