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Is the Prius the greenest car of all?

Green Cars News

Honda took the bronze medal place with its Insight Hybrid. According to Gerd Lottsiepen, the spokesman of the German VCD Automobile Club, hybrid cars are proving cheap to run and very quiet. The Japanese car maker not only took first place in the results, but second place too thanks to its Toyota iQ model.

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Nissan’s Killer EV App, the Plug-In Car That Puts the Nail in GM’s Coffin

Creative Greenius

Check out the new Nissan Leaf on video: You’ve got to love the fact that Nissan had balls and the vision to bank their future on full on electric vehicles, leapfrogging their Japanese competition Honda and Toyota whose timid and safe bet on hybrids has already marked them as bridge technology car makers.

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Will green cars put industry on road to profit?

Green Cars News

This failure, it believes, has prompted US car manufacturers to lose market share to foreign rivals and particularly those from Japan such as Toyota and Honda. It could be argued then that America is still drunk on cheap gasoline. Tags: Green cars Latest news auto industry profits gas prices petrol prices US auto industry.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. Full , Mild , Weak , Series, Parallel, Series-Parallel, The Honda configuration such as that in the Insight is a Parallel system, in that the ICE and Motor contribute motive power in parallel.

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Chrysler's first electric car to be two-seat sports car - Apr. 15, 2009

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They will also compete against new hybrids from Ford, Toyota ( TM ) and Honda ( HMC ), which are entering the market now. More Miami on the cheap House prices in Miami soared, then crashed. Tags: evdriven. Answer a few questions and get graded on your money skills. Now buyers, like the Lamuses, are venturing back.

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New EV electric car calendar

EV Central

Honda Prologue – first electric SUV from the Japanese brand is very much within the family. Honda electric SUV – Japanese brand is ramping up its EV efforts with the SUV e:concept giving strong clues to a future model. But the open-top fun machine ain’t cheap!

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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. I also think it will be cheap, which is why I think someone will buy the group. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use or tags. Small size. New technology. A troubled company. Can these things add up to make a car that people want to buy? Follow us on Twitter!