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Toyota Takes You On Safari To Prius Kingdom, Binoculars Essential

Green Car Reports

Over the past few years, Toyota has run some pretty unusual ad campaigns for its range of Prius Hybrids, from the cute Harmony TV spot through to the mildly disturbing People Person creation and the downright hilarious Cleaner Than-A-Sheep print ad.

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Would You Rather? Honda CR-V vs Toyota RAV4

The Truth About Cars

But the Toyota is trying to come across as rugged and has retained some of the aggressive styling that we assume it’ll eventually abandon if the latest Prius and Camry are any indication. It’s a cleaner design and looks more upscale than what you’re likely to find inside of the RAV4. Inside, it's the CR-V appears to have the advantage.

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Main Page - EAA-PHEV

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

In the Toyota Prius companies like EDrive and Hybrids-Plus have simply developed their own replacement for the OEM battery management subsystems and replaced the battery pack. Due to its limitations, the PRIUS+ is more complex to describe, as, in mixed city and highway driving it is only 50:50 electric/gasoline. In English-system (vs.

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Volt, Re-Volt, No Volt - Will CARB Revolt?

Plugs and Cars

In January GM announced an eminently practical vehicle that could quickly offer consumers a way to tap into the cleaner, cheaper, domestic electric grid for most of their driving needs. Only government incentives and mandates for production can take the Volt, or a plug-in Prius for that matter, from green spin to showrooms.

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Electric Cars and The Volt by Seth Leitman

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

While a series hybrid is good, the Toyota Prius gets 100 miles per gallon because after the 20 miles of pure EV mode, it kicks into a hybrid-electric car. While, I might personally like a plug-in hybrid that then goes to hybrid, to get the market ready for the technology, an EV range / dual-fuel car can work. a day to charge up!

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Greentech Media | ECOtality CEO: Fast Charging and Why Battery Swapping Is Doomed

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

And we all won’t be driving a Prius either – I’ll have my electric pickup truck in a few years too. As a civilization, we have committed ourselves to electricity and we must make cleaner electricity. by: Jonathan Read, President and CEO, ECOtality June 24, 2008 ECOtality CEO Jonathan Read.

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Dodge Circuit EV First Drive: electric car makes grand promises on Earth Day

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

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