Investors received another tool Monday designed to track green themes and greenbacks. Standard & Poor’s launched on Monday its S&P U.S. Carbon Efficient Index, designed to measure the performance of large-cap U.S. companies operating with a low carbon emissions footprint. The index, which currently has … [...]
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Filed under: In the Autoblog Garage, Hybrids/Alternative, Sedans/Saloons, Green, Ford 2010 Mercury Milan Hybrid – Click above for high-res gallery At the LA Auto Show in November, Ford unveiled the updated 2010 Fusion and its hybrid stablemate to considerable fanfare. When we got the chance to drive the Fusion a month later we came away impressed, although [...] [...] Filed under: Car Buying, Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Hatchbacks, Honda Click above for high-res image gallery of the 2010 Honda Insight Ever since Honda announced the revived Insight hybrid for 2010, rumors have swirled that the new model would undercut its chief rival, the Toyota Prius, in price by a few thousand dollars. Now, it’s official. Honda’s hot [...] [...] Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, SUVs, Euro, Green, Tech, Porsche, First Drive Porsche Cayenne S Hybrid – Click above for high-res gallery While charging along at 85 mph with a particularly poker-faced Porsche engineer riding shotgun, traffic begins to cluster on the horizon. Not willing to risk our seven-figure prototype, I gently roll off the accelerator, at which point [...] [...] Filed under: Hybrids/Alternative, Sedans/Saloons, Green, Marketing/Advertising, Hyundai Click above for a high-res gallery of the 2009 Hyundai Sonata When you think of the word “hybrid,” what vehicle pops into your mind? Likely, it’s the Toyota Prius, and that’s what they call a really big win for the marketing department. Much of the success that Toyota’s seminal hybrid [...] [...] Filed under: Economy, Hybrids/Alternative, Green, Hatchbacks, SMART, Rendered Speculation The Smart franchise hasn’t exactly been a blockbuster financial success for Daimler. Although the diminutive city runabouts certainly have their adherents, the entire brand is widely believed to have never turned a profit. Having but a single model to sell, the Fortwo, probably isn’t helping matters, but [...] [...] Claycomo, Mo., March 10, 2009 – Ford Motor Company today celebrated the production of its 100,000th hybrid SUV and reinforced its commitment to ramping up production of hybrid vehicles this year. Ford launched the Ford Escape and Mercury Mariner hybrids five years ago and the vehicles remain the most fuel-efficient SUVs on the market. At the same time [...] [...] The goal of the 2010 Honda Insight is to make the best use of the most cost-effective hybrid technology. That means a 40-mpg+ compact car for less than ,000—a figure designed to undercut the least expensive Toyota Prius by about ,000. And the 2010 Honda Insight has already racked up independent real-world highway fuel [...] [...] |
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