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NEWS ABOUT: mpg

mpg stories: 5 news summaries

(Newser) - GM held a triumphant press conference this morning, announcing that, using newly devised EPA methodology, its 2011 Chevy Volt will get a whopping 230 miles per gallon in city driving, by far the highest fuel efficiency rating ever. No car has ever so much as sniffed 100mpg before; the Prius... More »

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General Motors • fuel efficiency • Environmental Protection Agency • miles per gallon • mpg • hybrid car • Chevrolet Volt • Chevy Volt

Hybrid Owners Put the Pedal to Fuel Efficiency

Prius' real-time feedback alters driving habits to max MPGs

May 26, 08 8:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Leaving the bad old days of drag-racing in the dust, greenies are now engaging in their own race for fuel efficiency, reports the Washington Post. With hybrid vehicles such as the Toyota Prius giving up-to-the-second feedback on just how much gas passing that little old lady in the right... More »

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energy • gas • Toyota Prius • mpg • hybrid car • energy consumption • gas mileage

Cars Must
Get 35.7mpg
by 2015

Feds toughen fuel standards by 25%
 

Apr 22, 08 9:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Cars will have to get 35.7 miles per gallon by 2015, and trucks will have to get 28.6 under new standards issued by the federal government today. That means a combined average of 31.6mpg, an increase of 25% from current standards, CNN reports. The feds require automakers... More »

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gas • Environmental Protection Agency • mpg • fuel economy • fuel economy standards • cars

Car Talk Bros Get Animated, Dis Gas-Guzzling Heaps

Click and Clack to star in PBS cartoon, pessimistic Nova episode

Apr 20, 08 4:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - NPR’s chuckling Car Talk guys Tom and Ray Magliozzi are about to become even more animated—with a new cartoon series of themselves on PBS. But their view on the heaps they've helped drivers patch up for the past 30 years isn't so funny, Newsweek reports. Click and Clack's... More »

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television • gas • vehicle emissions • green energy • mpg • PBS • auto • hybrid car • NPR • Car Talk • Ray Magliozzi • Tom Magliozzi

Eco-Vandals Trash Hummer

Attack on $38K gas-guzzler called
a 'hate crime'

Jul 18, 07 2:46 PM CDT
(Newser) - A 32-year-old man in Northwest DC woke to find his dream car—a $38,000 Hummer—with slashed tires, smashed windows, and a message carved into its body: "FOR THE ENVIRON." In a green-friendly neighborhood dominated by hybrids, two masked eco-extremists decided to punish Gareth Groves by mutilating... More »

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environment • environmentalism • gas • Washington DC • prius • extremists • vandalism • hummer • miles per gallon • mpg • vandals • eco vandals • hybrid car • cars

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