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30 Minutes with the Highlander Hybrid {Autoblog Green}
Aug 12th 2007 4:09AM My wife is American, I am English and we both live in England. Petrol (Gasoline) or Diesel costs the equivalent of $8.50/gallon here (America should brace itself for rates at this price in due course ... it will happen!) so any vehicle needs to be yielding the best mpg figures which can be achieved! The Highlander Hybrid is a nice try to woo consumers into thinking 24mpg is good. It's not! Diesel Peugeot Estates (Stationwagons) regularly return 45mpg and British road-speeds are higher than in the States. Diesel Range-Rovers which are probably closest to the Porsche image, will achieve at least 25mpg. Diesel cars emit lower CO2 than the equivalent Petrol/Gasoline models and produce greater mpg. If you want to save money on fuel & be kinder to the environment, America needs to look to the British way & European models like Honda, Peugeot, Renault, VW, Skoda etc and move over to Diesel power in the first instance; drive manual (shift-stick) rather than automatics; be less heavy-footed on the pedal; reduce unecessary weight carried within the vehicle; seek models of 1900cc (less than 2ltr engine size) and move away from the big, SUV-type vehicles. Don't think that Biofuels will be the next big thing. The world has insufficient land mass and freshwater to produce enough biocrops for fuel AND crops for foods. America defintely needs to 'wake up & smell reality'!
Top ten easiest-to-implement green technologies that already exist today {Autoblog Green}
Aug 12th 2007 4:03AM My wife is American, I am English and we both live in England. Petrol (Gasoline) or Diesel costs the equivalent of $8.50/gallon here (America should brace itself for rates at this price in due course ... it will happen!) so any vehicle needs to be yielding the best mpg figures which can be achieved! The Cayenne Hybrid is a nice try to woo consumers into thinking 24mpg is good. It's not! Diesel Peugeot Estates (Stationwagons) regularly return 45mpg and British road-speeds are higher than in the States. Diesel Range-Rovers which are probably closest to the Porsche image, will achieve at least 25mpg. Diesel cars emit lower CO2 than the equivalent Petrol/Gasoline models and produce greater mpg. If you want to save money on fuel & be kinder to the environment, America needs to look to the British way & European models like Honda, Peugeot, Renault, VW, Skoda etc and move over to Diesel power in the first instance; drive manual (shift-stick) rather than automatics; be less heavy-footed on the pedal; reduce unecessary weight carried within the vehicle; seek models of 1900cc (less than 2ltr engine size) and move away from the big, SUV-type vehicles. Don't think that Biofuels will be the next big thing. The world has insufficient land mass and freshwater to produce enough biocrops for fuel AND crops for foods. America defintely needs to 'wake up & smell reality'!
Porsche SUV Enters the Hybrid Race, Finally {Switched.com}
Aug 10th 2007 6:06AM My wife is American, I am English and we both live in England. Petrol (Gasoline) or Diesel costs the equivalent of $8.50/gallon here (America should brace itself for rates at this price in due course ... it will happen!) so any vehicle needs to be yielding the best mpg figures which can be achieved! The Cayenne Hybrid is a nice try to woo consumers into thinking 24mpg is good. It's not! Diesel Peugeot Estates (Stationwagons) regularly return 45mpg and British road-speeds are higher than in the States. Diesel Range-Rovers which are probably closest to the Porsche image, will achieve at least 25mpg. Diesel cars emit lower CO2 than the equivalent Petrol/Gasoline models and produce greater mpg. If you want to save money on fuel & be kinder to the environment, America needs to look to the British way & European models like Honda, Peugeot, Renault, VW, Skoda etc and move over to Diesel power in the first instance; drive manual (shift-stick) rather than automatics; be less heavy-footed on the pedal; reduce unecessary weight carried within the vehicle; seek models of 1900cc (less than 2ltr engine size) and move away from the big, SUV-type vehicles. Don't think that Biofuels will be the next big thing. The world has insufficient land mass and freshwater to produce enough biocrops for fuel AND crops for foods. America defintely needs to 'wake up & smell reality'!
