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Zoom Replaces Missing Vroom

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“SMOOTH and quiet as an electric motor” is a phrase that has been used repeatedly to compliment gasoline and diesel engines that are especially well-mannered.
As more hybrid and battery-electric vehicles enter the marketplace, though, the maxim is being transformed. Returning to a role in propelling vehicles that largely disappeared decades [...]

Revolutionary Road

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WITH the unemployment rate at 10.2 percent and job creation creeping along despite increased spending on infrastructure, we should look with new eyes at a resource we’ve failed to take full advantage of: the Interstate highway system.
Much of President Obama’s stimulus package has gone to maintaining our roads, and rightly so. But as [...]

Sticker shock

Ignore the 230 miles-per-gallon claims being touted for GM’s plug-in hybrid

Hybrid Vehicles That Are Even More Efficient

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One of the controllable causes of global warming is carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from burning fossil fuels. This process is precisely what enables most cars to function by means of combustion engines. In recent years, some companies in the automobile sector have brought out models that combine a standard combustion engine with an [...]

Why Ethanol–Not Electric Cars and Hybrids–Is the Answer

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Times are tough for the biofuel movement. Concerns have been rampant about how much gas it takes to produce a gallon of ethanol and about how much farmland and corn would be needed to produce enough fuel to make a dent in our gasoline addiction. Combine that with the popularity [...]