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Diesels Cleaner Than Electrics Over Lifetime Says One Study
Volt Can Use California's HOV Lanes… In 2012
SKY-powered Mazda3 Gets Over 40 MPG
Green is the New Fast, Part 2: Maybach Lives!
Cult Classic Peel P50 Microcar Returns
High on Electric Cars: Canada's Cannabis Cruiser
NYC Mayor Wants Massive Bike-Sharing Program
Scottish whisky biofuel to power cars
Kia Shows Off Electric Pop City Car Concept Ahead of Paris Motor Show
Four Electric Vehicles Embark on 80 Day Trip Around the World
Nissan LEAF opens for orders
Nissan Leaf Road Test: Fully Charged Goes for a Spin (Video)
Report: Only Cost-Effective Hybrid is Mercedes Benz
Apple Files Patent for a Brand New Smart Bike
China Developing Traffic-Straddling Bus That Drives Over Cars
UK Electric Car Grants Slashed 80%? Or Not.
Optimal Energy Unveils the Joule Electric Car
Evatran Unveils World's First Wireless EV Charger
London's New Bicycle Rental Has Canadian Content
How Can We Reduce Oil Consumption & Still Ship Goods and Ourselves Around the Globe?
A Decade of Prius: 1.8 Million Sold, Half in the U.S.
Would Simply Slowing Down Our Travel & Shipping Help Kick Our Oil Habit?
GM Wants to Convince You the Volt is Better Than Other Electric Cars (Video)
80 MPG Ford Concept Car Heading To Auction
Porsche Confirms Plan to Develop All-Electric Vehicles
Enterprise buys 500 Nissan LEAFs
Fiat 500 Officially Gets 2-Cylinder, 85 HP TwinAir Engine; Achieves 50+ MPG
Can You Run a Car on Tim Hortons Coffee?
Marvin the Martian: An Eco-Friendly Solar-Powered Pleasure Boat
10 Best Bamboo Bikes For Style and Performance (Slideshow)
BMW Releases Teaser Sketch of First Electric Car—The 2013 Megacity
BMW Reveals First Details About Its Electric Car
Nemesis "Wind-Powered" 100mph Car: Yet Another Update (Video)
7 Awesome Solar-Powered Vehicles
Mercedes Unveils All-Electric AMG E-cell Supercar!
10 Cutting-Edge Green Job Titles
Scientists Create a Much Better Lithium Battery by Adding Carbon Nanotubes
UK Electric Car Tests Reveal Average Driving Range of 23 Miles
Toyota Officially Announces It Will Build An Electric Vehicle With Tesla
Gas 2.0's Chris Demorro Spends Three Months in a Mustang
F1 drivers join Eco-Rally 2010
Electric Smart Car Coming to the US: Test Driving the Prototype (Video)
Zero-Emissions Fuel Cell Hybrid Taxi Comes to London
Comment: Plug-In Car Grant plug pulled?
Dealers begin installing charge points
The driving test: 75 years old today
Company Shows Off Plug-In Hybrid ‘Ultra-Green Superyacht'
Prized ‘72 Hydrogen-Fueled Gremlin for Sale on eBay
Bugatti Developing 800 HP All-Electric Supercar
Russian Man Single-Handedly Builds Underground Subway System
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Volt Can Use California’s HOV Lanes… In 2012 I have survived Southern California’s horrendous traffic jams, though just barely. How anybody could stand to sit in traffic for hours on end, day in and day out, is beyond me. People do it though, and it seems to have bred a special kind of patience in the residents of Southern California. California also is a bastion of green living, and there are many advantages to owning a hybrid car in the state, like use of their HOV lanes. While Cal..
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Cult Classic Peel P50 Microcar Returns The Peel P50 was built on the Isle of Man in the 1960’s and powered by a 49cc gas engine that pushed the car to a 40 mph top speed and delivered more than 80 mpg. It was the smallest production automobile ever built, and—despite only 70 examples being produced —has become wildly popular in microcar circles, especially since appearing in a 2007 segment of the BBC’s hit show TopGear. This new-found popularity and BBC visibility has brea..
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Green is the New Fast, Part 2: Maybach Lives! When it was introduced several years ago, Mercedes’ ultra-luxury Maybach line was originally intended to compete with offerings from BMW’s Rolls-Royce and Volkswagen’s Bentley. To put it mildly: Maybach flopped, selling only a fraction of the cars Rolls and Bentley did year after year. Maybach was such a spectacular failure that many industry analysts predicted Mercedes would discontinue the brand altogether. They were wrong, a..
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SKY-powered Mazda3 Gets Over 40 MPG It is all about fuel economy right now, and the automakers are pulling out all the stops to ensure they might weather the stiffening CAFE standards in the coming years. Electric cars, hybrids, plug-in hybrids, diesels… all are about to become a lot more commonplace. Yet, still, there remains a seat at the table for fuel-efficient combustion engines, and there is plenty of room for improvement in the old standby. Forgoing much of the hybrid..
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Diesels Cleaner Than Electrics Over Lifetime Says One Study I’m going to go out on a limb and assume most of our dear readers are fans of fuel efficient cars. I too, like my gas-sipping 4-cylinder Mustang, mostly because it saves me a lot of money compared with the rest of my gas-guzzling fleet. Other people are just trying to lessen their carbon footprint, and common sense suggests that an electric car would have a smaller footprint than any fossil fuel-powered car, right Not according to one Swis..
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Creating a Cycling Culture in the World's Cities South African cyclist Aldren Muvhambe. Photo by Nic Grobler via Bicycle Portraits. The sad recent news story about a 5-year-old girl killed by a street-cleaning vehicle while riding bikes with her father in the Turkish province of Konya -- a city that had previously announced plans for the country's first bike-sharing program -- got me thinking about what it wo... Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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New York City Inks Contract for Up to 475 Compressed Natural Gas Buses Photo: New Flyer What's the Difference Between CNG and Diesel The Board of the New York Metropolitan Transit Authority (the "MTA") has awarded New Flyer of America a contract for up to 475 buses. The contract is for 135 40-foot compressed natural gas ("CNG") heavy-duty transit buses with options for up to an additional 340 CNG buses. We know that buses are a pretty green way to move lots of people around in urban area, but how much better are ..
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David Suzuki: Our Obsession With Private Automobiles is Unsustainable bitefight via Torontoist Quote of the Day from David Suzuki in the Georgia Strait: Technological developments [such as electric cars etc.] are welcome, but maybe it's time we started rethinking our car culture as whole. The average car in North America carries 1.5 people, which means that most cars on the road only have a driver in them. Is it really efficient to use more than 1,000 kilograms of metal to transport 100 kilograms of huma... Read..
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When Bike Sharing Falters (and Why We Can't Let It) Photo credit by batega via flickr. In its early days, Barcelona's Bicing seemed like an unparalleled success. With 400 stations and 3,000 of the squat, burly red-and-white bikes stationed around the city, Bicing quickly became part of Barcelona's big city atmosphere and was enthusiastically received by inhabitants. But after five years, something scary started to happen, in addition to the vandalism and Read the full story on TreeHugger..
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California To Extend Carpool-Lane Access To 40,000 Plug-In Hybrids Photo: Flickr, CC Should Access for Regular Hybrids be Phased Out In California, vehicles that meet certain fuel economy and tailpipe emission criteria are granted special access to the high occupancy vehicle lanes (HOV, aka the carpool lane). In car-centric places like Los Angeles, it's a huge advantage. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill (SB 535) into law that extends HOV-lane access to 40,000 qualifying plug-in hybrid ....
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Banks Back Away from Financing Mountain Top Removal The environmentally destructive coal mining practice, for years a target of shareowner activists, faces new regulatory restrictions and limited financing from major banks...
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Burger King Drops Controversial Palm Oil Supplier Burger King has become the latest company to stop buying palm oil from Sinar Mas, an embattled Indonesian company its critics accuse of deforestation...
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Climate Risks That Every Executive Should Know About When it comes to a company’s impact on climate change, does directors and officers insurance cover executives While companies say yes, the insurance industry is saying no. We’re talking millions -- perhaps billions -- in legal liability here, so someone will end up holding the bag.  ..
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Nescafé Targets Coffee Sustainability with $350M Investment  Nestlé is investing nearly $350 million over the next decade to expand its reach into sustainable coffee farming, make its factories more efficient and reduce its packaging. Beyond the Cup: The Nescafe Plan is the company's global project that adds onto the nearly $200 million already spent on coffee project in previous years...
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Spotlighting the Green Benefits of LEDs Since the first humans carried a torch to provide light, heat has been a by-product of producing light. Traditional electric lights give off more heat than light. But LEDs are twice as efficient as fluorescents at converting electricity to light, generate very little heat, are nearly maintenance free and provide a high quality of light. So what's standing in the way of their broad adoption..
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Electric cars will have fewer gadgets -- here's why Texting while driving: Just the beginning of the distractions. (Flickr/Jason Weaver) What high-tech feature would you want to see in your car that's not there now Autobytel.com asked that question as part of its "What's Hot Now" report, and the results indicate that people must get lost a lot -- 30 percent, by far the largest number, would like to have an in-dash GPS navigation device. Me, I can live without one. In fact, just as cars are ..
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Can termites help power cars? (Image Credit: Public Domain) University of Florida Researchers have been investigating how termites break down wood for food, in order to find an easier way to convert plant material to ethanol. So far they have identified two enzymes the insects use to soften tough molecules called lignin which envelope the sugar molecules. These enzymes could be used for creating cellulosic ethanol, which is typically made from wood chips, switchgrass, o..
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Whisky-powered cars for Scotland (Photo: Ischa1 at nl.wikipedia) Researchers at Edinburgh Napier University have developed a chemical process using the two main by-products of whisky production to make butanol, which can be used to fuel vehicles. The two by-products used are pot ale, which is a liquid, and the spent whisky grains, called draff. Scotland produces large quantities of whisky, enough that there are 1,600 million liters of pot ale and 187,000 tons of draff le..
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In Hawaii, the sun shines on green cars Hawaii's Bio Beetles offer more than 35 mpg. (Jim Motavalli photo) Hawaii is green, or so its boosters tell you incessantly. Of course, you have to ignore the thick smoke from the sugarcane-field-burning operations and the runoff chemicals used to control roadside plants, mountains of tourism-generated waste, plus a huge complement of invasive species. An encouraging sign is the 30-megawatt wind farm visible from most parts of Maui, provid..
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Meet the Coda electric car, soon available in California The ever-evolving Coda sedan in Santa Monica. (Photo: Jim Motavalli ) LOS ANGELES -- I spent four days in California running back and forth between green car companies, including Coda, Tesla, Fisker, and AC Propulsion. This state is becoming the epicenter of EV development for several reasons: environmental inclinations, weather, and governments (both state and local) increasingly willing to subsidize both EV purchases and the charging stati..
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Peak Roads? Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement Asphalt Is Replaced By Cheaper Gravel; ‘Back to Stone Age’ WSJ Photo source: Paweł Kuźniar Copyright © 2010 GroovyGreen.com - Start Today :: Save Tomorrow. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Peak Roads", url: "http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/p=40..
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A Groovy Green Reader Gives Up Her Car [ed note:] This post was sent to us by Tammy Roberts, from West Yorkshire, UK: I’M GIVING UP MY CAR I didn’t learn to drive until I was 30.  Up until that point, I hadn’t seen the point of having a car or even having the ability to drive, as public transport was convenient enough.  However, 2 [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Groovy Green Reader Gives Up Her Car", url: "http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/p=4056" });..
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Buying An Electric Car? You Might Want To Order Your Charging Station Now. 2010 will most likely go down as the year electric cars were (once again) made available to the public through Big Auto. Both Nissan and Chevy have plans to release the Leaf and Volt respectively — and both focus on getting energy from being plugged in. (Although the Volt can charge its battery utilizing its [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Buying An Electric Car You Might Want To Order Your Charging Station Now.", url: "http://www.groovy..
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The Bike Hearse: Your Green Trip To The Afterlife How’s this for a unique and eco-friendly way to get from the funeral home to your final resting place Wade Lind, owner of Sunset Hills Cemetery in Eugene, Oregon came up with the “bike hearst” as an option for those really looking to limit their impact once they’ve passed on. Let’s hope there aren’t many [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Bike Hearse: Your Green Trip To The Afterlife", url: "http://www.groo..
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Review: IZIP Enlightened Hybrid-Electric Bike Makes For A Great Suit-Commute It’s been several months now since I’ve had the opportunity to test out the iZip Enlightened hybrid-electric bicycle — and the enthusiasm present with my first impressions has certainly not waned. As I mentioned earlier, living in Ithaca, NY means having to negotiate several steep inclines to get to work. Most bikers around here either find [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Review: IZIP Enlightened Hybrid-Electric Bike Makes Fo..
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Peak Roads? Roads to Ruin: Towns Rip Up the Pavement Asphalt Is Replaced By Cheaper Gravel; ‘Back to Stone Age’ WSJ Photo source: Paweł Kuźniar Copyright © 2010 GroovyGreen.com - Start Today :: Save Tomorrow. This Feed is for personal non-commercial use only. If you are not reading this material in your news aggregator, the site you are looking at is [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Peak Roads", url: "http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/p=40..
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A Groovy Green Reader Gives Up Her Car [ed note:] This post was sent to us by Tammy Roberts, from West Yorkshire, UK: I’M GIVING UP MY CAR I didn’t learn to drive until I was 30.  Up until that point, I hadn’t seen the point of having a car or even having the ability to drive, as public transport was convenient enough.  However, 2 [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "A Groovy Green Reader Gives Up Her Car", url: "http://www.groovygreen.com/groove/p=4056" });..
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Buying An Electric Car? You Might Want To Order Your Charging Station Now. 2010 will most likely go down as the year electric cars were (once again) made available to the public through Big Auto. Both Nissan and Chevy have plans to release the Leaf and Volt respectively — and both focus on getting energy from being plugged in. (Although the Volt can charge its battery utilizing its [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Buying An Electric Car You Might Want To Order Your Charging Station Now.", url: "http://www.groovy..
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The Bike Hearse: Your Green Trip To The Afterlife How’s this for a unique and eco-friendly way to get from the funeral home to your final resting place Wade Lind, owner of Sunset Hills Cemetery in Eugene, Oregon came up with the “bike hearst” as an option for those really looking to limit their impact once they’ve passed on. Let’s hope there aren’t many [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "The Bike Hearse: Your Green Trip To The Afterlife", url: "http://www.groo..
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Review: IZIP Enlightened Hybrid-Electric Bike Makes For A Great Suit-Commute It’s been several months now since I’ve had the opportunity to test out the iZip Enlightened hybrid-electric bicycle — and the enthusiasm present with my first impressions has certainly not waned. As I mentioned earlier, living in Ithaca, NY means having to negotiate several steep inclines to get to work. Most bikers around here either find [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Review: IZIP Enlightened Hybrid-Electric Bike Makes Fo..
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Low gas prices pose a problem for efficient vehicles coming to market Filed under: MPG, Legislation and PolicyFor those Americans who are still employed and have to drive to work every day, the continuing low pump prices for gasoline have been a boon. The current national average of $2.68 a gallon for regular is equivalent to an inflation-adjusted $1.01 per gallon in 1980. While that's certainly good for household budgets in a struggling economy, it doesn't provide much incentive to buy fuel efficient vehicles at a..
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Nissan sticks with Lance Armstrong as Leaf's spokesperson despite escalated doping concerns [w/video] Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Nissan, Green Daily Nissan Leaf ad featuring Lance Armstrong - Click above to watch video after the jump Amid escalating concerns over Lance Armstrong's possible violation of cycling's anti-doping policy, Nissan is saying it will stick with the seven-time Tour De France champion as the Leaf's official spokesperson. Speaking with Ad Age, Nissan's new marketing boss, Jon Brancheau, admitted that although Armstrong has rec..
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China's Chery Automotive, Taiwan's BenQ team up to produce li-ion separator films Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Green Daily Chery Riich M1 EV In recent years, China's Chery Automotive has displayed a growing fondness for electric vehicles (EVs). From the company's Riich M1, to the S18, its Tiggo 3 and even the QQ, Chery's focus on delivering EVs to its customer base is really unmatched by any of its Chinese competitors. The company's lineup of EVs, none of which are particularly strong sellers, continues to grow on a reg..
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Ask AutoblogGreen: What's up (and down) with electric vehicle performance in hilly terrain Filed under: EV/Plug-in, AutoblogGreen Exclusive We recently got the following query from reader Felipe about electric vehicles (EVs) and we thought the answer would be of interest to many readers who are considering purchasing or leasing one of the upcoming crop of plug-in vehicles: Hi, do you have any info for EV performance in hill terrain (paved roads). I believe all MPG testing is done on flat roads, and where i live most of the roads are h..
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Foton Motors, Freescale Semiconductor to create joint lab for hybrid, EV development Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Green Daily, China China-based Foton Motors and Texas-based Freescale Semiconductor will combine their collective knowledge to open the Foton-Freescale Automotive Joint Lab. The lab will focus on developing software and system-level solutions for use in upcoming Foton vehicles. Both companies will collaboratively work towards developing relevant electronic control technology for applications that included hybrids..
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Hyundai To Sell Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars In 2012 In a bid to one-up their competition, Hyundai has announced that they will sell hydrogen fuel cell cars starting in 2012 – three years before Toyota, Honda and the rest of the competition. Seeing that renewable energy is becoming decidedly cheaper and that hydrogen fuel cell cars are more commercially viable than they were a [...]..
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PUMA Debuts Mopion Commuter Bike With a Serious Cargo Hold If you’re fed up with the balancing act of taking groceries home on your bike handlebars, or are still a little too proud to go for that front anchored basket, then the PUMA Mopion just may be the stylish cycling solution you’ve been looking for. Although Puma is best known for their sweet kicks, this [...]..
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California Gives Plug-In Hybrids Access to Carpool Lanes Need another reason to buy a plug-in hybrid vehicle How about this: California Governor Arnold Schwarzanegger just signed into law this week a bill that grants HOV lane (aka carpool lane) access to qualifying plug-in hybrid vehicles. Read the rest of California Gives Plug-In Hybrids Access to Carpool Laneshttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/ohttp://www.inhabitat.com/wp-admin/options-general.phppage=better_feedptions-general.phppage=better_feed ..
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Fast-Charging Electric Buses Coming to Southern California Southern California isn’t exactly known for having the best public transportation system, but Foothill Transit, a public transportation agency in the San Gabriel/Pomona area, is about to get an impressive upgrade: all-electric buses that can charge up in under 10 minutes. Foothill bought three EcoRide BE35 all-electric buses, along with two charging stations. Read the [...]..
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Test Drive: Amp Electrifies the Chevy Equinox Looking for an electric vehicle that is larger and has a greater electric drive range than either the Nissan Leaf or the Chevy Volt There are options — Cincinnati-area-based AMP has started taking orders for their AMP Electric Equinox, which takes a stock model of the 5-seat crossover Chevrolet Equinox, removes the gas tank and [...]..
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3.2 million EVs by 2015 Automakers are on the verge of mass-marketing plug-in electric vehicles worldwide, including both plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) as well as battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Although it has taken sometime for these vehicles to reach mainstream markets, their improved fuel economy, low emissions and quiet ride have contributed to their sudden popularity; Pike Research group say that world.....
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Greener than expected Battery powered electric cars will most likely play a major role in future of mobility. What was not known so far, however, was how environmentally friendly the manufacture, operation and disposal of the rechargeable batteries are. Empa researchers have now, for the first time, calculated the ecological footprint of the most commonly used type, the lithium-ion battery. The result is better than ex.....
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Match your mode to your mood Lexus mark their debut in the small luxury car market with the CT 200h, a full hybrid that will be on sale from October this year. Lexus say that that have taken their full hybrid drive technology to a new level with this model; it allows a choice of driving modes that can be chosen depending on the mood of the driver. The CT 200h has two distinct driving modes – Dynamic and Relaxing &.....
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MOT test to remain annual? The Department for Transport are looking into reducing the required frequency of MOT tests to fall in line with European laws, meaning that annual MOT tests would no longer be obligatory. In the UK at present, vehicles must have their first test within three years of registration, and annual tests thereafter. As a minimum, EU law requires vehicles to have their first test when they are four years .....
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Renault Megane Coupe Cabiolet Review Ask people what features they want in a car and they want everything. So Renault has done its best to deliver with a four-seater that's also a convertible, and a coupe thanks to a folding metal roof, that achieves nearly 50mpg. Servicing is recommended every 18,000 miles/two years. Oil condition monitoring on dCi FAP engines protects against excessive wear and may advise longer or shorter service .....
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