Remove tag Hybrids
article thumbnail

Model 3 California coup, Audi’s EV team, Toyota RAV4 Prime price: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

The Tesla Model 3 is outselling some longtime chart-topping nameplates in California. The RAV4 Prime plug-in hybrid has a price tag. And could the Kia Stinger go all-electric? In California, the Tesla Model 3 has been. Audi starts an EV-focused team that sounds a lot like Ford’s Team Edison.

article thumbnail

Kia Motors Debuts New Optima at New York Show; Powertrains Aligned with New Sonata

Green Car Congress

Kia Motors Corporation unveiled its all-new Optima midsize sedan at the New York International Auto Show. Featuring a new design language for Kia, the new Optima shares the new Theta II-based powertrains featured in the new Hyundai Sonata: a 2.4-liter liter hybrid ( earlier post ). liter hybrid ( earlier post ).

New York 186
article thumbnail

Update: Top 10 Electric Cars

Clean Fleet Report

Plug-ins are trending in key markets around the country, although much of the action remains focused in California and other West Coast states. A disappointing compliance car, the Ford Focus EV, languished while plug-in hybrid versions of the midsize Fusion and small crossover C-Max sold relatively well, until Ford came up with a real plan.

article thumbnail

Kia D-Segment Hybrid set for 2011

Green Cars News

Take a look at the all-new Kia Optima – it is the Korean car maker’s replacement for the Magentis. Designed at Kia’s studios in Frankfurt, Germany and Irvine, California, the all-new Optima [.]. Tags: Kia hybrid Magentis Optima.

Kia 42
article thumbnail

Event: WAJ Media Day: A Million Dollar Drive

Clean Fleet Report

A Taste of 10 Different Cars Along the California Coast. It gives us a chance to relate a brief experience with a gaggle of cars whose price tags totaled well beyond a million dollars. The event was held in last week in Half Moon Bay, California. Last year’s Lexus ES F Sport model (non-hybrid) was $46,550. Kia K5 GT 2.5T.

Lexus 96
article thumbnail

6 Best Electric SUVs and Crossovers (and how they’re changing the cost of driving)

EV Life

In addition to the mounting costs of gasoline, our love of SUVs is also costing the planet in terms of carbon emitted by sports utility vehicles (compared to more efficient sedans and hybrids.). It also screams “luxury” with the highest price tag in its class. 3 Kia Soul – Electric Crossover. 2019 Niro EV. With a 8.3/10

SUV 52
article thumbnail

Fuel cells to get fresh push

Green Cars News

With the green car world focusing on a renewed push for electric cars and new hybrid car concepts such as the latest Toyota Prius and the Honda Insight, fuel cells are in danger of becoming the forgotten figures of the environmental world. The vehicles received rave reviews.