Hybrid
Ford Fusion Hybrid to start $27,270, 39 mpg city!
After debuting the 2010 Fusion at the LA Auto Show this week, Ford has just launched a new micro-site for the Fusion that finally includes pricing information. The base Fusion S starts at $19,270 with the four cylinder engine and 6-speed manual gearbox. The new Fusion Hybrid however, is nearly 42 percent more, starting at [...]
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LA 2008: Hyundai announces Blue Drive efficiency strategy, 2010 Sonata hybrid
Hyundai has joined the “Blue is the new green movement” at the LA Auto Show, where the Korean automaker has announced its “Blue Drive” efficiency strategy. The core of the plan is meet the federally-mandated 35 mpg fleet average economy requirement by 2015 rather than the 2020 date specified in last year’s energy bill. Hyundai [...]
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Tech Analysis: 2010 Ford Fusion/Mercury Milan powertrains, 38 mpg hybrid!
The long-awaited redesign of the Ford Fusion and Mercury Milan is almost upon us and we got our first look at the new powertrains this week in Dearborn. As expected, increased fuel efficiency has been the number one priority for Ford’s engineers, followed by power and refinement. In the conventional models, the sedans have picked [...]
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Detroit Preview: Prius Team releases teaser #4 - it’s a seat switch!
Toyota and its team of Prius designers have decided to continue on unabated with the agonizingly slow and seemingly meaningless teaser images of its next-gen Prius hybrid. To recap, first we saw the display boot-up screen, which was followed by a random switch and then what appears to be a mind-control device of some kind. [...]
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Detroit 2009 Preview: Third Prius teaser appears
Toyota seems to be following the same pattern with the new Prius that Ford has done for the last couple of months with the new Mustang: dribbling out a steady stream of close-up teaser shots. Following the display boot-up screen and a switch we now have the image you see above. My first thought was [...]
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Next-gen Prius gets a new logo
Toyota’s got a lot of Prius fans salivating at the thought of its third-gen fuel-saver being introduced in January at the Detroit Auto Show, and it’s doing its part to keep those juices flowing by releasing the first official shot of the ‘10 Prius. It’s um, nice… but doesn’t show off too much skin. In [...]
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Chrysler’s Jim Press making big claims for upcoming EVs
Chrysler’s co-president continued to talk up his employer’s plans for electrically-driven vehicles this week at a media luncheon in California. Press told the gathering that he had driven three different producible prototypes of plug-in hybrid vehicles recently. The vehicles have been developed by the new ENVI unit that was established in late 2007 specifically to [...]
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GM confirms plans to sell ER-EVs in Europe in 2011, 50 Volt prototypes this fall
GM Europe president Carl-Peter Forster said again this week that the company would launch E-Flex-based extended range EVs on the European market in 2011, about a year behind the Volt launch in North America. In his remarks, Forster referred to both petrol- and diesel-powered ER-EVs, although the last time we checked with GM they said [...]
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Moller desings flying hybrid car, don’t hold your breath waiting for it
Above: One of Paul Moller’s past projects, a flying hovercraft
Moller has designed another car which will never, ever see the light of day. This time, it’s a hybrid flying car which uses both gas and electric power for its eight fans, which would theoretically provide liftoff. Moller claims that its car has been fully designed [...]
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Ricardo designates new global hybrid product group director
British company Ricardo, know for its efforts in cleaning up powertrains, has decided to give a boost to its hybrid developments by hiring a new Group Director. The new appointee is Dr. Roger Thornton, who has more than 25 years of experience in power electronics based systems for transportation applications. Dr. Thorton joined Ricardo in [...]
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