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Sonata hybrid goes through the paces

Can Blue Drive give Hyundai’s hybrids street cred? Insideline has a couple of spy photos of Hyundai’s Sonata hybrid going through some paces with a number of other hybrid cars, such as the Ford Fusion hybrid and the Toyota Camry hybrid. Other than the photo, however, there aren’t any new details. At the LA Auto Show [...] [...]

Mercury pollution: Not the new GM’s problem

Now it’s just the people’s problem “36 million mercury switches were used in trunk convenience lights and antilock brakes in vehicles built in the 1980s and 1990s. More than half of them are in GM vehicles built before 2000.” To combat potential mercury pollution – most significantly caused by GM – GM joined a partnership to help [...] [...]

Toyota Boosts Production of Lexus HS 250h Luxury Hybrid

Lexus HS 250h Toyota is reporting brisk sales of the Lexus HS 250h, its new hybrid-only luxury sedan that launched on July 14 [...] [...]

Chevy Volt’s mileage numbers to be released tomorrow

Yet, you can’t buy one for at least another year? Tomorrow, GM will release the Volt’s EPA mileage results, which I’m sure will be well over 100 mpg. Still, real world mileage of the Chevy Volt will be heavily dependent upon driving conditions, frequency of charging etc. Thus, the range of real world fuel economy of [...] [...]

Is it time to put cap and trade on the back burner?

The people continue to grow more skeptical of global warming A few weeks ago I attended HybridFest in Madison, WI. While there I experienced some of Wisconsin’s coldest summer days in recorded history. Certainly, such whether isn’t proof that global warming isn’t real, but it does cause pause, especially for those already skeptical of CO2 emissions [...] [...]

GM’s Latest Plans for Plug-in Hybrid SUV, Now As Buick

Tom Stephens, GM vice chairman of product development, with Saturn Vue plug-in hybrid concept in early 2008. [...] [...]