Toyota’s smallest and most environmentally friendly hybrid, the Aqua, hit the Japanese market earlier this week. The $22,000 car is 2 feet shorter than its well known cousin the Prius and gets more than 83 miles per gallon. To be named the Prius C when it eventually crosses the Pacific and goes on sale in [...]
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U.S. Military to Develop Green Combat Vehicles?
November 9th, 2011
Justin Manger Not tanks, necessarily, but Ground Combat Vehicles (GCV). The part about getting huge, heavy, important military vehicles to go green is accurate, however. Defense contractor BAE Systems is looking to deliver a design for a hybrid-electric, next-generation GCV as the Army looks for ways to modernize its armored fighting vehicles. Similar to a tank, GCVs are large, has mounted [...]
Toyota’s Prius Goes Plural
September 20th, 2011
Eric Wilson Back in January we wrote about the expansion of the Prius line and more recently about their imminent arrival in the US. Billboards and commercials (albeit slightly strange ones like the video below) have begun airing this past week with the tagline “The Prius Goes Plural.” In addition to this tagline/motto, the new Prius line [...]
Econation Offers Alternative Fuel and Hybrid Vehicles
August 22nd, 2011
Eric Wilson During the Academy Award ceremony earlier this year, stars arrived in the usual black car, but many of these were either powered by alternative fuel or were hybrid vehicles. According to NPR, Econation “has contracts with most of the major Hollywood studios”, which led to many stars arriving in the fuel efficient cars. Econation offers [...]
Can Auto Manufacturers reach 54.5 MPG by 2025?
August 10th, 2011
Chris DeArmond On July 29, the Obama administration proposed a plan that would require automakers to reach a fleet-wide average of 54.5 miles per gallon (MPG) by 2025 under the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards. The new rules roughly double the current requirement for passenger cars (27.5 MPG), and will start to go into effect in [...]
Toyota’s Expanded Prius Line to Make US Debut This Fall
July 20th, 2011
Eric Wilson The Prius v, a larger version of the “traditional” Prius that has become borderline ubiquitous in many parts of the country, will go on sale across the United States this fall. It represents the first of the expanded Prius line to come to market. In addition, the plug-in Prius, oft discussed (including on 2nd Green [...]
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