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2023 Toyota Prius Limited Review – Finally a Worthy Choice

The Truth About Cars

The Toyota Prius was once reviled by most enthusiasts and often the butt of jokes, even in pop culture. Prius drivers were stereotyped as left-lane camping, NPR-listening, Green Party-voting smug virtue-signalers. But it was based in one truth – the Prius might save you a lot of gas but man it was no fun to drive.

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Toyota teases all-wheel-drive Prius for LA auto show debut

Green Car Reports

Toyota has teased what is probably an all-wheel-drive Prius, slated for introduction at the Los Angeles auto show late this month. In studying the picture the company teased, with a Prius churning through the snow, it’s hard to come to another conclusion.

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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. Toyota projects fuel economy of 52 mpg city / 48 mpg highway / 50 mpg combined for the AWD-e model, and estimates that the AWD-e model—which is debuting at the LA Auto Show—could account for as much as 25% of annual US Prius sales.

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Toyota launches all-new Aqua (Prius C) hybrid in Japan; bipolar nickel-hydrogen battery

Green Car Congress

The first-generation Aqua—sold as the Prius C in the US—came to life at the Iwate Plant of Toyota Motor East Japan, Inc. then, Kanto Auto Works, Ltd.) million units of the Aqua have been sold (including Prius C), contributing to an overall reduction in CO 2 of approximately 12.4 Since its launch, more than 1.87

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Will Toyota Prius Prime gain EV route planning smarts?

Baua Electric

2024 Toyota C-HR plug-in hybrid (European-spec) Predictive Efficient Drive is a system that Toyota also touts for the Prius Prime. But as Green Car Reports found out in follow-ups with Toyota in the U.S., the Prius Prime’s version of this system is a bit different. market Prius Prime.

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Review: 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid achieves Prius-like fuel economy

Baua Electric

While the latest Prius is rather attractive, the 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid hits the 50-mpg mark in a discreet package that doesn’t scream, “I have a hybrid.” Here’s what you need to know after Green Car Reports spent a morning driving a 2025 Honda Civic Hybrid prototype around Montreal. Every Civic gets a 7.0-inch

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2025 Camry hybrid review, Highlander EV, Prius recall: Today’s Car News

Baua Electric

Prius owners need to keep those doors locked. It’s a variety pack of Toyota news today, here at Green Car Reports. The 2023-2025 Toyota Prius is being recalled for an issue that might cause waterlogged electronic rear door latches to suddenly short-circuit and open. And is the U.S.-made