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2013 Chevrolet Volt: The Ideal Retirement Car?

Green Car Reports

Imagine the following scenario: you and your partner are rapidly approaching retirement, looking to downsize your car, and trying to plan for your financial future. You’re ready to buy a new car, but you want something that’s relatively green and cheap to run.

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Conference confirms plug-in fever

Plugs and Cars

Meanwhile, GM is hedging its bets by continuing to invest in the dream of cheap, cellulosic ethanol and the hallucinogenic pipe dream of hydrogen fuel cell SUVs. But neither car, GM execs made clear, will appear for sale on a showroom floor for more that two years.

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EV ute overload: The electric pickups coming soon

EV Central

The B2 (a cousin to the B1 wagon) hasn’t been completely killed off and in 2023 the company said “engineers are once again working on developing the SUV and pickup” The B2 wasn’t looking like being cheap despite the simplicity of its aluminium body. We’re watching on with interest.

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2024 Suzuki Swift Hybrid review: Meet the cheapest electrified car now on-sale in Australia

EV Central

And maybe it’s the logical downsizing limit for Australia. The old line-up spread between $23,990 and $31,290 drive-away. So that’s an impressive holding of the line at a time of rampant and often egregious price increases. The base model goes from 16-inch alloys to 15-inch steelies, there’s no spare tyre and no foglights.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

They use cheap, clean, and domestic electricity for short trips and daily commutes, displacing or eliminating oil consumption and CO2 pollution. Its a coalition between the Tree-Huggers, Do-Gooders, Sod-Busters, Cheap Hawks, and the Evangelicals". PHEV - These vehicles combine the advantages of both HEV and EV vehicles.

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