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Even if this 1971 Ford F-250 for sale on Hemmings.com weren’t an absolute peach of a pickup with 5,400 miles on the odometer and an unusual combination of four-wheel-drive, stepside bed, and three-quarter-ton running gear, it would still be worth highlighting as a find of the day for its numerous and excellent photos and lengthy … .
Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Ford, Washington DC Auto ShowFor the second year in a row, Ford drove off with the Green Car Journal Green Car Vision award at the Washington Auto Show, this time with the C-MAX Energi plug-in hybrid-electric vehicle. In 2011, Green Car Journal (GCJ) editor Ron Cogan handed the award to Ford’s Sue Cischke for the Focus Electric. This year, the retiring Cischke was on hand once more to accept the award (look at this picture compared to the one above. It’s déjà vu all over again), a fine cap on a long and ambitious career.GCJ’s decision will likely not sit well with our readers, who overwhelmingly picked the Tesla Model S to win this year. Our unscientific poll had the Model S winning with 83.6 percent of the vote, followed by the BMW i3, (6.5 percent), the Cadillac ELR (5 percent), C-MAX (2.9 percent) with the Mercedes-Benz B-Class F-Cell picking just 1.9 percent to take up the bottomw spot out of the five nominees.Each year, GCJ’s Green Car Vision award goes to a “green vehicle” that is not yet available on the market, but does show a possible way forward to increase fuel efficiency, reduce CO2 emissions or in some other way have a lower environment impact. The 2010 Green Car Vision award was won by the Nissan Leaf and the Chevrolet Volt won in 2009. Speaking at the press conference today, Cogan said the C-Max can meet the utility requirements of a wide variety of drivers because the interior space and powertrain are both versatile.Ford C-Max Energi wins 2012 Green Car Vision Award originally appeared on AutoblogGreen on Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:20:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.Permalink | Email this | Comments.

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