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Diesel and Hybrid SUV Comparison

Many of you have probably read our Diesel and Hybrid SUV Comparison wondering where the GM representative is. After deciding on a 4WD/AWD diesel versus hybrid comparison test, we then had to make sure the SUVs we included would be similarly equipped. Therefore, the Tahoe, Yukon, and Escalade hybrids were eliminated as contenders because they [...]

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Great Expectations – A Problem for Plug-In Hybrid Electric Carmakers

The automobile has improved in many ways since Henry Ford trotted out the first Model T’s 100 years ago. Fuel economy, however, is not one of them. The original horseless carriage got about 20 miles on the gallon, the same on-the-road fuel-burning efficiency that the nation’s fleet has hovered around since 1980, according to Jeff [...]

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Sierra, Silverado Take Hybrid Trucks to Next Level

What kind of idiot builds a 20-mpg hybrid pickup truck? Everybody knows that hybrids are 40-mpg-plus small cars like the Toyota Prius. As often happens when you look beyond the obvious, what “everybody knows” is wrong. Switching from a conventional pickup to the new 2009 Chevrolet Silverado or GMC Sierra hybrid pickup actually saves more [...]

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GM Asking Department of Energy for $2.6 Billion to Build Hybrids?

General Motors released an updated business plan to Congress on Wednesday, and one of the main points of interest surrounds the automaker’s request of an additional $2.6 billion for the production of the Chevrolet Volt and two additional variants based on the same Voltec powertrain architecture. The report doesn’t spell out what the two new [...]

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Michigan Governor Looks To Electric Cars

The future of Detroit is electric cars, the governor of Michigan declared in an opinion piece on Newsweek’s Web site. “In Michigan, we are doing everything we can to become the home of this new electric auto industry — and to the jobs this industry will create,” wrote Gov. Jennifer Granholm. “Again, the road to [...]

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