Green Car Reports
FEBRUARY 9, 2012
Buy a gasoline 2012 Toyota Highlander crossover in the U.S., Opt for the more fuel efficient 2012 Toyota Highlander Hybrid model, and your car will have been made a third of the way around the world in Japan. and the chances are it will have been made at Toyota’s Princetown factory in Indiana.
Plugs and Cars
FEBRUARY 7, 2007
AutoBlogGreen has the details on the '08 Highlander, and it includes an EV mode! Now you will be able to move the car across the street for street cleaning days without using gasoline. The 24 NiMH batteries in my Toyota RAV4 EV take the car 120 miles without gasoline. Would a Lithium-ion battery be better? Theoretically, yes.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 13, 2024
How soon is the revamped Tesla Model 3 Highland arriving in the U.S.? The rental-car giant Hertz has announced that it’s selling a third of its EV fleet —about 20,000 EVs, including some Teslas—to buy gasoline cars. How much money will EV ownership save versus ownership of a gasoline vehicle? Looking at 14 different U.S.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 20, 2024
Looking at the latest “Highland” Model 3, as priced last week, it undercuts the Tesla by $9,000. Two automakers this past week, both known for affordable gasoline cars, dashed hopes of seeing more affordable EVs anytime soon. Efficiency-focused Elantra Hybrid Blue models retain the 54-mpg combined EPA rating.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 28, 2013
The performance of this new generation of powertrains will reflect significant advances in battery, electric motor and gasoline engine technologies. The gasoline engine in the next-generation Prius powertrain feature thermal efficiency of greater than 40%; the thermal efficiency of the gasoline engine in the current Prius is 38.5%.
Clean Fleet Report
OCTOBER 25, 2022
Toyota’s hybrid system automatically switches between the electric drive mode, combined electric motor and gasoline engine and gasoline-only engine power. The improved performance of the Hybrid Max is the reason for the huge drop-off in fuel efficiency, which will be an important consideration when deciding which Crown to buy.
Plugs and Cars
OCTOBER 27, 2007
Required reading: Bill Moore's EVWorld review and Martin Zimmerman's LA Times piece about their test drives of the Toyota Plug-in Prius and the hydrogen fuel cell Highlander FCHV. Third party converters have spent time and resources tweaking their plug-in hybrids to meet ARB testing written with gasoline-only hybrids in mind.
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