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Guide to Gasoline-Electric Hybrid Cars and Powertrains

Most people know by now that hybrids use electricity to achieve good gas mileage, but how their advanced powertrains work and whether they help your pocketbook is a bit more complicated. Here we’ll take a look at the basic technology and its variations. In a future article we’ll discuss the cost, and potential savings, of [...]

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The Least and Most Fuel Efficient Hybrid Vehicles

Nothing has come close to the Godfather of American-sold hybrid cars; the 73mpg 2000 Honda Insight.
It’s been 8 years since the Insight went on sale and the closest gas mileage any hybrid on the road today gets to the Insight is 46mpg - a 27mpg DECREASE. So much for “improving” technologies over time . . [...]

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Cadillac’s Hopes Are High For Escalade Hybrid

General Motors Corp. will test the market for a full-size luxury hybrid SUV when it releases the industry’s first vehicle in that category — the Cadillac Escalade Hybrid — next month.
It’s a market that could be hostile. U.S. sales of the non-hybrid Escalade have fallen 29 percent so far this year as consumers spooked by [...]

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