Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
People might be bored reading about the Prius but a review on four Priuses (2004, 2005, two 2006s) that my family owns that ran a total of 913k km (570k miles) should be interesting, right? We need to go back to November 2017, to the start of the ‘Prius Revolution’ in the family. This criteria only left the Prius in play.
The Truth About Cars
MARCH 18, 2024
Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. gallon gas in order to recoup its cost over the pure-gazzoline version.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
As a technology comparison, the 2006-2012 RAV4 offered an optional 269-hp, 3.5-liter seconds—a half-second slower than the RAV4 Prime—and a 21 combined MPG fuel economy rating. The Toyota RAV4 Prime will come to market in summer 2020. liter gas V6 engine that reached 0-60 mph in 6.3-seconds—a
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 8, 2012
The new transaxle in the Prius c features a new cooling system; overall this new hybrid unit with its 2 motor system is now approaching the same weight as single motor competitive systems and is maintaining a competitive size profile, according to Toyota. The Prius Family will have a big hand in defining Toyota’s future.
Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven
JANUARY 28, 2009
In the Toyota Prius companies like EDrive and Hybrids-Plus have simply developed their own replacement for the OEM battery management subsystems and replaced the battery pack. Due to its limitations, the PRIUS+ is more complex to describe, as, in mixed city and highway driving it is only 50:50 electric/gasoline. In English-system (vs.
Plug In Partners
JULY 7, 2006
The Road to Independence Sunday, July 2, 2006 PATRICK MAZZA AND RICH FELDMAN Guest Columnist An economic earthquake is poised to shake the globe. A Prius converted by the CalCars group gets more than 100 mpg of petroleum. H ere is a guest editorial from a plug in partner city that appeared in the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
Plug In Partners
JANUARY 26, 2006
FIALKA Staff Reporter THE WALL STREET JOURNAL January 25, 2006 DAVIS, Calif. -- In the 1950s, an aspiring Pasadena hot-rodder named Andrew Frank shocked the competition by powering his 1936 Ford with a Cadillac V-12 engine. "It s Prius; Americans bought 205,790 of them last year. It had gobs of torque," he recalls. In June, U.C.
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