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Road Trip: 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid Sport Touring

Clean Fleet Report

Aerodynamically Efficient Exterior Designed to slice through the air Now in its 11th generation, the Civic (first launched in 1972) went through a complete exterior re-imagination in 2022, and got a refresh for 2025. These prices include the $1,095 destination and handling charge. The engine hums like a sewing machine.

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Taxing the Distance

Energy Institute at HAAS

And if you’re wondering how political leanings play into this, the answer surprised me initially, but after thinking about it for 0.5 and illuminating look at how a simple policy shift could rattle everything from personal budgets to the red-blue map. Urban and coastal types with high-MPG cars and smug EV grins? Not so much.

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Thankful To Be Home — And ALIVE!

Creative Greenius

Artist sketch of “Hayduke” “You’re overrunning your headlights kid. “You’re the only one around here who’s been talking about this since I was in middle school. Little snot-nosed wiseass I thought, but then he said “We’re not stupid. “No we’re not.

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Economic Impact Study Finds Grid-Enabled Vehicle Policies in Electrification Coalition Roadmap Would Result in Substantial Economic Benefit for US

Green Car Congress

The combination of higher income and less spending on energy means that the typical household would be able to enjoy about $3,687 (2008 dollars) more in consumption of goods and services (or personal savings). Oil Imports. US crude oil and petroleum product imports would fall sharply, by 3.2 billion fewer barrels of foreign oil.

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Toyota RAV4 EV key for meeting California ZEV requirements; Tesla powertrain uses Model S components

Green Car Congress

The target buyers have strong personal convictions on the environment, oil use, and cutting edge technology. “ kWh of useable energy at full charge. The RAV4 EV has two charge modes: Standard and Extended. Extended Mode allows the battery to charge to its full usable capacity of 41.8 Charging times.

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New Toyota Highlander turbocharged engine offers more torque and fewer emissions

Green Car Congress

The system seamlessly re-engages when AWD is needed to handle road conditions. A variable cooling system (electric water pump, electric thermostat) and a fully variable oil pump help to further enhance engine efficiency. Dynamic Torque Vectoring AWD doesn’t simply react to wheel slippage.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

The technology areas ( earlier post ) receiving funding are: PETRO: Plants Engineered To Replace Oil ($36 million). Plants Engineered to Replace Oil (PETRO). Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. produces more oil per acre. HEATS: High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage ($37.3

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