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New Ford C-MAX Energi PHEV EPA Certified at 100 MPGe, Beats Prius PHEV by 5 MPGe
Thanks to an EPA certified EPA-certified 108 miles per gallon equivalent (MPGe) in the city, Ford's new C-MAX Energi has been afforded the title of America’s most fuel-efficient plug-in hybrid. The compact minivan that shares most of its parts with the regular 47 mpg C-MAX Hybrid adding plug-in capability, also returns 100 MPGe on the combined cycle.
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Mitsubishi Outlander Phev Completes Asia Cross Country Rally 2015
Mitsubishi is testing its plug-in hybrid electric technology in rallying, with the Outlander PHEV rally car finishing the FIA-certified Asia Cross Country Rally 2015 (AXCR) held in northern Thailand between August 8 and 14. Read more »...
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Spied: Volkswagen Filmed Trying Out Xl1 Diesel-electric Hybrid
The XL1 is Volkswagen's vision of a plug-in hybrid car that returns an amazingly low combined fuel consumption of 0.9lt/100km, equal to 261 mpg US and 313 mpg UK, or to be precise, MPGe (Miles per gallon gasoline equivalent) since this figure includes...
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Ford Takes Another Swipe At The Prius V With La Linea-inspired Commercials For C-max
If you take a moment to check out Ford U.S.A.'s recent press releases on the new C-MAX Hybrid and C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid, you will notice that the Blue Oval always finds some room to insert a reference or two…or three to Toyota's rivaling...
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Toyota Says Prius Plug-in Hybrid U.s. Sales Top 6,000 Units, Beats Volt And Leaf...or Did It?
A Toyota press release bragging about the achievements of the Prius Plug-in Hybrid variant since it went arrived in U.S. showrooms at the end of February states that the EPA-rated 95 MPGe (miles per gallon equivalent) Japanese hatchback has delivered...
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Video: Chevrolet Tries To Explain The Volt's Mpg Equivalent And Mpg Ratings
Once upon a drive, all we had to know about a car's fuel consumption was how many miles the vehicle could travel on a single gallon of gas in the city, on the highway and on a combined route, regardless of whether the engine was fed with petrol or...
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