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[The Truth About Cars] Toyota To Stretch Prius Brand | The Truth About Cars: SUV: RAV4 (the hybrid Highlander is God-awful expensive). As electric cars become more feasible, they could start marketing them under this brand as well.

[Autoblog] REPORT: Toyota to use Prius badge on all hybrids? ”” Autoblog: Stewart claims that Toyota is looking to slap the Prius name on a family of hybrid models in the future, and he told AW that the plan would work because, "If somebody says 'I drive a Prius,' everybody knows what he means." Stewart adds that while the Prius name could make its way onto the rear of several vehicles, it won't become its own sub-brand like Scion. Toyota COO Jim Lentz has reportedly been pushing for a multi-vehicle Prius lineup for over a year, but AW reports that the Vegas meeting was the first time the plans were discussed in front of Toyota Motor Sales president Yoshi Inaba and Toyota CEO Akio Toyoda.

[The Truth About Cars] What Do the Chevrolet Tahoe Hybrid, Toyota Camry Hybrid and ...: Since Argonne National Laboratories says it takes 38,000 BTUs to make one pound of hybrid, compared to 32,000 BTUs to make one pound of conventional vehicle, then all three of these Eco-Friendly Hybrids actually consume more energy to get to market than they will every recover through their Hybrid system?

[cars] BYD Likes The Car Thing, Wants To Unseat Toyota, The Truth About ...: BYD sold just 400k units hold gone year, bordering on all of them in China. In actuality, honest a supervenient years ago BYD wasn’t an automaker at all, but a battery supplier to laptop and delay phone companies.

[The Truth About Cars] Ask The Best And Brightest: Would A Fit Hybrid Rescue Honda's ...: GM labeled them as Hybrids which put them in comparison to real parallel hybrids (then made them a laughing stock as this was their half assed attempt to make a hybrid). From an efficiency standpoint, I did like the easy and relatively cheap idea of increasing any car’s city mpg was to install systems that could function off batter power when at a stop light without the need for the engine to run.

[Just Politics..? Daily Feed] Just Politics..? » Hybrid Cars and Liberal Hypocrisy: And without a government credit for buying a hybrid, the cost is just prohibitive. Think about what you can do with that 7-8 grand (pay off credit cards, invest it, 401k, etc) instead of dishing it out on a feel good vehicle that probably won’t pay for itself in the long run.

[The CarGurus Blog] Toyota Prius: King of Green or Earth Killer? | The CarGurus Blog: Are hybrid cars like the Prius ”green,” even though they deplete Earth's rare metals? Do you even care?

[Winsorkyle1987's Blog] Hybrid Cars In Contrast With Gas Cars: For example, hybrid line of cars by Honda and Toyota, Insight and Prius correspondingly just take a few seconds to start and go on. There are undependable websites on the internet, such as Priuschat.com where it can be seen that these hybrid vehicles do not face any kind of problem in the course of upholding of current freeway speeds, that go up to about 85 miles per hour.

Master Auto Tech Blog: The battery pack provides the longer-term energy storage as used in Toyota’s current Hybrid Synergy Drive vehicles, while the capacitors allow split-second discharge of large amounts of energy, perfect for delivering “explosive power.” The trick is managing and integrating the various power flows-engine, battery, capacitors-so it feels seamless to the driver.

[Car Advice | News Blog] Honda Civic Hybrid Review & Road Test : Car Advice | News Blog: Honda recalls 17000 Civics Honda Australian today recalled 17164 2006 and 2007 Civics for a potential stop lamp (brake light) switch failure.

[The Car Show] The Car Show » Blog Archive » 2010 Toyota Pruis Review: After driving several Hybrids the last few years I've come to have an appreciation for the good ones. I especially enjoyed the GMC Sierra Hybrid.

[Autoblog Green] What is "The Truth About Toyota"? ”” Autoblog Green: Toyota received the number two spot from the Union of Concerned Scientists for greenest car company.This while producing full sized trucks which number one (Honda)does not.Toyota is obviously producing alot of efficient vehicles as they have for many decades,long before it was in vogue.If they do not fight,the next round of regulations may be too tough.On the tax front,I tout feebates that do not add to the governments bottom line.These will help the lower and middle class get out from under their gas guzzlers.Some studies conclude that the manufacturers could actually make more profit with a feebate system than without.

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