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When fueling stations shut down for your natural-gas car: one reader's experience

When fueling stations shut down for your natural-gas car: one reader's experience

Greencarreports said:

Let's say you buy the greenest car you can, one that uses a different kind of fuel, and drive it happily for several years.

What happens when the supply of your fuel suddenly ends, and you can no longer fill up your car?

That's just what happened to Duncan Chalmers of Seattle, who can no longer conveniently get natural gas to fill up his 2008 Honda Civic GX.

Chalmers first wrote us in October, when he learned the last two public natural-gas fueling stations would close at the end of the month. A third had already closed in June.
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Why do I have the feeling that this is going to be the fate that hydrogen fuel cells will face? I doubt taxpayers will keep propping it up indefinitely with such low volume when said public money would be...

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Tideland Prius

Toyota Prius Prime Sales Exceed Best Sales Year Ever in Only a Few Months

Totally clickbait title . When your sales numbers are small (Remember our population is about the same as the State of California), it looks unimpressive. But relatively, it's a good year for Prime.

With just six months on the market - in only one province – public response to the Prius Prime plug-in hybrid has confirmed strong early reviews by automotive journalists, outperforming its previous generation’s best sales year ever by over 300%.

Initially offered exclusively to plug-in hybrid-hungry Quebec consumers, Toyota Canada Inc. (TCI) has sold 649 Prius Prime plug-in hybrids since its launch in June. In the first two months alone, TCI sold more Prius Prime units than it did in the first full year of its previous generation.
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They don't break out the Prime sales in the PDF... weird.

Also, "Will the RAV4 beat the Corolla in sales by the end of the year?" The Corolla has been the best selling Toyota vehicle for years now. Right now, the RAV4 is leading by 2...

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