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    Think back to the late 1990s. While the EV1 was making waves smoothly whirring down the freeways and highways of Arizona and California, an altogether more rugged fleet of electric utility trucks were living a less obviously electric lifestyle. Enter GM’s S10 Pickup and Ford’s Electric Ranger. Between them, both vehicles provided local government, utility companies and eventually private individuals a way to drive a zero tailpipe emissions electric vehicle that could cope with the more industrial side of life. Many have survived the past ten years and are still being used today...

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    Still Dead: Dodge Ram Hybrid Pickup, With Or Without Diesel

    It's all very strange. Just last March, Chrysler definitively killed the Ram Hemi Hybrid pickup it had been developing for several years. RIP Hemi Hybrid. Now comes a mysterious post on fan site Allpar.com that proposes that the company's Ram 1500 pickup truck will offer a Cummins 5.0-liter...

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    Chrysler Kills Ram Two-Mode Hybrid Pickup Truck After All

    The big green car news from Chrysler yesterday was its announcement that it would build an electric version of the Fiat 500 mini-car for the U.S. market. Win one, lose one, perhaps. The company also dropped a death notice: It has ended development of its Ram Two-Mode Hybrid pickup truck, scheduled...

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    Forbes Calls Jeep Grand Cherokee Dirtiest Car, Readers Slam Methods

    That old capitalist tool, Forbes magazine, has issued a list of the 10 dirtiest cars sold in the U.S. At the very top, in first place for filth, is the Jeep Grand Cherokee. But it turns out there are some problems with their list. There's history behind this. A decade ago, the website for Forbes...

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    Chrysler's Next Hybrid: 2011 Dodge Ram Hybrid Pickup Still On Track

    While Chrysler was an original partner in development of the Two-Mode Hybrid system used in pickups and sport utilities by Chevrolet, GMC, Cadillac, as well as upcoming sport utilities from BMW and Mercedes-Benz, its hybrid history has not been happy. The company made fewer than 1,000 Dodge Durango...

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    Spied: Dodge Ram Hybrid

    The Hybrid HEMI is on the prowl again. The folks at Leftlane News got some new pictures of what will become Dodge's only hybrid model: the Ram pickup truck. This comes after Chrysler pulled the plug on hybrid versions of the full-size Aspen and Durango SUVs a short time ago. The Hybrid Ram uses...

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    Utterly disappointing sales haven't dissuaded Chrysler from working on new hybrids. Yesterday at the Chicago Auto Show, the troubled American automaker announced that a hybrid Dodge Ram pickup is still planned. It's expected that the new pickup will use the same two-mode hybrid system previously used in the discontinued hybrid Dodge Durango and Chrysler Aspen. This will be Dodge's first hybrid pickup, but fuel economy will likely be similar to that of the Chevy Silverado Hybrid which uses the same two-mode system. That truck gets 21 mpg in the city and 22 on the highway, which is respectable...

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