How does a car consumer website rank the greenest cities in the country? In Cars.com’s case, we measure the interest each locality expresses in hybrid vehicles. We built the list by evaluating the number of searches for hybrid vehicles as a percentage of overall car searches in each market.
The rankings aren’t very surprising. Hewing to stereotypes, the West Coast and Pacific Northwest had the greatest interest in hybrid vehicles, while the Deep South hardly expressed any interest in driving hybrids.
Also, college towns tend to rank high on the list of cities with an interest in greener cars. The Universities of Virginia, Florida and Wisconsin seem to have raised the interest in hybrid vehicles in their respective homes of Charlottesville, Va.; Gainsville, Fla.; and Madison, Wis., putting those cities toward the top of the list.
Read after the jump to find out the 10 cities most interested in hybrids and the 10 cities that couldn’t care less.
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