[pf] EPA Environment-friendly vehicles

At 13:26 14/11/2000 -0800, Kaleopono sent a note about:
> Edmunds.com and amesaward.com announcing the winners of the 2001
>model year Automotive Market Environmental Sensitivity (AMES) Awards(TM).
>

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm?newsid=8410 
  is:

Honda Insight tops EPA fuel economy list for 2001; Toyota Prius 2nd.

 USA: October 3, 2000

 DETROIT - For the second year in a row, hybrid vehicles from Japanese
automakers are the most fuel efficient cars or trucks on American roads,
according to the 2001 fuel economy rankings from the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency released yesterday. 

 The two-seat Insight from Honda Motor Co., which uses a hybrid
gasoline-electric engine, is the winner, getting 68 miles per gallon on the
highway and 61 mpg in city driving.

|  Close behind is Toyota Motor Corp.'s Prius hybrid sedan |
|  that gets 52 mpg on the highway and 45 in the city.     |

 Both cars use electric motors powered by advanced batteries and gasoline
engines to vastly improve fuel economy over traditional gasoline or diesel
engines. The Insight, which went on sale last year, was the first
hybrid-electric vehicle offered for retail sale in the United States.

 "Choosing the most fuel-efficient vehicle in a class can save the owner at
least $1,500 in fuel costs, avoids tons of pollution that causes global
warming and help reduce dependence on imported oil," EPA Administrator
Carol Browner said in a statement.

 Automakers, responding to consumer and political pressure for cleaner,
more fuel efficient vehicles - as well as higher gasoline prices - have
stepped up efforts to improve efficiency this year. In July, Ford Motor Co.
said it would raise the average fuel economy on its sport utility fleet in
the United States by 25 percent by 2005.

 But imports dominated many of the other categories compiled by the EPA for
the 2001 model year, which starts this fall. The most efficient mid-size
car was a tie between the Honda Accord and Mazda Motor Corp. .

 The two-door Vitara small sport utility from Suzuki Motor Corp. is the
most fuel efficient four-wheel drive SUV on the road.

 Among domestic winners, the Ford's Focus won for mid-size station wagons;
General Motors Corp.'s Saturn SW won for small station wagon; and GM's trio
of Oldsmobile, Pontiac and Chevrolet minivans won for that category.

 GM's small pickup trucks, the Chevrolet S10 and GMC Sonoma, won for the
pickup truck segment. Also in that group was the Hombre pickup, an Isuzu
Motor Corp. vehicle made at the same plant as the GM trucks.

 Who had the worst fuel record? The Ferrari 550 Maranello, which ranged
from 8 mpg in the city to 13 mpg on the highway. 

 REUTERS

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