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Toyota and EDF Energy have launched the first ever UK trials of a plug-in hybrid vehicle by a car manufacturer. EDF will use the plug-in Prius’ as part of its company fleet, with employees getting to test out the new car for the next year. EDF has helped to install
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Honda has given a sneak preview of a concept version of its family hybrid car, which will be on display at the Paris Motor Show next month, and is aiming to crank up a hybrid price war with other car manufacturers. The full production version, called the Honda Insight, is
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It’s been a bit quiet on the new hybrid car front for the last few weeks, but this speedy little thing caught Greenbang’s eye today. It’s the XR3 Hybrid – a hybrid fuel two-seater sports car that comes in a kit for motor enthusiasts to build themselves. Oh,
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Greenbang stumbled across a great green themed press release this week. As opening paragraphs go, this one’s a doozy: “According to a new survey by global market research firm Synovate, US consumers are more familiar with advanced propulsion systems compared to a year ago”. Advanced propulsion systems? Familiar? Greenbang
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Greenbang wonders how effective green car marketing really is. Every time someone says hybrid, she doesn’t think of the clean tech, she thinks of that weird mouse that had a human ear attached to its back in the name of science. She thinks about that mouse a lot. Like,
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If you want something doing well, do it yourself, goes the saying. Toyota’s version might go a bit like this: if you want something doing well, do it yourself and then Matsushita Electric Industrial Co to help you out a bit. And then go and polish your Prius. Toyota
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Earlier this week, Greenbang asked you to guess how many people drive a Prius. Today, there’s the second leg of the eco-car guessing game. It’s called guess how many models of its new hybrid car Honda expects to sell annually? You’ve got 30 seconds (feel free to
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Waste beer. Say it out loud: “waste beer”. And once more. No, doesn’t sound right does it? Almost oxymoronic in its unlikeliness. But apparently, according to the Molson Coors Brewing Company, there actually is such a thing as “waste beer”. Hey, dry those tears, now, at least the waste
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If you were sitting around wondering how many hybrid cars are filling the driveways of Europe, mop your fevered brow and breathe out, for Greenbang has some info to share with you. The info in question is the amount of Priuses (is that the plural of Prius? Or should it
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Plug-in hybrid cars. There’s something about them, isn’t there? Is it an image problem? They may not belch out as many nasties as your average car, but they do tend to ferry around worthy celebs and the smugs residing in the country’s better post code areas. Greenbang
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Do you have more money than sense? Why not spend your money on a yacht? More money than sense but with a pang of environmental conscience? Then you might want to treat yourself to an eco-yacht from Sabdes. Or spend your money on buying up spare rainforest and putting it
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Greenbang likes a laugh and a joke, as you’ve probably noticed. But sometimes, Greenbang has to put on a sober suit and a sober voice and talk sensibly. Now is one of those times. Are you ready? Then she’ll being. Tesla, the company behind the super-sexy, super-green vehicle