Green Car Reports

MARCH 12, 2024

When it's time to replace their cars, many Toyota Prius owners choose another of the hybrids, according used-car retailer CarMax. More than 38% of CarMax customers who own a Prius purchase another one, according to the company. That makes the Prius the model with the highest loyalty in CarMax's inventory.

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Prius Chevrolet Toyota Purchase 148

Green Car Reports

APRIL 20, 2024

This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending April 19, 2024. In a first drive of the 2025 Toyota Camry hybrid, we found. Which automaker reportedly scrapped development of ICE range extenders for EVs?

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Throw away what you think you know about the Toyota Prius, the ur-hybrid that was briefly Silicon Valley’s most tech-forward car before it was supplanted by Tesla and other electric cars. The 2023 Toyota Prius, which goes on sale early next year, is a stunner.

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Prius Toyota Hybrid MPG 192

Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

The 2025 Toyota Camry goes all-hybrid and does that matters to Camry shoppers a little bit better. Prius owners need to keep those doors locked. It’s a variety pack of Toyota news today, here at Green Car Reports. In the meantime, Toyota is advising Prius owners to lock those doors while driving. And is the U.S.-made

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2021

The Toyota Prius may have popularized hybrid cars, but it was by no means the first hybrid to reach production. This 1916 Owen Magnetic predates the Prius by about 80 years. It's now part of Jay Leno's massive car collection, and was featured on a recent episode of his Jay Leno's Garage YouTube show.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The all-new 2023 Prius is slated to arrive in US dealerships in January. Toyota unveiled the all-new Prius in Japan in November, with Series Parallel Hybrid (HEV) models to launch in winter this year and Plug-in Hybrid (PHEV) models to launch in spring 2023. Earlier post.). The inline M20A-FXS inline four-cylinder 2.0L

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Prius Toyota MPG Fuel Economy 195

Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2021

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. million units of the Aqua have been sold (including Prius C), contributing to an overall reduction in CO 2 of approximately 12.4 then, Kanto Auto Works, Ltd.) Since its launch, more than 1.87

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 5, 2023

The 2023 Toyota Prius Prime is a plug-in hybrid version of the conventional 2023 Prius hybrid launched earlier this year. It shares that car’s striking new shape, the one that wowed reviewers and shoppers.

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Prius Plug-in Plug Toyota 157

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The hybrid-vehicle landscape is changing quickly. The Prius lineup did get a Prius AWD-e all-wheel-drive version and a much better Prius Prime plug-in hybrid in its current and outgoing version, but it remains a pared-down family, with the Prius C and Prius V long gone.

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Prius MPG Toyota Volt 160

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The 2023 Toyota Prius is the fifth generation of the world’s best-known hybrid vehicle. Since it first went on sale in Japan in 1997, the Prius has epitomized high fuel efficiency and the advanced technology of hybrid-electric powertrains.

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The Truth About Cars

MARCH 18, 2024

Honda beat everybody to the production gasoline-electric hybrid game in the United States, putting the Insight in showrooms in 1999. Toyota followed with the Prius a year later, but it took GM until 2006 to introduce its first true gasoline-electric hybrid here. liter engine and automatic). Even with $4/gallon gas ($6.13

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Green Car Reports

MAY 17, 2023

And why does the Prius Prime cost less to lease? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. The Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid costs less to lease than the Prius hybrid—even though the Prime has a higher sticker price. The courts aren’t done with Dieselgate. That’s because.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Toyota on Wednesday introduced a new generation of its iconic Prius that’s quicker, more efficient, and better-equipped—plus a new version of the Prius Prime plug-in hybrid that does all that and gets a big electric range boost.

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Prius Toyota PHEV Miles 164

Green Car Reports

MAY 1, 2023

And we followed up with the latest Prius hybrid and found a lot to love as well as some gripes. Daimler is re-upping its aim to establish a charging and hydrogen network for big trucks. Saab’s engineering braintrust continued to concoct new vehicles in an era of EVs. This and more, here at.

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The Truth About Cars

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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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Prius Toyota Fuel Economy Las Vegas 107

Green Car Reports

APRIL 30, 2023

Recently having a 2023 Toyota Prius for a week, for up-close scrutiny and drive time, reminded me of the big Hollywood movie franchises that help keep us entertained across decades and generations.

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Prius Toyota Hybrid Electric 165

Baua Electric

MARCH 20, 2024

Among the new features of the Toyota C-HR plug-in hybrid recently launched in Europe is an efficiency-boosting trip planner that could be useful to Toyota’s U.S. plug-in hybrid customers. 2024 Toyota C-HR plug-in hybrid (European-spec) Predictive Efficient Drive is a system that Toyota also touts for the Prius Prime.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2016

Toyota Motor Corporation announced that the cumulative figures for global sales of its hybrid vehicles reached 9.014 million units as of 30 April. The Prius family still accounts for the majority of sales: 5.691 million units, or 63% of the total global cumulative number. Data: Toyota. Click to enlarge.

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Prius Toyota Hybrid Sale 231

Green Car Congress

APRIL 23, 2019

A new study carried out by University College Dublin (UCD) academics has found that under typical Irish commuting conditions, the Toyota Prius IV (fourth-generation) hybrid ( earlier post ) drives in zero emissions mode (ZEV) for significantly more than half (62%) of the time and more than 40% (40.4%) of the distance covered.

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Prius Ireland Universal Emissions 191

Green Car Reports

MAY 20, 2023

Which popular pickup is going hybrid, but not electric quite yet? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse—right here at Green Car Reports—for the week ending May 19, 2023. In a review of the 2024 Porsche Cayenne E-Hybrid, we looked at how this model. city is offering robotic EV charging at its airport parking?

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Cayenne Silverado Hybrid Prius 126

Green Car Reports

JULY 7, 2020

Toyota is expanding a recall of Prius hybrid models over a hybrid-system defect that could cause a sudden loss of propulsion. The fault lies with the inverter in the Intelligent Power Module (IPM), a part of the Toyota Hybrid Synergy Drive system.

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Prius Toyota Hybrid 2017 141

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

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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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Of the 10 Top Picks for 2021 revealed by Consumer Reports on Thursday, four are Green Choices that reflect a newfound attention to that idea: the Toyota Prius, Toyota Corolla, Toyota Camry, and Tesla Model 3. Using less fuel is better for your budget, but it’s not necessarily better for the environment or for tailpipe emissions.

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Toyota Green Prius Tesla 166

Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 28, 2022

From the Nissan Leaf to the Lucid Air, with the Toyota Prius, Chevy Volt, and Tesla Model 3 among the many formative models in between, our Green Car Reports Best Car To Buy winners each year have offered not just what we think you should buy, but a glimpse of the future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2014

TMC cumulative hybrid sales by year. The blue bar represents the running cumulative total, the green bar the hybrid sales for each year. Cumulative global sales of Toyota Motor Corporation’s (TMC) hybrid vehicles has exceeded the 7 million unit mark as of 30 September, reaching 7.053 million units. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Reports

APRIL 27, 2023

Electric vehicles continue to be vastly more expensive to insure than gasoline models, on average—hybrids included. According to Consumer Reports, citing national-average data from The Zebra, an insurance comparison tool, the Chevrolet Bolt EV costs slightly more to insure than the Toyota Prius or Hyundai Ioniq Blue hybrids.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2021

New analysis of the latest IHS Markit new vehicle registration data in the US indicates vehicles with a hybrid powertrain (both gasoline and electricity) are out-performing EVs, based on several metrics. In April, hybrids accounted for 6.1% of all new vehicles registered, more than double EVs’ share of 2.4%.

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Hybrid Prius Gasoline-Electric Highlander 243

Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime is a new plug-in version of the fourth-generation Prius hybrid launched last year. It succeeds the previous Prius Plug-In Hybrid, but it's a much better—and considerably more electric—vehicle than that discontinued model.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 18, 2017

After six model years, the 2017 Toyota Prius V will soon leave the stage, and there will be no 2018 version. Toyota has confirmed to Green Car Reports that it is ending production of the hybrid wagon for the U.S. The reason is simple: Its sales have fallen considerably since the 2016 launch of the Toyota RAV4 Hybrid compact.

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Puerto Rico Prius Toyota Hybrid 123

Green Car Reports

APRIL 11, 2018

Three new Buicks with plugs are coming for China, the Prius hybrid may get a restyle, sedans and small cars continue to depart Detroit, and we've got this month's best green-car deals. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 6, 2020

The top-selling Toyota hybrid vehicle in the U.S. 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.

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Green Car Reports

MARCH 20, 2024

Among the new features of the Toyota C-HR plug-in hybrid recently launched in Europe is an efficiency-boosting trip planner that could be useful to Toyota's U.S. plug-in hybrid customers.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 30, 2023

Dealer markups on hybrid cars—plug-in or not—are getting steeper, which could cancel out the decrease in ownership costs afforded by their increased fuel efficiency.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2016

The Prius Prime plug-in hybrid, unveiled at the 2016 New York International Auto Show in March ( earlier post ), features a larger 8.8 In hybrid mode, the Prius Prime exceeds all competitors’ fuel economy ratings with EPA-estimated 55 city/53 highway/54 combined MPG. Pricing starts at $27,100.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The 2004-2009 Prius is the one in which the word “iconic” started to apply to Toyota’s hybrid trendsetter. Even though there had been an earlier Prius, this one’s 55-mpg window sticker, distinctive kammback silhouette and, soon, various celebrity sightings all made it an understated, eco-chic way to be noticed.

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Hybrid 2004 Prius MPG 193

Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

The Toyota Prius hybrid has been its maker's "halo car" and an example of its most advanced technology for two decades. Launched from an early-1990s project to halve the fuel consumption of a small car, its hybrid-electric powertrain pioneered mass electrification of passenger cars.

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Prius Toyota Hybrid Sale 121

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Ford’s new C-MAX Hybrid ( earlier post ) sold 3,182 units in October in its first full month of sales, outselling the Prius v’s 2,769 units. Sales of the entire Prius family were 16,774 units, with the sedan accounting for 8,788 of those.) The C-MAX Hybrid is EPA-rated at 47 mpg US city, highway and combined.

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