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The Center for Environmental Health (CEH) in Oakland, Calif., announced it has reached a legal agreement with Chrysler and the three largest producers of automobile wheel-balancing weights (Plombco, Hennessey, and Perfect Equipment), requiring the companies to end the use of leaded wheel weights in California by the end of 2009….
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81: Honda prepares to smash the Prius.
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(Credit: Chevrolet)Chevrolet released official images and details about its upcoming Cruze sedan, ahead of the official reveal at October’s Paris Motor Show. The Cruze, slotted to replace Chevy’s outgoing Cobalt model, looks very much like a baby Malibu, albeit a very angry one that’s been hanging …
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TRAVERSE CITY, Mich.–The design team for General Motors’ Volt plug-in hybrid car has added 6 to 7 miles to the car’s electricity-only range by improving aerodynamics.
“Air does not like to go around sharp corners. It creates turbulence and drag,” Bob Boniface, GM’s director of design for the Chevrolet Volt and E-Flex studio, said last week at the Management Briefing Seminars here.
So Boniface made numerous changes to the original concept’s design. The goal: a 40-mile range per full electric charge. More than 70 percent of U.S. commutes are less than 40 miles, GM says.
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By Richard Truett, Automotive News
DETROIT–I’m cruising south on Interstate 75 at a steady 64 mph. If the fuel economy gauge in the car can be believed–and there’s no reason that it shouldn’t–I’m burning one gallon of fuel every 74 miles.
I’m not limping along in some wimpy gasoline-electric hybrid. I’m not drafting behind a semitruck. And I’m not relying on any of the dangerous maneuvers that hypermiling eco-geeks use as they try to extract every inch of distance out of a gallon of gasoline.
Nope. I’m in a 2007 Mini Cooper D, and I am driving it normally. The D stands for diesel. It’s a version of the popular hatchback that isn’t available in the United States–yet.
Here’s a car that lets you have your high fuel economy cake and eat big slices of it, too. Just as important as the Mini Cooper D’s ultralow fuel consumption is its fun-to-drive factor. It’s off the charts in this car.
The Mini Cooper D is quick. Its 1.6-liter turbocharged diesel engine propels the 2,600-pound hatchback to 60 mph in 9.7 seconds. Plus, the car is good-looking, the chassis is rock-solid, and the handling is as tight as a go-cart.
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For auto dealer Annette Sykora, the promise of the connected vehicle is only beginning to come true. But she is upbeat about telematics–another term for the connected vehicle–because her customers are.
Telematics proponents have long believed that using the technology to connect vehicles to the outside world …
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PORTLAND, Maine — With sales of mid- and full-size SUVs plummeting, Chrysler LLC hopes that Two Mode Hemi hybrid versions of the Chrysler Aspen and Dodge Durango will inject the SUVs with new life this fall.
Chrysler’s pitch will be simple: Buy a hybrid Aspen or …
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The turbo has always been taboo for BMW’s high-performance M models. But that may change.
Although BMW has preferred high-revolution, naturally aspirated engines, the next M5, due in 2011, is expected to get a twin-turbo V-8 instead of a naturally aspirated V-10, insiders say.
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SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — As fuel prices soar, Hyundai plans to add a four-cylinder engine to its Santa Fe lineup when the crossover is redesigned in 2010. The Santa Fe now is available only with 2.7-liter and 3.3-liter V-6s.
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