After the first day of practice, all three Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars are at the front of the field. Frenchman Loïc Duval managed to beat the best time from last year by almost 1.5 seconds. The diesel-hybrid race cars with the four rings, which have been undefeated in the current season so far, dominated
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Let’s share news on a very different type of electric vehicle. As hurricane season begins, the employees of NRG Energy are preparing to help affected coastal areas by championing a new concept called “Power2Serve.” Power2Serve is composed of a 42-foot disaster relief vehicle and 26-foot trailer combination designed to deliver immediate power, emergency shelter, access
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Allan McNish will start the 81st Le Mans 24 Hours on Saturday June 22 aiming to win the legendary race for a third time and re-take the lead in the FIA World Endurance Championship. The driver who won the annual French race in 1998 and 2008 will drive a hybrid-diesel Audi sports car in the
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After Road Atlanta, then Detroit, Mazda’s diesel-powered racecar scored a hat trick this last weekend at Mid-Ohio. The difference this time is that it was the team owner’s car taking the checkered flag with Sylvain Tremblay and Tom Long scoring the win. Long had won the pole position and the team led the bulk of
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One week before Le Mans, Audi lifted the veil on how the technology it is using in racing is also beneficial to production cars. Audi said that 15 years of engine development have been shaping Audi’s Le Mans prototype racing commitment. Through intensive development work the engineers have repeatedly compensated for the restrictions imposed by
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Audi is making a big diesel push, introducing three more TDI models. Audi is expanding its TDI models with the A6 TDI, A7 TDI and Q5 TDI. These new TDI clean diesel models join the newly-introduced A8 L TDI, and highly-successful Q7 TDI. EPA estimated fuel economy figures for the new clean diesel introductions are
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If you’ve been paying attention, you might have noticed 2015 is the unofficial launch year for production hydrogen fuel cell vehicles – that is, if you don’t count Hyundai which got started with its ix35 last year, and Honda which has soldiered forward with its lease-only FCX Clarity in California since summer, 2008. Aside from
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Jeep has revealed the price of the Liberty-replacing compact SUV to wear the Cherokee badge. The base level of the Jeep Cherokee will be the Sport model with a starting U.S. MSRP of $22,995. This Cherokee will have, according to Jeep, a fuel economy rating of up to 31 miles per gallon (mpg), through the
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Johnson Controls will supply lithium-ion batteries to power large plug-in hybrid trucks as part of a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) electrification initiative. About 120 work trucks, to be used by publicly owned utilities and municipal electric companies, will utilize plug-in hybrid power systems by Odyne Systems, LLC, using Johnson Controls’ batteries. Odyne, in conjunction
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Volkswagen of America announced that it will challenge the existing Guinness World Records achievement for the “lowest fuel consumption-48 U.S. states for a non-hybrid car.” Two drivers will pilot a 2013 Passat TDI clean diesel, leaving from and returning to Volkswagen’s Herndon, Va. headquarters. This 8,000-mile, 48 contiguous state drive entails traveling west along a
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