Nissan’s electric car will cost more than a Toyota Prius

Warren Buffett promoted BYD to launch hybrid cars for mass market on Monday
HONG KONG: Chinese car and battery maker BYD Co, backed by US billionaire investor Warren Buffett, said it will start sales of plug-in hybrid cars with solar panels to the public in Shenzhen on Monday.

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Car convoy makes it easy being green
Stop what you are doing at 1 p.m. Thursday and head to the Reporter-Herald parking lot. A dozen fuel-efficient vehicles will be parked there for the second-annual Green Car Convoy and a sneak peek of the 2010 Denver Auto Show.

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Volkswagen’s Up Lite Marries Electricity to Diesel
How do you build a practical car that’s highly fuel efficient? Easy: Make it small and light, give it a diesel engine, and make that engine part of a hybrid power train. Strangely, no such creature has yet hit the road. Several automakers are, however, fixing to correct that oversight.

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Price Tag on Nissan’s Electric Car Finally Revealed
Nissan announced Tuesday that it will sell its upcoming electric car, the LEAF, for $32,780. After a federal tax credit of $7,500 that is available to all buyers, the five-door hatchback will cost just $25,280, several thousand dollars less than the average transaction price of a car sold in the United States.

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Nissan’s electric car will cost more than a Toyota Prius
YOKOHAMA, Japan – Nissan Motor Co on Tuesday said it would sell its battery-powered Leaf hatchback starting at 3.76 million yen (S$56,875) in Japan, counting on government subsidies to slash the cost to consumers for its mass-market bet on the electric car.

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