"Ford's decision shows that people who say you can't make cars cleaner and more fuel-efficient are wrong, " the energy policy director of the Sierra Club told the New York Times.
And such fleet modernization programs, which provide a generous credit to consumers who turn in old, less fuel-efficient cars and purchase cleaner cars, have been successful in boosting auto sales in a number of European countries.
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California has been a leader in promoting hybrids and compact cars and cleaner-burning fuels.
And that's why I'm calling on Congress to pass fleet modernization legislation that can provide a credit to consumers who turn in old cars and purchase cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars.
We will shift over to the new technologies where we can have cleaner cars sold nationwide.
The two companies believe Focus Electric owners will embrace the idea of powering their cars with a cleaner source of electricity.
But the rebound is threatened, some experts say, by the mounting cost of new technologies demanded by government regulators to make cars safer, cleaner and more fuel-efficient.
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It turns out that most electric cars are no carbon cleaner than the average economy car.
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New cars are 18% cleaner than the UK average, according to the report.
Modern cars are "incomparably cleaner" than older ones, said Neil Donahue, a professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh.
We're also going to be talking about some developments we're making on biofuels, so that more folks can start filling up their cars and trucks with cleaner, American-grown fuels.
The benchmark study, by the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), found that plug-in hybrids are cleaner than regular cars in each of nine scenarios.
That effort includes pushing "greener" hybrid and electric cars that stress fuel efficiency and cleaner technology.
Steve Hinchman, staff attorney for the Conservation Law Foundation in Maine, says this would force automakers to develop cleaner versions of most cars.
And we know that building energy-efficient cars with better gas mileage and cleaner emissions is going to be a big part of us being able to succeed, not only the auto industry, but also succeed in our quest for a better environment.
First and foremost, through strategic investments in both the Recovery Act and the budget, the President has made significant investments in the research and development for these new advanced technologies that we will bring cleaner, more efficient cars and trucks to American families.
Cars in America may be 90% cleaner than they were a generation ago, but this improvement has been largely wiped out by growth.
There are no plans for pollution-charging to cover private cars (only platitudinous incentives for electric cars), which, though individually cleaner than buses and lorries, are more plentiful and produce roughly similar amounts of muck in total.
These electric motors help with acceleration, which means cars can be fitted with smaller and thus cleaner engines.
Despite the push in green cars in previous years following government subsidies for cleaner vehicles, this year's focus turned to gas-guzzling SUVs.
And developing it could power our cars and our homes and our factories in a cleaner and cheaper way.
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We started getting our clock cleaned when consumers decided they wanted a cleaner car and suddenly everybody was buying their cars from Japan, or now South Korea.
It's important to note that each of the cars on our list are street legal--and much cleaner than anything on the road years ago.
The new rules means one in seven new cars, or 1.4 million total, will use much cleaner sources of fuel by 2025.
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Cities around the world have been trying to lure commuters out of their cars and onto mass transit with the aim of making urban life cleaner and greener.
The graphics haven't been completely updated (the cars are basically still just standard polygons), but the UI is cleaner, a physics engine has been added in with power-ups and other goodies, and there is a really robust replay system, which lets players save their best shots and stunts on video, and edit and upload those to YouTube and other video sharing services.
But I would say the investment that was made on that, not only did that spur an enormous demand, but it took cars off the road that were, by definition, older and more polluting, and put newer, cleaner models on in their place.
Electric cars, however, have had more attention from carmakers, and they could be powered by electricity from relatively cleaner natural gas.
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