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2019 Prius offered with new electric all-wheel drive system

Green Car Congress

Toyota is offering a new electric all-wheel drive system (AWD-e) on the facelifted 2019 Prius. The Prius AWD-e uses an independent electric, magnet-less rear motor (a Toyota first) to power the rear wheels from 0 to 6 mph, then when needed, up to 43 mph. The Prius AWD-e models offer the same 65.5

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Toyota’s top-selling US hybrid isn’t the Prius

Green Car Reports

over the past year wasn’t part of the Prius family—or, technically, a passenger car. In 2019, the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid wins that crown. According to Toyota’s 2019 year-end sales summary, released Friday, Toyota sold 92,525 RAV4 Hybrid SUVs to U.S. buyers in 2019, versus just 69,718.

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Prius plug-ins surge, 2019 Jaguar I-Pace, electric-car sales, is climate doomed? Today's Car News

Green Car Reports

Today, we've got Priuses with plugs, more electric-car sales, some grim thoughts on renewable energy and climate change, and the production debut of the stunning 2019 Jaguar I-Pace electric SUV. All this and more on Green Car Reports. First, our apologies for being late with this update and light on stories today.

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2019 Toyota RAV4 Hybrid first drive review: all the bits and pieces in place

Green Car Reports

The 2019 RAV4 Hybrid is Toyota’s way of flexing its corporate might. It’s as if the automaker called on each of its departments to create the new hybrid crossover SUV. And the Prius. The folks from design coughed up some 4Runner and Tacoma cues to give it a butch look.

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2019 Toyota Prius V to shift from wagon to SUV design, but will it have AWD?

Green Car Reports

Whether smaller crossovers or bigger SUVs, utilities have not only ended the market for traditional wagons but are eating significantly into sales of passenger sedans and hatchbacks. With gas prices remaining cheap and all vehicles getting better fuel economy these days, utility vehicles are all the rage among U.S. All of which means the.

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2022 Los Angeles Auto Show Review

Clean Fleet Report

Not all were, of course, as there is still plenty of interest around gasoline-propelled cars, SUVs and trucks. Fiat stopped selling the Cinquecento, or 500e, in the United States (in reality California and Oregon only) in 2019. It’s another solid entry in the luxury compact SUV field. Toyota BZ Compact SUV Concept EV. “BZ”

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SETEC POWER Emergency Mobile EV Charging System Unveiled in Bali

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Meanwhile, the Lexus UX 300e is an electrified vehicle with premium Battery EV technology, a subcompact SUV type that was first marketed in 2020. Toyota-Astra Motor claims to be the first automotive APM to present electrified vehicles in Indonesia by bringing in the Toyota Prius Hybrid in 2009 and the Lexus LS600h in 2010.