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Road Test: 2024 Cadillac XT4 Premium Luxury FWD

Clean Fleet Report

Cadillac’s Subcompact SUV The 2024 Cadillac XT4 is smack dab in the heat of the subcompact premium/luxury SUV category. It is the third best-selling SUV for Cadillac, coming in behind the larger Escalade and XT5, but ahead of the XT6 and Lyriq EV. mpg, same as the EPA. All of them outsell the Cadillac luxury sedans.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

Green Car Congress

If you drive an SUV in Southern California those miles cost over 30 cents each.). Average fuel efficiency in the US is 22 miles per gallon (mpg). New cars in 2015 get 25 mpg.) Instead of 11,000 miles per acre for the average 22 mpg model, the figure drops to 7,850 miles per acre per year.). Unfortunately, they don’t.

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Road Test: 2021 Kia Niro PHEV EX Premium

Clean Fleet Report

The Environmental Protection Agency rates the 2021 Kia Niro PHEV at 46 mpg combined city and highway when running in hybrid mode, but an impressive 105 MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent—MPGe is a measurement of how far a car can travel, electrically, on the same amount of energy as is contained in one gallon of gasoline). Stylish lines.

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Plug-in cars: Moving Forward

Plugs and Cars

The plan calls for 39 mpg for cars and 30 mpg for light trucks and SUVs by 2016; no automaker lawsuits; and California subscribes to the national program through 2016. But their dreams haven’t yet been sunk.

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Electric Car Manufacturers Inspire New Paradigms -- Seeking Alpha

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Id like to be a fly on the wall when an H2 franchisee asks to put in a hydrogen pump at Chevron. What I do want is an SUV, cross- over or truck that will meet all of my needs and at the same time be fuel efficient or flex fuel to reduce emissions and dependence on foreign oil. The bottleneck is infrastructure. aren’t there yet.