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2024 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid gets price hike, ahead of Civic Hybrid arrival

Baua Electric

Hyundai released pricing information for the 2024 Elantra Hybrid earlier this month, showing a starting price of $26,250 for the base Blue grade before destination. Including the mandatory destination charge of $1,150, that brings the total price for a 2024 Hyundai Elantra Hybrid Blue to $27,400.

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ALABC lead-acid UltraBattery Civic hybrid surpasses 100,000 miles of fleet duty

Green Car Congress

Monthly fuel economy of the retrofitted Honda Civic during the first 9 months of the fleet test. DOE researchers attributed the significant fuel economy reduction for May, June, and July as most likely being due to significant mountain driving and the likely use of the vehicle’s air conditioning. Source: DOE.

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Road Test: 2024 Honda Civic Hatchback Sport Touring

Clean Fleet Report

Fuel economy numbers reported by Clean Fleet Report are non-scientific and represent the reviewer’s driving experience using the dash gauge computer. non-turbo 4-cylinder and CVT, fuel economy estimates are 31 mpg city/40 highway/35 combined. Civic Touring performed exceptionally well with fun performance.

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Honda Introducing BEV and PHEV to US and Japan in 2012; Demonstration Programs in US Begin This Year

Green Car Congress

Honda Motor Company will introduce a battery-electric vehicle (BEV) and a new plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHEV) to the US market in 2012, said President & CEO Takanobu Ito in his mid-year address in Tokyo, Japan. The first one will be the Fit Hybrid which will be introduced to the Japanese market this fall. Battery electric vehicle.

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Insight the top hybrid performer

Green Cars News

Indeed Honda can boast some terrific sales success with the Civic Hybrid also selling 79 units during the month meaning total hybrid sales of 308 from the Honda family. Honda Insight customers also have the benefit of high residual values of 44 per cent as well as exemption from the London Congestion Charge.

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News: 2025 Honda CR-V e:FCEV

Clean Fleet Report

The first Honda hydrogen vehicle–the FCX EV Plus 1997-99 Insight Hatchback Hybrid 1999-2006 Civic Hybrid 2003-* (offered intermittently in various generations of Civics starting with the 7 th generation in 2003; note: An all-new Civic Hybrid will be released in 2025.) DC Fast Charging is not available.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They reinforce the Pacific National Labs January 2007 findings that we wont have to build new power plants for cars that charge at night. If we optimistically assume the average US fuel economy is 25 miles per gallon, at $3.00 Compared to a regular hybrids real-world 45 miles per gallon, its effectively $1.20/gallon.

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