Volkswagen Passat clean diesel fuel Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:38:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Lies Over Volkswagen Diesel Car Pollution May Put Execs in Prison https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volkswagen-diesel-car-pollution/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volkswagen-diesel-car-pollution/#respond Mon, 21 Sep 2015 18:01:20 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=56719 Volkswagen executives may end up in prison, as the company has admitted that they lied about the pollutants emitted by their diesel car to make it seem more environmentally-friendly. Diesel cars are becoming popular in the US, since they get much better gas mileage, and more than a quarter of the car maker’s sales in […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volkswagen-diesel-car-pollution/feed/ 0 56719 Couple Drives 1626.1 Miles in Diesel-Powered 2012 VW Passat https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volkswagen-passat-efficient-vehicle-20120515/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/volkswagen-passat-efficient-vehicle-20120515/#respond Tue, 15 May 2012 14:55:28 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=24492 Remember when you used to say clean vehicles couldn’t take you very far? John and Helen Taylor prove you wrong: after 90 fuel economy and vehicle-related records around the world, they have decided to go for one more. What came out of that is a new record for the longest distance covered on one tank […]

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