Flashes: January 22, 2014...Cool Car Edition

Courtesy General Motors

Cadillac ELR increases net fuel efficiency to 83 mpg from 26 mpg of ATS.  If all ATS purchasers switched to ELR, savings of 265 million gallons of gas over the lifetime of one year's worth of sales*.

Courtesy of Toyota 

Toyota fuel cell maintains net fuel efficiency of 28 mpg for Camry.  If all Camry purchasers switched to fuel cell, equivalent to saving 1,715 million gallons of gas over the lifetime of one year's worth of sales*. (In terms of emissions reduced by using hydrogen from natural gas instead of gasoline.)

Courtesy of Ford Motor Co.

Ford C-Max Energi with solar charging (through Fresnel canopy) increases net fuel efficiency to 124 mpg from 28 mpg of Fusion.  If all Fusion purchasers switched to C-Max Energi, savings of 1,660 million gallons of gas over the lifetime of one year's worth of sales*.

The new F-150 increases net fuel efficiency to 21 mpg from 18 mpg of current model.  For projected F-150 sales in 2014, savings of 1,190 million gallons of gas over the lifetime of one year's worth of sales*.

The first three are hopeful projections....the last one is reality.

*Cadillac sells about 50,000 ATS (and ATS-similar) per year, Toyota sells about 400,000 Camrys per year, Ford sells about 300,000 Fusions and 750,000 F-150 per year.  The savings takes the 200,000 mile lifetime of the vehicle, multiplied by the total sales, then computes the total gallons at the old and new MPG.