Hybrid cars

QUESTION: I am interested in buying a hybrid car. I am looking at both the Honda Civic and Toyota Prius. I know you get to test drive new cars every week and I would like your opinion on which one is best. I hope you can give me an unbiased answer on my selection.  

It is called the new Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid. Simply put, there is not much difference in the standard hybrid Prius and the “new” plug-in. It is very closely aligned with the Chevy Volt. They are both ‘extended range' vehicles. I recently had a ...  

Toyota’s newest Prius model, the 2012 Prius c, is set to hit dealerships next month. The Prius c is now the smallest Prius model available and sits at the opposite end of the lineup from the “versatile” Prius v. The Prius c five-door hatchback is about the same size as the Toyota Yaris and is powered [...]  

But now that the Insight and the Prius are both four-door hatchbacks, both all-new this year, and both nearly as indistinguishable from each other as Mary Kate and Ashley, price suddenly matters. We recently learned that Honda stuck to its promise to offer ...  

Think about the ambition – and challenge – behind those words. This is the equation that the Prius C needs to solve. Toyota is confident that it's cracked the hybrid sales code: Offer more models ... you can tell the system how much it ...  

Filed under: EV/Plug-in, Hybrid, Chevrolet, Nissan The Chevrolet Volt extended-range plug-in costs more than the Nissan Leaf battery-electric vehicle up front, but it's less expensive to own during the first five years of driving. So said Kelley Blue Book in its first-ever Total Cost of Ownership study. A Volt will cost the driver $40,629 during the first five years of ownership, or almost $1,500 less than the $42,089 it will cost to own a...  

The latter number is 1 mpg shy of the ... its 16-kWh battery, the Volt offers nearly four times the energy storage of the Prius plug-in, and it can operate on electrons alone at all speeds and throttle positions. However, the Chevy weighs around 600 ...  

LOS ANGELES--February 10, 2012: Companies offering hybrid car rentals are being shown the way by MPG, a company so far ahead, their fleet of green cars and hybrids features new 2012 models even your greenest environmentally friendly acquaintance ...  

In the above video, David Owen visualizes the rebound effect. A reader pushes back against the notion: I don’t drive a Prius, but I do drive a Ford Fusion Hybrid, which I bought a little over a year ago.  One thing I have noticed about driving it is ...  

Toyota has released pricing on its new Prius C, which is the third hybrid model to join the Prius range in the States after the original liftback and the new minivan. The subcompact hatchback will arrive at Toyota dealerships in March 2012 with prices starting from $18,950, not including a $760* destination, processing and handling fee that puts the total to $19,710. Read more »Copyright © Carscoop.blogspot.com - All Rights Reserved  

Lithium ion batteries currently dominate the nascent market for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and battery electric vehicles (BEVs) and are slowly becoming selected for use in hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) and stop-start vehicles (SSVs).  

Soaring demand for the new Toyota Prius C in Japan may create a U.S. allocation dilemma. The pint-sized hybrid is scheduled to arrive in U.S. showrooms next month. Toyota Motor Corp. said last week that it had received 120,000 orders in Japan ...  

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LOS ANGELES (NBC) -- The owner of a Honda Civic Hybrid who sued the automaker over the vehicle's failure to meet its advertised 50 miles-per ... wrote in the judgment obtained by the Associated Press. After seeing that a proposed class-action lawsuit ...  

The owner of a Honda Civic Hybrid who sued the automaker over the vehicle's failure to meet its advertised 50 miles per gallon has won her lawsuit on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the Los Angeles Superior Court. Heather Peters was awarded $ ...