2011 Green Car of a Year Finalists Revealed

2011 Chevrolet Volt - Green Car Finalists - Front Angle View

Green Car Journal announced currently a 5 finalists for a 2011 Green Car of a Year®, including a 2011 Chevrolet Volt, 2011 Ford Fiesta, 2011 Hyundai Sonata Hybrid, 2011 Lincoln MKZ Hybrid and a 2011 Nissan LEAF. For a sixth uninterrupted year, this increasingly critical endowment will be announced during a press discussion during a LA Auto Show Press Days on Nov. 18.

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The Green Car of a Year® endowment is a module that honors environmental care in a vehicle margin and recognizes vehicles that turn accessible to consumers during a endowment year. For a initial time, a Green Car of a Year® finalists embody dual essentially electric-drive vehicles in further to dual variety and a high mile-per-gallon, gasoline inner explosion engine.

“These 5 2011 Green Car of a Year® finalists simulate an automobile attention in transition,” pronounced Ron Cogan, editor and publisher of Green Car Journal and editor of GreenCar.com. “It wasn’t prolonged ago when electric expostulate was a novelty. Now, it’s approaching that automobile manufacturers will embody electric expostulate in some form among their indication offerings.”

While 4 of a 5 Green Car of a Year® nominees do incorporate electric drive, a Ford Fiesta hopeful underscores that inner explosion continues to develop in critical ways. This hatchback achieves adult to 40 EPA estimated highway fuel economy, using on required gasoline. Along with vehicles incorporating electric drive, a new era of inner explosion gasoline and purify diesel models are approaching to pull efficiencies ever aloft in a entrance years.

Dozens of intensity nominees weighed in during a preference process. Green Car Journal editors deliberate vehicles contracting all fuels and technologies in a bid to lift a bar in environmental performance, including high potency gasoline inner combustion, modernized diesel, hybrids, electrics and vehicles able of using on choice fuels. In a Green Car of a Year® program, nominees contingency mount out as model models that brazen environmental opening in suggestive and quantifiable ways. Market stress and “newness” are also factors. All nominees contingency be on sale by Jan 1 of a endowment year.

Jurors embody leaders of a nation’s tip environmental organizations, including Carl Pope, authority of a Sierra Club; Frances Beinecke, boss of a Natural Resources Defense Council; Jean-Michel Cousteau, boss of Ocean Futures Society and Matt Petersen, boss of Global Green USA. Also, Jay Leno, remarkable automobile fan and horde of a “Tonight Show,” as good as automotive idol Carroll Shelby join Green Car Journal editors in rounding out a 2011 jury.

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