Mileage

  • Gas pump

    Did you make a road-trip this weekend? Did you have to buy gas? If the answer is yes, then the chances are you found yourself paying the highest price for gas since May, and the highest you’ve ever had to pay for a Labor Day travel. Highest ever According to the AAA (via FoxNews), the average price payed in the U.S. per gallon of regular gasoline hit $3.80 over the weekend, with drivers in LA being forced to pay out around $4.14 per gallon. It isn’t as high as the $4.40 some Californians had to pay earlier this year to fill up, but it is the highest gas prices ever recorded for a...

  • 2012 Chevrolet Volt
    If 63% Of Volt Miles Are Electric, Isn't It An Electric Car?

    One of the most common complaints we get at GreenCarReports is that we refer to the 2012 Chevrolet Volt as an electric car. Because it has a range-extending gasoline engine, some say, it is only a plug-in hybrid and therefore not worthy to be classed as an electric car. As we’ve illustrated...

  • Federal-Mogul Advanced Corona Ignition System
    Forget Spark Plugs: Plasma-Based Ignition Makes Engines More Efficient

    As long as the internal combustion engine has existed, engineers have been trying to find better ways of igniting the highly combustable mixture of air and gasoline that powers cars. Everything from higher voltage coils through to electronically-timed ignition and making spark plug tips from metals...

  • 2011 Ford Fiesta
    MPG Ratings More Important To Car Buyers: For Cost, Or Green Living?

    The new car buying process can be quite the task in today’s market. This is especially true with the growing numbers of hybrid and electric cars added to the pool of choices. While hybrids and electrics don’t make up a large percentage of the market, miles-per-gallon (mpg) ratings are...

  • 2010 Audi A3 TDI
    Bosch Predicts Diesel Sales To Reach 10 Percent Of U.S. Market By 2015

    Diesel models may account for more than half of all new car sales in Europe but in the U.S. their numbers still hover around just 3 percent of the market. This in part because of a national memory of the noisy and polluting diesels of three decades ago, and in part because diesel fuel and engines...

  • Padmini Indian Taxi
    Tougher Gas Mileage Laws Hit Third World Too: CAFE For India

    There’s a common argument that the Western world is hurt by tougher environmental standards being imposed by governments on both sides of the Atlantic, while third world nations, some of the biggest polluters due to the sheer size of their populations, get off relatively scot free. While one...

  • 2011 Hyundai Elantra, Grant's Tomb, New York City

    Finally, here's our last video in the series we did on the new 2011 Hyundai Elantra. Since we tested that car a few weeks ago, the compact segment has only heated up. There's a new 2012 Honda Civic, an entirely redesigned all-wheel-drive 2012 Subaru Impreza, and the highly competitive 2011 Chevy Cruze that debuted this year along with the Elantra. In the compact segment, where gas mileage is increasingly important and most entries can be ordered with all the amenities that used to be reserved to big cars, any little problems can stand out. And while we liked the new Hyundai Elantra, it wasn't...

  • 2011 Hyundai Elantra
    Five Things We Like About The New 2011 Hyundai Elantra (Video)

    The 2011 Hyundai Elantra compact sedan, entirely redesigned for this model year, has won rave reviews and is selling like gangbusters. We found many things to like in the stylish little Hyundai, and as part of our series of quick road-test and review videos, we listed the top five. Check out the...

  • 2011 Hyundai Elantra
    2011 Hyundai Elantra: Two-Minute Road Test Review (Video)

    The 2011 New York Auto Show is kicking off this week, with new compact car entries that include the all-wheel-drive 2012 Subaru Impreza, among others. But a strong new contender this year that's already selling fast is the 2011 Hyundai Elantra, which we recently road-tested over our usual route of...

  • 2012 Volkswagen Beetle
    2012 Volkswagen Beetle Revealed, Offers 40 MPG With Diesel Engine

    It’s been more than a decade since Volkswagen’s new-generation ‘New Beetle’ first hit showrooms but a successor is finally here, making its debut this week at the 2011 Shanghai Auto Show before reappearing just a couple of days later at the 2011 New York Auto Show. It...

  • 2011 Jeep Grand Cherokee
    Jeep Grand Cherokee Getting 3.0-Liter Turbodiesel By 2013: Report

    It's the news Jeep fans all across the country have be waiting years for. That one little tidbit execs at Jeep love to deny but no longer can--that the Jeep Grand Cherokee will be offered with an advanced VM Motori turbodiesel engine in the U.S. by 2013. The information was reportedly revealed...

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