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June Fuel Update: Prices Continue to Fall
While prices have continued to decline for four straight weeks, the next weeks don't look as promising.
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SEARCHMENUSEARCHWhile prices have continued to decline for four straight weeks, the next weeks don't look as promising.
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RICHMOND, VA – The Top 100 Alternative-Fuel Fleet listing (November 2006, Automotive Fleet) for the Commonwealth of Virginia was incorrectly listed. The correct listing should have read Commonwealth of Virginia General Services Department, not Commonwealth of Virginia DOT.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. – Toyota North American President Jim Press has urged Congress to extend federal tax credits for hybrid vehicles and accelerate its buying of hybrids and alternative-fleet vehicles to help address energy concerns.
Read More →PORTLAND, MAINE – Oakhurst Dairy, a large dairy company in New England, announced that it will have transitioned 130 delivery trucks, or more than 90 percent of its fleet, to B-20 biodiesel fuel (20-percent biodiesel and 80-percent petroleum diesel) by the end of 2006.
Read More →LOS ANGELES – GMC has rolled out its 2008 Yukon Hybrid with a two-mode system that combines hybrid technology with cylinder deactivation.
Read More →LOS ANGELES – DaimlerChrysler, Audi, and Volkswagen intend to establish the BlueTec brand name as the designation for particularly clean, highly fuel-efficient passenger cars and SUVs with diesel engines.
Read More →RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil --- Abcesso Technology has launched, for the first time outside Brazil, its latest fuel conversion system for ethanol power cars. When installed, the system makes the normal gasoline car behave and perform as a flex-fuel vehicle.
Read More →LOS ANGELES --- DaimlerChrysler and Volkswagen announced that their Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz, VW and Audi brands had plans to introduce almost a dozen cars and SUVs with diesel engines employing a clean-burning technology called Bluetec.
Read More →GARDENA, Calif. --- Automotive hybrid systems expert David W. Hermance, Toyota's top North American engineer for advanced technology vehicles, died Nov. 25 while performing aerobatic maneuvers in his plane off the coast of San Pedro, Calif. A resident of Huntington Beach, Calif., he was 59.
Read More →WASHINGTON, D.C. --- The U.S. average retail price for regular gasoline rose 0.7 cent to $2.246 per gallon as of Nov. 27.
Read More →LOS ANGELES --- At the Los Angeles Auto Show BMW unveiled its Hydrogen 7, a luxury vehicle equipped with an internal combustion engine capable of running either on hydrogen or on gasoline.
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