Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2015

The powertrain of the 2016 Sonata Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle (PHEV) ( earlier post ) was named to Ward’s 10 Best Engines list. This is the first time that a plug-in hybrid powertrain has made the list. —Drew Winter, editor-in-chief, WardsAuto World magazine. The vehicle is powered by Hyundai’s 2.0-liter

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2010

During this week’s 2010 Ferrari Formula One presentation, Ferrari CEO Luca di Montezelmo announced that a prototype road-going hybrid Ferrari 599 will be displayed at the Geneva Motor Show in March, and that a hybrid iteration of the 599 coupe is scheduled for production. —Jack Rosebro.

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Green Fleet Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Honda announced that 2025 Civic hybrid production will start with the sedan in Canada, followed by the hatchback in Indiana; a two-motor hybrid electric system made in Ohio.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 18, 2018

In an interview at the recent Goodwood Festival of Speed, brand CEO Yoshihiro Sawa told British auto magazine AutoExpress that Lexus may add hybrid power to is F Sport. After the German brands followed suit, Lexus could be the latest automaker to follow suit.

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 1, 2018

The company plans up to 12 new plug-in models by 2025, Audi revealed at the launch event for the e-tron quattro SUV in California last month, according to a report in British magazine Autocar. In addition to the e-tron SUV, the company will produce a fastback.

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Porsche 914 EV Conversion

FEBRUARY 12, 2008

I ran out to Barnes and Noble today and picked up the March issue of Sports Car Market magazine. The federal rebate on qualified vehicles (all hybrids at this point) is up around $2000, I think. My 914 was featured on page 38 along with John Benson's 914 DC conversion! I hope Electro Auto doesn't get even more swamped by the publicity.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Consumer Reports released its "Best New-Car Value" list yesterday, and there are plenty of hybrids and fuel-efficient gasoline cars on it. The magazine named the 2014 Toyota Prius hybrid best overall automotive value. People buy green cars for fuel efficiency, but that''s often far from their only good quality.

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Green Fleet Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The 2025 Toyota Camry will be an exclusively hybrid-electric vehicle with a standard 225 net combined horsepower on Front Wheel Drive (FWD) models and 232 horsepower on Electronic On-Demand All-Wheel Drive (AWD) equipped models.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 23, 2012

The 2013 Audi Q5 Hybrid crossover has had a long gestation, but reports say it will finally reach the U.S. On sale in Europe for a year now, the hybrid Q5 was originally launched at the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. Now a report in Automobile magazine suggests that the 2013 Audi Q5. market this fall.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 13, 2011

An all-new hybrid retrofit market will emerge and grow to a half million vehicles total by 2020, according to Protean Electric, which has developed an in-wheel motor electric drive system for light-duty vehicles. The vast majority of this new hybrid retrofit market will come from converting light duty government and commercial fleets.

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Green Fleet Magazine

MAY 23, 2023

Twice as many vehicle shoppers considered hybrids instead of an EV and eight of 10 top selling electrified vehicles last quarter were hybrids.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 7, 2012

We reported three weeks ago that Ford's new 2013 hybrids were not achieving their 47-mpg EPA gas mileage rating in real-world usage. The consumer magazine achieved. it's always nice when the big boys say, "You're right."

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 25, 2015

As an aside, Jelden was a co-author of a paper published last year in MTZ explaining Volkswagen’s new electric powertrain matrix, designed to apply to hybrid and electric vehicles.). German business magazine Manager Magazin yesterday reported that VW Group is putting the cost of the emissions scandal at more than €30 billion.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Continuing the marque's trend towards hybrid models, the range will also tout a hybrid--though it hasn't yet been confirmed whether such a model will hit the U.S. Automobile Magazine (via Motor Authority) has already driven a prototype of the.

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Lexus 2014 Hybrid Detroit 89

Green Fleet Magazine

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The SUV features three different lineup features, and two different lineup models for the plug-in hybrid class.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 1, 2011

Last September, Toyota said the company would launch six new hybrids by the end of 2012. Now, a report from the German car magazine AutoBild suggests that one of those is a new Lexus: a baby brother for the brand's hugely successful RX 450h hybrid crossover utility vehicle.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 2, 2011

And the hybrids just keep on coming. Earlier this morning we wrote that BMW will launch a line of front-wheel-drive hybrids in 2014. Now, the British magazine AutoExpress suggests that a new generation of the Ford GT supercar will also offer hybrid-electric drive.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 31, 2016

Consumer Reports has confirmed the 52-mpg combined EPA fuel-economy rating of the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid, although its ratings in city and highway testing differed. Nonetheless, the magazine says the 2016 Prius is the most fuel-efficient car it's ever tested.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2019

Gao and Zhang have improved permanent magnet performance by combining hybrid layers of material in particular way that reduces the flux leakage. But the motors in electric and hybrid cars contain approximately a tenth of a kilogram of dysprosium per motor. Further, they can tailor the layers for a specific application.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 28, 2024

Speaking to the Australian automotive magazine Car Sales, Porsche Panamera model line boss Tomas Freimuth has revealed that the German sportscar manufacturer has tweaked the V8 engine to meet the latest emission regulations. However, other regulations will force the automaker to make some key necessary changes.

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Porsche Engine Downsizing Emissions 52

Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2015

KS) awarded the 2015 Energy and Environment Prize to the Volkswagen Group for the plug-in hybrids Golf GTE ( earlier post ) and Audi A3 e-tron ( earlier post). Despite strong competition, the awards committee was unanimous in its choice of the plug-in hybrids from Volkswagen. The hybrid accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h in 7.6

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Environment 2015 Audi Energy 150

Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The magazine Consumer Reports is deeply trusted by many car buyers for its analysis of auto reliability, so when it pans a car, automakers sit up and listen carefully to its criticisms. We suspect Hyundai Motors America is sitting bolt upright about now, because in its November issue, the publication slams the 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 22, 2013

And yet new research by Scientific American shows that electric car sales are actually performing better than hybrids did were when they were first introduced. In producing a graph, the US magazine shows the relative sales of [.].

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Teslarati

JULY 29, 2023

Because of this, training budgets are typically reallocated towards sustaining regular operations amid the prevailing economic pressures faced by employers, as noted in a Car Dealer Magazine UK report. IMI CEO Steve Nash issued a statement about the matter.

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Green Fleet Magazine

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Starting with a standard MSRP of $36,690, the 2024 Kia Sorento features a 1.6T gas direct injection I-4 engine, with a 44-kw motor delivering 227 horsepower and 258 lb.-ft ft of torque.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2011

A survey ranking Japan’s “Eco Cars” for the Japanese magazine Nikkei Trendy by research group SC-Abeam Consulting of 500 people involved in vehicle manufacturing, parts supply or sales has found a significant shift from pure economy and environmental friendliness to the more practical concern of cost. At 30km per liter (70.6

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The magazine all but savaged the car, calling it "full of flaws" and deeming its touchscreen controls an "ergonomic disaster." The well-respected Consumer Reports doesn't pull any punches, and its review of the 2012 Fisker Karma range-extended electric luxury sedan is no exception.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 31, 2012

And so it was with the 2012 Toyota Prius V, in which we hauled holiday gifts, heavy sagging boxes of old car magazines, furniture, and other life impedimentia over a 10-day, 650-mile test drive that spanned late December and early January. When you drive a wagon, you usually need the space.

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Clean Fleet Report

JULY 17, 2023

On hybrid, plug-in hybrid, electric vehicles and some fuel cell vehicles. With regenerative braking, hybrids & EVs save on brake wear The potential for KERS technology extends beyond transportation. See more at E Magazine. KERS technology is described as regenerative braking. first appeared on Clean Fleet Report.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

We've covered BMW's first two hybrid vehicles, just launched for the upcoming year: the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6 "sports activity coupe", the world's most powerful hybrid, and the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 7, the world's fastest hybrid sedan.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 2, 2011

Until yesterday that is, when Top Gear Magazine caught everyone off guard by announcing that its Luxury Car of The Year was none other than the $95,900 Fisker Karma Plug-in Hybrid. For as long as we can remember, there’s been an ongoing love-to-hate relationship between the BBC's Top Gear show and electric cars.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 21, 2022

IEEE publishes more than 200 leading journals and magazines, and the digital library contains more than 5 million documents including scientific journals, conference proceedings, and standards. IEEE open-access articles are supported by article-processing charges instead of subscriptions.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 4, 2010

After lagging in development of hybrid and plug-in cars for years, Mercedes-Benz is now attacking the new technology with a vengeance. The latest proof: reports that it will offer a pricey plug-in hybrid version of its next S-Class large luxury sedan in 2012.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

A recent report printed by the Norwegian Automobile Federation’s magazine, Motor , the downward trend in sales for ICE cars has been so consistent and steep that the last new ICE car to be sold in Norway could happen just seven months from now, in April 2022. And conventional hybrids make up less than 10% of new car sales anyway.

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Green Cars News

DECEMBER 3, 2010

The Honda CR-Z has scooped the fiercely contested title of ‘Green Car of the Year’ at the Top Gear magazine’s annual awards. The new trophy means the CR-Z has received four awards in as many weeks for the sporty hybrid. The judges at Top Gear were impressed with the CR-Z’s sporty looks, agile handling and [.].

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

According to one of Britain’s biggest motoring magazines, BMW is working on a faster version of the i8 hybrid to be released in time for the German brand’s 100th anniversary in 2016. Hybrid cars BMW Editor Pick' Considering the i8 already has 357bhp and sprints to 62mph in 4.4 seconds and hits the electronic buffers at 155mp[.].

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Plugs and Cars

JANUARY 9, 2007

In Stockholm and LA it was just the BioPower 100, a 100% ethanol fueled hybrid. Now that the Volt has premiered in Detroit to huzzahs and widespread press, this Saab , yet another GM concept hybrid, has been unveiled, again. Although Plenty magazine identifies it as a plug-in, nothing in the press material I found confirms this.

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