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		<title>2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2011 23:17:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Filed under: Hybrid , Sedan , Hyundai , New Car Reviews Decent Fuel Economy, Better Looks, Solid Value The auto show transition seemed to happen in a flash. One year, automakers were jockeying for dealer traffic with high horsepower, rear-wheel-drive retro rides, and the next year, each one of them ushered in a hybrid or electric vehicle. The paradigm shift was a welcome sight for car buyers wanting to shrink their carbon footprint and save money on fuel, but the majority of those products were years from production. Fast-forward to 2011, and the variety of fuel efficient transportation on offer in the industry has improved quite a bit, including this sleekly styled mid-size offering from Hyundai . The Sonata Hybrid may have taken longer than expected to hit the market, but its lithium-polymer battery pack and host of fuel-saving features have given Hyundai 35 miles per gallon city and 40 mpg highway fuel economy numbers to flash before consumers. And the Sonata Hybrid isn't battling the competition on fuel economy alone. It also features attractive styling that sharply differentiates it from non-hybrid Sonata models, while also carrying an MSRP thousands of dollars less than the Toyota Camry Hybrid and Ford Fusion Hybrid . ]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota Hybrid IP Under Attack Again</title>
		<link>http://ranktheride.com/toyota-hybrid-ip-under-attack-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:58:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last several years, Toyota has fought off suits by a firm called Paice, which claimed to own patents on technology used in Toyota&#8217;s hybrid drivetrains. Toyota settled that dispute a year ago, but now Bloomberg reports that another firm is going after Toyota&#8217;s hybrid Intellectual Property (IP). According to the report Efficient Drivetrains ]]></description>
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		<title>The Truth About Green Patents</title>
		<link>http://ranktheride.com/the-truth-about-green-patents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 19:58:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Research into environmentally sensitive ways of running a car, AKA &#8220;green patents&#8221; have been in the news lately and it&#8217;s been good news for GM&#8217;s image. The Detroit automakers in general are not seen as technology leaders, particularly in terms of alternative energy. Bob Lutz saw the Chevy Volt as a way of changing that ]]></description>
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		<title>How Can A Small Hatch And Supercar Share Design?</title>
		<link>http://ranktheride.com/how-can-a-small-hatch-and-supercar-share-design/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BMW&#8217;s forthcoming &#8220;i&#8221; series of high-efficiency vehicles will launch as a two-vehicle brand, spanning the gap between high-end hybrid supercar (i8) and small, premium, rear-drive electric hatchback (i3). So, how can BMW style two such divergent vehicles in such a way that both fit into the same brand? That&#8217;s the subject of this video, which ]]></description>
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		<title>GM Plans Opel Flagship As “Technological Spearhead” (Or XTS Rebadge?)</title>
		<link>http://ranktheride.com/gm-plans-opel-flagship-as-%e2%80%9ctechnological-spearhead%e2%80%9d-or-xts-rebadge/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 18:32:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With Opel planning to pull itself into the black within the year, the brand&#8217;s thoughts are turning from survival to &#8220;luxuries&#8221; like a flagship model planned for around 20k units starting in the 2016-2017 timeframe. Codenamed &#8220;TOL&#8221; for &#8220;Top Of Line,&#8221; the sedan will be designed to highlight one of GM&#8217;s many alt-drivetrain technologies, but ]]></description>
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		<title>“Super Credits”: The CAFE Loophole That Might Have Been (And Could Be Again)</title>
		<link>http://ranktheride.com/%e2%80%9csuper-credits%e2%80%9d-the-cafe-loophole-that-might-have-been-and-could-be-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 03:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Michigan Congressional delegation&#8217;s letter, stating that the Detroit-based automakers are not technologically capable of serving the market while complying with a proposed 2025 CAFE standard seemed strange to me in light of the recent progress made by Ford and GM on fuel economy. Why, I wondered, would these firms boast of their fuel econmy ]]></description>
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		<title>California Cuts Green Car Incentive In Half</title>
		<link>http://ranktheride.com/california-cuts-green-car-incentive-in-half/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jul 2011 03:30:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[California has backed up its strict emissions standards for years now with a $5,000 tax credit for electric, hybrid and fuel cell vehicles, which when combined with a $7,000 federal tax credit can often make those vehicles nearly as affordable as &#8220;regular&#8221; cars. But, reports Automotive News [sub], that state credit has fallen victim to ]]></description>
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		<title>New or Used: Mind Reading and Wagon Lust</title>
		<link>http://ranktheride.com/new-or-used-mind-reading-and-wagon-lust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 07:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mark writes: Hi Guys, I read TTAC regularly and am debating what to do about getting a new car. The situation is I had a 2001 Volvo S60 which started experiencing transmission &#8220;issues&#8221; that the mechanic could not replicate, so I traded it for a 09 Fit to get better mileage. The Fit was an ]]></description>
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		<title>2011 Chevrolet Volt: Take Three</title>
		<link>http://ranktheride.com/2011-chevrolet-volt-take-three/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:21:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Truth seeking is difficult considering the controversy, misinformation and flat-out lies surrounding the Chevrolet Volt. But this is a product with set attributes, some are better or worse than our collective expectations.  The performance reminds me of live music: everyone has an opinion as to how much it rocked.  And the Chevrolet Volt is Jimi ]]></description>
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		<title>Toyota To Offer A Different Kind Of Plug-In</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toyota may not be making pure EVs widely available next year as some outlets are reporting, but it will start offering a different kind of plug-in car in 2012. We&#8217;ve already heard about Toyota&#8217;s experiments with a bi-directional charger that could serve as a backup power source for your home in an emergency, but Toyota ]]></description>
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		<title>UAW Backs “Strong” Emissions Standards After All… For A Price</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jul 2011 23:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I wondered aloud about where the UAW stands on fuel economy, inspired by the union&#8217;s apparent flip-flopping between supporting the companies that employ its workers and backing its environmental allies on the left with talk of its commitment to green jobs. And after expressing concern about proposed CAFE increases, it seems the UAW ]]></description>
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		<title>Where Are Our Green Car Priorities?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 20:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a relatively pragmatic person who generally chooses the imperfect-yet-achievable path rather than agonizing over the perfect-but-unattainable goal, this chart [from a fascinating Boston Consulting report, in PDF here]  frustrates me. I understand why Americans choose hybrid-electric cars as their most favored &#8220;green car&#8221; technology, but from their it gets fairly crazy. EVs are fantastic ]]></description>
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		<title>Review: 2011 Cadillac Escalade Platinum Hybrid</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 03:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple months back, Cadillac gave me a bright red, three-ton, rollin&#8217;-on-22s, chrome-drenched, hybrid-electric, $88,140 luxury truck to drive while in Michigan for the Campaign To Prevent Gingervitis 24 Hours of LeMons. Since that time, the effort of attempting to write a meaningful review for this ridiculous-yet-amazing machine has caused my brain to develop a ]]></description>
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		<title>Was, Ihr Volt Ampera? Vergessen Es!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[End of the year, Europeans can delight in the Made in America Opel Ampera, which is a rebadged and slightly reskinned (see picture) Volt. But don’t rush to your friendly Opel dealer to put in your pre-order: The Ampera is already sold out. According to Automobilwoche [sub], Opel already has more than 5,000 pre-orders for ]]></description>
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		<title>What’s Wrong With This Picture: The New Efficiency Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jul 2011 23:36:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The transition from exclusively gasoline-powered vehicles to the new panoply of permutations of gas and electric power has not been easy on the old emm-pee-gee. The imperfect-yet-universal (in the US market) measure of efficiency finds itself at a loss to compare an electric car&#8217;s efficiency with that of a gas-powered car, and completely falls apart ]]></description>
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		<title>Quote Of The Day: The Obsolescence Of Volt Edition</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 02:53:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fortune [via CNN]&#8216;s Alex Taylor III is clearly as disappointed as I was with Joe Nocera&#8217;s toothless, vaguely pro-Volt piece in last Sunday&#8217;s NY Times, and he&#8217;s riled up enough about it to lay down a savage call-out the Volt hype machine. In fact, it&#8217;s a less scientific, less comprehensive (and, by virtue of the passage of ]]></description>
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		<title>Review: 2012 Toyota Prius v</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 04:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brand extensions aren’t common in the auto industry, perhaps because they rarely (if ever) succeed. Chrysler and Oldsmobile hyperextended the LeBaron and Cutlass brands, respectively, into oblivion. But Toyota has struggled as much as anyone to sell hybrids that aren’t named Prius, so it will now attempt to sell additional models under that highly successful ]]></description>
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		<title>While The Pope Goes Green, Mortals Get Gas</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 20:09:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Pope is working on his green creds. When the German Pope Benedikt XVI will come to Germany in September, he will wave at the faithful from a plug-in hybrid. Made in Germany, of course.  Mercedes is putting the finishing touches on a new popemobile. Based on the new M-Klasse, it is powered by a ]]></description>
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		<title>Reuters: Honda Fit Shuttle US-Bound</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Jun 2011 23:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Small-n-funky vehicle nerds, Honda Fit freaks and JDM fetishists with families take note: though we&#8217;ve heard no indication of it in the mainstream auto media (and Honda offers no hints of it at its &#8220;future cars&#8221; page), some Reuters reporting seems to indicate that the Fit Shuttle, which just debuted in Japan, is heading to ]]></description>
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		<title>Plotting The Electrified Future: BCG Downgrades EV Penetration, Pacific Crest Offers Bear And Bull Cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>RTR</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports that Boston Consulting Group has revised its projections for EV market penetration downwards, concluding that plug-in electric vehicles (including EREV and PHEV models) will make up no more than five percent of the US market by 2020. And ironically, the recent increases in gas prices have actually driven the estimate downwards, as Xavier Mosquet, ]]></description>
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