Recent Hybrid Automobiles News
Honda CR-Z: Honda's best selling hybrid
Posted from Hybrid Cars 2 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Mainstream Hybrids
8000 already orderedIn just 17 days 8,000 Honda CR-Z hybrids have been ordered in Japan. Overall, Honda had hoped to sell 12,000 CR-Z hybrids this year in Japan.While this sale's pace is probably not sustainable, it does demonstrate there is consumer interest in sporty hybrids, and that will probabl... (original story)
Lithium-powered Honda hybrids on the way
Posted from Hybrid Cars 2 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Mainstream Hybrids
Can lithium challenge the Prius?In February, Toyota sold more than 27,000 Prius hybrids worldwide. Honda sold 3,517 Insight hybrids.To help shrink this gap in sales, Honda plans to begin using lithium-ion batteries in its hybrid cars within 2 or 3 years, according to Bloomberg, and the Civic hybrid ... (original story)
Toyota Prius unintended acceleration charges in Japan
Posted from Hybrid Cars 2 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Mainstream Hybrids
Police to charge driverFollowing an investigation of a Toyota Prius crash in Japan, police are now seeking to charge the driver of the Prius.Originally, the driver claimed that the Prius brakes didn't respond, but the data retrieved from an investigation into the crash demonstrated that the brakes w... (original story)
Fast charger comes to Voltageville: A Glimpse at the Future
Posted from Plugs and Cars 2 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Plug-in Hybrids
In 2001 I began driving an electric car, obtaining the last of the ZEV mandate-required EVs. As I got turned on to the benefits and technological readiness of electric cars, the writing was on the wall and EVs began to disappear from California's roads. I got enthused just as the automakers, CARB,... (original story)
JD Power: Prius most dependable compact
Posted from Hybrid Cars 3 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Mainstream Hybrids
Tops according to JD Power and Consumer ReportsHere we go again. Numerous lawyers around the country have called Toyota vehicles unsafe and unreliable. Yet, again, however, real world data doesn't match these assertions.Not long ago, despite the recalls, Consumer Reports data again showed that Toyot... (original story)
Runaway NY Prius probably due to driver error
Posted from Hybrid Cars 3 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Mainstream Hybrids
A favorite for bad drivers?Just caught Phil Lebeau on CNBC reporting that the NY case of a runway Toyota Prius, according to data captured and reviewed by Toyota and the NHTSA, appears to have been a case of driver error. (original story)
2012: A key year in the lithium wars
Posted from Hybrid Cars 4 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Mainstream Hybrids
Ready for conversionBy as early as 2014, according to recent analysis, the winners of the automotive battery industry might have already won and revenues will rule.Within the next few years a number of lithium-powered hybrids, plug-in hybrids and EVs will hit the road. Initially, most will be low-vo... (original story)
Surviving unintended acceleration is easy
Posted from Hybrid Cars 5 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Mainstream Hybrids
Neutral, neutral, neutralKudos to Edmunds for putting out a number of stories focused on the real unintended acceleration story, survival.Yes, I know, many of these unintended acceleration stories are probably nonsense, such as the latest runaway Prius story, and that might also be a piece of the 'r... (original story)
Toyotagate: Hybrid cars not yet a casuality
Posted from Hybrid Cars 5 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Mainstream Hybrids
Still the world's most important vehicleDespite owning Toyota vehicles, I'm no huge Toyota fan. I love their hybrid cars, but I hate their dealerships. Of course, since I have a hybrid bias, Toyota is my favorite automaker, despite their crappy dealerships.Take Toyota out of the hybrid game, and the... (original story)
Obama - Just as much about big oil as Bush
Posted from Hybrid Cars 6 days ago
Hybrid Automobiles : Mainstream Hybrids
Just code for petroleum?Watched the overly dramatized, although very fascinating, Food Inc. last night, and I was left with two over-whelming thoughts: 1.) Is health care reform a joke when high fructose corn syrup is subsidized by the government, and 2.) Isn't ethanol simply code for big oil?In the... (original story)
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