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Total Your Gas Guzzler Under New Insurance, Get a Hybrid
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14.8.2009 |
Business Operations | GreenBiz.com |
 Fireman's Fund Insurance Company has introduced the first auto insurance that lets policyholders upgrade to a hybrid if their vehicle is destroyed.  |
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Clunkers program excluded real clunkers
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14.8.2009 |
The Thin Green Line |
| It was easy enough to read over in the complex legal language of which cars qualified for the Cash for Clunkers incentive, but vehicles built before 1984 were excluded. Why, when these jalopies (which is, by the way, a synonym for clunkers ) are precisely the kind of cars ostensibly targeted by... ... |
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Cars Create More Power than Power Plants
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14.8.2009 |
GOOD |
| Alexis Madrigal points out that we’ve got 35 times more horsepower in our cars than in our power plants. |
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Avital Binshtock: Green Your Driving Habits: 4 Tips
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14.8.2009 |
Green on HuffingtonPost.com |
| I know, I know: It's better to take public transit, or walk or bike, than drive. But for those times when motoring can't be avoided, recall these tips to minimize your vehicle's impact on the planet. |
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Wheels: Hybrids Score High in Crash Safety
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14.8.2009 |
NY Times: Automobiles |
The Honda Insight and Toyota Prius hybrids and the Kia Soul all received the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s top rating.
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Consumers get more flexibility on clunkers program
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14.8.2009 |
Elections |
| AP - Car shoppers running into shortages of certain vehicles at dealerships will still be able to use the Cash for Clunkers program to reserve the car of their choice, the Obama administration said Thursday. |
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Spin Meter: $3 billion buys some not-so-green vehicles
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14.8.2009 |
Post-Bulletin: Local Politics |
| WASHINGTON -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers program. But what officials usually don't mention is that some gas-guzzling vehicles also are being purchased with the new government subsidies. |
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Ford boosts output as "clunker" sales surge
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13.8.2009 |
Yahoo: Business |
|  Reuters - Ford Motor Co said on Thursday it will increase production over the rest of the year after a surge in sales triggered by the U.S. government's "Cash for Clunkers" sales incentive program.
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Toyota to make more fuel-efficient hybrid
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13.8.2009 |
Grist Magazine |
| by Agence France-Presse
The Vitz will be the model for Toyota’s new hybrid.TOKYO - Toyota Motor Corp. will start selling a new hybrid car in 2011 that is more fuel efficient than its Prius, in a bid to keep pole position in environmentally friendly vehicles, a report said Thursday.
The new hybrid, based on Toyota’s Vitz compact car, will have a fuel economy of more than 40 kilometers per litre, against 38 kilometers for the third-generation Prius, the Yomiuri newspaper reported, without citing sources.
It will have a price tag of about 1.5 million yen ($15,600), cheaper than Toyota’s existing hybrids, and is expected to be sold in Japan, Europe, and the United States, the report said. A Toyota spokeswoman declined to ... |
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230 MPG? Stop the Madness! Here's How the EPA Should Rate Range-Extended Electric Cars
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13.8.2009 |
TreeHugger |
| Photo: GM Oversimplifying Just Creates More Confusion Earlier this week, that its upcoming Chevy Volt achieved a rating of 230 MPG using draft EPA methodology on how to test range-extended electric cars (aka series plug-in hybrids). But does this number mean anything except to marketing people? It could be a somewhat useful way to compare different PHEVs if they're all tested the same way, but that's of limited use if real-world numbers deviate wildly from that figure. Inste... ... |
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SPIN METER: $3 billion buys not-so-green vehicles
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13.8.2009 |
Seattle Times: Politics |
| Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the nation's top car salesman in recent weeks, has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars like the Ford Focus to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers rebate program. |
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$3 billion buys not-so-green vehicles
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13.8.2009 |
Houston Chronicle: Nation |
| Some trucks and sport-utility vehicles that get less than 20 miles per gallon, like the Ford F-150 truck and one version of the Cadillac SRX Crossover, are being purchased with the new government subsidies.
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SPIN METER: $3 billion buys not-so-green vehicles
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13.8.2009 |
Boston Globe: Latest |
| Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the nation's top car salesman in recent weeks, has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars like the Ford Focus to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers rebate program. |
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$3 billion buys not-so-green vehicles
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13.8.2009 |
Yahoo: Politics |
| AP - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the nation's top car salesman in recent weeks, has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars like the Ford Focus to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers rebate program. ... |
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Used-car prices rising with Clunker deal
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13.8.2009 |
Steamboat Pilot |
| Cash for Clunkers has caused a surge in the amount of cash required to buy a used car. Because dealers must disable the engines of the older cars, the used-car pool is shrinking, Steamboat Springs dealers said. |
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SPIN METER: $3 billion buys not-so-green vehicles
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13.8.2009 |
Yahoo: Top Stories |
| AP - Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the nation's top car salesman in recent weeks, has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars like the Ford Focus to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers rebate program. ... |
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SPIN METER: $3 billion buys not-so-green vehicles
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13.8.2009 |
Seattle Times: Politics |
| Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the nation's top car salesman in recent weeks, has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars like the Ford Focus to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers rebate program. |
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SPIN METER: Cash for Clunkers also helps consumers buy SUVs, trucks and crossovers too
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13.8.2009 |
Star Tribune: Nation |
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SPIN METER: $3 billion buys not-so-green vehicles
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13.8.2009 |
AP Top News |
| WASHINGTON (AP) -- Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the nation's top car salesman in recent weeks, has cited the Obama administration's best-seller list of mostly smaller, fuel-saving cars like the Ford Focus to describe the success of the Cash for Clunkers rebate program.... |
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Volkswagen's Touareg: Now A Clean Diesel Vehicle
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13.8.2009 |
TreeHugger |
| I rarely drive cars these days. But recently, Volkswagen convinced me to test drive their clean-burning . The test drive was to take place in Washington DC, which is about 30 miles from my home. This meant that I wouldn't have to fly anywhere, which was great. A couple of years ago, I decided that I would not fly, unless it was absolutely necessary. ... ... |
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