Tag: Prius - Page 3
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Pop Quiz: A Weighty Trip
Assuming his Prius gets 50 miles per gallon on the trip, and the distance between LA and New York is 3,000 miles, he would
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Write Your Own Eulogy, Says Father of LEED David Gottfried to a Crowd in Las Vegas
David Gottfried's resume overwhelms us. He's the founder of the U.S. Green Building Council and the World Green Building Council, president of WorldBuild, a green strategic consulting firm, and author of "Greed to Green: The Transformation of an Industry
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Treehugger Buys an SUV - Hell freezes, Arctic Melts?
[Editor's note: It probably comes as no surprise that this has been a hugely controversial post here among the TreeHugger community--both internally among the TH staff and with our readers and commenters. While we don't love the fact that there is yet
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Weird Unofficial Toyota Ads: "Well, at least he drives a Prius"
Tired of the same old ads that try to convince you that you are saving the Earth by driving a hybrid (newsflash: You're not. It's just less bad than most other cars available right now, and that's important, but lets keep things in perspective)? Well,
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OEMtek Turns Hybrids into Plug-in Hybrids
OEMtek can turn your Prius hybrid into a plug-in hybrid. Concretely, this means adding a battery pack in the spare tire trunk of the car (without removing it) to extend the battery capacity* of the vehicle. The 9 kWh BREEZ battery can be recharged from
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Should You Pay More for the 'Privilege' of Driving a Gas-Guzzler?
A new bill under consideration by California's State Legislature would require citizens to pony up for the right to drive one of innumerable gas-guzzling vehicles helping to clog up the state's airways. As
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For GM, The Cars Are Greener on the Other Side
GM's current offering of vehicles in the U.S. is decidedly unremarkable in the realm of fuel economy. However, if their lineup of prototype and limited production vehicles is any indication of things to come, GM seems to be catching up with what
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Chang'an Automobile Rolls Out its First Hybrid Jie Xun
Following six years of intensive research and development, Chang'an Automobile, the Chinese state-owned automaker, has started mass production of its mild-hybrid Jie Xun mini wagon - the first such vehicle by a Chinese car company. Estimated to consume
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Prius Limo: Green Luxury or Frankencar?
This thing better have a regenerative-braking powered mini-fridge. In what has to be one of the weirdest looking things to come out of Canada since our very own Lloyd (j/k Lloyd!), an enterprising Canuck has taken two Priuses, welded them together,
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Overcoming Prius' Green Edge
In the minds of many, Toyota's Prius has long been considered synonymous with hybrid cars. Praised as being ahead of its time and the darling of Hollywood and Silicon Valley types, the Prius quickly gained iconic status amongst the green set when it
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One Year Ago in TH: Prius Fever, eGo Cycle Reviewed, Naked Energy + More
One year ago at TreeHugger, we had a touch of Prius fever, as the 2007 Touring Edition was on its way and we learned about a way to get a free Prius (but be sure to read the fine print). We also had the chance to hop aboard the electric eGo Cycle 2 and
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Is Adrian Grenier playing Professor Higgins to Paris Hilton's Eco-Eliza?
We certainly hope so. These pals have about as much in common as Al Gore and Donald Trump, though lately they've been spotted spending a good deal of time together. The green celeb-blog Ecorazzi is tracking the pair's activities and has spotted
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Prius Security System Cracked
A talk given at the computer security conference, CRYPTO 2007, explained how the key-fob system installed on the Toyota Prius has been cracked. The KeeLoq auto anti-theft cipher is used in common devices made by Microchip Technology Inc, which are also
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Woz Caught Doing 104mph in Prius
First Al Gore III was caught doing over 100mph in his Prius, and now Apple co-founder, Steve Wozniak, has too. The hybrid fan, who has owned eight Prii since their launch, was pulled over for doing 104mph on the I-5 in California. I certainly wouldn’t
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Ikea Management to Get Hybrid Company Cars
Ikea has announced that all management staff in Spain who have company cars will be switched over to Toyota Prius' as soon as the current leasing period expires. The number of cars changing isn't huge, but is another small step for the increasingly
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Homer May be Yellow, but Groening is Green
Matt Groening, creator of the Simpsons, seems to be the latest in a string of celebrity Prius drivers. It came out in an interesting piece on him in the Times, which doesn't focus on green issues per se, but does mention the real motivation for picking
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TH Forums Highlights: End of the World?, Reel Mowers, Back to School and More
TreeHugger Forums are proving to be a very timely, diverse community that is fostering a bunch of discussions, from deep green questions about philosophy to new greenies getting in the act for the first time. Here are some of the recent
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Recycle a Prius
MAKE blog have a post about buying a wrecked Prius and taking the drive train to use in some other hacked creation. If you have a car lying around which you think would make a great hybrid, and a whole lot more mechanical expertise than I do, then this
