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• Japan’s Automakers Demonstrate Fuel Cell Vehicles With 707-Mile Road Trip

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Perhaps fretting that the public had forgotten about their hydrogen ambitions, Japans Big 3 automakers last week took to the streets with their most advanced hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles. Over two days, driving teams steered a Toyota Highlander FCHV-adv, a Nissan X-Trail FCV, and a Honda FCX Clarity 707 miles from ...
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• Name of Chevrolet Volt’s Exterior Paint Has Been Narrowed to Three Contenders

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  A few weeks ago, the marketing reps behind the Chevrolet Volt asked the public to submit names for the exterior paint color of the hybrid. Some 13,000 names were submitted. We think “greenish silver” pretty much describes the paint job you see here, but the Volt folks wanted – and got – more thoughtful ...
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• Edmunds.com Recommends Shift From MPG Emphasis

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Edmunds.com, parent of AutoObserver , late last week submitted a recommendation to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Transportation to make fuel-economy information on new-vehicle window stickers more useful by shifting to a cost-of-energy figure rather than todays emphasized miles-per-gallon ...
  15 hours ago

• Ford Shelby Mustang to get V8 EcoBoost engines in the future?

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 594
  FoMoCo has previously said that 90 percent of its line-up will feature its new EcoBoost fuel-saving engines by 2013. Nearly 80 percent of Ford’s global nameplates will have an available EcoBoost option. The Dearborn automakers says that by 2013, global EcoBoost volume throughout the Ford, Lincoln and Mercury ...
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• Monthly Cost of Leaf Electric Car Will Equal That of Fully Loaded Civic, Nissan Says

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Pricing has not been set yet on Nissans Leaf electric car ( pictured ), which will see limited distribution next year, but the automakers top marketing executive of North America told us today that the monthly cost to the consumer should be equivalent to the monthly cost of a fully loaded Honda Civic plus its fuel. ...
  3 days ago

• EcoBoost Engines Prove Much More Popular With Consumers Than Ford Expected

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Far more customers are choosing Ford vehicles packing fuel-efficient EcoBoost engines than the automaker expected, according to an analysis of sales data. As a result, the company is hurrying to put the V-6 version of the motor in new vehicles, including the F-150 pickup in the United States and the Ford Falcon sedan ...
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• ‘Boat Tail,’ Other Devices Can Lift Fuel Economy of Semis 20 Percent, Group Says

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  The European public-private consortium behind Platform for Aerodynamic Road Transport has come up with a way to improve the fuel efficiency of semi-trucks: the “boat tail.” PART says the six-foot-long tapered rear end can improve fuel efficiency up to 7.5 percent. The group says it has been testing the tails for ...
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• Daimler Announces Tentative Plan to Launch Series of Luxury Compact Cars in U.S.

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Daimler AG is considering launching a series of small Mercedes-Benz cars in the U.S. in a bid to tap Americans growing interest in downsized models that offer upscale features and finishes, the German automakers chief executive said. ———- The Mercedes-Benz A-Class, right, gets 50 MPG but isnt available in the ...
  3 days ago

• Greenlings: Why does mileage drop in winter?

  
  Autoblog Green — Authority: 700
  Filed under: MPG , Greenlings This weeks Greenlings topic came to us from another reader tip. Don asked why his fuel economy suffers so much in winter weather. In his own experience, mileage drops about 10 percent when the temperatures go from the 60-70 F range to near freezing. This is consistent with our ...
  4 days ago

• Edmunds.com: EPA’s Fuel Economy Guide Should Be Based on Cost, Not Mileage

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  By John ODell and Scott Doggett “Miles per gallon” made sense when all cars drank gas, or diesel, and that was that. But with the advent of rechargeable electric vehicles, whether all-electric or plug-in hybrid, the fuel-use scene gets quickly blurred. How many miles per gallon do you assign to a Nissan Leaf, with ...
  4 days ago

• GM Says Fuel Cell EV Is Being Treated Just Like Any Pre-Production Program

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Although talk of fuel cell electric vehicles from the water cooler to, say, the biggest office at the U.S. Department of Energy generally revolves around how far off the technology really is, the head of General Motors fuel-cell program has just come out and said the Chevy Equinox FCEV is well on its way to ...
  5 days ago

• Honda Won’t Offer Low-Cost Minicar in India to Compete With Tata, Renault-Nissan

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Dispelling rumors to the contrary, Honda Motor Co. wont be making a low-cost and presumably fuel-efficient minicar in India to compete with products released by Tata Motors Ltd. and the alliance of Renault SA and Nissan Motor Co. Instead, Japans second-biggest carmaker is developing a small car that will cost less ...
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• GM making significant progress towards affordable hydrogen-powered vehicles

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 594
  While there is a lot of hype around GM’s Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid vehicle, GM is out to remind us that it is still making progress on its fuel-cell vehicle program. The Detroit automaker said that it is making significant developments towards building advanced hydrogen fuel-cell designs that will result in more ...
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• BMW to offer 4-cylinder diesels in the United States

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 594
  Over the next decade, we can expect to see four-cylinder turbo diesel engine BMW’s in North America, according to Inside Line . Tom Baloga, VP of engineering for BMW of North America, to Inside Line that “You’re going to see it of course in the 3 Series, and the 5 Series is a good possibility. If the ...
  6 days ago

• Ford Scraps Plan to Bring All-New Fuel-Efficient Ka to U.S., Says It’s Too Small

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Despite a solid launch of the new Ka subcompact car in Europe earlier this year, Ford Motor Co. has reconsidered its plan to bring the subcompact to the U.S. and has decided that the car is too small for American tastes. In an interview with Automotive News (subscription required) published Monday, Ford CEO Alan ...
  6 days ago

• Chrysler not planning mass-market hybrid car before 2015

  
  egmCarTech — Authority: 594
  Chrysler Group LLC, which recently announced its 5-year product and business plan, has no plans to accelerate the development of a mass-market hybrid or a plug-in electric passenger car. The Auburn Hills automaker plans to rely heavily on small Fiat engines to improve the fuel-economy of its vehicle fleet. ...
  6 days ago

• 2010 Honda Insight EX: Hybrid System Walkaround

  
  Long-Term Road Tests — Authority: 148
  Ever wondered what it takes to build a hybrid? Well, that depends on what sort of hybrid youre talking about. The hybrids that Toyota and Ford put out are complex (and effective) series-parallel hybrids, meaning they can run on gas, electricity, a direct parallel blending of the two or a series ...
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• 2010 Honda Insight EX: Hybrid System Walkaround

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Ever wondered what it takes to build a hybrid? Well, that depends on what sort of hybrid youre talking about. The hybrids that Toyota and Ford put out are complex (and effective) series-parallel hybrids, meaning they can run on gas, electricity, a direct parallel blending of the two or a series piggyback mode where ...
  1 week ago

• Pixel-Shack » There Are Paintball Landmines Now

  
  PaintballLifestyle - Paintball's #1 Free eMagazine! — Authority: 148
  The next logical step would be paintball LMGs affixed to mounts on the perimeter of your paintball base. I told a friend about these, and he already knew about them. He said that they were bad ass. I’ll just have to take his word for …
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• White House Proposes 2-For-1 CAFE Credits for Zero Emissions Vehicles

  
  Car Reviews & Car Buying Blog — Authority: 458
  Automaker Alliance Jumps On Board, EV-Makers Could Reap Huge Benefits Let the horse-trading begin. The Obama Administration, seeking to boost development of all-electric and plug-in hybrid-electric cars, is suggesting that automakers be given CAFE credits that would let low and zero-emission vehicles count for up to ...
  1 week ago

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