Antony Ingram, Contributing Writer
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You can virtually throw a stone these days and hit someone developing a "fuel of the future", but some do appear to show more promise than others.
Many options for future transportation have their...
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BYD, China's Electric-Car Star, Faces Steeper ChallengesChinese carmaker BYD is facing tough times ahead, following reports that its stock has fallen 43 percent since its February high. As China's figurehead for electric vehicles, BYD is best-known in the U.S. for its e6 electric crossover, and being part-owned by billionaire entrepreneur Warren...
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2012 Kia Optima Hybrid Touts Its World Record Gas Mileage (Video)What do you do if you want to promote your latest high-MPG offering to consumers? You could report the model's official EPA figures, if you think they look good enough. Or, if you're Kia, you send two professional drivers on an 8,000-mile, 48-state journey around the U.S. and report their...
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Hyundai Says: Let's All Make August 'Fuel Efficiency Month' !!!!!For readers of GreenCarReports every month is Fuel Efficiency Month, but Korean automaker Hyundai is now petitioning to make August the official "National Fuel Efficiency Month". "There's a day, week or month for just about everything else, so we feel the time is right for a national Fuel...
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GE Opens Electric & Plug-In Test Center In Eden Prairie, MinnesotaThe most effective way of getting regular consumers to warm to electric vehicles, hybrids and other alternative fuel vehicles is to get them behind the wheel. The same applies to business customers, who may be in a position to buy a fleet of green vehicles to replacing ageing current fleets. That's...
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5 Good Green Cars For Your Teen: Frugal, Fun, But Responsible TooIt's summer, the kid wants a car, what are ya gonna do? Chances are you want your kid driving around in something safe. Almost certainly something not too fun or stylish, unless you want them showing off with a car full of friends. And you probably want something with good gas mileage too--it ain't...
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Inductive charging is one of those "wait a few years" technologies, right?
Not if you live in Italy, where inductive charging isn't just being used now, but has been for a decade in bus fleets in...
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RIP Hydrogen Highway? California Takes Back Grant DollarsEven more so than with electric cars, the future of hydrogen vehicles depends on a network of filling stations to allow people to go about their journeys as normal. That future has taken a blow in California, with the news that $27 million in grants for hydrogen filling stations has been revoked by...
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From Army Tanks To Fuel Tanks, Military Helps Raise MPGIf you took away all the technology developed through motor sport or the military from regular cars, we'd be surprised if you were left with something driveable. Between materials, electronics, safety devices and mechanical components, a great deal of modern automotive technology has been developed...
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Want A 2013 Tesla Model S Signature Edition? Too Late, They're All GoneIf you were hoping to get your name down for one of the exclusive 2013 Tesla Model S Signature Editions, you've now left it a little too late. According to Tesla, the company has sold every one of the initial run of cars, all of which are packed to the roof with equipment, use the larger 85 kWh...
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Mazda Goes Racing With Its New SkyActiv-D Efficient DieselMazda is no stranger to motorsport, with its MX-5 sports car one of the most-raced production cars in the world at grassroots level, and its high-profile victory in the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours. That victory heralded the first--and only--for rotary power, and Mazda is set to innovate again by...
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Tree-Hugger? Nah, This Nissan Leaf Owner Hugs Corners, Beats Gas CarsThere are some who might say the Nissan Leaf is a bit of a car for wimps. A hippy car. Or even a car for those who don't really think we should be driving cars at all. Tell that to the guys who take their Leafs to autocross events--and even beat those racing on internal combustion. Of course, the...
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Resplendent in its new 'hybrid-blue' color scheme, Toyota's hybrid entry into this year's Le Mans 24 Hours has made a successful debut in testing.
Toyota tested a pair of its TS030 Le Mans Prototypes...
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Brine: Key To Cheaper, Longer-Lasting Electric Car Batteries?There may not be a magic bullet for battery technology, but improvements can come from the most unlikely places. One of those is the San Andreas fault in California, where one of battery tech's futures is bubbling out of the ground. As a tectonic fault line, the area is a great source of geothermal...
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Audi Cans Electric A2 City Car, A1 E-Tron: ReportAudi has demonstrated a vote of little confidence in electric cars by revealing it has canceled plans to produce the all-electric Audi A2, and the range-extended A1 e-tron. CAR cites Audi's concerns that the projected 40,000 Euro price tag--just under $50,000--would make the project unviable for...
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Electric Cars Are Not Coming; They're Here (In 1974...)We've all heard the stories about how electric cars were set to take over at the turn of the last century (before ironically being killed by the electric starter motor), and at least once over the last four decades too. Now they're really here, and the fact that many major manufacturers are now...
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Beep Bloop Beep: Star Wars' R2D2, C3PO Sell Prius Plug-In (Video)A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away... In fact, not that long ago, and right here on earth, a rebel alliance of green-minded folk were attracted to the force of hybrid vehicles. Using less fuel and producing less pollution, the oil empire has never been quite the same since. We're not sure...
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For The Truly Green Driver: Buy Carbon Offsets At The Gas PumpVirtually everything we do has an unavoidable impact on the planet in some way, if you trace the line far enough. Even if you're using solar-generated electricity to power your computer to read this article, your computer will still have used energy to produce, and to ship to you, and those solar...
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With several manufacturers offering increased-economy versions of their regular vehicles these days, you might be tempted to buy them as a way of saving some money on gas.
Improved aerodynamic...
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2013 Ford Fiesta: Ideal First Green Car For New Drivers?If you're looking to buy your son or daughter a first car, the choice on offer might seem a little overwhelming at first. With gas prices on the increase, you may be tempted to get them something with good gas mileage, without spending too much money to buy it. The good news is, cars like the 2013...
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Toyota Yaris Hybrid Driven: Why Europeans Won't Get Prius CThe Toyota Yaris Hybrid is as significant a car for Toyota in Europe as the 2012 Toyota Prius C is for the company in the U.S. It's the cheapest hybrid on the market, emits the lowest levels of CO2 of any non plug-in car--vital for European taxation reasons--and returns impressive gas mileage...
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Tesla Shares 2012 Model S Manufacturing ProcessTesla Motors has released the first installment in its series of "Inside Tesla" articles, whetting the world's appetite in the run-up to the first 2012 Model S deliveries in only 22 days time. Tesla's George Blankenship shares some insights into the Model S production process, the first aspect of...
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Tiny T25, T27 Three-Seat Minicars Delight To Drive, But Not For U.S.We've been closely following the progress of Gordon Murray's T25 and T27 minicars for some time now, and like many green vehicles of recent years, they've often seemed so near and yet so far away. However, unlike some of the more recent startups, Gordon Murray has been keeping his cards close to...
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Chrysler Ypsilon: All-Italian American Car U.S. Doesn't GetYou'll no doubt be familiar with the term 'platform sharing', a name given to basic automotive architecture that finds itself used on a variety of models in a range, or even across manufacturers. The basic underpinnings of a Volkswagen Golf can also be found under an Audi TT, A3, Volkswagen Jetta...
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