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Top Five Benefits for Driving Hybrid Vehicles
Hybrid cars are here to stay. They have captured a substantial market share of gas based cars in less than two decades. While conventional cars continue to have a loyal market, thanks to the speeds possible with them, the future may belong to hybrid automobiles unless new technologies replacing gas and battery operated cars is discovered.
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2014 Honda Fit Hybrid becomes Japan’s most efficient HEV, thanks to all new i-DCD technology
Honda has officially released pictures of the all new face-lifted Honda Fit (also known as Jazz in some markets) and also details on the completely re-engineered new Fit Hybrid headed for Japan. The current generation Fit hybrid is cheaper to build but loses out on poor fuel economy. Honda claims the new Hybrid system will…
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V60, Volvo’s diesel plug-in hybrid car travels 32 miles on electricity alone
Fossil fuels seem to be turning rarer and more expensive by the day, and driving around huge gas-guzzling SUVs these days isn’t the smartest thing you’d probably want to do. Instead, automaker Volvo, forever known for its superhuman-strong cars, has come up with an energy-efficient way to travelling. Called the V60, this plug-in hybrid is…
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Fisker Surf gives station wagons a refreshing brake, sports hybrid insides
Station wagons as we’ve known them have never looked this cool before. Soccer moms and grandparents have ridden in these vehicles since as long as we can remember, sharing space with minivans and the like. Now, revolutionizing the station wagon design like never before, the Fisker Surf showed up at the IAA in Frankfurt recently.…
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Porsche’s ode to Facebook- a 911 GT3 R Hybrid!
Imagine this: The Facebook status update: Yippeee we crossed one million fans! (actually 1,502,860) And while lesser mortals like us would have been happy with about a dozen or so Likes and Comments, not Porsche. The master hybrid car makers has created a special edition 911 GT3 R Hybrid, with sinatures of over 27,000 Porsche…
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Fisker’s hybrid car Karma increases price to $95,900
Everyone does their little bit for the environment. Fisker Automotive too are doing their two-bits with their electric-drive car; the now $95,900 (baseline price) eco-friendly automobile, Karma. Originally announced in 2007, while the company’s first plug-in hybrid has still not reached production, its price has seen a considerable jump from the initial announced price of…
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‘Urbee’ is world’s first printed car
Whether you understand the science behind it or not, the truth that 3D printing is here to stay remains. From basic models of objects the technology has taken off to be a recreation too of some rather cool and previously ‘unprintable’ things. The ‘Urbee’ car is the first 3D car to be printed. It’s a…
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Porsche goes green, wants all model line ups to have Hybrid vehicle
Now here’s some really good news for the sports car lovers who were considering a high speed automobile but were considerate enough to worry about fuel emissions on these high-end cars. Porsche is planning on launching a hybrid car in very single model line going forward. They plan on ‘electrifying’ all their sports cars to…
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Nissan’s Car-Van Hybrid ‘Townpod’ is All Gimick
Nissan used the Paris Motor Show to showcase their latest design concept, the Townpod, a car-van concept designed for entrepreneurs. Nissan says the theory behind the Townpod is that as the lines between our business and social lives are become increasingly blurred, so our means of transport must be equally multifaceted. The Townpod is open…
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New Jaguar C-X75 is super-fast, super-clean, super slick hybrid concept
Jaguar is out with their new C-X75 which is quiet literally a ‘super’-car. It’s part automobile part rocket ship and part nature lover since it’s a hybrid. Maybe that’s a little bit exaggerated but read on. According to Crave.co.uk, it’s faster than the Lamborghini LP640, has a greater top speed than a Ferrari 458 Italia,…
