Hybrid sales strong – Hummers and Expeditions soon to be sold for scrap value
This post was contributed by Mr. Sunshine, a new greenerMIAMI correspondent. Well, it looks like the American car makers are going to get their clock cleaned again. An AP story in the Herald by Dee-Ann Durbin reveals: Although a slowdown is expected in the second half of the year, J.D. Power is forecasting total sales of 345,000 hybrids for 2007, a 35 percent increase from 2006 when the...
Read MoreTest Drive: greenerMIAMI Gives the Saturn Vue Green Line a Try
You may remember that I recently made friends with GM and took a trip on their dime to the NY Auto Show. In fact, check out my interviews with Chevy & Hummer. After I got home from the trip, GM lined up another little treat for me. I got to test drive the Saturn Vue Green Line Hybrid SUV. Now, this is the first time anyone had offered to lend me a car so that I could tool around in it and see...
Read MorePlug-in Hybrids: Sherry Boschert
Today I attended the lecture at FIU given by author Sherry Boschert, who recently wrote Plug-In Hybrids: The Cars That Will Recharge America. She is a medical news reporter by training, and an environmentalist by passion. Sherry is the Founder and President of the San Francisco EV Association. The lecture started out with a show of hands who had seen the film, Who Killed the Electric Car? Very...
Read MoreTODAY: Three Guys, A Girl, and Two Green Cars
The Drive Beyond Oil event is happening today in Miami Beach from 3-5pm. I plan on attending. Full details. Four road-trippers from the Natural Resources Defense Council will be arriving today to show off some solutions to high gas prices and to "move America beyond oil." The press release tells us: The road trippers expect to arrive at Miami Beach City Hall at about 3:00 pm, and will...
Read MoreHybrid Buses – Anyone Seen?
Miami Dade received a couple of hybrid buses on loan for about a month…which is probably ending soon. I headed down south to the busway (where the Metrorail ends @ Dadeland South), to try and catch a glimpse. No dice. Larry Lebowitz writes: Transit plans to purchase 39 of the 60-foot hybrids by 2008 and 180 of the 42-foot models between 2009 and 2012 as part of its routine fleet...
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