Green Car Reports

JANUARY 12, 2014

The 2014 Toyota Prius hybrid has just been downgraded from five stars to four under the Federal New Car Assessment Program (NCAP) safety rating system, but not because Toyota did anything to change it. Sometimes it''s hard to keep up with evolving government regulations.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

is advising the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) of plans to conduct voluntary safety recalls of approximately 701,000 Model Year 2010-2014 Prius vehicles to update the motor/generator control ECU and hybrid control ECU software. Hybrids Power Electronics Safety' Toyota Motor Sales, USA, Inc.,

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Buyers of the 2014 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid will will have a little more cash left in their wallets from now on. Toyota is cutting the price of the plug-in Prius by $2,010 for the base model and $4,620 for the upscale Advanced model. An $810 destination.'

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 28, 2013

Toyota’s next-generation Prius will deliver significantly improved fuel economy in a more compact package that is lighter in weight and lower in cost, according to Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) Managing Officer Satoshi Ogiso. The next Prius will feature improved batteries with higher energy density. —Satoshi Ogiso.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

For 2014, our fourth annual Green Car Reports'' Best Car To Buy award goes to the 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid. And that''s Toyota Prius liftback territory, in a mid-size sedan.'

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Today we''ve got a first drive of the 2014 Tesla Model S P85D electric car, news that the Federal income-tax credit for hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles will be allowed to expire, and a report on sporty styling for the 2016 Toyota Prius hybrid. Want to know what it''s like to drive the 2014 Tesla Model S P85D.'

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 18, 2014

The 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid received very positive reviews when it was launched almost a year ago. Its EPA fuel-efficiency rating of 47 mpg combined approaches that of the 50-mpg Toyota Prius, but the Accord is a more conventional looking mid-size sedan--a plus for many buyers.

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Green Car Reports

MAY 29, 2014

Honda was the first car company to sell a hybrid in the U.S. by a few months, but it hasn''t done nearly as well with its hybrids as Toyota has done with its Prius. That''s changed with.'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2014

2014 Yaris Hybrid. Toyota’s refreshed 2014 Yaris for Europe offers a choice of four powertrains, including a thoroughly reworked 3-cylinder 1.0 The hybrid powertrain has also been revamped, with its CO 2 emissions reduced still further to 75 g/km and corresponding combined-cycle consumption lowered to 3.3 A 4-cylinder, 1.33-liter

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Pricing for the 2014 Toyota Prius Liftback hybrid has been announced, and this year''s version of the car that spawned an entire family of hybrids will cost the same as the 2013 model. Like last year, a base Prius One will start at $24,025, including destination. Intermediate Prius Two, Three, and Four models.'

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Honda was the second carmaker in the world to launch a line of hybrid vehicles, though its compact and subcompact mild hybrids have long been overshadowed by Toyota's dominant Prius models. Early next year, a new 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid--and equally significant, a 2014 Honda Accord Plug-In Hybrid--will put Honda.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Love it or loathe it, everyone can recognize the Toyota Prius. Since the second generation model arrived in the 2004 model year, the aerodynamically-honed one-box shape has always shouted "Prius". So much so that many consider Honda's Insight hybrid to deliberately feature similar styling.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Last week, Honda released the specs and photos for its 2014 Accord Hybrid and Plug-In Hybrid. Like the Ford C-Max Hybrid, it offers new and strong competition for a model of the well-established Toyota Prius--in this case, the new-for-2012 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid. The 2014.

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Green Car Reports

JULY 16, 2015

Toyota will recall 109,000 2012 through 2014 model-year Prius V hybrids to address a software issue that could cause the vehicles to slow or stall suddenly. The software glitch is associated with two components: the motor/generator control electronic control unit, and the hybrid control electronic control unit.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2014

Only hybrids performed very well on both the green rating and the smog index. China’s Innovation Center for Energy and Transportation (iCET) recently released its 2014 Green Car China Annual Report , an evaluation of mainstream vehicles on sale in China by their lifecycle impacts and their health impacts. Source: iCET. Green rating.

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Green Car Reports

AUGUST 25, 2014

Turn back the clock by one decade, and there were just four hybrid cars on sale in the U.S. One was the first-generation Toyota Prius. Honda also offered the Civic Hybrid. And Ford''s Escape Hybrid had just made its.'

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2014

Honda announced that while the US model Insight will be available at dealerships in the US through the end of the year, production of the hybrid will end in summer 2014. However, Honda hybrid sales have not achieved the traction in the US market that Toyota did. Hybrids Sales Vehicle Manufacturers' Data: Honda.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: The Toyota Prius hybrid is once again California''s most popular car line, production of hte 2014 Honda Fit EV winds down, and we drive Nissan''s New York City "Taxi of Tomorrow." The 2014 Honda Fit EV model year ends early as the last cars are built. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 27, 2015

Toyota is recalling certain 2014 and 2015 Prius V hybrid wagons to fix an improperly-calibrated airbag occupant classification system (OCS). The OCS determines whether the front passenger seat is occupied, and if so, by a passenger of sufficient weight to require airbag protection. DON''T.'

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2014

Two battery- electric models and a hybrid also are in the mix, with varied results. The Chevrolet Volt extended range electric vehicle and the Ford C-MAX Hybrid earned an acceptable rating in this test, while the battery-electric Nissan LEAF earned a poor rating. That’s still the case with the 2014 versions of both cars.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

Today on Green Car Reports: Georgia may kill its $5,000 electric-car tax credit, Ohio car dealers renew their legislative fight against Tesla Motors, and 2010 through 2014 Toyota Prius hybrids are being recalled. All this and more on Green Car Reports.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Over the next 14 months, you can expect leaks, rumors, suppositions, spy shots, and outright guesses about the 2015 Toyota Prius to proliferate. The fourth generation of Toyota's quintessential hybrid car is a crucial model for the company.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2014

Through use of SiC power semiconductors, Toyota aims to improve hybrid vehicle (HV) fuel efficiency by 10% under the Japanese Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism’s (MLIT) JC08 test cycle and reduce PCU size by 80% compared to current PCUs with silicon-only power semiconductors. Click to enlarge. Source: Toyota.

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Green Car Reports

JUNE 24, 2013

will save a lot more gasoline by improving the fuel efficiency of gas-guzzling high-volume pickup trucks than it will swapping out Toyota Corollas for Prius hybrids. are boosting the fuel economy offered in new trucks for 2014.' That''s mathematical fact.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

CEO, Takanobu Ito, outlined the product, technology and business developments and direction planned to drive Honda’s growth by fiscal year 2017; among these are a plan to introduce three hybrid systems, Ito said. Honda is also developing a new more powerful two-motor hybrid system for mid-size vehicles. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

MAY 9, 2011

In about a year’s time Toyota will launch the long-awaited plug-in hybrid version of its top-selling Prius, selling it alongside the regular version of the Prius that’s already available today.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2014

TS040 HYBRID. Toyota Racing has revealed the TS040 HYBRID car and revised driver line-up for the 2014 FIA World Endurance Championship. With 480 PS (473 hp, 353 kW) of four-wheel-drive hybrid boost in addition to the 520 PS (513 hp, 383 kW) 3.7-liter Click to enlarge. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

The Toyota Prius may be the most popular hybrid model of the many Toyota sells. But the company''s largest hybrid vehicle weighs more than six new 2014 Prius Liftbacks when it''s fully loaded. Its gross.'

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

The current plunge in oil prices will likely negatively affect plug-in and hybrid vehicle sales in the short term; automakers such as BMW are already warning of lower sales of plug-in vehicles given the market context. During the past half year, oil prices have plunged from $115/barrel in June 2014 to less than $50/barrel today.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 22, 2013

Honda's two-motor Accord Plug-In Hybrid is now on sale at select New York and Californian Honda dealers. Choice in the plug-in hybrid market is growing all the time, and the Accord offers buyers an alternative to the Ford Fusion Energi--not to mention more established plug-ins like the Chevrolet Volt and Toyota Prius Plug-In.

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Green Cars News

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

Respected vehicle valuation firm, Kelley Blue Book (KBB) has named its top ten best hybrid cars available in the US for under $30,000 (around £19,980). Rating the market offerings based on fuel economy, practicality and resale value, KBB places the new 2014 Toyota Prius as king of the hybrids, cla[.].

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Move over, BMW: there's a new efficiency champion in town this year—and you'll have to give back that laurel wreath you've worn since 2014. Last week, final EPA fuel-efficiency results were released for the 2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid.

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Green Car Reports

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

The 2017 Toyota Prius Prime plug-in hybrid's tenure as the most energy-efficient car on sale in the U.S. away from the BMW i3, which had held it since 2014. turned out to be short. The Toyota recently took the title of most energy-efficiency vehicle available in the U.S. But now there's a new kid on the block.

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Green Car Reports

FEBRUARY 19, 2015

That''s because, in both 2012 and 2013, the Toyota Prius hybrid was the best-selling new car in the Golden State. The Toyota Prius Hybrid--Again (February 2014) Yet even Californians'' appetite for the Prius.' For the past couple of years, California has been like nowhere else when it comes to new car sales.

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Green Car Reports

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Consumer Reports released its "Best New-Car Value" list yesterday, and there are plenty of hybrids and fuel-efficient gasoline cars on it. The magazine named the 2014 Toyota Prius hybrid best overall automotive value. This is the second year the Prius has.'

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Green Car Reports

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Today on Green Car Reports, we explain how the 2014 Honda Accord Hybrid drives its wheels without a transmission, car makers exceed the government''s low CAFE expectations, and the 2014 Toyota Prius Plug-In Hybrid gets a facelift--in Japan. All this and more on Green Car Reports. has to.'

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CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 7, 2021

By Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler, PhD, Former Leader of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization & Analysis Laboratory, and avid CleanTechnica reader When Toyota introduced the Prius hybrid in 1997, I was fascinated by the technology and longed to own one — or better, one modified to run a few more miles solely on […]. (..)

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