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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? I knew I wanted something for her that was cheap to maintain, had a reliable automatic transmission, came with cruise control, AC. Very practical.

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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. liters of gasoline on the Canadian highway. My guess is that the reels turned over once, for a total of 162,150.9

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Michelin doesn’t want you to buy as many EV tires

Baua Electric

It also provided an update on how it’s working to effectively reinvent retread technology with sustainability in mind, allowing the original tire plus four retreads to provide up to a million miles of service in heavy commercial trucks. “If It has to be cost-effective to recover and reuse materials, too.

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Road Test: 2021 GMC Sierra 1500 Duramax 4WD Crew Cab AT4 CarbonPro

Clean Fleet Report

In 235 miles we averaged 25.2 mpg, but on a 100-mile all-freeway run with the adaptive cruise control set at 65 mph, we got an impressive 29.8 About those radio knobs and the climate control wheels: they are constructed using a cheap-feeling chromed plastic. Road Test: 2021 Ford F-150 Hybrid. Fuel economy for the 3.0-liter

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First Drive: 2023 Ford Super Duty Lineup

The Truth About Cars

While Ford has been shipping all trims of its all-new 2023 Super Duty pickup line to customers since May, production issues have delayed things and you’ll be hard-pressed to find someone that’s actually driven one. Fortunately, the Blue Oval invited us to take a gander at the new trucks at the Ford Michigan Proving Grounds earlier this month.

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Zero-Carbon Drive to Sacto Anti-Carbon Rally and Back

Plugs and Cars

What's most interesting, however, is how easy (and cheap) it is to do a carbon emission-free 200 mile day in a 100 mile range electric vehicle, my 5 year old Toyota RAV4 EV. It's about 90 miles from my house in San Francisco to the Capitol in Sacramento.) And I was there representing Plug In America. Total cost: $6.

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Wall Street Report

Plug In Partners

. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It He yanked big engines out of American cars and replaced them with electric motors that worked in tandem with much smaller gasoline engines. Their first move with a Ford Motor Co.