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It was only yesterday that the new Low Emission Zone kicked in to rid London of old smokey diesel trucks. It’s all good, only it leaves us with an unanswered question – what’s the future for the green commercial vehicles?
The California-based Electric Vehicles International has developed the EVI-REEV truck to showcase the possibilities that hybrid technology can offer the medium commercial vehicle sector (which, is huge, to say the least). The REEV, created in partnership with the California Energy Commission, can do 45 miles in all-electric mode and when the …
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According to American specialists, the drivers of hybrid cars have by 25% less chance to be injured in accidents driving hybrid cars than at the wheel of conventional cars. One explanation is the mass of hybrid cars, on average of 10% higher than conventional cars, which means better absorption of impact energy for hybrid cars.
After studying the behavior in staged accidents of 25 “pairs” of hybrid and non-hybrid models, the scientists have concluded that other factors influence the
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Toyota could not miss a chance to be in the elite club of the car manufacturers who want to enter in the unknown territory of hydrogen propulsion.
After Honda, Daimler, BMW and Hyundai announced their intention to put fuel cell cars in mass production as early as in this decade, behold that Toyota FCV-R Fuel Cell Concept comes as a very serious statement of the Japanese manufacturer. The plan is to
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If you look at the history timeline of the Honda Civic, you won’t probably find another car that has made such a long journey and tried so many different things along the way. During its almost 40 years of history, the Civic has transitioned from a tiny basic car to a comfortable family-sized vehicle.
Looking at the amount of innovation that has gone into the 9 generations of Civic cars you come to understand the new adage used by Honda at the recent impressive unveiling at the Frankfurt Motor Show: “If …
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When you think about a Porsche Panamera you probably think high fuel bills and high CO2 emissions. But on this occasion the German engineers won’t agree with you. They are preparing a hybrid version of the supercar – Panamera S Hybrid – for the model year of 2012.
Technology is the same used on the Porsche Cayenne SUV: a 333 hp V6 engine combined with an electric motor of 46 horsepower, which can operate for a short
