By Clint Williams
Green Right Now
The 2010 Lexus HS 250h doesn’t drive by itself, but properly tricked out it comes pretty close. And the HS 250h does this while getting the sort of fuel economy associated with a much less comfortable, much less elegant, much less golllleee compact car.
Lexus HS 250h
Tags: · bioplastics, gas mileage over 35 mpg, green cars, high gas mileage cars, hybrid vehicles, Lexus 250h, lower carbon emissions, luxury hybrid, tailpipe emissions
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
Remember those Hummers your neighbors drove heedlessly around town, burning through barrels of gasoline but rarely finding those off-road challenges for which these vehicles were created?
With the downturn in the economy and the uptick in carbon emissions, they became a symbol of SUV excess.
But don’t count them out.
Raser Technologies, Inc. has been testing electric Hummer H3Es and reported this week that they recently ran a successful all-electric 50-mile drive. That’s significant because battery-operated vehicles have been curtailed by short ranges of around 40 miles. New models under development are aiming for more than that in hopes of alleviating anticipated consumer concerns over EV range.
Tags: · electric powertrain, electric vehicle range, Electric vehicles, gas mileage, Hummer H3E, hybrid vehicles, Raser Technologies, Volt
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
When Rachel Ray chooses a saute pan, cooks take note.
So American car shoppers, here’s the equivalent: Sokolis Group, a fuel management and consulting company, has selected the 2010 Ford Fusion Hybrid to be its company car.
Tags: · Ford Fusion, Fuel Efficiency, fuel management, hybrid vehicles, Sokolis Group
By Barbara Kessler
Green Right Now
There’s a chart on fueleconomy.gov that’s a graphic illustration of what happened to GM. The chart is a compilation of 2009 hybrid vehicles. It lists 27 hybrid vehicles in descending order from the highest mileage cars to the lowest.
At the top of the chart, perch some of the highest mileage vehicles available on the market, the Toyota Prius, the Honda Civic and the Nissan Altima. The top two clock in at 40 mpg and up. The Altima at 33-35 mpg.
The lowest mileage vehicles reside at the bottom of the chart. And the bottom five are all GM products: The GMC Yukon, Chevy Tahoe, GMC Sierra, Chevrolet Silverado and Cadillac Escalade.
Tags: · BarbaraKesslerBlog, Cadillac Escalade, Chevrolet Silverado, Chevrolet Tahoe, fueleconomy.gov, gas mileage, GM, GMC Sierra, GMC Yukon, hybrid vehicles, SUVs, Trucks
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