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2025 Honda Accord hybrid gets 44 mpg for $34,750

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In keeping with Honda’s strategy of positioning hybrids as higher-end grades, the cheapest hybrid Sport grade is priced above the gasoline-only LX and new-for-2025 SE grade, which cost $29,390 and $31,655, respectively. Green Car Reports found it to be a significant improvement over the outgoing model.

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2025 Lexus UX 300h AWD hybrid earns 42 mpg, starts around $40,000

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The UX 300h AWD now gets 42 mpg, up from 39 mpg, and the UX 300h in front-wheel-drive form gets 43 mpg, up 1 mpg. liter inline-4 gasoline engine with more powerful electric motors. The post 2025 Lexus UX 300h AWD hybrid earns 42 mpg, starts around $40,000 appeared first on Bauaelectric Auto News.

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Charging shorts EV interest, big SUV safety, Rivian Gen 2 and Toyota hybrid wagon: Today’s Car News

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This and more, here at Green Car Reports. Of these three-row models that largely return well under 20 mpg, only the Wagoneer received the top “good” rating. Thursday, Green Car Reports rolled out a couple of first-drive impressions and debut material. And no, thirsty non-hybrid SUVs aren’t safer.

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BMW i8 beats Mercedes S 500 PHEV, Golf GTE to win World Green Car award in New York

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The BMW i8 plug-in hybrid ( earlier post ) was named the World Green Car at the World Car Awards in New York. The BMW i8 was also one of the finalists in the category World Luxury Car at the World Car Awards. Its battery-electric sibling, the BMW i3, took the same award in 2014. Combined cycle fuel consumption is.

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2014 BMW i3 REx MPG, New Orleans Electric-Car Charging, GM-Google Ride-Share: Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today on Green Car Reports: The 2014 BMW i3 REx extended-range electric car gets an EPA-rated 39 mpg on gasoline, Nissan unveils New Orleans'' first public electric-car charging station, and Google and General Motors collaborate on a ride-sharing test. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Junkyard Find: 2007 Saturn Vue Green Line

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Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. liter engine and automatic). liter engine and automatic).

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Electric RV packs range extender: Future 500-mile PHEV Airstream?

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In an interview with Green Car Reports about the debut, Harbinger CEO John Harris said that the company has delivered complete chassis assemblies to customers, and they’re “just about to start using those chasses in revenue-generating operations.” liter naturally aspirated gasoline inline-4 engine fires up.

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