Category: Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars Hybrid Sales Down, Too

Posted by – February 8, 2009

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

The auto industry’s problem is no longer that big cars aren’t selling. It’s that cars aren’t selling. Even fuel-sipping hybrids, which were in such hot demand this summer that they often sold after less than a day on dealer lots, are now slow sellers.

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Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars Obama's Stimulus Bill Includes $10,000 Tax Credit for Plug-In Hybrids

Posted by – February 8, 2009

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

The price of that Chevy Volt may go down another $2,500 this week, before the car even reaches production, thanks to President Obama’s massive economic stimulus proposa.

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Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars Toyota to Introduce Plug-in Hybrid This Year, Hydrogen Cars by 2015

Posted by – February 8, 2009

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

At the 2009 Detroit Auto Show, the focus was largely on electric cars. The Cadillac Converj, the Chrysler 200C, an electric Ford Focus, a drop-top Fisker Karma — electric cars were everywhere. The world’s largest automaker was conspicuously absent. Toyota brought a single electric concept – a battery-powered version of its iQ city car that, the company said, it had no plans to produce anytime soon.

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Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars 1,200 Horsepower. Zero Emissions. Ten Minutes to Recharge.

Posted by – February 8, 2009

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

Apparently, designing the fastest production car ever built wasn’t enough for Shelby Supercars. They want to build an electric one.

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Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars 2010 Toyota Prius: Bigger, Faster, More Efficient

Posted by – February 8, 2009

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The next generation of Toyota’s popular Prius hybrid has made its first official appearance at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. After more than a year of rumors and spy photos, and a long series of press releases from Toyota offering hints about the car, we can bring you the official details.

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Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars In Delaware, Cars Will Soon Power Buildings

Posted by – February 8, 2009

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

It sounds like a futurist’s dream scenario: drive your electric car to work, get out, plug it in and let it power the building. But in Newark, Delaware, it’s about to become a reality – at least on a very small scale. The system is an Energy Department experiment that could point the way toward a greener future.

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Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars Volkswagen Shows Off 57 mpg Sporty Drop-Top

Posted by – February 8, 2009

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

Herbie and the talking Beetle in the VW commercials have a new reason to feel inferior – and this time it’s not Brooke Shields trying to sell rebadged Chrysler Minivans. It’s a gorgeous drop-top roadster that reportedly gets Prius-beating mileage and weighs in at barely more than a Mazda Miata, most likely making it a very agile ride.

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Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars Chevy Volt, Cadillac Converj Inch Closer to Production

Posted by – February 8, 2009

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

Batteries are keeping the next generation of ultra-efficient green cars out of your driveway. The Chevy Volt, the Cadillac Converj, an electric Ford Focus and half a dozen other electric cars are supposedly coming by 2010, or 2011. But they aren’t here yet and no one can put a final date on when they will come because of batteries.

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Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars Toyota Halts Plans for U.S.-Built Prius

Posted by – December 29, 2008

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

The slowing U.S. auto market and the threat of collapse looming over America’s Big Three automakers may not be hurting even the fuel-efficient, foreign-built cars that are supposedly the auto industry’s life rafts today.

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Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars Big Three CEOs May Drive This Time

Posted by – December 29, 2008

Hybrids Electrics Hydrogen Cars

“Couldn’t you all have downgraded to first class or jet pooled or something to get here?.

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