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Toyota's 'Highway to the Future: Mobile Hybrid Experience' Puts You Behind the Wheel

Toyota's 'Highway to the Future: Mobile Hybrid Experience' Puts You Behind the Wheel

Hybrid and Interactive Exhibits at the Missouri State Fair Gives Attendees Hands-On Hybrid Experience WHAT: Toyota is bringing a nationwide tour called "Highway to the Future: Mobile Hybrid Experience" to the Missouri State Fair on August 17-19, 2007. The hands-on "Highway to the Future: Mobile Hybrid Experience" is de ... Continue reading

Website launched for Alternative Fuels and Vehicles Conference 2008

Website launched for Alternative Fuels and Vehicles Conference 2008

To view this email as a web page, please follow this link: <http://www.icebase.com/r.pl?BbGbx5yHQl7A0U55_d3afcfb2cd79b734> Alternative Fuels & Vehicles Conference + Expo May 11 - 14, 2008 · Rio All-Suites Hotel · Las Vegas, Nevada "In times of change, the learner will inherit the earth while the learned are beautiful ... Continue reading

60+ MPG Volkswagen Diesel Unveiled

60+ MPG Volkswagen Diesel Unveiled

Wolfsburg, 13 August 2007 - Volkswagen will be firing off the next salvo of its BlueMotion initiative at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt. In total, six new models with technology that is as economical as it is environmentally friendly, will debut at the world’s largest car show. One of the highligh ... Continue reading

The Convertibles of the Volkswagen Corporation

The Convertibles of the Volkswagen Corporation

Fascinating product line-up is unique: From the New Beetle cult convertible to the Bentley Azure high-end cruiser Eight open-air models: Audi, Bentley, Lamborghini and Volkswagen offer the world's greatest variety of convertibles under one corporate roof WOLFSBURG, Germany - August 13, 2007: It's high summer and so it ... Continue reading

California's First Plug-In Hybrid School Bus Has Enova's Post Transmission Technology

California's First Plug-In Hybrid School Bus Has Enova's Post Transmission Technology

TORRANCE, Calif.--Enova Systems, (AMEX:ENA) (AIM:ENV) (AIM:ENVS), a production company in an emerging clean energy, environmentally friendly industry and a developer of proprietary electric, hybrid and fuel cell digital power management systems, announced today that the Napa Unified School District has received a new p ... Continue reading

Announcing the 14th Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference and Expo 2008

Announcing the 14th Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference and Expo 2008

Announcing The 14th Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference + Expo 2008 Website Is Live for the Largest AFV Conference in North America Las Vegas, NV - August 10, 2007 The Alternative Fuels & Vehicles National Conference + Expo 2008 (AF&V 2008) will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, from May 11-14, 2008. Details a ... Continue reading

New Highlander Key Component of Toyota's Marketing Strategy

New Highlander Key Component of Toyota's Marketing Strategy

<p class="style1"><strong>By Marty Bernstein<br>AIADA Contributing Editor</strong><br><br>Short lead model revels (the cars are on sale now or within days) are usually perfunctory events: arrive in the morning at a nice hotel for coffee and danish; sit through an hour or so of exec-techno-presentations; then a short dr ... Continue reading

C.A.R. Management Briefing Seminars - Wrap-up

C.A.R. Management Briefing Seminars - Wrap-up

CAR MANAGEMENT BRIEFING SEMINARS 2007 Friday Wrap-Up - Insights in Traverse City By Steve Purdy TheAutoChannel.com Detroit Bureau Traverse City, MI – August 10, 2007 – It’s now Friday morning and the week is winding down here in Northern Michigan. This conference has been going on for 42 years, I’m ... Continue reading

Mercedes-Benz Unveils "DiesOtto" - The Future of The Gasoline Engine

Mercedes-Benz Unveils "DiesOtto" - The Future of The Gasoline Engine

Stuttgart – The performance of a gasoline engine, the high torque and fuel economy of a state-of-the-art diesel together with extremely clean emissions: Mercedes-Benz has combined all the advantages of both engine types in its DiesOtto powertrain. The new technology package, which stands for the future of the gaso ... Continue reading

Eaton Begins Commercial Production of Hybrid Power Systems for Medium-Duty Trucks

Eaton Begins Commercial Production of Hybrid Power Systems for Medium-Duty Trucks

KALAMAZOO, Mich.--Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation announced today that the company’s medium-duty hybrid power systems are now commercially available and will be ready for customer deliveries in 2008 on the chassis of several major North American commercial vehicle manufacturers. These include ... Continue reading

Toyota Brings 'Highway to the Future: Mobile Hybrid Experience' to the Missouri State Fair

Toyota Brings 'Highway to the Future: Mobile Hybrid Experience' to the Missouri State Fair

Toyota's Mobile Experience Offers Look Inside Hybrid Synergy Drive SEDALIA, Mo., Aug. 8 -- Toyota is bringing its nationwide tour called "Highway to the Future: Mobile Hybrid Experience," to the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Mo. on August 17-19, 2007. The tour is designed to provide consumers with a firsthand opportu ... Continue reading

Automakers Highlight Low-CO2 Vehicles

Automakers Highlight Low-CO2 Vehicles

Wasghington DC August 8, 2007; The AIADA newsletter reported that automakers are putting a new emphasis on cars and trucks that excel at cutting carbon-dioxide emissions to reduce global warming. USA Today reports that in the past, CO2 was treated as just a component of the noxious vapors spewing from tailpipes. Now, i ... Continue reading

AIADA Lists Top Ten Most Fuel Efficient Rides, New and Used

AIADA Lists Top Ten Most Fuel Efficient Rides, New and Used

AIADA Affinity Partner NADAguides.com recently conducted an analysis of vehicles on its website to determine which yielded the highest fuel efficiency of all new and used cars listed. Results of the fuel efficiency analysis show Toyota and Honda vehicles listed on NADAguides.com are at the top in fuel efficiency in bot ... Continue reading

Groundbreaking Alternative Energy and Transportation Expo Featuring AltCar to Target Present, Future of Transportation

Groundbreaking Alternative Energy and Transportation Expo Featuring AltCar to Target Present, Future of Transportation

SANTA MONICA, Calif.--The Alternative Energy and Transportation Expo featuring AltCar (AltCar Expo), is a rare opportunity for the public to test drive the latest and most technologically advanced electric, natural gas, biodiesel, hydrogen, fuel cell and ethanol cars—some which are being unveiled for the first tim ... Continue reading

J.D. Power and Associates Reports:Hybrid Vehicle Sales on Pace to Reach Record Sales in 2007

J.D. Power and Associates Reports:Hybrid Vehicle Sales on Pace to Reach Record Sales in 2007

Seven New Hybrid Models to Enter the Market in the Second Half of 2007 WESTLAKE VILLAGE, Calif.: 2 August 2007 — Hybrid vehicles are on course to achieve record sales in 2007, increasing by 35 percent compared with 2006, according to the J.D. Power and Associates 2007 U.S. Hybrid Vehicle Forecast Second Quarter Up ... Continue reading

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