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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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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 Even the lighter oil can be used to create resins used in the tires.

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

Here in the UK we’re so downtrodden by extortionate petrol prices that the prospect of driving fuel efficient green cars carries obvious appeal. It could be argued then that America is still drunk on cheap gasoline. Does something need to be done to push petrol prices up? Will green cars ever be popular there?

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Ford E-Transit – the first EV Ford confirmed for Australia is slated for mid-2022. Ford has also confirmed the smaller Transit Custom to go EV. Ford F-150 Lightning – EV version of America’s top-selling large pick-up truck is also the fastest and most powerful. 2020 Ford Mustang Mach-E.

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Convincing Consumers To Buy EVs

Cars That Think

One Bloomberg study found 341 miles was the average range desired, while Deloitte Consulting’s 2022 Global Automotive Consumer Study found US consumers want to be able to travel 518 miles on a fully charged battery in a BEV that costs $50,000 or less. EVs ain’t cheap Price is another EV purchase risk that is comparable to EV range.

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