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 Dear Roger, As I mentioned last month, we have a big hybrid announcement to make: we’re unveiling UCS’s brand-new Hybrid Scorecard today! I’m very proud of what the entire team has produced with this new resource. First and foremost we should thank our Senior Vehicles Analyst Don Anair (or “Sharkey” to those who remember HybridBlog) and our Program and Outreach Assistant Leah Parker who did much of the number crunching. It’s really a comprehensive, and quite unique way to rate all the hybrid vehicles on the market today, so let’s get to it! Enjoy the ride,  Scott Nathanson UCS National Field Organizer & HybridCenter.org Administrator 7:40 Satudrday
|  Fisker raises enough capital to tap into government loans; Ford Fusion Hybrid wins North American car of the year; GM to launch Volt ahead of schedule. Click here.  Make sure consumers around the country know the real score on today's hybrids. Click here to spread the word.  Do you know people who want to help get cleaner, more efficient cars, trucks, and SUVs on our roads? Forward this message to them and ask them to sign up for the HybridCenter Driving Change Network. Click here. | |
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| The UCS Hybrid Scorecard!After months of hard work pouring over automakers’ web sites and vehicle data, I am delighted to share our new consumer resource with you: the UCS Hybrid Scorecard. Let me actually start by telling you what the Scorecard is not. Our Scorecard will not tell you that a Prius gets better gas mileage than a Chevy Tahoe Hybrid—that’s front-page news in "Duh Magazine." We believe that American drivers have many different vehicle needs—but all drivers should be getting the best that hybrid technology has to offer in any size and class. And that’s exactly what makes our scorecard so interesting: it actually measures how well each vehicle has incorporated hybrid technology, as compared to a similar conventional model, using three very helpful, and we feel unique, metrics: Environmental Score, Hybrid Value, and Forced Features. More... Like the Scorecard? Help Spread the WordIf you’ve taken a test drive of the Hybrid Scorecard and you like what you’ve seen, I really hope that you as a DCN member will help us let other people know about this new resource. DCN members have been so good about responding to our calls—be it for our petition campaign for a hybrid minivan or our need to get Letters to the Editor placed in local papers—I hope you’ll help us spread this new resource far and wide and help point consumers to the cleanest and most consumer-friendly hybrid choices. More... Scorecard Hints from the Detroit Auto Show’s "Electric Avenue"So with the Hybrid Scorecard we’ve given consumers what I think is an extremely valuable new tool for looking at today’s hybrids. But what about the ones coming down the pike? Well, without detailed information on pricing and emissions, we can’t make any solid predictions. But some of the news from the 2010 Detroit Auto Show—especially from its much ballyhooed "Electric Avenue" corridor of hybrid and other advanced tech models—indicates that we can shine a scorecard-colored light on what may be coming ‘round the bend. This month I share are a couple of highlights. More... Who's Got Hybrids?We’ve got some excellent additions to our growing community of hybrid drivers! More... If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the Union of Concerned Scientists' HybridCenter Driving Change Network. If you have general questions, comments or concerns about this newsletter, send email to hybridcenter@ucsusa.org. | ||
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Friday, January 29, 2010
Scott Nathanson talks to us about hybrid Vehicles - they're not all the same 7:40 Saturday morning 590KZO
