Tag: Hybrid Cars - Page 8
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Chevrolet Canada is Now Taking Orders for the Volt Plug-In Hybrid (Price: C$41,545)
Photo: Wikipedia, Public domain Deliveries Scheduled for Q3 of 2011 Canadians in 7 markets (Vancouver, Victoria, Toronto, Oshawa, Ottawa-Gatineau, Montreal, and Quebec City) are now able to order a Chevy Volt plug-in hybrid for a pre-incentive MSRP
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Riding the World's First Hybrid Car: 1900 Porsche Semper Vivus
Quick: name the first functional hybrid car ever built. Okay, sure, it's Porsche's Semper Vivus. But if you hadn't already read the headline to this post, you might have said the Prius. Yet the Semper Vivus beat the Toyota
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Ask Pablo: The Argument For Hybrid Taxi Cabs
Image Source: Mike Lee Dear Pablo: We're a San Francisco-based cab company and we use hybrids exclusively. In trying to decide between buying Toyota Prius or Ford Fusion cars, some of our company members want the comfort and luxury of the Fusion over
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Toyota Reaches 1,000,000 Prius Hybrid Sales in U.S.
Photo: Michael Graham Richard2 Million Prius Hybrids Sold Around the WorldBack in 2008, Toyota announced that it had reached 1 million worldwide sales of its Prius hybrid. Then in 2010 it reached 2 million sales around the world, and now Toyota is
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Toyota Introduces the Yaris HSD Hybrid Concept
Photo: Toyota A Smaller, More Affordable Hybrid Car Toyota's Hybrid Synergy Drive (HSD) technology, which at first was only available in the Prius hybrid, keeps making its way into more and more models. In Detroit the Prius family grew to include the
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Saab Unveils the Sexy 47 MPG PhoeniX AWD Hybrid
Photo: Saab Sexy Concept Car, But Disappointing in Other Areas Saab has introduced the PhoeniX AWD hybrid concept car in Geneva, saying that its architecture is the same as the one the next Saab 9-3 model will use. The all-wheel-drive hybrid features
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Retired Texaco Oil Executive Buys a Chevy Volt
Photo: Youtube capture They say that age brings wisdom... James Brazell, now 84 years old, spent 40 years working for Texaco before retiring. But Mr Brazell knows which way the wind is blowing: In 2008, he put a $1,000 deposit on a Chevy Volt plug-in
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Driving Hacks to Save the Planet (and Wallet)
In an ideal world, everyone would be able to ditch their cars, burn some extra calories, and
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Ford GT May be Coming Back . . . As a Hybrid
Remember the Ford GT? The legendary sportscar had a brief, two-year run starting in 2005 -- while it turned a whole lot of heads and spared few expenses (its MSRP was $150K, and the first few sold for well
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Obama's Goal of 1 Million Plug-ins by 2015 Probably Won't be Reached
Photo: Michael Graham Richard But Aiming High Was the Right Thing to Do Obama has set a goal for the U.S. of having 1 million plug-in cars (that can include plug-in hybrids and fully electric cars) on the roads of the country by 2015, a target that was
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Pulitzer-Winning Journalist Gene Weingarten Test Drives the Chevy Volt
Tired of seeing similar reviews of the Chevrolet Volt? Here's one for you by Gene Weingarten, a man who's definitely not a automotive journalist and who probably couldn't write a typical review even if he tried to. Some of you might remember Mr.
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Prius Brand Now More "Friendly" Than "Cutting Edge"
Photo: Toyota Which Could Mean Lower Prius Prices in Japan and Elsewhere What is today "cutting edge" will tomorrow be something else. That's the way technological progress works, and that's what Toyota has found is happening with its Prius brand in
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Zipcar Gets 8 Plug-In Prius Hybrids From Toyota for Real-World Testing
Photo: Zipcar Making Car-Sharing Even Greener Toyota's plug-in version of the Prius hybrid won't come out before 2012, but thanks to a deal with car-sharing company Zipcar, some lucky Zipcar members in Boston/Cambridge, San Francisco and Portland,
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GM Could Double Chevy Volt PHEV Production to 120,000 in 2012
Photo: GM Doubling Down According to "people familiar with the matter" cited by Bloomberg, GM CEO Dan Akerson is planning to increase the Chevrolet Volt's production target to 120,000 in 2012, or twice the original number. This is good news since one of
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Does 261 MPG Sound Good to You? VW is Introducing the XL1 Prototype in Qatar
Photo: VW 1-Liter Car V.3 Volkswagen's 1-Liter Car started out as a slippery 660 pounds diesel, evolved into a more futuristic-looking 840 pounds diesel-hybrid, and is now - in its third generation - a plug-in diesel hybrid that looks a lot like the
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Mitsubishi Getting Serious About Electrification, Will Launch 8 New Models in Next 5 Years
Image: MMC Transitioning Away from the Internal Combustion Engine Mitsubishi, the maker of the lovely electric Jellybean (aka the i-MiEV electric car), has plans to introduce 8 hybrid (HEV), plug-in hybrid (PHEV), and battery-powered (BEV) models by
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Toyota is Working on Electric Motors that Don't Require Chinese Rare Earths
Photo: Michael Graham Richard Necessity is the Mother of Invention Rare earth metals, which aren't that rare, are used to make the electric motors in hybrid and electric cars, among other things. As recently mentioned, China is big far the world's
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GM to Put Volt Drivetrain In Minivan "In the Next Few Years"
Photo: GM Green Families Take Note Are minivans/MPVs the next big thing in the world of hybrids and electric vehicles? Based on the 2011 Detroit Auto Show, it would certainly seem so: Toyota unveiled a new bigger Prius, Ford has the C-Max Energi plug-in
