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Here's how your old Prius battery will help build new EVs

Green Car Reports

Redwood Materials, the battery recycling effort started by Tesla alum JB Straubel, believes it's critical to ramp up domestic content in American EVs—and for helping automakers meet sustainability targets. Last month, Redwood detailed one way it’s making that process happen on the ground: It started an online portal for end-of-life EV.

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Worldwide Prius sales top 3-million mark; Prius family sales at 3.4 million

Green Car Congress

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) announced that as of the end of June, worldwide cumulative sales of the Prius gasoline-electric hybrid vehicle (generations I, II and III) passed the 3-million mark. Total global Prius nameplate sales (the expanded Prius family) are at 3.436 million units. TMC launched the Prius in 1997.

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Report: Toyota To Build Subaru Three-Row EV in Kentucky

The Truth About Cars

Toyota will build the vehicle in its Kentucky factory, where its own electric three-row will be produced. Toyota’s variant is expected to wear the bZ5X name, and the automaker will start building the Subaru version shortly after its own. The brotherly love is expected to continue with a new three-row SUV in 2025.

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Veloz: California EV market continues strong growth; Q1 strongest quarter to date; 16.32% market share

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California’s EV market continues to grow, according to data gathered by Veloz , a non-profit which tracks and reports on growing electric vehicle (EV) sales data in California, market trends, and infrastructure build-out. Toyota Prius Prime. Q1 of 2022 surpassed Q1 of 2021 numbers by more than 20,000 vehicles. Tesla Model Y.

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2023 Toyota Sequoia Review - A Three-Row Prius?

The Truth About Cars

Despite that, the Prius has become the defining hybrid car of the past two decades or so, with the model name occasionally outshining the marque itself. But competitors are building SUVs with fewer compromises, and that’s why I’m disappointed with Toyota’s biggest tree. Toyota wasn’t the first to market a hybrid car here in the U.S.

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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. Dow explains: Hybrid vehicles like the (non-plug-in) Prius run entirely on gasoline. You cannot power a Prius on carbon-neutral energy, and a Prius is not zero-emission. Get started here. –ad*

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Plug in Prius

Electric Cars are for Girls

Waiting for Toyota to build you a plug in Prius? Canadian Andrew Bell had his Prius converted for about 4K, including all parts and labor. You don't have to wait!

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