Plan is to cut fleet sales to car rental companies and firms from 18 percent of the total in the past year to March to 12 percent in the current financial year ending Mar. 2007.
Read More →J.D. Power says redesigned Initial Quality Study shows that vehicle design plays as critical a role in consumer perceptions of quality as defects and malfunctions. Hyundai in top three for first time. GM receives Gold Plant award.
Read More →Federal inspectors call 28 percent of vehicles “underutilized.”
Read More →The hybrid-electric van is expected to see a 30 to 50 percent improvement in fuel economy. Every penny increase in the price of fuel adds $8 million to the Postal Service's fuel budget each year.
Read More →Automaker credits aggressive incentive programs and hybrid marketing campaign.
Read More →According to the 2006 Index of Leading Environmental Indicators, tailpipe emissions from carbon monoxide have been reduced by 96 percent since the 1950s. Air quality in Los Angeles and D.C. has improved dramatically too.
Read More →ADESA Analytical Services says the average price of $10,094 was 6.9 percent higher than February 2005 and 2.6 percent higher than January 2006.
Read More →A study of 111 hybrid drivers found that the average fuel economy for 47 drivers of 2004/2005 Priuses was 49.95 mpg, or 9.2 percent less than EPA's combined estimates.
Read More →Action or inaction by the driver of either the truck or other vehicle was the critical reason for 88 percent of the crashes.
Read More →The one-to-two-year study will look into “congestion charging” schemes similar to London's, which has reduced downtown traffic congestion by about 30 percent and vehicle emissions by about 12 percent.
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