Posts Tagged ‘green car’
We almost never mention the 2010 Rolls-Royce Phantom here on GreenCarReports.com. That’s because–at three tons, with 453 horsepower from its 6.7-liter V-12 engine, and an EPA rating of 13 mpg city / 19 mpg highway–it’s [ahem] just not that green. Well, Rolls-Royce is looking ahead. Not only into a new century of carbon limits and cities that…
We almost never mention the 2010 Rolls-Royce Phantom here on GreenCarReports.com. That’s because–at three tons, with 453 horsepower from its 6.7-liter V-12 engine, and an EPA rating of 13 mpg city / 19 mpg highway–it’s [ahem] just not that green. Well, Rolls-Royce is looking ahead. Not only into a new century of carbon limits and cities that…
Attendees excitedly swarmed around a prototype of the all-electric 2012 Ford Focus EV at an October conference held on Microsoft’s Redmond campus, outside Seattle, Washington. But a newer, nice, cooler, and much flashier prototype of the 2012 Focus EV made its debut a few weeks earlier in rather more glamorous surroundings: the Jay Leno Show…
Once again, Honda has the most fuel-efficient model range of the nine carmakers that sell a full lineup of vehicles in the U.S. Preliminary figures from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency showed Honda averaging 23.6 miles per gallon across its 2009 vehicles, closely trailed by Hyundai (23.4 mpg) and Toyota (23.2 mpg). The 2009 average across…
We’ve covered BMW’s first two hybrid vehicles, just launched for the upcoming year: the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid X6 “sports activity coupe”, the world’s most powerful hybrid, and the 2010 BMW ActiveHybrid 7, the world’s fastest hybrid sedan. Now a spy photo from the British magazine Autocar shows that BMW is planning to introduce its hybrid system…
It’s Friday, so it’s time to dig deep into the GreenCarReports.com random roundup box. Today we have just one item, and it comes with an intriguing question: Could you wash your car with just a single glass of water? That’s the premise of a new product called Ecolo Green Car Wash, from a company in Newport Beach, California. Its website claims…