CARS EPA FUEL ECONOMY LABEL PROPOSALS: WHAT DO YOU THINK? Hey kids! While we don't usually beg for comments, we really do appreciate each and every one you post - and we read 'em and learn from 'em. Now we're asking for some specific feedback, part of an Edmunds-wide effort. What do you think Source: Green Car Advisor - 08/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars NISSAN TO CREATE NEW CAR BRAND WITH CHINESE PARTNER, POSSIBLY SHARE BATTERY TECH Nissan Motor Co. plans to introduce a new passenger-car brand exclusively for the Chinese market with its local partner to help meet demand for cheaper models, and the Chinese company may borrow the Japanese automaker's battery in its own cars, Bloomb Source: Green Car Advisor - 08/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars NEW JERSEY TRANSIT TRIES OUT QUIET CARS - NEW YORK TIMES New York TimesNew Jersey Transit Tries Out Quiet CarsNew York TimesWith no cellphone talkers to disturb her, a passenger rested in one of the two quiet cars on a New Jersey Transit train from New York and Trenton on Tuesday ...altro » Source: New York Times - 08/09/2010 Category: World 2011 BENTLEY CONTINENTAL GT DEBUTS ONLINE WITH A BOW TOWARD THE GREEN CROWD Because 552 horsepower sometimes just isn't enough, Bentley today held an online launch of its updated Continental GT - and announced it now puts out 567 hp! While still a gas-sucking fiend, the 2011 Continental GT, with its six-liter, 12-cylinder, Source: Green Car Advisor - 08/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars MERCEDES SAYS GAS CONSUMPTION IN CL- AND S-CLASS ENGINES IS SLASHED UP TO 24% Mercedes-Benz reported today that two new gasoline engines offered in the 2010 CL and S Classes are as much as 24 percent fuel less thirsty and their power has increased by as much as 12.5 percent as the engines they replaced. ----------Right, the S 5 Source: Green Car Advisor - 08/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars GREENBRIEFS: MITSUBISHI, PEUGEOT REPORTEDLY TO MAKE EVS IN SPAIN; GM WON'T BE AS OPEN WITH NEXT-GEN VOLT PLANS; CITROEN TO LEASE EVS WITH GAS LOANERS ON STANDBY Mitsubishi Motors Corp. and PSA Peugeot Citroen may start producing an electric vehicle at Peugeot's plant in Spain in 2012, the Japanese business publication Nikkei reported (subscription required). Mitsubishi spokesman Maurice Durand told Green C Source: Green Car Advisor - 07/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars FOR SECOND TIME IN A YEAR, A HYBRID VERSION OF TOYOTA YARIS IS SAID TO BE PLANNED Reuters is reporting that Toyota intends to begin producing a hybrid version of the Yaris subcompact at its factory in France starting next April. ----------Right, the 2010 Toyota Yaris liftback.---------- Citing the Mid-Japan Economist newsp Source: Green Car Advisor - 07/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars GM, FACING VOLT PRICE ANXIETY IN CHINA, URGES BEIJING TO SUBSIDIZE IMPORTED EVS General Motors is urging the Chinese government to extend its electric vehicle subsidies to imported models, according to IHS Automotive, citing a report by Dow Jones Newswires. The forecasting service today quoted GM China VP David Chen (pictured) as Source: Green Car Advisor - 07/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars HERBERT STEINER, HEAD OF GEARBOX DEL PRAT, S.A. With effect from October 1st, Austria-born Herbert Steiner (37) has been appointed new head of Gearbox del Prat, a SEAT Group company devoted to the manufacture of gearboxes. An industrial engineer by training, Steiner steps into the shoes of Vicente Ric Source: Seat - 07/09/2010 Category: cars ZAP BATTERY-ELECTRIC TRUCK AND VAN QUALIFY FOR UP TO $2,500 IN FEDERAL TAX CREDITS The U.S. Internal Revenue Service has determined that the low-speed, battery-electric ZAP Truck XL (shown at right and priced at $14,695) and ZAP Van Shuttle ($15,200) qualify under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for a ten percent tax credit u Source: Green Car Advisor - 07/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars NEW SEAT ALHAMBRA --TECHNOLOGY FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY TO ENJOY ? New range of TDI and TSI engines ? more efficient and better performance? New body structure with sliding doors? Greater functionality and seating modularity for 5 or 7 passengersCoinciding with its presentation to the motoring trade press spec Source: Seat - 06/09/2010 Category: cars GERMAN MILITARY STUDY WARNS OF DRASTIC CRISES AS OIL PRODUCTION BEGINS DECLINE A study by a German military think tank has analyzed how "peak oil" might change the global economy and warns of shifts in the global balance of power, of the formation of new relationships based on interdependency, of a decline in importance of Source: Green Car Advisor - 04/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars TATA MOTORS REPORTEDLY PLANS TO ADD SMALL VEHICLES AND HYBRIDS TO LAND ROVER LINE Tata Motors Ltd.'s plans to make smaller, more fuel-efficient vehicles for its Land Rover luxury SUV brand may include a hybrid version of the Range Rover two-door Evoque set to debut next year as well as revamped versions of the Range Rover Sport and Source: Green Car Advisor - 04/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars SMART TOUR AIMS TO MAKE BELIEVERS AS TINY TWO-SEATER'S U.S. SALES FALTER Struggling to reignite interest in its only model, Smart USA is taking the diminutive, 40 mpg Smart Fortwo on a multi-city tour in hopes of exposing the tiny car to people who are not going to its dealerships, as dramatically sagging sales show. Contri Source: Green Car Advisor - 03/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars TEXAS BIOFUELS COMPANY KIOR TO INVEST $500M IN PRODUCTION PLANTS IN MISSISSSIPPI Gov. Haley R. Barbour and officials from KiOR announced this week that the alt-fuels company will locate five biofuel production facilities and investing more than $500 million in Mississippi. ----------Click on art to view an animation of KiOR's Source: Green Car Advisor - 03/09/2010 Category: Cars Ecocars

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