Auto makers are saying that it will take a huge technological push for them to meet the new government regulations that call for a 40 percent increase to fuel-economy to 35mpg. An interesting article by the staff of CNNMoney points out that the car that got the best mileage in the nation twenty years ago wasn’t even a hybrid and it got a better fuel-economy than any car on the road today. Yes, even better than your beloved Toyota Prius.
The 1987 Honda Civic CRX had an EPA fuel-economy rating of 57mpg. The most you’ll get out of a non-hybrid Civic today is 34mpg and even if you go for the Civic Hybrid, you’ll get 45mpg. The symbol of everything hybrid, the Toyota Prius, gets 46mpg. So what’s changed...
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