Polls
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Diesel now has a dim future at best among U.S. passenger-car buyers, though its prospects continue to look strong for a minority of pickup truck buyers. Heavy-duty commercial vehicles, on the other hand, largely use diesel engines as a matter of course. We asked our Twitter followers when that would end—specifically, when the very last diesel truck would be sold in the U.S. DON'T MISS: Diesels Still Needed For Truck Fuel Economy Despite VW Scandal: Advocate Unlike our polls on electric-car issues, which often skew predominantly toward a single respose, the range of opinions on this one...
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How do you view Tesla's "beta" Autopilot system? Our poll resultsSo-called self-driving or autonomous cars still aren't on the market as of today, but you might not know that from a lot of the press coverage. One of the most prominent systems is what electric-car maker Tesla Motors calls Autopilot. In reality, it's a collection of electronic active-safety...
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What should Tesla's next vehicle be after the Model 3 and Model Y? Our poll results
In broad plan, Tesla Motors has stuck by the "secret master plan" it published 10 years ago. It launched the low-volume all-electric Roadster, then the higher-volume Model S sedan and its Model X crossover utility vehicle offshoots, all at luxury price levels. Now it says it will put its Model 3...
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What advice would you give a friend with a VW diesel? Our poll results
It's the question on hundreds of thousands of VW diesel owners' minds: what should I do? Should I simply sell the car back to Volkswagen, now that I know what amount I'm likely to be offered, or should I wait to find out what any modifications might entail? An article we did three weeks ago looking...
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In 2025, what percent of new cars in the U.S. will have plugs? Our poll results
Regarding the prospects for electric cars in future years, our readers are nothing if not an optimistic bunch. We recently polled our Twitter followers on their views of how much and how fast cars with plugs would move into the sales mainstream. Last year, plug-in cars represented slightly less...
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Which electric car excites you the most? Our poll results
This site covers all manner of vehicles, mostly for personal transport, with a focus on energy efficiency, reducing environmental impact, and advanced technologies to do so. When we started daily publication in 2009, our most popular articles were about hybrid cars. Now, our readers' highest...
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