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Merging the performance personality of an M car with eco-consciousness befitting the best of its ActiveHybrid technology, BMW's Vision EfficientDynamics Concept offers a look at where the German automaker plans to venture in the years ahead in its quest to meet tomorrow's requirements for sustained...
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Ford has taken the wraps off of what is quite arguably the world's most advanced turbodiesel engine, a 6.7-liter Power Stroke V8 that's due to be introduced in its redesigned 2011 F-Series Super Duty pickup trucks. Code named "Scorpion," Ford says this tech-rich oil-burner has been...
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The Europeans (most governments) have chosen to collect revenue & encourage conservation by regulating fuel prices via their tax system. I cannot testify as to details, but the high fuel prices do work to encourage use of the most efficient choices for transport. They have very good rail systems...
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Barely three months after taking serious storm damage from Hurricane Ike, the country's largest biodiesel producer, GreenHunter Energy, Inc., has hit the comeback trail in a big way. The Houston, Texas, based firm has just received EPA authorization to start commercial sales of GreenHunder Biodiesel...
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Audi was one of the first manufacturers to dive into the hybrid pond, but these days it is much more interested in proselytizing about the benefits of Turbo Direct Injection diesels. Audi says TDI, which its engineers invented, is the cleanest, most efficient diesel in the world, and the company recently...
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Although the 2009 Audi Q7 3.0 TDI won't formally be arriving in the U.S. until early next year, the German automaker plans to boost its profile and promote the merits of its super-clean technology to the American market early next month with the Audi Mileage Marathon. From October 5-20, 184 journalists...
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Ford has made it abundantly clear that thinking small is definitely the wave of its automotive future here in America. We've just driven a vehicle that will be one of the cornerstones of that philosophy, the all-new Fiesta. Although our time was spent in Euro-spec versions on a variety of roads in...
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Totally agree that diesel has a bad rap in the American collective psyche, connoting thick blue-black smoke, a racket of engine noise and the pickup of a moped. This is, as many know, no longer true. Overcoming these perceptions won't be easy, but the good news is that some of the strongest brands...
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I think that diesel needs to be reborn in the American lexicon. Diesel right now conjures up images of old german diesels from the 70's and 80's that were loud, smelly and usually had a trail of visible exhaust behind them. Manufacturers need to launch campaigns to combat and reform American...
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With the skyrocketing cost of diesel and the fact the the high effeciency diesel engine and hybrid get equivelent mileage, I think hybrid wins.