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New eGallon rating offers amazing fuel cost comparisons for EV buyers

Wouldn’t you like to know the actual cost to run an electric car versus other green car choices? Don’t trust the sound bytes. Here are the facts. Pinboard (MacAaron)

Green Car Congress: Honda joins DOE’s H2USA partnership to promote fuel cell electric vehicles and infrastructure

American Honda Motor Co, Inc. has joined H2USA, a new public-private partnership launched by the US Department of Energy (DOE) earlier this month to promote the commercial introduction and widespread adoption of fuel cell electric vehicles. Pinboard (MacAaron)

The coming revolution in hydrogen production and fuel cell cars

What if you could evolve hydrogen to fuel your car from a flower like device immersed in water, while you power the house with the photovoltaic medium that mimics the actions of chlorophyll and grows itself on your roof? Pinboard (MacAaron)

Volvo breakthrough boosts fuel efficiency 25 percent

The technology Volvo is testing for passenger cars has worked in race cars and now the group says it can make it affordable. Here is how they do it. Pinboard (MacAaron)

Green Car Congress: Toyota wraps up 3-year Strasbourg Prius PHV demo project; average 46% reduction in fuel consumption compared to gasoline ICE vehicles

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) has completed its three-year plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHV) demonstration project jointly carried out with Électricité de France (EDF) and the City and the Urban Community of Strasbourg in France. Pinboard (MacAaron)

2014 Subaru XV Crosstrek Hybrid achieves excellent fuel economy [video]

Subaru unveiled a Japanese specification prototype of its first 2014 XV Crosstrek hybrid model at the technical presentation event held in Japan and reveals the new hybrids excellent fuel mileage numbers. Pinboard (MacAaron)