Archive for the ‘Green News’ Category
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Filed under: Fuel Efficient, Green News
Diesel Sales Surge Across North America
by admin on May 9th, 2013
While the green movement extolls the virtues of electric cars and hybrids, there is a fuel efficient alternative that doesn’t get much airtime. That alternative has been slowly and quietly gaining ground across North America and is now becoming a force to be reckoned with, diesel. Diesel was once a dirty, smelly fuel that left clouds of black smoke in its wake. Advances in the fuel composition has taken most of that unpleasantness ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: C-Max, Ford, Fuel Efficient, Green News
Ford Cleans Up With Canadian Green Car Award
by admin on Apr 17th, 2013
The Ford Fusion Hybrid has been awarded the Canadian Green Car Award by the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada. Ford didn’t only win the award, the automaker had 4 cars in the top ten. That’s pretty good going by any standard. The other Fords that made it to the competition were the Ford C-Max Energi, Ford Edge EcoBoost and Ford Focus Electric. Also in the running were the Nissan Leaf and Hyundai Sonata Hybrid. All are ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Ford, Fuel Efficient, Green News, Nissan
Ford, Nissan and Daimler Joining Forces on Fuel Cell Tech
by admin on Jan 31st, 2013
The shift towards alternative fuels is gaining momentum. Ever so slowly, we are moving away from gas and diesel and towards hybrids, electric cars and emerging technologies. This is once more demonstrated by the news that Ford, Nissan and Daimler are collaborating to deliver new hydrogen fuel cell technology for future models. This advanced technology is expensive, prohibitively so. It makes sense for automakers to work together and ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Fuel Efficient, Green News
New Web Portal to Improve Perception of EVs
by admin on Jan 25th, 2013
According to a recent survey from the Canadian Automobile Association, only 5% of Canadians would consider buying an electric vehicle when they come to buy a new car. That’s actually down from 6% from last year. Not only woefully low, but declining. The vast majority of those surveyed said they simply don’t know enough about the technology or the cars on offer to consider them as a purchase. Others said they don’t believe EVs t...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Green News, Nissan
Nissan Developing Wireless Charger for EVs
by admin on Nov 8th, 2012
The move towards electric cars is moving apace. While still not perfect, the technology is becoming more and more usable every year and will soon be an affordable alternative to gas. To help this process along a bit, Nissan are preparing a wireless inductive charging system for its range of electric vehicles. The reality of this is that all Nissan EVs will be able to charge wirelessly once the technology has been finalized and releas...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: C-Max, Ford, Fuel Efficient, Green News
2013 Ford CMax Energi Most Efficient Hybrid Ever
by admin on Oct 12th, 2012
We mentioned the 2013 Ford C-Max Energi a little while ago as one of two new C-Max models being released by Ford this year. The Energi plug-in hybrid would accompany the standard C-Max hybrid onto lots at the end of this year. The original plan was for the Ford CMax Energi to beat the Toyota Prius and achieve more than the 95 MPG EPA rating the Japanese hybrid delivers. We’re sure Ford would also like to have beaten the 98 MPG rati...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Fuel Efficient, Green News, Hyundai, Tucson
New Hyundai ix35 Unveiled at Paris
by admin on Sep 28th, 2012
Every motoring website in the Western world is covering the Paris Motor Show, which is why we aren’t. However, the unveiling of the new Hyundai ix35 is too good to miss. The new Hyundai ix35 Fuel Cell (Tucson to us) is the world’s first production hydrogen fuel cell car, which was unveiled yesterday. The new vehicle is set to roll off the production line in winter 2012 and enter the market immediately. The initial run is 1,000 ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Fuel Efficient, Green News
The Way Ahead for Electric Motoring
by admin on Sep 26th, 2012
Californian fledgling automaker Tesla is putting together a plan that could just be the way ahead for electric cars and we love it. It’s ambitious, expensive, but solves the single major downfall of all electric cars to date. The success of the Tesla Model S cannot be denied. With 13,000 pre-orders on the books, the car is a great success for a brand new model, concept and automaker. It probably helps that the car looks amazing and...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Fuel Efficient, Green News
Montreal Taking Green Motoring Seriously
by admin on Sep 21st, 2012
The City of Montreal has announced a new, greener city transportation policy that will see many of its vehicles replaced with more fuel efficient models. The neatly-titled “Green Policy rolling - Second Generation 2012-2015,” seeks to replace 300 of their 700 vehicle fleet with subcompacts that use biodiesel. They are also planning to teach their municipal staff how to drive efficiently. This presumably means bus drivers too, as ...Read More » Tags
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Filed under: Ford, Fusion, Green News
Ford Fusion Officially Most Fuel-efficient Hybrid
by admin on Sep 19th, 2012
For once it seems, the claims of a manufacturer are more than just marketing spin. The US Environmental Protection Agency rated the Ford Fusion Hybrid at 47 mpg city and 47 mpg highway, making it the most fuel efficient midsized sedan on the market. Ford had made a lot of the gas mileage of the new Ford Fusion, but many of us doubted it would live up to the hype. Well it’s a slice of humble pie for us then as the EPA confirm Ford...Read More » Tags
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