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Prius receives Popular Mechanics Excellence Award

50+ mpg Popular Mechanics has released their Automotive Excellence Awards and the Toyota Prius took the award for innovation and foresight in fuel efficiency. Considering that the Prius is easily the most fuel efficient mass-produced vehicle sold in America, I guess the award isn’t too much of a surprise. [...]

Consumer Reports Names Honda Insight as Most Reliable Car

Honda Insight, the reliability champion according to Consumer Reports. [...] [...]

Consumer Reports – Hybrids very reliable

A big winner according to Consumer Reports Looking for a safe family car? Then you might want to consider a number of hybrid cars, at least if you believe in Consumer Reports. The Honda Insight and the Toyota Prius scored extremely well according CR, followed by the Ford Fusion hybrid, the Mercury Milan hybrid, the Toyota Camry [...] [...]

$3.4 billion for the smart grid. Yawn?

Just icing on the cake? Yesterday, the President announced $3.4 billion in grants to help fix our “antiquated” electric grid. “There’s something big happening in America in terms of creating a clean-energy economy,” Obama said. Yet, I cannot help ask, is there really something big happening? In recent years, for instance, I’ve heard Al Gore put the cost [...] [...]

FORD WINS THE MOST AUTOMOTIVE EXCELLENCE AWARDS IN HISTORY FROM POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE

DEARBORN, Mich., Oct. 28, 2009 – Editors at Popular Mechanics today announced the winners of the magazine’s 2010 Automotive Excellence Awards, and Ford Motor Company set a precedent, winning more categories in a single year than any other automaker in the history of the awards. [...]