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Hybrid vs. diesel vs. flex-fuel

Gas/electric hybrids use electric motors to assist a gasoline engine in driving the vehicle. In hybrid cars now on the market, the batteries for the electric motor are charged by the gasoline engine and by power recaptured during slowing and stopping ...

CNN Money

News Blog: Posts tagged hybrid

On a related note, Toyota is also testing hybrid cars with rechargeable batteries in the United States and Japan. Earlier this month, research firm R.L. Polk reported that the Prius was the best-selling car in Silicon Valley in the first five months ...

CNET News

Meridian Energy announces electric car trial

In the last few years there have been developments and successes seen in the use of hybrid cars, and plug-in hybrids are now available overseas. All-electric cars are the next step. Meridian has three goals in conducting next year’s trial: 1. To ...

Scoop

Hybrid cars can net 'grand' rebate

For more information on the ?Green Rewards? program in Illinois, call 312/814-1901 or 217/557-6436. Illinois is tempting motorists to go green by offering them some green. The "Green Rewards" program awards qualifying Illinois residents a $1,000 ...

Dubuque Telegraph Herald

Searches for Fuel-Efficient Vehicles Slow, Cars.com Reports

According to the index, hybrid vehicles listed among the site's used cars that registered the greatest decline in search activity during the past month included the Honda Civic Hybrid, the Honda Insight, the Toyota Prius and Ford Escape Hybrid. "This ...

Auto Remarketing

Your Money: Some Hybrid Credits Are About to Expire

All the major automakers have rolled out high-mileage cars and trucks, and more are on the way. And if you buy a hybrid — a vehicle that combines an electric motor with a gasoline engine — you may be eligible for a tax credit when you file your ...

ABC News

Get a charge out of this: a foldable battery

Linhardt hopes that technological fine-tuning and the economies of mass manufacture can reduce the selling price to the point where the paper battery could be used to power hybrid cars and a wide range of other applications, Other paper batteries are ...

Globe and Mail

Feds Blame Hybrids for Clogging HOV Lanes

The frustration with high gas prices turned many people to hybrid cars, not only to save money at the pump but to save time during rush hour. They applied for and received HOV exemption stickers for those cars. They look like golden keys glued to the ...

KXTV News10Net

On Media

LOS ANGELES -- The governor of California signed a bill this week to give special privileges to hybrid cars which get better than 45 miles to the gallon. The president of the Ford Motor Company objected. Apparently Ford can't build that car, while ...

American Reporter

Toyota's profit jumps 32% to quarterly record

Toyota posts its best quarter Philadelphia Daily News It's on track to being the world's top automaker. High gas prices helped sales of hybrid vehicles. TOKYO - Booming sales of fuel-efficient cars helped lift Toyota to its biggest quarterly profit and put ...

Worldnews.com

Study says low-carbon research offers big payoff

That money would go into emission-reducing technologies like carbon capture, new nuclear power plants, electric "plug-in" hybrid cars and coal-burning plants that sequester their carbon dioxide emissions in underground reservoirs. "You get a pretty ...

Reuters

Somerville's carbon footprint goes down a size

The Somerville Fire Department is also taking steps to help the environment, by replacing several aging Fire Prevention vehicles with new hybrid cars – the first of their kind to debut in the city of Somerville. Chief Kevin Kelleher requested $89 ...

Somerville Journal

IntelliChoice.com Best Deals for August Show Continuing Duel between ...

... the leading source for automotive ownership cost and value analysis, today announced its "Best Deals of the Month" for cars ... Model Subcompact Car MINI Cooper Hatchback Compact Car over 16000 Honda Civic Hybrid ...

Forbes

George Bush Won't Be Able to Limit Oil Imports

Unfortunately, Russian citizens will not receive tax benefits from the American government if they buy solar water heaters and the Russian auto industry does not produce hybrid cars, but the main idea of Bush's law – reducing oil imports – is of ...

Kommersant

Google Picks GreenMaven.com as Featured Custom Search Engine

If you search for cars, you get hybrid cars. Our mission is to make it easy for mainstream to go green." Business tools bring the green economy together: Businesses can add their sites to the green search engine for free, simply by submitting their ...

CSR Wire

Toyota Reports Best Quarter Ever

TOKYO (AP) -- Booming sales of fuel-efficient cars helped lift Toyota to its biggest quarterly profit and put the maker of the Prius hybrid on pace to beat General Motors as the world's No. 1 automaker this year. Despite concerns in the industry ...

US News and World Report

18 new models, 6 concept cars at CAMPI’s 1st Phil. Motorshow

CAMPI members have also brought in concept cars which were displayed at the major auto shows around the world. Mitsubishi ... Toyota has prepared the Prius Hybrid and the FT-SX Crossover SUV, whose imposing size and sleek silhouette reflect its ...

Manila Bulleting Online

Rocketing C-charge to hit gas guzzlers

Owners of gas guzzling cars will be forced to pay £25 a day to drive in central London if proposals by Mayor Ken ... We are already cleaning up London's fleet of public vehicles through measures like the introduction of hybrid buses. These new ...

Richmond & Twickenham Times

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It's not a hybrid. Short of using lithium-ion batteries (which hybrid makers like Toyota seem loath to do), it would take ... impressive but it's a very lightweight and aerodynamic car. Volkswagen Lupo and Audi A3 eat 3l per 100km. New diesel cars ...

DailyTech

Hockeyville committee gets more mixed reviews

In our need to save the planet and the car manufacturers greed to cash in on it, they sell us hybrid cars that may do more damage than good to the environment. Are we really missing the big picture here? What are we to do with all the spent batteries ...

North Bay Nugget

GIULIANI IN ENERGY DILEMMA

Playing to the Iowa crowd, Giuliani talked up converting more corn into ethanol to fuel cars. He also said he'd accelerate production of hybrid and flexible-fuel autos that use alternative fuels. He noted that the United States has more coal reserves ...

New York Post

NASA comp fails to produce flying cars

PAVs aren't proper science-fiction flying cars - at least, not yet. They aren't supposed to be able to lift off vertically ... The $70,000 Virus isn't a hybrid, in fact, but it does get about 50 miles to the gallon going at 170mph. It's still no PAV ...

Channel Register

Platts backs federal requirements energy reform

Along with setting new efficiency standards for lighting, appliances and buildings, the bill authorizes funding for researching renewable energy, creates tax credits for purchasing plug-in hybrid cars and sets up grant programs for promoting public ...

York Dispatch Online

Seeing green

But the same drive that is forcing US consumers to switch their gas-guzzling SUVs for efficient hybrid cars has now reached the Middle East. The realities of climate change and declining oil resources - along with the image problem that pollution ...

ITP.net

BIKE VS. CAR

... lanes because they should be safe enough for a child to ride in. LA should protect us, I get 50 miles to the banana, no hybrid ... hey organbear2: you are just plain wrong ... it is often ver dangerous to ride in the gutter or right next to parked cars ...

Los Angeles Times