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By asking the electrified car owners why they consider they have made a good choice by buying a green car, you will hear many reasons which will justify it. Most of the owners are pretty convinced their plug-in hybrid have all of the positive attributes they were going for. In 2015 the U.S. Purchased 17.39 million passenger cars and light trucks, 43,143 of them were plug-in hybrids, or 0.25%, and 71,105 were battery electric, which is 0.41%. Plug-in market share in June 2016 wasn't really better than two years ago, but it doesn't change the fact that people never regret buying a hybrid...
The fuel-emissions scandal of Volkswagen continues. Did you know that Volkswagen AG's settlement for about 50,000 owners and government regulators over polluting vehicles is valued at more than $15 billion cash? That amount is very high even for such a powerful company as Volkswagen. We will know more precisely about this settlement on Tuesday in Washington, when it will be announced that the company has to return to the owners $10.033 billion over diesel emissions of about 475,000 vehicles and approximately $5 billion in funds to offset excess diesel emissions and boost zero em...
It's been only a few days since we've wrote about Tesla's scandal, the rumors were flying for a few months now about its Model S having some suspension arms defects. Tesla Motors was blamed for a secret deal with gpcordaro, the pact pushed the owner to keep its silence about the auto problem. Tesla was asked to keep to comment on these claims, but the company decided to keep it silence from the start, which was more absurd and questionably. U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration took the issue with the practice after many customer reports on Model S. The co...
Hyundai and its affiliate Kia sold an impressive number of 146,400 cars in the Chinese market last month, accounting for a combined 9.2 percent of the market. The CEO of Hyundai Motor America, Dave Zuchowski, has plenty of changes and challenges to deal with in order to reach a similar success on the U.S. market.In April the two automakers sold in China a total of 1.6 million cars. They took up over 9 percent of the Chinese market for the first time this year. Their combined market share continued to grow from 6.1 percent in January to 7.7 percent in February...
Honda Motor Co. plans to broaden the Clarity nameplate to two more alternative-fuel vehicles, considering that green cars building is a priority direction in its future activity.The Clarity hydrogen fuel-cell hatchback set to go on sale late this year will be followed by an all-electric Clarity next year. A third model, a Clarity plug-in hybrid, will be launched later in 2017. The three Clarity models will all share the same front-wheel-drive platform and five-seat, hatchback layout. Styling between the versions will vary slightly. Honda expects the Clarity plug-in hyb...