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Old 09-22-2008, 11:52 PM   #1 (permalink)
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My friend gives me copies of this magazine because he knows I am an MPG nut :

Electric Cars & Hybrid Cars | Green Car .com

It doesn't spend too much time saying what's wrong with the automotive industry. It's focus is to spotlight the good things that are happening. Here are some example articles from the features section :

Preview: 2010 Ford Fiesta for U.S. | Green Car .com

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Ford Motor Company, responding to customer demand for smaller and more fuel-efficient vehicles, is accelerating its efforts to bring six small vehicles from Ford’s respected European lineup to the North American market sooner than originally planned. To accomplish this, several of Ford’s large assembly plants will be converted from truck and SUV production to build the new-to-America models.

The automaker is banking heavily on its EcoBoost gasoline turbocharged, direct-injection engine technology and engine downsizing to reduce fuel economy by 20 percent and lower CO2 emissions by 15 percent. Plans are to have the capacity to build more than a million North American four-cylinder engines by 2011. ...
Kewet's New Electric City Car | Green Car .com

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When it comes to promoting the use of battery electric vehicles, Norway is probably the world’s leader. Helping are policies like exemption from road taxes, tolls, and parking fees as well as permitting EVs to drive in bus lanes. The result is that the Th!nk, once planned as a Ford product, is back in production. Now it has a competitor in the form of the Norwegian-built Buddy.

Like the Th!nk that was born in 1991 as the Pivco City Bee, the Buddy has a history that also dates back to that same year, when Knud Erik Westergaard founded Kewet in Denmark to produce the Kewet electric car. In 1995, production was transferred to Nordhausen in the former East Germany. By 1998, Kewet was bankrupt with over a thousand Kewet electric cars and vans built. Rights to the Kewet were acquired in 1999 by Kollega Bil A/S in Norway. With a name change to Elbil Norge AS, it is now offering the improved sixth generation of the model, now simply called the Buddy. It’s aimed initially at the Norwegian market but plans are to distribute the car throughout Europe. ...

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Old 09-23-2008, 01:03 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Good info!

I sure hope they bring the Fiesta to the U.S. I had a chance to drive one in Scotland a few years ago, and it was great. If it's anything like the old models, it should perform the task well.


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" The automaker is banking heavily on its EcoBoost gasoline turbocharged, direct-injection engine technology and engine downsizing to reduce fuel economy by 20 percent and lower CO2 emissions by 15 percent. "


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MY EYES! MY EYES!....... LOL ......... I think they are selling the Kewet at Green Cars in Silicon Valley- I saw a very similar one (dark grey) today. Interesting!
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Oops - I was way off- Kurrent; not Kewet, I just looked back, not even close. Drives me Krazy!
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Fuel efficiency is what every driver is looking for whenever they purchase a car.
REALITY CHECK #101

...while that certainly is a desirable truth, it unfortunately is not the actual truth, else HUMMERS, land-barges and SUV's wouldn't be selling as they do.

...sadly, most american car buyers still believe "...if BIG is good, then BIGGER is BETTER."

...eco-modding is still a "fringe" mindset.

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