Web Search powered by YAHOO! SEARCH
share
email
font size
options
 
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Nutter goes hybrid with his new ride

Mayor Nutter has a new ride. And it's friendly to the environment.

Nutter is now being chauffeured around in a Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid. He got the brand new hybrid SUV last Thursday.

Nutter said he heard about this vehicle last fall and contacted Chevrolet. He said he wanted to drive a hybrid -- which use more than one fuel source and save on gasoline -- to set an example.

"I think increasingly in government we're going to have to provide that kind of leadership," Nutter said.

Nutter said that his mayoral campaign committee paid for the car and donated it to the city. According to Chevrolet's website, the Tahoe Hybrid starts at $50,490.

"I wanted to purchase a vehicle, donate it to the city," said Nutter, who never took a city car during his years as a councilman. 

The car got its first test on Friday, after the overnight snowstorm. Nutter had to drop daughter Olivia off at Masterman, where she is a 7th-grader, before coming to work. They made it in just fine.

 

Posted by Catherine Lucey @ 12:11 PM  Permalink | 11 comments
Comments   
Comment removed.
Posted 01:31 PM, 02/27/2008
Fitzy31
The man needs some room for him and his departmental staff. Kudos to Mayor Nutter!!! Too bad it took so long for Philly to get someone this good in office.
Posted 01:37 PM, 02/27/2008
SMOOTH
way to go michael. i know you need a large car for multiple passengers and it's made in america!
Posted 01:55 PM, 02/27/2008
G
A $50,000 hybrid? America just doesn't get it. A 20 mile a gallon Tahoe doesn't do anything for the environment.
Posted 02:10 PM, 02/27/2008
Nzenaozo
Not green enough. I understand its an SUV but a 23mpg city? Thats horrendous......a hybrid SUV is supposed to give you an average of 35mpg city. I think GM and Ford needs to rethink their hybrid ideas and work on it, if they want to beat the foreign car companies.
Posted 02:11 PM, 02/27/2008
mikejgrant
Yeah. GM's version of a hybrid is an engine that pollutes using OTHER fuels. I hope american car companies plunder, they dont get it. A TRUE hybrid uses electric and combustion engines.
Posted 02:14 PM, 02/27/2008
Nzenaozo
Oh by GM and Ford I mean the major American car manufacturers......I know GM makes Chevy.
Posted 03:04 PM, 02/27/2008
mikejgrant
Lexus makes the RX400H hybrid luxury suv, Ford makes the the Escape Hybrid suv. Gm still makes ancient pushrod engines in their suv's.
Posted 03:23 PM, 02/27/2008
tinar
At least he isn't driving a Prius that is manufactured overseas and costs as much environmentally to ship to the US as it does to drive and non-hybrid vehicle manufactured in the US.
Posted 03:28 PM, 02/27/2008
wildebill
Nutjob how about a smaller hybrid? Try us made Toyota Highlanded, if you had to have an SUV. It will get 20 rather than 8 mpg. Same old stupid mayor.
Posted 04:16 PM, 02/27/2008
Truth
Nutter first you sell out the voters by endorsing Hillary. Keep in mind "MIKE" the same voters that voted you in as the "change" cadidate are now supporting Obama nationally. Don't think it will be forgotten how you turned your back on us and forgot your roots so effortlessly and quickly. Back to my inital point first you sold out your voters now you sell out your Greenness. Come "MIKE" a 50k SUV Hybrid give me a break. SELL OUT
11 comments
About Chris Brennan and Catherine Lucey
PhillyClout
Chris Brennan, a native Philadelphian and graduate of Temple University, joined the Daily News in 1999. He has written about SEPTA, the Philadelphia School District, the legalization of casino gambling, state government, the mayor, the governor, City Council and political campaigns.

Catherine Lucey joined the Daily News in 2002. Since then she has written about murderous drug gangs, political protesters and Harry Potter. For the past two years, she covered the 2007 mayoral election. Now that the battle is over, she has moved down to the City Hall bureau where she will report on the Nutter administration.

Share your tips

Catherine Lucey
luceyc@phillynews.com 		Chris Brennan
brennac@phillynews.com
Advertise Here