Fuel Economy

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• Hyundai Develops Its First Gasoline Direct Injection Engine

  
  GotBroken.Com — Authority: 140
  To help meet its goals of environmental leadership, Hyundai Motor Company today unveiled the 2.4 Theta II GDI, its first Gasoline Direct Injection engine before an audience of engineers attending the Ninth Annual Hyundai-Kia International Powertrain Conference.Representing the biggest advancement in fuel injection, an ...
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• 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport Gives Driver More Torque for His Environmental Causes

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 460
  By Scott Doggett, Contributor Ask a Tesla Roadster owner why he drives one and invariably youll be told its for the environment. Mother Nature, you think. Climate change. Polar bears. And thats half true. Maybe even three-quarters true. But drive a Tesla Roadster – especially the 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport – and ...
  23 hours ago

• 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport Gives Driver More Torque for His Environmental Causes

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 460
  By Scott Doggett, Contributor Ask a Tesla Roadster owner why he drives one and invariably youll be told its for the environment. Mother Nature, you think. Climate change. Polar bears. And thats half true. Maybe even three-quarters true. But drive a Tesla Roadster – especially the 2010 Tesla Roadster Sport – and ...
  23 hours ago

• Green Turismo: To save the Earth and save gas, turn cars into video games

  
  DailyFinance — Authority: 808
  Filed under: Energy , Technology , Economy , Green My friend has a Tesla Roadster. For those who are unfamiliar with Tesla Motors, the Roadster is the Ferrari of the electric-vehicle world, a high-performance two-seater with more sex appeal than Mae West. How ironic, then, that my friend pines for her old Honda ...
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• CARB Unveils DriveClean, a New Web Tool to Help Consumers Pick Green Cars

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  California has just updated its Air Resources Board website to give consumers a wide range of information about all the alternative power cars coming out next year, from electric cars to diesel hybrids. The new site— driveclean.ca.gov —offers well-organized data that ranks vehicles according to various ...
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• CARB Unveils DriveClean, a New Web Tool to Help Consumers Pick Green Cars

  
  Gas 2.0 — Authority: 616
  California has just updated its Air Resources Board website to give consumers a wide range of information about all the alternative power cars coming out next year, from electric cars to diesel hybrids. The new site— driveclean.ca.gov —offers well-organized data that ranks vehicles according to various ...
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• Cali Unleashes Info Galore on Emissions, Incentives for Green Car Geeks

  
  Renewable Energy News Syndicator — Authority: 163
  “Oil is finite, but information is infinite,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said a year ago in a talk for the New America Foundation. Fortunately, we have online tools to organize and manage that information, sometimes in the interest of reducing oil consumption, as well as emissions and fuel expenses for drivers. The ...
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• Cali Unleashes Info Galore on Emissions, Incentives for Green Car Geeks

  
  Earth2Tech — Authority: 655
  “Oil is finite, but information is infinite,” Google CEO Eric Schmidt said a year ago in a talk for the New America Foundation. Fortunately, we have online tools to organize and manage that information, sometimes in the interest of reducing oil consumption, as well as emissions and fuel expenses for drivers. The ...
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• Another High-Priced Hybrid Won’t Do Much to Hybridize the Automotive Market

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 460
  BMWs announcement this week that its ActiveHybrid X6 crossover utility vehicle will carry a U.S. sticker price of nearly $90,000 was disappointing, but even more disappointing is the fact that the model isnt alone among hybrids priced well out of reach of most people. Toyota offers a Lexus LS 600h L for $107,300. The ...
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• California Launches Online Buying Guide That Rates Vehicles by Greenness

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 460
  The California agency that sets the American standard for automotive emissions today unveiled a much-improved Website that helps consumers choose the least polluting cars on the market. ———- Click on art to enlarge. ———- The California Air Resources Board Website, using information collected for vehicle ...
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• Algae slime makes good “Fuel” for moviegoers

  
  Consumer Reports Cars Blog — Authority: 616
  For an alternative perspective on the future of the automobile, it may help to look at an alternative film. “ Fuel ” by Josh Tickle is a thought-provoking documentary that examines America’s addiction to oil and what we can do about it.   Tickle does a good job of keeping the serious subject rather upbeat and ...
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• Dutch Are First to Adopt Pay-Per-Mile Driving Taxes to Cut CO2, Reduce Oil Use

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 460
  Idea Also Is Kicking Around in U.S, at State and Federal Levels Its been tested in Oregon, pondered in California, Florida, Maine and several other states, applauded in D.C. by the House Transportation Committee, and now pay-per-mile vehicle taxing is becoming a national reality – in the Netherlands. Yup, the Dutch ...
  2 days ago

• BMW Prices 18-MPG, 5,688-Pound ActiveHybrid X6 Crossover Starting at $89,725

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 460
  BMW announced today that its U.S.-bound 2010 ActiveHybrid X6 crossover utility vehicle will carry a base price of $89,725 and reach American showrooms early next month on the heels of its North American debut at the Los Angeles Auto Show . The maker-described “one-of-a-kind Sports Active Coupe” (yes, BMW calls its
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• Is Your Electric Utility Ready for the Electric Car?

  
  Features — Authority: 126
  By Timothy B. Hurst With what appears to be a perfect storm building on the horizon for electric vehicles, some utilities are way ahead of others when it comes to readying the grid-and their customers-for a large-scale deployment of the paradigm-changing electric car. Its the 240-volt elephant in the room (or ...
  2 days ago

• EVs Not Required of Chrysler or GM as Part of Bailout, White House Says

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 460
  Concern among some taxpayer and environmental groups that Chryslers recent decision to downplay development of fuel-efficient electric vehicles violated a pledge used to gain federal bailout funds are unfounded, an administration official says. ———- Chrysler, which based part of its federal bailout on promised ...
  3 days ago

• Fuel-Efficient North American Mazda2 to Debut at 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 460
  Mazda Motor Corp. will showcase the subcompact Mazda2, scheduled to be sold in the U.S. and Canada beginning late next year, at next months 2009 Los Angeles Auto Show. The model has been a brisk seller for Mazda since it first went on sale in 2003 in Europe. The second-generation Mazda2 commenced sales in Japan in ...
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• Mississippi State Wins the GM/DOE Challenge X Hybrid Competition

  
  DIY Network - Home Improvement How-To & Projects : DIY Network — Authority: 160
  Who said it’s difficult to defend a championship title?For the second consecutive time, Mississippi State University won the General Motors and U.S. Department of Energy’s Challenge X competition, which saw 17 teams from different colleges and universities attempt to transform an ordinary Chevrolet Equinox into ...
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• The New Prius is Larger – Yet Gets Better Fuel Economy?

  
  Interesting Articles — Authority: 149
  The world of hybrid cars has a new king in the 2010 Toyota Prius. The Prius fuel economy is the biggest feature.The Prius hybrid comes stock with a 1.8L 4-cylinder engine, which is up from the past 1.5L.  Contrary to what is the norm, the larger engine actually improves gas mileage due to the increase [...]
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• Hyundai unveils 2.4L Theta II, will debut in 2010 Sonata sedan

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 594
  Today, Hyundai Motors introduced their first direct-injection gasoline powered engine. According to Hyundai, the 2.4-liter engine, dubbed the Theta II, delivers more power while improving fuel-efficiency by 10%, reports Automotive News . The new engine, set to debut in the redesigned Hyndai Sonata early next year, ...
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• Chevy Family Photo Op: Mass-Marketing MPG And MPG For The Masses, Together At Last [La Auto Show]

  
  Jalopnik — Authority: 737
  GM just dumped an unnecessary presser letting everyone know the officially-official US-spec Chevy Cruze debuts at the LA Auto Show along with its 40MPG 1.4-liter turbocharged, direct-injection inline-four. They also mentioned the still-over-a-year-away Chevy Volt for the 25,761st time. Chevrolet at the Los ...
  4 days ago

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