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Federal vehicle fleets will cut emissions 30 percent by 2025.
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UberX Drivers To Test BYD e6 Chinese Electric Cars In Chicago
The BYD e6 wagon is the battery-electric car that never quite made it onto the U.S. market. Despite various plans and announcements over the last five years, the e6 was never offered for retail sale in North America. Very quietly, that's now changing; the company hopes to lease around 200 BYD e6...
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U.S.P.S. 'Long Life' Vehicles Last 25 Years, But Age Shows Now
The U.S. Postal Service seeks a new vehicle type to replace its aging fleet.
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Via's Plug-In Hybrid Trucks Will Sell 50,000 A Year By 2018, Company Says
Via Motors expects dramatic growth in its plug-in vehicle sales.
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Deliveries Of Via Motors Range-Extended Electric Vans Start After EPA Certification
Via Motors has begun delivering its Chevrolet Express-based vans following EPA certification.
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Coke Tests Add-In Hybrid System For Better Gas Mileage On Service Vans
Coca-Cola plans to have over 200 hybrid-van conversions in operation by 2015.
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Indianapolis plans to deploy 425 electric cars and plug-in hybrids in its municipal fleet by 2016.
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Chevrolet Volts In Fleet Use: Might As Well Not Have A Plug
Chevy Volt owners, and even Chevrolet itself, are usually quite proud of the amount of miles the range-extended electric car covers on grid electricity. The company said last week that 63 percent of all Volt miles driven have been covered on grid power, totaling more than half a billion miles...
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Why An Electric Car Saves Fleet Operators $16,000 In Lifetime Cost
The average car spends about 95 percent of a 24-hour day parked. For the 5 percent that they're driven, they actually spend one-third of the time idling–at red lights, stuck behind leisurely left-turners, or even while the driver waits for the vehicle to warm up (or cool down) before getting...
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Indianapolis Works Toward Totally Electrified City Fleet
There's a lot of discussion about hybrids and plug-in electric cars being sold to private buyers. But some of the biggest gains in reducing emissions and running costs are likely to come from vehicle fleets. While individual car owners may suddenly have to take a car 100 miles instead of their...
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Mazda To Offer All-Electric Mazda2, In Japan, For Lease Only
Electric cars can be split into three basic groups. There are the few models carmakers intend to sell in volume (e.g. Nissan Leaf), those that are only "compliance cars"--built solely to satisfy regulatory requirements--and, lastly, the "test fleet" cars, with which manufacturers gather real-world...
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Audi Launches Pilot Project In Munich With A1 E-tron Electric Car
Earlier today, Audi launched the latest part of its plug-in electric vehicle program, commencing a public trail of its A1 e-tron range-extended electric car in Munich. Announced in September 2010 after Audi unveiled the A1 E-Tron concept car at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show, the 20-strong test car...
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A couple of weeks ago, BMW invited me to come to Munich and take part in the first drive of production versions of the BMW ActiveE, their second battery electric test vehicle. A bit of background: I've been something of a high-profile MINI E pioneers, maintaining an active blog about my experiences, displaying the car at every green transportation expo I can make and frequently speaking to various press outlets about my time with MINI E #250. The folks at BMW noticed the attention I've received, and they have frequently checked in on my blog to get feedback about my opinions on 28 months I've...
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Chrysler To Join Honda In Selling Natural-Gas Cars...In 2017
Ask anyone to name an alternate fuel, and natural gas is rarely the first one that comes to mind. Ethanol, perhaps, and increasingly electricity. But natural gas? Not so much. Yet in other parts of the world, as many as 2 percent of the vehicles on the road are fueled by natural gas, in countries...
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle: Saturn Vue Returns As Chevy Captiva
The shuttered Saturn brand is quickly fading from memory, but now GM plans to bring back one former Saturn model to live on in a new incarnation. But even if you're a Saturn fan, you won't be able to buy one--unless you're a business. Vue redux The compact crossover that sold for only two years as...
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Ram Pickup Trucks To Get Natural-Gas Option For V-8 Engines?
The head of Chrysler's Ram truck brand, Fred Diaz, said at the Chicago Auto Show this week that the company is exploring the addition of natural-gas powered engines to its line of V-8 engined Ram trucks (formerly Dodge Ram). “I'm eager and very interested to see what we can do with CNG in our...
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Gasoline Engines Will Be With Us For Many Decades Yet, Really
We write a lot about electric cars here, and we cover clean diesels and efficient gasoline cars. But it's probably time for a little reality check. Gasoline engines are going to be with us throughout the lifetime of anyone reading this article. They may represent far less than the 90-odd-percent of...
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