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Review: 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid achieves Prius-like fuel economy

Baua Electric

While the latest Prius is rather attractive, the 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid hits the 50-mpg mark in a discreet package that doesn’t scream, “I have a hybrid.” Here’s what you need to know after Green Car Reports spent a morning driving a 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid prototype around Montreal.

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Ansys releases pre-lockdown global survey on vehicle electrification

Green Car Congress

Nearly one-third of those surveyed already own an EV or plan to buy one within five years. Conversely, 39% of respondents would only buy an EV if gasoline-powered vehicles were no longer available. Americans cite too few charging points and too high upfront cost as the leading barriers to buying an electric vehicle.

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Disneyland announces Autopia will be all-electric within the next 30 months (Updated)

Baua Electric

Photo by Jeremy Thompson on Flickr Disney’s Autopia ride has been making headlines recently, after a park spokesperson told the LA Times that the park was considering ditching gas engines soon. Late Thursday, those activists got their wish , and Disney announced that it would go all-electric with the ride within the next 30 months.

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Disneyland faces pressure to electrify its stinky ‘Autopia’ ride, and quick

Baua Electric

Photo by Jeremy Thompson on Flickr Disney’s Autopia ride has been making headlines recently, after a park spokesperson told the LA Times that the park is “evaluating technology that will enable us to convert from gas engines in the next few years.” But Honda themselves have been behind the ball on the EV transition as well.

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Hybrid vs PHEV vs EV | Types of EVs Explained

Setec Powerr

It doesn’t hurt to know some of the terminology used in electric vehicles. The word “hybrid” is of Greek origin and means “having two sources” As the name implies, a hybrid car gets its power from two different sources, so it has more than one drive system: an electric motor and an internal combustion engine.

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What’s the Most Environmental Thing To Do When a Car’s Engine Dies

Clean Fleet Report

What’s the Most Environmental Thing To Do When a Car’s Engine Dies Questions & Answers from our Friends at EarthTalk® The engine is fried on my old Honda Civic. The manufacturing of new cars, even electric ones, generates heavy emissions, contributing to pollution. What’s the most environmentally friendly thing to do with this car?

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Junkyard Find: 1987 Chevrolet Sprint ER

The Truth About Cars

No, not the Toyota Starlet or Corolla Tercel , not the Honda CRX HF , not the Subaru Justy. If you want to be picky, the 198 6 Sprint ER was the gas-mileage king of 1980s America, rated at 44 city and 53 highway miles per gallon. The Sprint was nowhere near the cheapest new car Americans could buy in 1987. per gallon.

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