Green Car Of The Year - 2007
News from the hybrid auto world today: the Tahoe Hybrid SUV has won the Green Car of The Year award. This award is presented by the Green Car Journal, a California-based trade magazine
An eight-passenger sport utility vehicle, the Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid from General Motors Corp, won the “Green Car of the Year” award at the Los Angeles Auto Show on Thursday.
An SUV wins the award for Green Car? According to GM,
The Tahoe Hybrid gets 21 miles per gallon in the city, the same as a Toyota Camry sedan, and 22 mpg on the highway.. This allegedly represents a fuel efficiency improvement of up to 30 percent. 21/22 is about half of what the Toyota Prius achieves.
The Tahoe Hybrid will be the first full-size hybrid SUV on the market when it goes on sale in early 2008. It is also the first model from GM that uses a hybrid system developed jointly with BMW AG, Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz, and Chrysler.
There is an element of surprise to GM winning this award: GM has come under intense criticism, particularly in California, for its decision to scrap the all-electric EV1, a controversy documented in the film “Who Killed the Electric Car?”
GM had two other cars among the five finalist models in the competition: the Saturn Aura Hybrid and the Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid.
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