Volkswagen XL1
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With fuel-efficiency and emissions regulations tightening all over the world, carmakers continue to push the limits on how economical a production car can get. The latest entrant in the high-mileage stakes: a future edition of Volkswagen's Up minicar that will return 79 miles per gallon using a two-cylinder diesel engine paired with a hybrid system using a lithium-ion battery pack. If that sounds vaguely familiar, it's because it's the same powertrain that Volkswagen intends to use in its limited-production, high-tech XL1 two-seater. That car, the third iteration of a decade-long Volkswagen...
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VW Develops Car That Can Travel 313 Miles On Single GallonVolkswagen unveiled a new car at the 2011 Qatar Motor Show this week, a car that also caught the attention of the BBC in the UK. The car they unveiled isn’t a production car, but instead a new concept car that highlights that there could be alternatives to all-electric cars—at least...
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Volkswagen Says It Will Build 2-Seat, 260-MPG Plug-In Hybrid
What's good gas mileage? 30 mpg? 40 mpg? The 50-mpg combined rating of the 2011 Toyota Prius, the most fuel-efficient car sold in the U.S. this year? Nah. How about 261 miles per gallon? Or, for the Europeans in the house, a mere 24 grams of carbon dioxide per kilometer. You heard right. The...
John Voelcker
