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Flash Drives: MPG Drive Day

Clean Fleet Report

The Joy of Driving , Malibu Style The Motor Press Guild (MPG), the Southern California non-profit association for automotive journalists, annually brings together writers with automotive manufacturer representatives and their cars. The rest of the cars and trucks at the 2024 MPG Drive Day is at the end of the story. Prices are MSRP.

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Test drive review: 2023 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe wears plug-in hybrid off-road crown

Green Car Reports

With EPA ratings of 22 miles of electric driving range and 20 mpg combined on gasoline after you run through a charge, the 2023 Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe. The Jeep Wrangler is a no-holds-barred off-road machine that aims to go around, over, or through whatever’s in front of it, regardless of terrain.

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Review: 2025 Mazda CX-50 Hybrid may not be moving enough

Baua Electric

Among mainstream, gasoline-fueled vehicles, with only a few exceptions, our advice to most shoppers has become simple: If there’s a hybrid, get the hybrid. liter Toyota inline-4 makes 176 hp and 163 lb-ft of torque, with all-wheel-drive provided only via a rear electric motor, making 54 hp and 89 lb-ft of torque. Here, the 2.5-liter

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Looking to get in a hybrid for cheap? Used Toyota Prius 1.5 HSD 2004-2009 Review

Green Car Congress

People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? Having enough electric charge to last a 5-15 minute in silence in a traffic jam. l/100 km (51 mpg US) in the summer, and 5.3

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Review: 2025 Hyundai Tucson Hybrid sees greener pastures

Baua Electric

Hyundai will add more plug-in hybrids while it also rolls out 21 new electric vehicles in the coming years—and it will build both at its new Georgia “Metaplant” near Savannah. kw (64-hp) electric motor. The one exception is the electric parking brake, which was exceptionally loud either engaging or disengaging.

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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.” The propulsion motor powers the drive wheels the vast majority of the time, while it clutches in the gasoline engine in some gentle highway cruising conditions for peak efficiency.

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Road Test: 2025 Mazda CX-50 Hybrid AWD

Clean Fleet Report

New Compact Crossover—the Most Efficient Mazda The 2025 Mazda CX-50 Hybrid is the third iteration of this compact crossover utility vehicle (CUV), following turbocharged and non-turbocharged gasoline-only models. Power, but more mpg The CX-50 Hybrid has a 2.5-liter liter non-turbo engine mated to three electric motors.

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