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Old 03-11-2006, 12:29 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default CR "oops's" with "bad" hybrid costs

Cost of hybrids miscalculated, Consumer Reports says

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/14045918.htm
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Old 03-11-2006, 03:42 PM   #2 (permalink)
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The sad thing is that despite the correction, people will mostly only remember the original headline.

Another one for the big auto makers & oil industry conspiracy theorists..
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Old 04-24-2006, 03:26 AM   #3 (permalink)
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And then there's the Insight which has no gas-only version.
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Old 05-02-2006, 12:13 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Default no - gas only - version? ahhhh....

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And then there's the Insight which has no gas-only version.
But - there is a 'No-Gas' Version!
(Can't seem to find the link right now - but read an article on a gent that stipped his IMA/3 Cylinder and related GAS parts from his insight - and went all electric!)

Oops - Ok here they are...
Honda Insight “Out-a-sight”
"EV USA"
'My Insight Conversion'

and - oh yes - a Swift 'Hybrid' too!
http://www.engin.swarthmore.edu/org/HEV/index.html

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