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Toyota to invest $1.3B to build EVs at its Kentucky plant

Baua Electric

billion investment in its Kentucky factory to build EVs, including its three-row electric SUV for the US market. It says it has 26 “electrified” models, but it only sells two battery-electric vehicles, the bZ4X SUV and the Lexus RZ. Dow explains: Hybrid vehicles like the (non-plug-in) Prius run entirely on gasoline.

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These are the best-selling used EVs – and what’s being traded in for them

Baua Electric

What people are trading in SUVs (39%) and sedans (31%) remain the top traded-in vehicle types for EVs. Other popular trade-ins for EVs include the Honda Civic, Toyota Prius, and Tesla Model 3. If you’re an electric vehicle owner, charge up your car at home with rooftop solar panels. Get started here. –ad*

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Toyota introduces other members of the Prius family; mid-size and compact

Green Car Congress

The Prius (left) and the new Prius v (right). unveiled the Prius family of vehicles today at the 2011 North American International Auto Show in Detroit. The Prius mid-size liftback has accounted for more than 955,000 sales in the US since it was introduced in 2000. It’s a modern family with a Prius for everyone.

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Toyota RAV4 EV key for meeting California ZEV requirements; Tesla powertrain uses Model S components

Green Car Congress

Fay says that the company is planning to sell the full complement of 2,600 RAV EVs in California, plus 30,000 Prius plug-in hybrids and to introduce iQ EV urban car sharing programs to achieve ZEV compliance. He or she owns a home, which is perhaps solar-powered. Accordingly, the RAV4 EV is only being sold in California.

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Electrified Blondes in Convertibles For Everyone!

Creative Greenius

She lives in a solar powered house and drives an electric car. There’s three different plug-in alternatives for you below, a Tesla, a Mitsubishi MiEV and a Plug-In hybrid coverted Prius. People use them every day in every way to do what they need a small SUV to do. You could too. The batteries work just fine. Imagine that.

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Is NRDC drinking the hydrogen kool-aid?

Plugs and Cars

Imagine for a moment that the world had rejected wind and solar energy, and instead decided to wait for a hydrogen fusion research program to reach fruition. Fortunately for the world, wind and solar are growing rapidly, while hydrogen fusion research remains speculative at best. The 2008 Toyota Prius is 242 g/mi today.

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Interview with Chris Paine in the Whole Life Times

Revenge of the Electric Car

After all, it takes someone who refers to his Prius as “the gas guzzler&# and his Culver City, Calif., After all, it takes someone who refers to his Prius as “the gas guzzler&# and his Culver City, Calif., The whole roof of the house is solar, so I can plug in all sorts of different kinds of cars. And he was right.

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