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Honda's New Hybrid Will Sell for $20K

Prius rival Insight
will be cheapest
hybrid on market

Mar 11, 09 1:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Honda's much-anticipated 2010 Insight hybrid car will sell for a base price of just $19,800, the Los Angeles Times reports. The recession-friendly price tag makes the Insight the cheapest hybrid in the country at $2,200 less expensive than the Toyota Prius. The company aims to lure buyers who... More »

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Honda • Toyota Prius • hybrid car • Honda Insight

Obama's Auto Team Drives Foreign Cars

Just 2 of task force's
8 members own domestic models

Feb 23, 09 2:49 PM CST
(Newser) - Detroit’s Big Three might be in worse trouble than they thought: Of the eight people on the Presidential Task Force on the Auto Industry, and the 10 policy aides assisting them, just two own cars built by American-owned manufacturers, the Detroit News reports. The co-chairs—Timothy Geithner and Lawrence... More »

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Chrysler • General Motors • Ford • Treasury Department • auto industry • hybrid car • Timothy Geithner • Lawrence Summers

Toyota's Losses Will Triple  

First loss in seven decades multiplies as market deteriorates

Feb 6, 09 8:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Toyota now expects its full-year operating loss to be three times larger than the $1.6 billion it forecast in December, the New York Times reports. The company expects to lose $5 billion for the fiscal year through March 31 as world automobile demand deteriorates. Toyota, which last year overtook... More »

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Lexus • Toyota • Toyota Prius • auto industry • hybrid car • Japanese auto industry • financial crisis • economic downturn

Road to Electric Cars Runs Through Bolivia

Nationalism, socialism may make its lithium supply hard to tap

Feb 3, 09 9:13 AM CST
(Newser) - Are we about to replace our dependence on foreign oil with a dependence on foreign lithium? Almost half the world’s supply of the mineral—essential for the light, rechargeable batteries electric cars need—is found in Bolivia, where nationalist sentiment is running high, the New York Times reports. Evo... More »

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mining • Bolivia • Evo Morales • electric cars • hybrid car • lithium ion batteries

 Plush New Prius Will Hit 50mpg 

As hybrid market goes mainstream, so does iconic car

Jan 13, 09 12:36 PM CST
(AP) - Toyota's sleeker, more fuel-efficient update to its iconic Prius, already the most fuel-efficient vehicle on the market, offers a city-highway average of 50mpg—up from 46—and a bunch of new amenities. Unveiled at the Detroit Auto Show, the 2010 model comes with a more powerful engine, a moonroof, and... More »

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Toyota • fuel efficiency • automaker • Prius • auto industry • hybrid car • Detroit Auto Show

OPINION

 Ford Buffs 
 Green Image 
 With Fusion 

The highly anticipated hybrid will start appearing at dealerships this spring

Jan 5, 09 8:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Ford’s 2010 Fusion hybrid will debut this spring with an EPA rating of 41mpg city and 36mpg highway, writes Joseph White in the Wall Street Journal, but reaching those underwhelming numbers could be a tough ride for most consumers. Complicating Ford's tough sell are anemic gas prices, writes White,... More »

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General Motors • Toyota Prius • Ford • hybrid car • Ford Fusion

Oregon Mulls Mileage,
Not Gas, Tax 

State worries about tax shortfall as vehicles get more efficient

Jan 3, 09 9:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Worried that the rise of fuel-efficient and hybrid cars will wipe out revenue for road repair, Oregon is considering taxing drivers by the mile instead of by the gallon, reports the AP. Lawmakers—aware that hiking gas tax is a political kiss of death—believe a mileage tax is the... More »

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taxes • fuel efficiency • Oregon • GPS • gas tax • hybrid car • taxation

Toyota Working on Mass-Market Solar Car

Company believed to be trying to build first mass-market car running soley on sunshine

Jan 2, 09 7:20 AM CST
(Newser) - Toyota is trying to leapfrog rivals by developing a mass-market solar-powered car on the sly. The futuristic vehicle will get power from solar cells in the rooftop, providing enough energy to power only its accessories initially, reports Hybrid Cars News. The company is thought to be years away from creating... More »

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Toyota • solar power • electric cars • hybrid car • solar panel • Panasonic • cars

Ford to Offer Self-Park Cars; Kerkorian Sells Stake

New Lincoln MKS models will park themselves in effort to woo car buyers

Dec 30, 08 10:19 AM CST
(Newser) - Ford plans to offer two models with a self-parking function at the Detroit auto show next month, the Wall Street Journal reports, in the continuing effort to woo buyers with new technology. But  the company's image among investors remains tarnished, as billionaire Kirk Kerkorian confirmed yesterday that he sold his... More »

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Kirk Kerkorian • Toyota • Detroit • Ford • auto industry • Big Three • hybrid car

US Tech Firms
Get Together
on Car Battery

14 companies want
$1B from feds to help catch Asian rivals

Dec 18, 08 7:52 AM CST
(Newser) - Fourteen US technology companies are joining forces to speed development of electric car batteries, asking for $1 billion in federal aid to help catch up with Asian firms that have a long lead, reports the Wall Street Journal. Electric vehicles are now considered so important to help wean the... More »

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General Motors • Ford • electric cars • hybrid car • lithium ion batteries

GM Boss Hopes Senate Gets a Charge From His Hybrid

This time, GM's Wagoner drives Volt to hearings

Dec 4, 08 3:05 AM CST
(Newser) - Last time they went before Congress rattling tin cups, the chief executives of the Big Three automakers made the mistake of flying to Washington in luxuriously tricked-out corporate jets. Today GM chief Rick Wagoner is driving a fuel-efficient hybrid Chevy Volt prototype to Senate hearings on the proposed bailout for... More »

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Senate • General Motors • auto industry • hybrid car • Rick Wagoner • Chevrolet Volt • bailout • fiscal crisis

Big 3 CEOs Head Back to DC—This Time by Car

CEOs of America's automakers will renew plea for bailout today

Dec 2, 08 8:55 AM CST
(Newser) - The Big Three CEOs are heading back to Washington this week, and this time two of them will be driving, the Wall Street Journal reports—Alan Mulally in a Ford Escape hybrid, and Rick Wagoner in a Chevrolet Malibu hybrid. The CEOs will attempt Thursday to persuade Congress to extend... More »

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Chrysler • General Motors • Ford • Alan Mulally • Robert Nardelli • auto industry • Big Three • hybrid car • Rick Wagoner • bailout • financial crisis • auto bailout

 Finish My 
 Fight With 
 Big 3: Gore 
 to Obama 

We need urgent action, Gore warns

Nov 30, 08 6:34 PM CST
(Newser) - Al Gore doesn't want a White House job, but he does have advice for Barack Obama: Use the bailout plan to transform the Big Three automakers. As vice-president, Gore rolled out a billion-dollar program to pay for fuel-efficient Detroit vehicles—"but as soon as they felt they were... More »

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China • environment • oil • Al Gore • India • auto industry • hybrid car • oil crisis • clean coal • President Obama

Green Auto Industry at Odds With a Viable One

Car companies lose money for years on new technologies

Nov 25, 08 9:27 AM CST
(Newser) - Critics of Detroit complain that the stubborn Big Three are dying because they won’t make the energy-efficient cars people want. But it can take years for a new hybrid or plug-in model to become profitable, putting lawmakers' vision of a green auto industry at odds with their desire for... More »

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OPINION

 Detroit Needs 
 Green Deal 
 or No Deal 

If we bail out the auto companies, let's do it on our terms

Nov 12, 08 9:01 AM CST
(Newser) - If we’re going to bail out the auto industry, writes Joseph Romm in Salon, let’s do it right. Detroit’s Big Three have spent years fighting tooth and nail against the very innovations that could save them: higher fuel efficiency and hybrid-electric cars. Detroit has “been suicidally... More »

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Detroit • auto industry • Big Three • hybrid car • bailout

Kids Take Green Lessons
to Heart, Then to Home

Kids are America's new eco-police

Oct 10, 08 11:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - They’re watching. No, not surveillance cameras; the growing population of “eco-kids”—children who, lectured on sustainability at school and elsewhere, are pushing green practices at home. They rummage through garbage bins, agitate for hybrid vehicles, and even even turn off the water while parents are brushing their... More »

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recycling • environmentalism • children • hybrid car • sustainability • green home • solar panels

 Toyota Weighs Spinning Off Prius Brand 

Larger, smaller versions of popular hybrid would fill out lineup, exec says

Oct 9, 08 5:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - Toyota may create a separate brand for the Prius, filling it out with new larger and smaller versions of the popular hybrid, the New York Times reports. Advocating for the creation of the brand is James Lentz, president of Toyota’s US sales, who argues that Prius is already a... More »

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Toyota • fuel efficiency • Toyota Prius • Prius • auto industry • hybrid car

 Chrysler Goes Electric 

Firm to offer hybrid and pure-electric models in 2010

Sep 23, 08 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Chrysler is hopping on Detroit's belated eco-friendly bandwagon, a source tells the Wall Street Journal, with a full stable of electric cars and trucks that it plans to market starting in late 2010. While most of the planned models are hybrids, at least one will be a fully electric... More »

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Chrysler • fuel efficiency • battery • electric cars • auto industry • hybrid car • minivan

 Guess How Many Cars I Own? 

13 rides pack McCains' garages, including 2 Jeeps, a pickup, Caddie and foreign cars

Sep 22, 08 8:53 AM CDT
(Newser) - The McCains own almost twice as many cars as they do houses, and a few members of the fleet are foreign—despite John McCain’s recent assurances to Detroit that "I've bought American literally all my life.” Thirteen cars are registered to John and Cindy McCain, Newsweek discovered... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • Michelle Obama • Detroit • Cindy McCain • hybrid car • US automakers • cars

 Volt's Looks Kill Some GM Buzz 

Plug-in electric car finally unveiled today; production model too ordinary for some fans

Sep 16, 08 1:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - GM offered its first official look today at the plug-in Chevrolet Volt, CNNMoney reports, the electric car slated to go on sale in 2010. Its tame appearance drew the ire of gearheads hoping it would look more like the futuristic concept version. "A lot of people are saying they're... More »

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environment • General Motors • electricity • gas prices • electric cars • Chevrolet • hybrid car • Chevrolet Volt • cars

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