Have you heard about the 57 mpg car? Yes, it’s a Honda! If you still don’t know what I’m talking about, here is the news.
To check the test results for this car, yours, or any vehicle you are interested in, you can go to the official USA fuel economy website .
If this Honda can do it, why not these Hybrids?
Unless the already traditional gasoline-electric Hybrids, then what choice do we have?
Clean diesel? Natural gas? Bio-fuels?
Energy and food-wise we are better off leaving corn alone.
Brazil has been boasting for years about its great success with bio-fuel from sugarcane. The process is much more effective than deriving ethanol from other sources and in other countries. How about the environment, though? What about the indigenous people of Brazil and simply the poor and exploited? Aren’t we “feeding cars instead of people”, as George Monbiot put it?
Natural gas run engines (CNG or LNG), usually re-makes, quite popular in other parts of the World, still have a marginal share in the US market, and practically don’t exist in the consumer segment. Honda Civic GX with its Eco Assist is the only US factory built NGV vehicle to enter the American market still this year 2011. Right here you can sign up for Honda Civic GX NGV news.
To hybrid or not?
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