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REPORT: Diesels paying financial dividends back more quickly than hybrids

In the ongoing battle between hybrids and diesels for "payback time" supremacy, the latest round goes to the oil burning posse. That's the report from Edmunds, which did a recent numbers crunch comparing the two fuel-saving drivetrains and found the scales have tipped in favor of diesel powerplants. According to the study, the average new vehicle price premium for a hybrid-electric is a whopping $4,981 (the Lexus LS 600h L takes the outlier cherry with a $15,969 premium over its gasoline counterpart). On the other hand, the average diesel ... Read more →

Volvo announces diesel plug-in hybrid for 2012 [w/video] Domenick Yoney

Volvo and Vattenfall have just made an announcement that should hurry the Swedish car maker along the hybrid highway. The two companies have partnered to develop a plug-in diesel hybrid that is ...

Rendered Speculation: Citroen DS5 premium diesel hybrid Noah Joseph

Last week, French automaker PSA-Peugeot-Citroen announced the development of the world's first hybrid diesel powertrain. Called HYbrid4, the propulsion system is earmarked for initial implementation ...

SsangYong brings diesel-hybrid Eco C200 CUV to Seoul Sebastian Blanco

The Seoul Motor Show was the first place new versions of SsangYong's C200 compact urban vehicle (CUV) saw the light of day. The C200 Eco (above) puts up a green flag with a diesel hybrid ...

Rocky Mountain "Hi": Lightning Hybrids to debut prototype at Denver Auto Show Jeremy Korzeniewski

In less than a month at the Denver Auto Show, a new contender for the Progressive Automotive X-Prize is scheduled to be revealed by a startup automaker called Lightning Hybrids. There's plenty of ...

Acura delays diesel due to business conditions, not technical hurdles 11 months ago on Autoblog

Early last year, Acura announced that we would see a 2.2-liter diesel in its lineup in the 2009 model year with a V6 diesel expected to follow in 2010. According to a conversation with AutoblogGreen yesterday, Acura's diesel program has been put on hold – indefinitely. Honda of America ...

Mercedes outlines its "Road to the Future" 1 year ago on Autoblog

Mercedes-Benz has laid out a long Road to the Future, detailing its efforts to create "fuel-efficient and environmentally-sustainable premium automobiles without the need to forgo the characteristic brand features." That's fancy talk for having your German chocolate cake and eating it, too. The ...

Toyota to sell diesel hybrid by 2010 thanks to Isuzu 3 years ago on Autoblog

AutoblogGreen has reason to be happy, having found evidence that Toyota's recent purchase of a 5.9% stake in Isuzu will bear fruit in 2010 when the Japanese juggernaut marries its Synergy hybrid drive system with a diesel engine. Presumably such a hook up was made possible, or at least hastened, by ...






Autoblog Podcast #154: Gobbling up the News

Chris, Sam, and Dan kick out a podcast just in time for the long holiday drive.

 
 

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