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Posts Tagged ‘fuel efficient’

BMW Diesel Engines Get More Efficient

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

This past week, BMW has unveiled a lot of new information about their EfficientDynamics program which, as the name implies, helps to make their cars more eco-friendly by cutting down on energy consumption and boosting fuel efficiency.  The newest iteration of this effort is the above pictured 3.0-liter inline six-cylinder diesel engine, which not only [...]

Hybrid And Diesel Cars Save Money, New Survey Says

Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

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One of the biggest things holding back the sale of more fuel efficient vehicles like hybrids and clean diesels is that they have a higher initial cost premium.  Also, many have charged that these vehicles, hybrids in particular, have such high maintenance costs that any savings on fuel are immediately canceled out when you get [...]

New Prius Orders Top 180,000

Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

When Toyota put their new 2010 Prius hybrid on the market last month, they were anticipating about 10,000 sales per month.  Well, after under two months on the market, they are currently beating that estimate by over 1,000%, and that’s in Japan alone.  The 2010 Prius has just gotten to the United States recently, and [...]


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